CFP: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11)

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Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona:

Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large& Heterogeneous Data

http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/
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An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning
dynamically in a world of increasingly large data. This workshop aims
to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government
for interaction and discussion. The workshop will feature:

* A panel discussion representing industrial and governmental input,
entitled "Big Society meets Big Data: Industry and Government
Applications of Mapping Meaning". Panel members will include:
* Peter Mika (Yahoo!)
* Alon Halevy (Google)
* Tom McCutcheon (Dstl)
* (tbc)
* An invited talk from Fausto Giunchglia, discussing the relationship
between social computing and ontology matching;
* Paper and poster presentations;
* Workshop sponsored by: Yahoo! Research, W3C and others

Workshop Description

The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to
understand one another when their representations are not identical -
occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration,
e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured
data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are
necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is
undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem
in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this
kind of data is available over the Web.

In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous
environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large
and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may
not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough
integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a
complete solution is impossible.

Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology
matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often
developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of
large-scale data has not been well studied.

Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and
database administrators - while providing quality assurance and
provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make
matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of
information available online that could be integrated, but this
information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of
data-formats, and difficult to interpret.

This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is
becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data
efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and
government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those
developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on
matching and merging techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Integration of large and heterogeneous data
* Machine-learning over structured data
* Ontology evolution and dynamics
* Ontology matching and alignment
* Presentation of dynamically integrated data
* Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies
* Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data
* Quality assurance and data-cleansing
* Vocabulary management in Linked Data
* Schema and ontology versioning and provenance
* Background knowledge in matching
* Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change
* Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies
* Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation
* Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming)
* Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications
* Open problems
* Foundational issues
Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and
Linked Data are particularly encouraged.

Submission

LHD-11 invites submissions of both full length papers of no more than 6
pages and position papers of 1-3 pages. Authors of full-papers which are
considered to be both of a high quality and of broad interest to most
attendees will be invited to give full presentations; authors of more
position papers will be invited to participate in "group panels" and in
a poster session.

All accepted papers (both position and full length papers) will be
published as part of the IJCAI workshop proceedings, and will be
available online from the workshop website. After the workshop, we will
be publishing a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review and
authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit
extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of
submissions being appropriately high).

All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd11. Authors should follow
the IJCAI author instructions
http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/formatting_instructions.

Important Dates
Abstract submission: March 14, 2011
Notification: April 25, 2011
Camera ready: May 16, 2011
Early registration: TBA
Late registration: TBA
Workshop: 16th July, 2011

Organising Committee:
Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh)
Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research)
Michael Chan (University of Edinburgh)

Program committee:
Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam)
Paolo Besana (University of Edinburgh)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research)
Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento)
Ulf Brefeld (Yahoo! Research)
Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh)
Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation)
Vinay Chaudri (SRI)
James Cheney (University of Edinburgh)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes)
Eraldo Fernandez (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR)
Pat Hayes (IHMC)
Ivan Herman (W3C)
Tom McCutcheon (Dstl)
Shuai Ma (Beihang University)
Ashok Malhorta (Oracle)
Daniel Miranker (University of Texas-Austin)
Adam Pease (Articulate Software)
Valentina Presutti (CNR)
David Roberston (University of Edinburgh)
Juan Sequeda (University of Texas-Austin)
Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina)
Jamie Taylor (Google)
Eveylne Viegas (Microsoft Research)

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CFP: Workshop on Video interaction - Making broadcasting a successful social media

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION II

CHI 2011 Workshop on Video interaction – Making broadcasting a successful social media
Vancouver, BC, May 7, 2011

http://mobilebroadcasting.wordpress.com/

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A new type of social medium services, which e.g. makes it possible to capture live video and share it in real time to a web page, is becoming increasingly popular. Although the services are growing in numbers of users, it is still an immature application area and so is the research on this topic.

We invite you to a workshop to investigate the barriers and resources for making video interaction and sharing mobile a successful social media, through discussing topics, such as literacy, collaboration, hybridity, utility and privacy. We aim to connect researchers working with video related research to frame this interesting research field and to foster future collaboration. A concrete outcome of the workshop will be a proposal for a journal special issue on the topic of making mobile broadcasting a successful social media that the organizers will submit to appropriate venues.

TO PARTICIPATE:

Please submit a position paper (2-4 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts format) related to your experience with respect to the workshop theme in your research practice, to chi11_mobilebroadcasting@mobilelifecentre.org. You are welcome (but not required) to send in a free format appendix, movie, sketch, or application. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, and for at least one conference day.

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Deadline for submission: January 14, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2011
- Workshop at CHI 2011: May 7, 2011

ORGANISERS:

Oskar Juhlin, Mobile Life@Interactive Institute
Erika Reponen, Nokia Research Center
Frank Bentley, Motorola Mobility
Dave Kirk, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham
Måns Adler, Bambuser

Up-to-date information on the workshop will be available at: http://mobilebroadcasting.wordpress.com/

If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact organisers at
chi11_mobilebroadcasting@mobilelifecentre.org

CFP: Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices 2011

Take another look at standard, "packaged" technolologies:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (apologies for any cross posting)

As part of
The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011)
http://cts2011.cisedu.info

Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices
(DUCUD 2011)

This workshop is about the challenges, solutions and experiences pertaining to the design and use of standardized technologies, indeed, standardization as such, in order to support comprehensive collaboration. Thus, we are interested in how interaction is supported within different group sizes and heterogeneous groups of users, with "one-size-fits-all" type of technologies. Examples range from Wikis to SAP, mobile phones, iPADs, Sharepoint, etc.

Please find the call at:
http://cts2011.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-14--ducud

May 23 - 27, 2011
The Sheraton University City Hotel
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Extended submission deadlines:
Workshop papers ----------------------------------- January 21, 2011
Notification of Acceptance ------------------------ February 10, 2011
Registration& Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ------- March 1, 2011

Best regards and welcome from
Steinar Kristoffersen,
workshop chair

CFP: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Call for papers: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Santa Barbara, CA , 24 or 25 March 2011 (This is a one day workshop,
exact date will be announced soon), in conjunction with FG 2011

Important Dates

* Paper submission: 12 December 2010
* Notification to the authors: 13 January 2011
* Receipt of camera ready copy: 19 January 2011

Webpage:http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>

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There is a strong interest in fields like computer vision, audio
processing, multimedia, HCI, and pervasive computing, in designing
computational models of human interaction in realistic social settings.
Such interest is boosted by the increasing capacity to acquire
behavioral data with cameras, microphones and other fixed and mobile
sensors. Unlike the traditional HCI view, which emphasizes communication
between a person and a computer, the emphasis of an emerging body of
research has been shifting towards communicative social behavior in
natural situations, with examples such as informal conversational
settings, general workplace environments, interviews, and meeting
scenarios.

The workshop will gather, discuss, and disseminate unpublished work on
computational models and systems for the analysis of social behavior.
Given the scope of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition conference, we
would like to focus on automatic techniques for visual analysis of human
communication and on the applications that are built on top of it. We
welcome contributions that present robust techniques for the analysis of
gestures and facial expressions in natural conversational environments
to model social behavior in everyday life and reason about them. We also
strongly encourage the participation of colleagues from behavioral
sciences: studies of nonverbal behavior and social interaction provide
highly valuable information, concepts, and frameworks to guide automatic
analysis, while efforts in automatic analysis of social behavior provide
new tools, data, and insights to behavioral scientists interested in
nonverbal behavior and social interaction.

