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Deadline Extended (Jan 14) - ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2022 - CFP

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

(Apologies for cross-postings) The paper submission deadline has been extended to January 14, 2022 ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2022 Second Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 22, 2022, hosted online Co-located with the 27th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2022 (https://iui.acm.org/2022/ <https://iui.acm.org/2022/>) March 22-25, 2022, Virtually Hosted by University of Helsinki, Finland Workshop website: http://socialize2022.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2022.di.unito.it/> Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022> For any information: socialize2022(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2022@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 14, 2022 (extended) Authors notification: January 28, 2022 Camera-ready: February 18, 2022 Workshop: March 22, 2022 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to fostering the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems * Social robots in the real world; ********************Submissions******************** Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see https://iui.acm.org/2022/call_for_papers.html <https://iui.acm.org/2022/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=socialize2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022>) by January 14, 2022 (extended). 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. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the workshop, and at least one author of each accepted paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2022(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2022@easychair.org>> ********************Proceedings******************** Accepted papers will be published as open access joint workshop proceedings via CEUR-WS.org <http://ceur-ws.org/> ********************Organization******************** Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022): Second Call for Contributions

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*** Second Call for Contributions *** 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022) 3–7 October, 2022, 4* Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/ Goals and Scope The IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution. We invite high quality submissions describing significant, original, and unpublished results related to but not limited to any of the following software maintenance and evolution topics (in alphabetical order): • Change and defect management • Code cloning and provenance • Concept and feature location • Continuous integration/deployment • Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution • Evolution of non-code artifacts • Human aspects of software maintenance and evolution • Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods • Maintenance and evolution processes • Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps • Maintenance and evolution of service-oriented and cloud computing systems • Maintenance versus release process • Mining software repositories • Productivity of software engineers during maintenance and evolution • Release engineering • Reverse engineering and re-engineering • Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration • Software and system comprehension • Software migration and renovation • Software quality assessment • Software refactoring and restructuring • Software testing theory and practice • Source code analysis and manipulation • Technical Debt ICSME welcomes innovative ideas that are timely, well presented, and evaluated. All submissions must position themselves within the existing literature, describe the relevance of the results to specific software engineering goals, and include a clear motivation and presentation of the work. ICSME invites contributions to a number of different tracks. These are listed below with more information, including submission instructions, available on the conference web site (submission dates are midnight, AoE, UTC-12). The submission link for all tracks is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsme2022 . Please use this link and choose the appropriate track for your submission. Research Track • Abstract Submission: March 25th, 2022. • Paper Submission: April 1st, 2022. • Notification: June 10th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 1st, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-research-track/ . Doctoral Symposium • Paper Submission: July 8th, 2022. • Notification: August 1st, 2022. • Camera-Ready: August 19th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-doctoral-symposium/ . Journal First Track • Paper Submission: June 17th, 2022. • Notification: July 8th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-journal-first-track/ . Tool Demo Track • Abstract Submission: June 13th, 2022. • Paper Submission: June 20th, 2022. • Notification: July 19th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 26th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/tool-demo-track/ . Joint Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival • Artifact Submission: August 26th, 2022. • Notification: September 16th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-joint-artifact-evaluation-… . Industry Track • Full/Short Papers Abstract Submission: April 22nd, 2022. • Full/Short Paper Submission: April 29th, 2022. • Full/Short Paper Notification: June 15th, 2022. • Full/Short Camera-Ready: July 15th, 2022. • Extended Abstract Submission: May 20th, 2022. • Extended Abstract Notification: June 15th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 15th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call-for-industry-track/ . News Ideas and Emerging Results Track • Abstract Submission: June 17th, 2022. • Paper Submission: June 24th, 2022. • Notification: July 18th, 2022. • Camera-Ready: July 31st, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/new-ideas-and-emerging-results/ . Registered Reports Track • Initial Report Submission: June 3rd, 2022. • Feedback from PC: July 8th, 2022. • Authors Response: July 22nd, 2022. • Notification for Stage 1: August 12th, 2022. • Submission of Accepted Report: August 19th, 2022. Please refer to https://cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/registered-reports-track/ . Organisation General Chairs • Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Dave Binkley, Loyola University Maryland, USA Local Organising Chair and Industry Liaison • Georgia M. Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus New Ideas and Emerging Results Track Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands • Christian Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Tool Demonstrations Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium Industry Track Chairs • Andrea Capiluppi, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Shi Han, Microsoft Research Beijing, China Journal First Track Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Amjed Tahir, Massey University, New Zealand Doctoral Symposium • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand • Mark Hills, East Carolina University, USA Joint Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival Chairs • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christoph Treude, University of Melbourne, Australia Most Influential Paper Awards Chairs • Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy • Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, USA Diversity and Inclusion • Hadil Abukwaik, ABB Corporate Research, Germany • Sonia Haiduc, Florida State University, USA Registered Reports • Maria Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy • Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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ACM UMAP’22: Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by Nasim Sonboli