We invite contributions that address the following (non-exhaustive) list
of topics:

Social behavior analysis
* Analysis and recognition of visual social cues and others:
o Visual nonverbal cues (body postures, hand gestures, head
gestures, actions ...)
o Multimodal affect recognition
o Nonverbal cues from other sensors
* Multimodal computational models for the analysis, estimation, and
prediction of social behavior aspects and dimensions (interest level,
dominance, rapport, deception...) and of individual properties affecting
it (e.g., personality traits, preferences...)
* Analysis of conversational dynamics
* Multimodal data corpora for social behavior analysis

Systems and devices for capturing social behavior
* Smart camera/microphone systems
* Novel sensor technologies
* Wearable devices
* Cell phones

Socially aware systems and applications
* Computers and robots in the human interaction loop
* Individual and group self-awareness
* Educational applications
* Workplace applications
* Healthcare applications
* Game applications
* Art& creative applications

Organizers:
Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute
Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California
Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento

More information can be found on the workshop web site:
http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>

CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2011)

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION: October 04, 2010 ***

*** Please register abstracts before September 26, 2010 **

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Call for Papers
Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2011)
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 23-25, 2011
http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu
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IWSOS 2011 is the fifth workshop in a series of multidisciplinary events
dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems.

The concept of self-organization is becoming increasingly popular in
various branches of technology. A self-organizing system may be
characterized by global, coordinated activity arising spontaneously from
local interactions between the system's components. This activity is
distributed over all components, without a central controller
supervising or directing the behavior. Self-organization relates the
behavior of the individual components (the microscopic level) to the
resulting structure and functionality of the overall system (the
macroscopic level). Simple interactions at the microscopic level may
give rise to complex, adaptive, and robust behavior at the macroscopic
level.

The necessity of self-organization in networks and networked systems is
caused by the growing scale, complexity, and dynamics of future
networked systems. This is because traditional methods tend to be
reductionistic, i.e., they neglect the effect of interactions between
components. However, in complex networked systems, interactions cannot
be ignored, since they are relevant for the future state of the system.
In this sense, self-organization becomes a useful approach for dealing
with the complexity inherent in networked systems.

The workshop addresses self-organization different types of
technological networks, for example, but not limited to:

* Communication and computer networks
* Transportation networks
* Energy networks
* Robot networks

Research from related fields is also welcome. Building on the success of
its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading
international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the
future of self-organization in networked systems.

**Key Topics**

* Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems
* Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems
* Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems, including
self-protection, diagnosis, and healing
* Self-configuration and self-optimization
* Self-organizing group and pattern formation
* Self-organizing synchronization
* Self-organizing resource allocation
* Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation and coordination
* Self-organizing information dissemination and content search
* Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems
* Structure and dynamics of self-organizing networks
* Risks and limits of self-organization
* The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
* User and operator-related aspects of human-made self-organizing
systems
* Applications of self-organizing networks and networked systems
* Peer-to-peer networks, vehicular networks, zeroconfiguration
protocols
* Autonomous traffic lights, self-organized cruise control
* Decentralized power management in the smart grid
* Collaborative unmanned ground or aerial vehicles, mobile sensor
networks

**Important Dates**

* Abstract Submission: September 26, 2010
* Extended Full Paper Submission: October 04, 2010
* Notification: November 17, 2010
* Camera-ready papers due: December 01, 2010
* Conference: February 23-25, 2011

**Chairs**

General chairs:

* Martina Zitterbart, KIT, Germany
* Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany

Program chairs:

* Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs,
Austria
* Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Keynote Speakers:

* Hermann Haken, professor emeritus, University of Stuttgart and
founder of synergetics
* Hod Lipson, associate professor at the Cornell Computational
Synthesis Lab

**Papers**

IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research
results or research ideas, and that have not been previously published
or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any
previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be
explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF
format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of
the international program committee and judged on originality,
significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness.

The Springer "LNCS Proceedings" style should be used for submission.
Templates are for LaTeX and Word available at http://tiny.cc/qiohy.
Click http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu for detailed information for authors.

* Full Papers. Full papers should describe original research results.
Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS
style (including figures, references, and a short abstract).

* Challenge Papers. Submissions should be position papers, challenging
papers, and papers presenting first results. The papers must be up to 6
pages length (LNCS style, including all figures and references), and
must include a short abstract.

Both paper types should be submitted via the EDAS system at:
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=9217

When submitting your paper, please consider to allow your paper to be
reviewed by a Shadow TPC. A Shadow TPC will allow young researchers and
PhD students to learn how to work in a normal TPC, but it has absolutely
no influence on the actual TPC's review process and paper selection.
Besides helping to educate young researchers, you will get additional
review comments regarding your work. For more information, please refer
to http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu.

**Proceedings**

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of
each accepted paper must attend IWSOS to present the paper.

CFP: International Workshop on Mobile Computing Platforms and Technologies (MCPT-2011)

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MCPT-2011 - The First International Workshop on
Mobile Computing Platforms and Technologies
February 6-11, 2011, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, co-located with Eurocast 2011
http://www.fh-hagenberg.at/mcpt2011
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Mobile platforms and technologies surround us throughout our everyday lives;
billions of mobile phones and trillions of embedded mobile systems interact
with each other and their users. The resulting scientific challenges are
inherently interdisciplinary and encompass a multitude of specific fields,
including systems design, sensors and perception, interaction techniques,
networking and protocols, security and privacy, and low-level hardware
design.

MCPT-2011, the First International Workshop on Mobile Computing Platforms
and Technologies, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from
industry to present novel ideas and developments in mobile computing and
discuss their application to current and future platforms. With a focus on
scientific novelty, MCPT-2011 provides a forum to discuss technology and
platform issues with a specific focus on mobile aspects.

Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
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* Frameworks, toolkits, and middleware for mobile systems
* Platforms for end user development
* Personalization of mobile devices
* Context and location awareness
* Computational perception and environmental sensing
* Augmented reality and mobile multi-modal interaction
* Mobile and spatial interaction techniques
* Ad-hoc and spontaneous networking
* Mobile group interaction
* Security and privacy issues specific to mobile computing
* Mobile trust and reputation systems
* Mobility in wearable computing
* Mobile hardware and communication technology
* Techniques for power management on mobile systems
* Evaluation and comparative reviews of mobile platforms

The submission process is split into two phases:
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* Pre-workshop submissions are limited to two pages in Springer LNCS format
and should describe the core issues and results in the form of an extended
abstract. These submissions are reviewed by an international program
committee in terms of scientific novelty, technical soundness, and scope.
Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings
with an ISBN number.

* Post-workshop submissions are limited to eight pages in Springer LNCS
format. Based on the extended abstracts and the workshop presentations,
selected authors will be invited to submit full versions for final
publication in Springer LNCS post-conference proceedings. All selected
papers will be shepherded by program committee members.

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Clemens Holzmann, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Rene Mayrhofer, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Program Committee
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Petteri Alahuhta, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Kilian Förster, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Paul Holleis, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria
Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Matthias Kranz, University of Technology Munich, Germany
Kristof van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Marc Langheinrich, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany
James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Ersin Uzun, University of California Irvine, USA
Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Important Dates
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Extended abstracts submission deadline: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2010
Workshop: February 6-11, 2011
Final paper submission deadline: April 30, 2011

CfP: Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 10), NordiCHI 2010

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Second Call for Papers for the International Workshop on
Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 2010)
In Conjunction with NordiCHI 2010 - Reykjavik, Iceland
October 17, 2010
http://omue10.offis.de/
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Workshop Theme and Goals
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Nowadays the number of sold smart phones as well as the number of
features of those devices is steadily increasing. Mobile applications
are one of the major driving factors, as they can easily be distributed
through dedicated mobile application distribution platforms, e.g.
Apple's App Store, Google's Android Market. Additionally many smart
phones have a lot of sensors integrated, which makes them more and more
aware of the situation a user is in.

At the same time the usage of mobile devices is rapidly becoming an
integrated part of everyday life. This means that in order to understand
the user experience and the usability of a product it is in general not
enough to perform studies in the laboratory. Instead the mobile context
needs to be taken into account explicitly, and one needs to be able to
study users and usage "in the wild". The challenge of understanding a
mobile user experience is a rapidly evolving field, and it is the
purpose of this workshop to bring together people from industry and
academia in order to exchange methods and experiences related to
understanding the mobile user and the mobile usage.