Please accept our apologies in case of multiple receptions. Please send it to interested colleagues. -------------------------------------------------------- # **30th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP'22)** Barcelona, Spain, and Online 4 - 7 July 2022 https://www.um.org/umap2022/ Proposal Submission Deadline: January 27, 2022 -------------------------------------------------------- **BACKGROUND AND SCOPE** ============================ **ACM UMAP'22** is pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop and tutorial proposals. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop or tutorial topic. We welcome workshops and tutorials with a creative structure that may attract various types of attendees and ensure rich interactions. All the tutorials and workshops should support both virtual and physical attendance (although we hope physical to be the preferred option). -------------------------------------------------------- **Call for Workshop Proposals** ============================ The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. -------------------------------------------------------- **Important Dates** ============================ - Proposals due: January 27, 2022 - Notification to proposers: February 10, 2022 - Workshop day(s): July TBD, 2022 All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). -------------------------------------------------------- **Workshop Formats** ============================ In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program, comprising workshops with different formats and addressing newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different schemas to organize the workshop are possible, such as: - Working group meetings around a problem or topic. - Mini-conferences on special topics, having their own paper submission and review processes. - Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation. - Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics. - Joint panels for different workshops. The detailed instructions for the proposal content, the submission, the responsibilities, the proceedings, and the registration are provided at [ https://www.um.org/umap2022/call-for-workshops/](https://www.um.org/umap202… . -------------------------------------------------------- **Call for Tutorial Proposals** ============================ Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions that provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. -------------------------------------------------------- **Important Dates** ============================ - Proposals due: January 27, 2022 - Notification to proposers: February 10, 2022 - Tutorial day: July TBD, 2022 All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). -------------------------------------------------------- **Tutorial Topics** ============================ An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.). - User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, human-robot interaction, etc.). - Application and impact of the user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems, including beyond-accuracy aspects (e.g., fairness). - Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users'; emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors. The detailed instructions for the proposal content, the submission, the responsibilities, the proceedings, and the registration are provided at https://www.um.org/umap2022/call-for-tutorials/. -------------------------------------------------------- **Workshop and Tutorial Chairs** ============================ - Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy - Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania - Contact: [umap2022-wt@um.org](mailto:umap2022-wt@um.org)

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Sixth Call for Papers

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*** Sixth Call for Papers *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) (*** Extended Submission Deadline: February 7, 2022 ***) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022). The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Paper submission: February 7, 2022 (extended) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 7, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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IxD&A Journal N. 50 is available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 50 * focus section on:* Design during and for Pandemics** */guest editors: Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Guido Giunti /& focus section on:/* */ *Decoding The Smart City * /guest editors: //Teija Vainio, Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Ralf-Martin Soe/ is now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 50 - ToC* /** Preface **** **to the focus section/ /*Design during and for Pandemics* by Vasiliki Mylonopoulou and Guido Giunti pp. 5 - 6 ****Wies van Nifterik, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser, Jeroen van Erp *Remote contextmapping and prototyping during lockdown, a study case*, pp. 7 - 26 Katerina Cerna, Richard Paluch, Fabian Bäumer, Tanja Ertl, Claudia Muller *Transformation of HCI co-research with older adults - researchers’ positionality in the COVID-19 pandemic times*, pp. 27 - 47 Pedro Filipe Campos *HCI Design and Evaluation during Social Confinement: Reflections and Techniques*, pp. 48 - 57 / //**Preface **** **to the focus section/ /*Decoding The Smart City * by Teija Vainio, Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Ralf-Martin Soe pp. 59 - 62 /** **Eirene Keh, Madalynne Lawrence, Rosanne Sauz, Nazanin Houmayounfar, Nastaran Dadashi *The Ethical Smart City Framework & Toolkit: An Inclusive Application of Human-Centered Design and Public Engagement in Smart City Development*, pp. 63 - 81** **Nils Ehrenberg, Turkka Keinonen *Co-Living as a Rental Home Experience. Smart Home Technologies and Autonomy*, pp. 82 - 101** **/ /Martin Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks, Dan Vo, Jessica Frawley, Marcus Foth *Non-human Personas. Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities*, pp. 102 - 130/// // ========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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2nd CfP: 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22)

by Nasim Sonboli

-----------Call for Papers ACM UMAP 2020----------------------- --- Please forward to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22)** Barcelona*, Spain, July 4–7, 2022 http://www.um.org/umap2022/ * Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning for a hybrid conference and will accommodate online presentations where needed. Submission Deadline: * Abstracts due: February 10, 2022 (mandatory) * Full paper due: February 17, 2022 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **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 (https://sigchi.org) and SIGWEB (https://www.sigweb.org), and organized with User Modeling Inc. (https://um.org) as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by the **ACM** and will be part of the ACM Digital Library ( https://dl.acm.org). **ACM UMAP** covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. The main theme of **UMAP 2022** is ***“User control in personalized systems”***. Specifically, we welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation in all areas of personalized systems, with an emphasis on how to balance adaptivity and user control. Below we present a short (but not prescriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. ACM UMAP is co-located and collaborates with the ACM Hypertext conference ( https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/). UMAP takes place one week after Hypertext and uses the same submission dates and formats. We expect authors to submit research on personalized systems to UMAP and invite authors to submit their Web-related work without a focus on personalization to the Hypertext conference. The two conferences will organize one shared track on **personalized recommender systems** (same track chairs and PC, see the track description). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **IMPORTANT DATES** ============================================ - Paper Abstracts: February 10, 2022 (mandatory) - Full paper: February 17, 2022 - Notification: April 11, 2022 - Conference: July 4-July 7, 2022 **Note**: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **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. **Detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track are reported in the online version of the CFP on the UMAP 2022 web site.** ### **Personalized Recommender Systems** **Track Chairs: Osnat Mokryn (University of Haifa), Eva Zangerle (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Markus Zanker (University of Bolzano, Italy, and University of Klagenfurt, Austria)** (*) This is a joint track between ACM UMAP and ACM Hypertext (same track chairs, overlapping PC). Authors planning to contribute to this track can submit to either conference, depending on their broader interest in either Hypertext or UMAP. Track chairs organize a special issue in the journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss open challenges, the latest solutions, and novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects pertaining to recommendations, we also particularly welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception and the business value of recommender systems. ### **Adaptive Hypermedia, Semantic, and Social Web** **Track Chairs: Alexandra I. Cristea (Durham University, UK) and Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, US)** This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, the latest challenges, novel applications, and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia, semantic and social web. We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of personalization, user models building, and personal experience in online social systems. ### **Intelligent User Interfaces** **Track chairs: Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria) and Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia)** This topic can be characterized by exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. ### **Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning** **Track chairs: Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Australia) and Sharon Hsiao (Santa Clara University, US)** This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to present their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. ### **Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy** **Track chairs: Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, US) and Munindar P. Singh (NC State University, US)** Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social responsibility to care about the impact of their technologies on individual people (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and on society. This track invites work that pertains to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. ### **Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems** **Track chairs: Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) and Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP SE, Germany)** This track invites original submissions addressing the areas of personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design and evaluation methods, and personal experience designing personalized and adaptive behaviour change technologies. ### **Virtual Assistants and Personalized Human-robot Interaction** **Track chairs: Radhika Garg (Syracuse University, US) and Cristina Gena (University of Torino, Italy)** This track aims at investigating new models and techniques for the adaptation of synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to the individual user. ### **Research Methods and Reproducibility** **Track chairs: Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)** This track accepts works on methodologies for the evaluation of personalized systems, benchmarks, measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and of techniques. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS** ============================================ Please consult the conference website for the submission link: http://www.um.org/umap2022/. The maximum length is **14 pages (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format**. We encourage papers of any length up to 14 pages; reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is appropriate for the contribution. **Additional review criteria are available in the online version of the CFP on the UMAP 2022 web site.** Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. 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. Failure to anonymize your submission results in the desk rejection of your paper. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **ORGANIZERS** ============================================ **General chairs** * Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy * Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Olga C. Santos, Spanish National University for Distance Education, Spain **Program Chairs** - Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy - Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, US ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **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. Nasim Sonboli (Researcher, University of Colorado Boulder), Helma Torkamaan (Researcher, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), UMAP'22 Publicity Chairs

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Third Call for Contributions

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*** Third Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Main Track Paper Submission The papers should not exceed six (6) pages (US letter size) double-column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in the journal MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good…). Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Separate call-for-papers are announced for the special tracks (more information is available on the conference web site). Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed four (4) pages (US letter size) double column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/). Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Program Chairs • Costas Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece • Diogo Pacheco, University of Exeter, UK • Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy WiP & PhD Track Chairs • Marco Furini, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy • Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy

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CFP: ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2022