In this workshop we want to discuss the most important factors,
parameters, and research questions about how to study and involve users
in a truly mobile setting. The goal of the workshop is to provide an
overview of available methods and techniques, but also to produce a set
of guidelines for studying and interacting with users in a mobile
setting. The workshop will focus on the process and methodologies and
will not go into deeper technical details (e.g. algorithms for activity
recognition).

Topics
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Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Observing and interacting with a user on the move
* Unsupervised data gathering
* The mobile device as a platform for user studies
* Specific situations and key parameters
* Mixed methods in a mobile setting
* Ethical considerations
* Safety and security of study participants

Submission details
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Anyone interested in participating is invited to submit a position paper
or an industrial case study to the workshop organizers. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop by
giving a 10-15 minutes presentation.

Submissions of papers covering the topics of the workshop should be
submitted by 27th of August 2010. Position papers (2 to 4 pages) and
industrial case studies (1 to 2 pages) should be submitted in NordiCHI
ACM format.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out 10th of September 2010. At
least one author from each accepted submission is expected to attend the
workshop. Accepted submission will be compiled in the workshop
proceedings which will also contain the guidelines resulting from the
workshop activity. The proceedings will be made available at the
workshop website.

Submissions or other queries should be mailed to Benjamin Poppinga
(poppinga@offis.de).

Schedule
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August 27, 2010 - Submission Deadline
September 10, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance
October 1, 2010 - Camera Ready Deadline
October 17, 2010 - Workshop Date

Organising Committee
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Benjamin Poppinga, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Charlotte Magnusson, Lund University
Wilko Heuten, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
David McGookin, University of Glasgow
Niels Henze, University of Oldenburg
Ginger B. Claassen, C-Lab, Siemens AG
Martin Pielot, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Hakan Eftring, Lund University
Jörn Peters, Soest District

This workshop is organized within the HaptiMap project:
http://www.haptimap.org/ - FP7-ICT-224675

Best Regards,
Benjamin Poppinga
(on behalf of the Workshop Organizers)

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Benjamin Poppinga
Human Machine Interaction

OFFIS
FuE Bereich Gesundheit | R&D Division Health
Escherweg 2 - 26121 Oldenburg - GERMANY
E-Mail: benjamin.poppinga@offis.de
URL: http://www.offis.de/

Fwd: cfp: CSCW 2011 - The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

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Call for Participation: CSCW 2011

The ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

March 19–23, 2011 · Hangzhou, China

Website: cscw2011.org
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FIRST SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 6th, 2010 (for Papers, Notes, Workshops, and Tutorials)

PCS is now open for papers and notes submissions: http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi

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We invite you to submit your research to the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011) to be held on the edge of scenic West Lake in Hangzhou, China from March 19–23, 2011.

CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference that has a special focus on how technology intersects with social practices. This year's theme of Building Bridges reflects the history of building bridges between social and technical researchers at the conference while also highlighting the opportunity to build bridges among research communities around the world by hosting it in Asia.

The conference has several venues for participation. Visit our web site for more details: http://cscw2011.org/

Appropriate topic areas for CSCW include:

* Innovative systems to support collaborative activity: group formation, awareness, coordination, telepresence, shared interaction, etc.
* New collective or collaborative user experiences enabled by social media, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, social networking, wikis, etc.
* Emerging issues for global, cross-cultural coordination and communication
* Innovative installations: CSCW and the arts, media, museums, other public spaces
* Studies of the introduction and use of technologies from social, cultural, and organizational perspectives
* Applying social science methods (ethnographic, experimental, empirical, etc.) to study and understand collaborative experiences and practices
* Novel methodologies and tools for the design and analysis of collaborative practices
* New theoretical approaches and frameworks for understanding coordination and communication
* Collaborative experiences enabled by mobile devices, location-based services, advanced sensing systems, and other emerging technologies
* Multi-player gaming and Virtual Environments
* Systems for emergency preparedness and large-scale rapid deployment (e.g. disaster response)
* Collaborative domains: Computer Supported Cooperative Healthcare, Human Robotic Collaboration, Education, Collaboratories, Government
* Studies exploring the appropriate balance between individual and collaborative work.
* Visions of future directions for CSCW

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CfP: Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility

Call for Participation and Presentations

Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility

A workshop in conjunction with Making Links 2010
Monday, 15 Nov 2010, Perth, Western Australia

http://www.makinglinks.org.au/news/research-for-action/

Workshop Theme
This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss how academic researchers and community practitioners and activists can work together to explore the use of information and communication technologies, social media, augmented reality, and other forms of network technologies for research and action in pursuit of social responsibility. The aim is to connect people with ideas, ideas with research projects, and harness new media to further inquiry into socially just outcomes in our community.

Participation
There are two ways in which you can participate in this workshop. You can either come along as a general participant, including having the chance to present a short position statement on your current research needs, projects or ideas (whether as a researcher or active practitioner), or you can present a paper (full length papers to be selected on the basis of peer review). Workshop costs AU$ 85 if you also register for Making Links 2010, or AU$ 145 if you only attend the workshop. Morning/afternoon tea breaks and lunch included.

A. General participation stream
Position Statements: We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the interest in the workshop and the disciplinary background of the participant.

30 July 2010 Submission of short position statements by email to the workshop chairs
30 Sep 2010 Notification of acceptance (early-bird rate closes 1 Oct 2010)

B. Peer reviewed publication stream
Full papers for peer review and publication in a special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics (to be confirmed): http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

06 Sep 2010 Submission of full papers for peer review by email to the workshop chairs
30 Sep 2010 Notification of acceptance (early-bird rate closes 1 Oct 2010)
01 Nov 2010 Revised, camera ready papers due

Workshop Keynote Speaker
Douglas Schuler has been focusing on the intersection of society and technology for over 25 years. He has written and co-edited several books, including Participatory Design: Principles and Practices (Erlbaum, 1994),New Community Networks: Wired for Change (Addison-Wesley, 1996;http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/), and most recently, Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (MIT Press, 2008), a multi-year undertaking (still in-work) with 85 contributors. He is president of the Public Sphere Project (http://www.publicsphereproject.org/) and former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. For CPSR, Doug organized the Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing symposia series which was first convened in 1987. He is also a co-founder of the Seattle Community Network, a free, public access computer network supporting community and civic engagement that first went online in 1994. He is a member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, a non-traditional liberal arts college, where he teaches programs that focus on the idea of civic intelligence. Doug has a masters degree in computer science (University of Washington) and a masters in software engineering (Seattle University). He is working on his PhD.

Workshop Chairs
Associate Professor Matthew Allen (@netcrit), Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology
m.allen AT curtin.edu.au

Associate Professor Marcus Foth (@sunday9pm), Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology
m.foth AT qut.edu.au

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Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth
Principal Research Fellow

Urban Informatics Research Lab
Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG
m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

Fwd: CFP: Workshop on Connecting Families at ACM Group 2010

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Connecting Families: New Technologies, Family Communication, and the
Impact on Domestic Space

Workshop at ACM GROUP 2010
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Workshop Page: http://carmster.com/connecting

Deadline: September 10, 2010

ORGANIZERS
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Carman Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University
Tejinder Judge, Virginia Tech
Steve Harrison, Virginia Tech
Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Xiang Cao, Microsoft Research Cambridge

ADVISORY PANEL
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David Kirk, University of Nottingham
Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, Nokia Research

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been a longstanding focus of
study in the fields of HCI and CSCW dating back to the first
incarnations of the media space in the early 1980s. Since then, this
research sphere has explored many different forms of technology. The
early focus of this work was largely workplace-oriented where
researchers focused on improving and understanding workplace
communication practices. However, over the last decade, there has
been an increasing focus on studying computer-mediated communication
in the home.

Computing technologies are rapidly changing the way families can
communicate, coordinate, and connect with others through
readily-available (and often free) applications, such as Google Talk,
Skype, or iChat. The accessibility and proliferation of these
applications means that family members are increasingly faced with new
mechanisms to reach out and connect with their family and friends.
For this reason, technology is now rapidly reconfiguring the way we
think about and design for domestic spaces. As it does so,
researchers now must directly confront issues of family relations and
the subtle negotiations that are part of that realm. "Connection" can
be emotionally expressive or merely informational. Analytic frameworks
as well as technologies developed to support work may not be
appropriate for understanding this setting.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers,
designers, and practitioners who study family practices or domestic
technology design with a particular emphasis on mediating family
communication within the home and also between homes. Our focus is on
technologies that allow family members to directly connect with one
another either synchronously (e.g., video conferencing) or
asynchronously (e.g., instant messaging), as opposed to technologies
where one broadcasts or shares information with many (e.g., social
networking sites). Here research typically aims to support
communication between parents, children, grandparents, and close
friends. We want to build community around this topical area, explore
the themes of this research over the last decade, and discuss the
relevant research themes of the next decade. We also plan to use the
workshop as a starting point for pursuing options of
creating a book about the workshop theme.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- family coordination
- family communication
- video communication
- communication across time zones
- social relations in families
- analytic frameworks for ICT in the domestic realm
- domestic awareness appliances
- methods for studying domestic settings

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
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Potential workshop participants should submit 2-4 page position papers
(SIGCHI format) that describe their area of research as it relates to
domestic computer-mediated communication along with the future
direction they see research in this space taking. We also ask that
authors include short biographies for each of the position paper's
authors. We expect that only one author for each paper will
participate in the workshop, though we may be able to accommodate a
small number of special requests.

Email submissions to carman_neustaedter@sfu.ca

Submission deadline: September 10, 2010
Notification of decision: October 7, 2010

This workshop is being held as part of the ACM Group 2010 Conference:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/group/conferences/group10/

CFP: The 3rd Workshop on HCI and Services @ HCI 2010

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The 3rd Workshop on HCI and Services

to be held at the HCI 2010 conference
University of Abertay Dundee, UK

Tuesday 7th September 2010

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1. INTRODUCTION

Services are considered one of the key areas to focus on for growth
and innovation within local and global economies. Approaches to
service design have emerged that share human-computer interaction's
(HCI) commitment to working with and for people, albeit in the
development of useful services, rather than information technology
(IT) artefacts. However, there has been little explicit interaction
between the two communities, despite this apparent overlap. This
workshop will explore HCI's actual and potential inputs to Service
Design activities (including service design research) and vice versa,
and builds on associated workshops held at BCS-HCI 2008 and 2009.

2. GOALS

• to bring together researchers and practitioners, from both HCI and
service design, to inform both research and practice into service
design and service design research;
• to continue the exploration of the relationships between HCI (and
its applied manifestations such as interaction design, user
experience) and service design (plus research), in both theory and
practice;
• to bring together people in different disciplines to discuss the
above topics;
• to explore the wider implications of service design, such as links
with public service reform and local democracy movements;
• to continue the building of a community of people with interests in
the areas.

3. TOPIC RELEVANCE

The workshop relates to existing work and workshops on services.
Outside of HCI, several major research projects and programs have
undertaken research into services in relation to products (e.g. KIM,
IPAS, S4T). A recent AHRC network on service design has also been
undertaken at Oxford ; and the IfM and IBM have developed one vision
for moving services research forwards and has resulted in a volume
publication. Cranfield University's IMRC has focussed around the
Product-Service Systems concept in addition the Service Design Network
network has launched a multidisciplinary journal (Touchpoint),
alongside its thriving Facebook and Linked In communities. Recently
the guardian Newspaper published a supplement on service design.
The workshop also builds on the work that has looked at service issues
in public services; on existing general interest in HCI; existing
general interest in service design; research into the definition of
services; and emerging paradigms for services. In addition the
emergence of design consultancies focussed around services and the
wider design and engineering communities growing interest in the topic
..
The workshop will build on the success of the 1st and 2nd workshops
held at HCI 2008 and HCI 2009, along with the subsequent call for
papers for a Special Issue of Behaviour and Information Technology.
These efforts have brought together a small amiable, and focussed
group of people alongside the gradual development of an international
network of people interested in the interaction between HCI and
service design and research

4. TOPICS

• Do HCI approaches shed new light on definitions of service?
• Reports of experiences applying HCI design and/or research
approaches (e.g., contextual inquiry, personas) to the design of
services.
• Reports of experiences of using services marketing (e.g., service
blueprinting) approaches in HCI contexts.
• Service Quality (e.g. SERVQUAL) in relation to usability / user
experience measures.
• Conflicts and complements between service as experience and 'harder'
measures of service quality.
• Adaptation of existing perspectives to the analysis and design of
services (e.g., task analysis, activity theory, distributed cognition)
• Why services mean that existing perspectives can no longer apply.
• From service to e-service and back again.
• Educational perspectives.
• What HCI approaches, methods, tools and techniques could be used to
assist service design within the entire service development lifecycle.
• The intersection between theoretical accounts of participatory
approaches and value co-creation and co-production

5. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Participants will be invited to submit a 4 page position paper on
their work, along with a candidate service for additional activities.
Practitioners have the option to submit a slide based presentation in
lieu of a position paper.

The morning session will be given over to the presentation and
discussion of these papers.

The afternoon session will undertake a walkthrough of a Service be
split between analysis / design of one or two service examples using
both constructs explored in the morning and standard

In addition, there will be a workshop site linked into the main
conference site that will remain active as a resource for the
community.

6. PARTICIPANTS
Participants would be expected from industry and academia.

The workshop organisers have built a network and through their work
and attendance at previous workshops and the special issue of
Behaviour and Information Technology.

7. DEADLINES

Position Submission: 9th August 2010
Response: 13th August 2010

Workshop 7th September 2010

8. WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

Peter J Wild

Emma Pickering

John Knight
Director of Intiuo Design and Research

9. CONTACT INFORMATION

Workshop Website
https://sites.google.com/site/hciandservices/

HCI 2010 Website
http://www.hci2010.org/

Organiser contact
Peter Wild
peter.j.wild@gmail.com

ANN: Wipro funding for ACM-W Scholarships

Wipro has generously agreed to fund the ACM-W scholarship program for women students to attend a research
conference. While the number of scholarship per year will remain steady at 20, we will now differentiate between intra-continental conference
attendance and inter-continental conference attendance. The former will carry a stipend of $600 while the latter stipend will be $1,200.

As before, several ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have also generously agree to provide complementary registration for scholarship
winners who attend one of their conferences and also provide a mentor at the conference.

For further information please see

http://women.acm.org/participate/scholarship/index.cfm

CFP: Workshop on Accessible Electronic Health RecordsWorkshop on Accessible Electronic Health

Call for Participation: Workshop on Accessible Electronic Health Records

(October 23-24, 2010; Orlando, Florida)
[NSF support for this workshop is being pursued]

Electronic solutions for storing, retrieving, sharing, and analyzing
health related information are being rapidly developed and deployed.
Solutions may be designed for health care professionals or consumers.
resulting in a wide range of challenges. Textual and graphical
information must be entered, updated, and retrieved. Frequent and
infrequent users must be supported. Security must be maintained,
collaboration should be supported, and privacy must be ensured.

This workshop focuses on the issues and challenges associated with
ensuring access to this information by providers and consumers with
disabilities. We seek to bring the health care and accessibility
communities together to share experiences, discuss challenges, and
develop a research agenda. This includes:
- individuals engaged in developing, deploying, or using electronic
health records,
- individuals engaged in research on electronic health records
- individuals engaged in research on information technology accessibility
- individuals interested in becoming involved in any of the activities
listed above.

This one and one-half day workshop will be co-located with ASSETS 2010
in Orlando, Florida and will take place on October 23-24. Travel funds
including airfare, local travel, and hotel will be provided as well as
several group meals.