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

(Apologies for cross-postings) ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2022 Second Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 22, 2022, hosted online Co-located with the 27th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2022 (https://iui.acm.org/2022/ <https://iui.acm.org/2022/>) March 22-25, 2022, Virtually Hosted by University of Helsinki, Finland Workshop website: http://socialize2022.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2022.di.unito.it/> Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022> For any information: socialize2022(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2022@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 9, 2022 Authors notification: January 28, 2022 Camera-ready: February 18, 2022 Workshop: March 22, 2022 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to fostering the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems * Social robots in the real world; ********************Submissions******************** Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see https://iui.acm.org/2022/call_for_papers.html <https://iui.acm.org/2022/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=socialize2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022>) by January 9, 2022. 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. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the workshop, and at least one author of each accepted paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2022(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2022@easychair.org>> ********************Proceedings******************** Accepted papers will be published as open access joint workshop proceedings via CEUR-WS.org <http://ceur-ws.org/> ********************Organization******************** Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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CFP: ACM IUI Workshop - SOCIALIZE 2022

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

(Apologies for cross-postings) ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2022 Second Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 22, 2022, hosted online Co-located with the 27th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2022 (https://iui.acm.org/2022/ <https://iui.acm.org/2022/>) March 22-25, 2022, Virtually Hosted by University of Helsinki, Finland Workshop website: http://socialize2022.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2022.di.unito.it/> Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022> For any information: socialize2022(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2022@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 9, 2022 Authors notification: January 28, 2022 Camera-ready: February 18, 2022 Workshop: March 22, 2022 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to fostering the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role. **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems; * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Emotion and personality detection in social HRI; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems * Social robots in the real world; ********************Submissions******************** Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry are encouraged to submit original manuscripts relevant to the audience of the workshop. Papers must comply with the standard ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see https://iui.acm.org/2022/call_for_papers.html <https://iui.acm.org/2022/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=socialize2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2022>) by January 9, 2022. 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. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the workshop, and at least one author of each accepted paper must register for and (virtually) attend the workshop. For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2022(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2022@easychair.org>> ********************Proceedings******************** Accepted papers will be published as open access joint workshop proceedings via CEUR-WS.org <http://ceur-ws.org/> ********************Organization******************** Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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I: Tenure-track professor position HCI

by Fabio Paternò

University of Montreal Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION The DIRO is seeking outstanding candidates for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor starting on June 1, 2022. We are seeking candidates of exceptional scientific talent who have demonstrated research success and shown evidence of high potential in any area of human-computer interaction. The candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, supervise graduate students, be active in research, publishing and the diffusion of knowledge, and contribute to the activities of the University. The position requires a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related area, a strong research record illustrating the candidate's ability to publish influential work in top-tier venues of human-computer interaction, and a demonstrated ability to provide high quality university teaching. The University of Montreal is a Quebec university with an international reputation. French is the teaching language. Nevertheless, non-French speaking candidates are welcome to apply, since the university is intensively recruiting the world's best specialists to renew its teaching faculty. Furthermore, the university provides support for newly-recruited faculty to attain proficiency in French within a reasonable period of time. The University of Montreal offers competitive salaries and a full range of benefits. A complete application must include: a cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of up to three recent publications demonstrating the candidate's research performance at the highest levels of the field, a research statement, and a teaching statement. Three letters of recommendation must also be sent directly to the Department Chair by the referees. The application and letters of recommendation must be sent by email to the Chair of the DIRO by January 7th, 2022: Sylvie Hamel Faculté des arts et des sciences / Département dinformatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal Phone: +1-514-343-7090 Email: <mailto:directeur-HCI@iro.umontreal.ca> directeur-HCI(a)iro.umontreal.ca Website: <https://diro.umontreal.ca/departement/offres-demploi/offre-demploi/news/det… seure-adjointe-en-interaction-personne-machine-assistant-professor-in-human-co/> https://diro.umontreal.ca/departement/offres-demploi/offre-demploi/news/det… eure-adjointe-en-interaction-personne-machine-assistant-professor-in-human-co/ For more information on this position, please consult the website at: https://diro.umontreal.ca/departement/offres-demploi/offre-demploi/news/det… eure-adjointe-en-interaction-personne-machine-assistant-professor-in-human-co/ For more information about the Department, please consult the website at: https://en.diro.umontreal.ca/ Informal inquiries are encouraged and should be directed to Prof. Sylvie Hamel at directeur-HCI(a)iro.umontreal.ca <mailto:directeur-HCI@iro.umontreal.ca> Prof. Eugene Syriani, Ph.D. Professor in software engineering Department of Computer Science and Operations Research | UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL 2345 Pavillon André-Aisenstadt P.O. Box 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal QC, Canada, H3C 3J7 Tel: +1 (514) 343-6111 ext. 47497 | Fax: +1 (514) 343-5834 | <mailto:syriani@iro.umontreal.ca> syriani(a)iro.umontreal.ca | www.iro.umontreal.ca/~syriani <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~syriani>

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