Individuals interested in participating should submit a position
statement of no more than two pages which outlines their background,
relevant experience, how they anticipate contributing to the workshop,
and the benefits they expect to receive through their participation.
Position statements should be submitted electronically (send to
asears@umbc.edu) no later than August 2, 2010. Individuals will be
informed if they have been selected to participate by August 16, 2010.

Workshop Organizers
Andrew Sears, UMBC
Vicki Hanson, University of Dundee

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Andrew Sears
Constellation Professor of Information Technology and Engineering
Chair, Information Systems Department, www.is.umbc.edu
Director, Interactive Systems Research Center, www.isrc.umbc.edu
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: (410) 455-3883
FAX: (410) 455-1531
Email: asears@umbc.edu

CFP: ACM DEV 2010: 1st Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV)

Call for Papers

DEV 2010 provides an international forum for research in the design and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social and economic development. In particular, we focus on emerging contexts where conventional computing solutions are often inappropriate due to various contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost, language, literacy, and the availability of power and bandwidth. Focusing on innovative technical solutions to these unique application, infrastructure and user challenges, DEV fosters exchange between computer scientists, engineers, and other scholars and practitioners interested in the use of ICTs for development.

Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research. Three metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a) Relevance of the problem for development; (b) Novelty of the technical solution; (c) Evaluation of the solution, making a case for development-focused impact. All DEV paper submissions should either provide or directly motivate a novel technical solution that has direct implications for development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

DEV provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing new ideas. We expect paper contributions from different existing sub-areas of Computer Science and Engineering with a direct relevance to development.

Important Dates
Paper Registration Deadline July 3, 2010
Submission Deadline July 10, 2010
Paper Acceptance September 5, 2010
Final Version October 5, 2010
Conference December 17-18, 2010

Further details
http://dev2010.news.cs.nyu.edu/

CFP: Workshop on Therapeutic Strategies and User Involvement in Design - 17th October @ NordiCHI 2010

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Call For Papers

Workshop on

THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES - a Challenge for User Involvement in Design

17th October 2010

at NordiCHI, Reykjavik, Iceland

Deadline for submissions: 1st August 2010

Web-page: http://www.cs.au.dk/~olavb/ThStWSNC2010/

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Background and Purpose
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As more and more interactive technologies are used in various
therapeutic fields, such as rehabilitation, home care, chronic disease
care, Psycho theraphy etc, it becomes increasingly important to consider
the possibilities and challenges when end-users, such as patients, are
involved actively in the design process.

We need a better understanding of the asymmetries that occur when
involving designers, therapists/medical professionals and patients in
design, in particular an understanding of the relation between design
activities and therapeutic interventions, and the role of therapeutic
strategies in relation to the process as well as the product. New
methods are needed to answer to these new requirements; to what degree
can we involve users and what ethic and medical considerations have to
be made? Can user involvement in some cases even be harmful for the
users and can we expect less resourceful users to be able to actively
engage in design activities while struggling to overcome e.g. a
life-threatening situation?

Such design situations challenge the basic perspectives of traditional
participatory design because equal dialog and co-determination is not
possible. Still, these users participation can be crucial for the
outcome and letting e.g. a therapist or relative speak on the patients
behalf can be contra-productive.

The workshop will contribute to the discourse on user involvement in
design of technologies in general as well as for therapeutic contexts
specifically, and on quality of life perspectives on ICT. Furthermore,
it will elicit the specifics of new application domains where
therapeutic strategies play an important role.

Structure of the workshop
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Accepted submissions are circulated to the participants before the
workshop. The workshop will begin with a brief introduction of the
participants and the submitted work. All participants will bring a
poster representing their work. The posters will be posted in the
plenary room and used as collective memory during the workshop.

The workshop will be conducted based on the submitted papers. The main
part of the day will be spent on thematic discussions, in alternating
formats ranging from plenary discussions to work in small groups. The
organization of this part depends on the submitted works and the number
and combination of participants.

The day will be concluded with a synthesizing session where the
challenges and possibilities of user involvement when designing for
therapeutic strategies and contexts.

The position papers from the workshop will be published as an issue of
one of the organizers university publication series. Depending on the
quality, character and number of submissions, a special issue of a
journal or a book will be produced.

How to participate
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We welcome participants from all parts of HCI and related disciplines,
researchers as well as practitioners, e.g. therapists, nurses, doctors,
who wish to contribute to the establishment of discourse on how
therapeutic strategies may come to play a role in design. The workshop
will accommodate between 8 and 24 participants selected on the basis of
submitted position papers.

We invite workshop papers up to 4 ACM pages long, reporting on recent
experiments, studies of the field and theoretical accounts. We also
invite position papers up to 2 ACM pages stating the submitters'
interest in the field.

(Publication format available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform/).

Submit the position paper in PDF format by email to
olavb@cs.au.dk no later than 1st August, 2010.

Important dates
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Deadline for submissions: 1st August 2010
Notification to authors: 17th August 2010.

About the organisers
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Madeline Balaam is a Post-Doc in the Interact Lab at the University of
Sussex. She has used participatory design techniques to create bespoke
technologies that motivate stroke patients to complete rehabilitation
exercises in the home. Madeline has organised a number of workshops,
including workshops at BCS/HCI, AIED, and HCT

Olav W. Bertelsen is an associate professor in human-computer
interaction at the Computer Science Department of Aarhus University. He
is involved with the Centre for Pervasive Health Care. He has organized
numerous workshops at HCI conferences such as CHI, NordiCHI and BCS/HCI.
olavb@cs.au.dk

Geraldine Fitzpatrick is a Professor at TU Wien in the Informatics
Faculty. She has worked on a number of health-related projects among
others, including the Motivating Mobility project looking at stroke
rehabilitation at home. She has organized numerous workshops at
HCI-related conferences, including CHI, ECSCW, Pervasive, and BCS/HCI.

Erik Grönvall is a Post-Doc in human-computer interaction and Pervasive
health at the Computer Science Department of Aarhus University. He is a
project leader for projects related to the topics of the workshop and
have published a number of publications and previously organized
international workshops related to this field of research.

Kristina Höök is a professor at Department of Computer and Systems
Science, Stockholm University/KTH since February 2003. She is a senior
researcher in the Mobile Life Centre and upholds a part-time position at
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). Her research focus is on
affective, bodily and social interfaces for empowerment.

CFP: ISCRAM2011 Lisbon, Portugal, first announcement

ISCRAM2011 - 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response Management

8-11 May 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

Each year, ISCRAM brings together top researchers and practitioners  working in the area of information systems and crisis management. 

The conference provides an excellent opportunity to exchange information and knowledge  on new research and best practices with a diverse group of colleagues.

ISCRAM2011 particularly encourages submissions for tracks and papers in the following areas:

- Early warning and alert systems  - Monitoring and observation for disaster management  - Risk perception and management - Education & training - Collaboration and collaborative systems - Human-computer interaction  - Intelligent technologies - Rescue robots - Social media - Decision analysis and decision technologies - Geographic information science and crisis management - Hazard and risk simulation  - Research methods

We also welcome proposals for panels and for sessions on innovative or groundbreaking topics.  A limited number of papers will also be considered for an open track.

Further information can be found in the Conference website: www.iscram.org/iscram2011   The Organizing Committee     

CFP: iConference 2011 in Seattle

Call for Participation: iConference 2011

An open conference sponsored by Information Schools of North America, Europe, and Asia

Seattle, Washington, USA
February 8 - 11, 2011
http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/

***PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 30, 2010***

Greetings to everyone interested in HCI and Information! Please forward to your colleagues!

We invite you to participate in the sixth annual conference sponsored by the iCaucus, a growing association of over 25 Schools, Faculties, and Colleges in North America, Europe and Asia that focus on Information. The iConference gathers researchers and professionals who share the goal of making a difference through the study of people, information, and technology. Under the banner "Inspiration - Integrity - Intrepidity" we seek to showcase diversity in research interests and approaches, and demonstrate how the field creates leadership and impact on a global scale.

The four days will include peer-reviewed papers, posters, and alternative events. Also being organized is a Doctoral Student Colloquium and a Junior Faculty& Postdoc Colloquium, popular venues at past iConferences. Papers and poster abstracts will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The aim is to build community and promote and share excellence in research on information challenges and opportunities. We have identified cross-cutting themes: social inclusion, context, materiality, personalization, memory. The 2011 iConference should be an exceptional venue for sharing insights and collaborating with others who share your passion and research interests. For more information on the range of topics visit the iConference web site, which includes more detail and paths to past iConferences. But do not feel constrained, this is a dynamic field that you will help shape!

The conference will be held at Seattle's Renaissance Hotel. The local host is the University of Washington Information School.

Timeline:

August 30, 2010: Papers, Poster Abstracts, Alternative Event proposals, Preconference Workshops
November 1: Authors notified
December 1: Final versions submitted

Links and Contact Information:
* CFP: http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/participation/
* Conference: http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/
* iCaucus: http://www.ischools.org/site/

Conference Co-Chairs
* Harry Bruce, University of Washington
* Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research

Program and Papers Co-Chairs
* Karen E. Fisher, University of Washington
* Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto

Poster Co-Chairs
* Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine
* Ping Zhang, Syracuse University

Alternative Events Co-Chairs
* Allison Druin, University of Maryland
* Andrea Forte, Drexel University

Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs
* Eliza Dresang, University of Washington
* Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine
* Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, SLIS

Junior Faculty and Postdoc Colloquium Co-Chairs
* Eileen Abels, Drexel University
* Jack Carroll, The Pennsylvania State University

Program Committee
* Eileen Abels, Drexel University
* Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
* Bill Aspray, University of Texas, Austin
* John Bertot, University of Maryland
* Harry Bruce, University of Washington
* Jenna Burrell, University of California, Berkeley
* Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto
* Jack Carroll, The Pennsylvania State University
* Coye Cheshire, University of California, Berkeley
* Andrew Clement, University of Toronto
* Chris Coward, University of Washington
* Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Corporation
* Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine
* Eliza Dresang, University of Washington
* Allison Druin, University of Maryland
* Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, University of Washington
* Melanie Feinberg, University of Texas, Austin
* Andrew Fiore, University of California, Berkeley
* Andrea Forte, Drexel University
* Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles
* Maria Garrido, University of Washington
* Sean Goggins, Drexel University
* Elke Greifeneder, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
* Jacek Gwizdka, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
* Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan
* Julia Hersberger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
* Jette Hyldegaard, Danish Royal School
* Steven J Jackson, University of Michigan
* Julie Kientz, University of Washington
* Paul Marty, Florida State University
* Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia
* Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine
* Geoffrey Nunberg, University of California, Berkeley
* Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University
* Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley
* Matt Ratto, University of Toronto
* David Ribes, Georgetown
* Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, SLIS
* Araba Sey, University of Washington
* Ramesh Srinivasan, University of California, Los Angeles
* Andrea Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University
* Joe Tennis, University of Washington
* Andrea Wiggins, Syracuse University
* Kate Williams, University of Illinois
* Jacob Wobbrock, University of Washington
* Ping Zhang, Syracuse University

CFP: SOUPS 2010

CALL FOR POSTERS -- SOUPS 2010

Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security
July 14-16, 2010
Redmond, WA
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/SOUPS/

Poster submissions due May 28, 2010

The 2010 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) will
bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and
practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and
privacy. The program will feature technical papers, workshops
and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks,
and discussion sessions. Detailed information about poster
submissions appears below. For information about other submissions
please see the SOUPS web site http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/cfp.html

POSTERS

We seek poster abstracts describing recent or ongoing
research or experience in all areas of usable privacy and
security. Submissions should use the SOUPS poster template
(MS Word:
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/soups2010-poster-abstract-template.doc
or LaTeX: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/soups2010-latex-templates.zip)
and be at most two pages. Accepted poster abstracts will be
distributed to symposium participants and made available on the
symposium web site. Please follow the final submission
formatting instructions when preparing your poster abstract to
avoid the need to revise poster abstracts after acceptance
decisions are made. In addition, SOUPS will include a poster
session in which authors will exhibit their posters. Note,
poster abstracts should be formatted like short papers, not
like posters. Authors of accepted posters will be sent
information about how to prepare and format posters for the
conference.

Submit your poster using the electronic submissions page
[http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/submit.html].
A successful submission will display a web page confirming it,
and a confirmation email is sent to the corresponding author.
Please make sure you receive that confirmation email when you
submit, and follow the directions in that email if you
require any follow up.

We also welcome authors of recent papers (2009 to 2010) on
usable privacy and security to present your work at the SOUPS
poster session. Please submit the title and abstract of your
conference paper, full citation, and a link to the published
version.

Submissions will close at 5pm, US East Coast time, the
evening of May 28.

General Chair:
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University

Posters Co-Chairs:
Dirk Balfanz, Google
Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia

National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Scientists Seeking NSF Funding Will Soon Be Required to Submit Data Management Plans

The following link at the National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov) has been sent to you by sjul@acm.org.

National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Scientists Seeking NSF Funding Will Soon Be Required to Submit Data Management Plans http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116928&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

CFP: Transnational Times: Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology Design and Use

CFP: Transnational Times: Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology
Design and Use

A workshop at Ubicomp 2010
September 26, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark

Organizers: Irina Shklovski, Silvia Lindtner, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish

We seek interdisciplinary scholars interested in exploring the role of ubiquitous computing, the use of information and communication technologies and the politics of technological design in transnational settings to participate in our workshop, TRANSNATIONAL TIMES, at
Ubicomp 2010. Through this workshop we aim to expand our current scholarly vocabulary for the conceptualization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in addressing the interplay of local and global user interaction.

Current work in Ubiquitous computing is already considering the use of technologies in the developing world and marginalized users in the developed world. This workshop extends such an interest to examine interactions with ubiquitous technology in a transnational context. After all, technologies such as mobile phones, social networking applications and the internet writ large complicate the framing of use and culture as bounded by national or geographical borders, as such illuminating diverse user practices and identities. In this analytical frame we take inspiration from theorists of the global in anthropology, sociology, and HCI who focus on flows across boundaries, hybridity and transnationality.

Examples of possible papers or research topics of interest include (but are not limited to): the use of pervasive technologies such as multiplayer gaming across borders, studies of the use of social network sites among diaspora communities, use of the internet and
other ICTs in censorship state zones, the role of mobile technologies in reconfiguring the local and the global, technology in the context of international migration networks, ubiquitous computing and cross-cultural collaboration, and the role of technology in international politics. Papers that develop theoretical approaches, that examine or
report on empirical work, or that design technological artifacts are welcome, and need not be limited to "developing world" sites of interest.

We hope to attract submissions from scholars working in a range of fields across computational, social and humanistic studies, such as human computer interaction, anthropology, media studies, sociology, science and technology studies and social and cultural geography. The goal of the workshop is to assemble like minds and projects, to
develop a language and toolset appropriate for the study of ubiquitous technologies in transnational spaces, and to engage a wider community of researchers working in this area. We also hope this workshop will interest technology designers and developers currently working in non-western contexts. Full papers may later be solicited for a potential
edited volume.

TO APPLY:

Interested participants should submit a 2-4 page paper in Ubicomp Archival Format describing your current project and its contribution to the workshop topic and themes. As you prepare your paper we suggest you visit our website for more information at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lindtner/transnationaltimes

Papers must be emailed totransnationaltimes@gmail.com by JUNE 15, 2010. Decisions will be announced by June 30.
All accepted participants should plan to attend at least one full day of Ubicomp 2010 in addition to the workshop. Registration will be handled by Ubicomp 2010's central registration page viahttp://www.ubicomp2010.org

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Irina Shklovski
Assistant Professor
Digital Culture and Mobile Communication (DCMC)
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej, 7
2300, Copenhagen S. Denmark
http://www.itu.dk/people/irsh/

CFP: MobileHCI 2010 Workshops

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and
students.

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Workshops @ MobileHCI 2010 || Call for Workshop Participation
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12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010),
A Mobile World for All
September 7-10, 2010, Lisboa, Portugal
http://www.mobilehci2010.org

Workshops and Tutorials will be held on September 7th, 2010.

MobileHCI 2010 is organised by the University of Lisboa, with the collaboration of the New University of Lisboa and the research centres LaSIGE and CITI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE.

MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation, and application of techniques and approaches for mobile and wearable computing devices and services. MobileHCI is now on its 12th Edition.

Workshops at MobileHCI 2010 offer a chance for members of a community with common interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. This year, we have a very exciting series of workshops planned. We would encourage you to consider submitting a paper to one of the workshops - visit http://mobilehci2010.di.fc.ul.pt/Submissions/wsParticipants.html for a list of available workshops; the details of each workshop - including submission deadlines - can be viewed by following the appropriate link. Additionally, this year, the best paper of each workshop will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI).

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Workshop Chairs:
- Jo Lumsden, Aston University, UK
- Carlos Duarte, LaSIGE& University of Lisboa, Portugal

Contact the workshop chairs at: workshops@mobilehci2010.org
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MobileHCI 2010 is supported by Nokia, Anacom, and Telefonica

CFP: ACM SIGCHI EICS 2010

ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

http://eics-conference.org Berlin, Germany | June 21-23, 2010

Would you like to participate in the Second ACM SIGCHI Symposium on
Engineering Interactive Computing Systems to be held in Berlin, Germany
from June 19 to 23, 2010?

EICS focuses on methods and techniques, and the tools that support them,
for designing and developing interactive systems. It brings together
people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems,
drawing from the HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering,
CSCW, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities.

EICS encompasses the former EHCI (Engineering Human Computer
Interaction, sponsored by IFIP 2.7/13.4), DSV-IS (International Workshop
on the Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems),
CADUI (International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User
Interfaces) and TAMODIA (International Workshop on Task Models and
Diagrams) conferences.

The conference is being organized by DAI-Labor Research Center. The
conference will be located at the "Straße des 17. Juni", a famous main
axis crossing the heart of the city west to east from Ernst-Reuter-Platz
through the Brandenburg Gate up to the Palace Square
(Schlossplatz).

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

EICS'2010 features only peer-reviewed contributions in the following
categories: research papers, demonstrations, doctoral consortium, late
breaking results, tutorials, and co-located workshops.

As part of the social program, two visits to leading research
laboratories have been scheduled. At the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
and DAI-Labor you will be able to experience ambient assisted living and
innovative interaction technologies. At the Human Computer Interaction
Lab, at the Hasso Plattner Institute, interactive devices, miniature
mobile devices and touch interaction will be presented.

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| Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |
| June 19 | June 20 | June 21 | June 22 | June 23 |
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| Doctoral | Tutorials&| Keynote: | Papers | Keynote: Axel |
| Consortium| Workshops | Joëlle Coutaz | sesssions | van Lamsweerde|
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| Lunch | Lunch | Lunch& Posters |
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| Doctoral | Tutorials | Papers | Papers | Papers session|
| Consortium| | sessions | sessions | sessions |
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| Labs Tour:| Labs Tour: |
| HCI Hasso | Telekom Lab |
| Plattner |& DAI-Labor |
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| DC Dinner | Welcome | Gala Diner& |
| | Reception | Social Event |
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* User Interface Plasticity: MDE to the limit! Prof. Joëlle Coutaz,
University of Grenoble, France - http://iihm.imag.fr/coutaz

* Model Engineering for Model-Driven Engineering. Prof. Axel van
Lamsweerde, University of of Louvain, Belgium -
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~avl

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LIST OF RESEARCH PAPERS

An Automated Routine for Menu Structure Optimizations. Goubko,M.&
Danilenko, A.

Activity-centric support for weakly-structured business processes.
Schmidt, B., Stoitsev, T.& Mühlhäuser , M.

Aligning Business Goals and User Goals by Engineering Hedonic Quality.
Klöckner, K., Kohler, K., Kerkow, D., Niebuhr, S.&
Nass, C.

Beyond Models: An Integrated Environment Supporting Co-Execution of
Tasks and Systems Models to Assist Users during Operations. Barboni, E.,
Ladry, J. , Navarre, D., Palanque, P.& Winckler, M.

Bridging Models and Systems at Runtime to Build Adaptive User
Interfaces. Blumendorf, M.& Lehmann, G.

COMM Notation for Specifying Collaborative and MultiModal Interactive
Systems. Jourde, F.,
Laurillau, Y.& Nigay, L.

Improving modularity and usability of interactive systems with Malai.
Blouin, A.& Beaudoux, O.

Increasing the Automation of a Toolkit without Reducing its Abstraction
and User-Interface Flexibility. Dewan, P.

Mixed-Focus Collaboration without Compromising Individual or Group Work.
Dewan, P., Agrawal, P., Shroff, G.& Hegde, R.

MoPeDT - Features and Evaluation of a User-Centred Prototyping Tool.
Leichtenstern, K.& André, E.

Representations for an Iterative Resource-Based Design Approach.
Dittmar, A.& Harrison, M.

Shape Menu: A Tabletop-Menu Technique for GUI Object Creation. Belatar,
M.& Coldeffy, F.

Software Refactoring Process for Adaptive User-Interface Composition.
Savidis, A.,

Taxonomy proposal for the description of accidents and incidents in the
operation of electrical systems. Scherer, D., Nascimento Neto J. A. do,
da Costa, R. C.& Vieira, M. de F.

User Interface Design by Sketching: A Complexity Analysis of Widget
Representations. Kieffer, S., Coyette, A.& Vanderdonckt, J.

User Interface Model Discovery: Towards a Generic Approach. Gimblett, A.
& Thimbleby, H.

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LIST OF LATE BREAKING RESULTS

Digisketch: Taming Anoto Technology on LCDs. Hofer, R.& Kunz, A.

Developing Usability Studies via Formal Models of Uis. Bowen, J.&
Reeves, S.

How assessing Plasticity design choices can improve UI quality: a case
study. Serna, A., Calvary, G.& Scapin, D.

Collaboratively Maintaining Semantic Consistency of Heterogeneous
Concepts towards a Common Concept Set. Guo, J., Lam, I, Chan, C.& Xiao, G.

Using Ensembles of Decision Trees to Automate Repetitive Tasks in Web
Applications. Bray, Z.& Kristensson, P. O.

Feasible Database Querying Using a Visual End-User Approach. Borges, C.
R., P.& Iglesias, J. A. M.

The GUISurfer tool: towards a language independent approach to reverse
engineering GUI code. Silva, J., Silva, C., Gonçalo, R. Saraiva, J.&
Campos, J. C.

Magellan: an evolutionary system to foster user interface design
creativity. Masson, D., Demeure, A.& Calvary, G.

Letras: An Architecture and Framework For Ubiquitous Pen-and-Paper
Interaction. Heinrichs, F., Steimle, J., Schreiber, D.& Mühlhäuser, D.

Virtual Collaborative Environments with Distributed Multitouch Support.
Ardaiz, O., Arroyo, E., Righi, V., Galimany, O.& Blat, J.

Exploiting Web Service Annotations in Model-based User Interface
Development. Paternò, F., Santoro, C.& Spano, L. D.

WebWOZ: A Wizard of Oz prototyping framework. Schlögl, S., Doherty, G.,
Karamanis, N.& Luz, S.

An Editor for building Self-Explanatory User Interfaces by Model-Driven
Engineering. Frey, A. G.

Adapting Existing Applications to Support New Interaction Technologies:
Technical and Usability Issues. Andreychuk, D., Ghanam, Y.& Maurer, F.

Semantic Awareness through Computer Vision. Benzaid, S.& Dewan, P.

Service Discovery Supported by Task Models. Kritikos, K.& Paternò, F.

Design Pattern TRABING: Touchscreen-based Input Technique for People
Affected by Intention Tremor. Mertens, A.

Model-driven GUI& Interaction Design. Hinze, A., Bowen, J., Wang, Y.&
Malik, R.

Using the Mobile Application EDDY for Gathering User Information in the
Requirement Analysis. Hammer, S., Leichtenstern, K.& André, E.

History-based Device Graphical User-Interfaces. Omojokun, O.& Dewan, P.

Bridging the Gap: Empowering Use Cases with Task Models. Sinnig, S.,
Mizouni, R.& Khendek, F.

UsabML: Formalising the Exchange of Usability Findings. Feiner, J.,
Andrews, K.& Krajnc, E.

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Further information on the web site: http://eics-conference.org/

CFP Human Computation Workshop (HComp2010)

********** call for papers **********

Human Computation Workshop 2010 (HCOMP 2010)

July 25, 2010 Washington DC, USA
http://hcomp.info/hcomp2010

Collocated with ACM SIG KDD-2010

Most research in data mining and knowledge discovery relies heavily on
the availability of datasets. With the rapid growth of user generated
content on the internet, there is now an abundance of sources from which

data can be drawn. Compared to the amount of work in the field on
techniques for pattern discovery and knowledge extraction, there has
been little effort directed at the study of effective methods for
collecting and evaluating the quality of data.

Human computation is a relatively new research area that studies the
process of channeling the vast internet population to perform tasks or
provide data towards solving difficult problems that no known efficient

computer algorithms can yet solve. There are various genres of human
computation applications available today. Games with a purpose (e.g.,
the ESP Game) specifically target online gamers who, in the process of
playing an enjoyable game, generate useful data (e.g., image tags).

Crowdsourcing marketplaces (e.g. Amazon Mechanical Turk) are human
computation applications that coordinate workers to perform tasks in
exchange for monetary rewards. In identity verification tasks, users
need to perform some computation in order to access some online content;

one example of such a human computation application is reCAPTCHA, which
leverages millions of users who solve CAPTCHAs every day to correct
words in books that optical character recognition (OCR) programs fail to

recognize with certainty.

Human computation is an area with significant research challenges and
increasing business interest, making this doubly relevant to KDD. KDD
provides an ideal forum for a workshop on human computation as a form of

cost-sensitive data acquisition. The workshop also offers a chance to
interact with practitioners who have complementary real-world expertise
in gaming and mechanism design.

The first Human Computation Workshop (HComp 2009) was held on June 28th,

2009, in Paris, France, collocated with KDD 2009. The overall themes
that emerged from this workshop were very clear: on the one hand, there
is the experimental side of human computation, with research on new
incentives for users to participate, new types of actions, and new modes

of interaction. On the theoretic side, we have research modeling these
actions and incentives to examine what theory predicts about these
designs. Finally, there is work on noisy results generated by such
games and systems: how can we best handle noise, identify labeler

expertise, and use the generated data for data mining purposes?

Learning from HComp 2009, we have expanded the topics of relevance to
the workshop. The goal of HComp 2010 is to bring together academic and
industry researchers in a stimulating discussion of existing human

computation applications and future directions of this new subject area.
We solicit papers related to various aspects of both general human
computation techniques and specific applications, e.g. general design
principles; implementation; cost- benefit analysis; theoretical

approaches; privacy and security concerns; and incorporation of machine
learning / artificial intelligence techniques. An integral part of this
workshop will be a demo session where participants can showcase their

human computation applications. Specifically, topics of interests
include, but are not limited to:

* Abstraction of human computation tasks into taxonomies of mechanisms
* Theories about what makes some human computation tasks fun and addictive
* Differences between collaborative vs. competitive tasks
* Programming languages, tools and platforms to support human
computation
* Domain-specific implementation challenges in human computation games

* Cost, reliability, and skill of labelers
* Benefits of one-time versus repeated labeling
* Game-theoretic mechanism design of incentives for motivation and
honest reporting
* Design of manipulation-resistance mechanisms in human computation

* Effectiveness of CAPTCHAs
* Concerns regarding the protection of labeler identities
* Active learning from imperfect human labelers
* Creation of intelligent bots in human computation games
* Utility of social networks and social credit in garnering data

* Optimality in the context of human computation
* Focus on tasks where crowds, not individuals, have the answers
* Limitations of human computation

Workshop Format
* Presentations by Authors
* Talks by invited speakers

* Poster/Demo session

Submission Information
* Papers should be prepared as PDF files using the KDD conference-paper
format, available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

* Long papers should be at most nine pages; short papers at most four
pages. Demo submissions should include either a previously published
paper or a one- page extended abstract about the demo.

* Papers must be submitted electronically via CMT at

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/HCOMP2010/

* Authors are encouraged to present a poster and/or demo of their human-
computation applications during the workshop. Please indicate in your

electronic paper submission whether you will participate in the
poster/demo session.

Important Dates
May 3, 2010 (Monday) Electronic paper submission
May 21, 2010 Friday) Notification of acceptance

May 28, 2010 (Friday) Camera-ready submission
July 25, 2010 (Sunday morning) Half-day Workshop

Program Committee
Serge Belongie, University of California at San Diego
Paul Bennett, Microsoft Research

Sheng-Wei (Kuan-Ta) Chen, Academia Sinica
Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica
Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University
Markus Krause, University of Bremen

Edith Law, Carnegie Mellon University
Hao Ma, Chinese University of Hong Kong
David Parkes, Harvard University
Zoran Popovic, University of Washington
Victor Sheng, University of Central Arkansas
Alexander Sorokin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Paul Resnick, University of Michigan

Organizing Committee
Raman Chandrasekar, Microsoft Research
Ed Chi, Xerox PARC
Max Chickering, Microsoft
Panagiotis G Ipeirotis, New York University
Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research

Foster Provost, New York University
Jenn Tam, Carnegie Mellon University
Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University

Contact email: hcomp2010@gmail.com
Workshop website: http://hcomp.info/hcomp2010

Check out the workshop poster at http://hcomp.info/HComp2010/hcomp2010Poster.pdf

CFP: DIS 2010: deadline for short papers, demonstrations and doc. cons. May 1

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Call for short papers and demos

DIS 2010

The ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Aarhus, Denmark, August 16-20, 2010

Short Papers, Demonstrations, and Doctoral Consortium

Deadline: May 1, 2010

More info: http://www.dis2010.org

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At DIS 2010 we give high priority to
exciting and high quality demos as well as short papers.

The May 1. deadline for demos, short papers and
the doctoral consortium is approaching.

For submission details please visit
http://www.dis2010.org/index.php?Submission+categories

CFP: 2nd DESIRE summer school on Creative Design

International Summer School

Models of Creative Design for Innovation in Science and Technology
Aveiro University, Portugal
September 19-25, 2010

"Models of Creative Design" 2010 is a summer school proposed by the DESIRE
Marie Curie Initial Training Network: "Creative Design for Innovation in
Science and Technology". DESIRE aims to establish an interdisciplinary
network of researchers investigating creative design in various applied
domains, including interaction design, industrial design, and arts design.

The 2010 summer school will build on grounding creativity theory, analysis
and modelling creative processes in design and innovation. Industrial,
artistic, and collaborative design will be explored from the perspective of
the user, the cognitive scientist, the software engineer, and the
interaction scholars as well as the designer. Several aspects of creative
design, such as: design cognition models; design processing; computer
supported collaborative design, creative digital interaction and qualitative
analysis; will be examined.

The summer school is addressed to young researchers, PhD students, or
professionals in the fields of Human Computer Interaction, Interaction
design, Experience design and Industrial design.

The school is intensive and residential. It consists of a cycle of lectures,
assisted learning and training. The official language is English and all
teaching activities and materials will be in English.

Applications

The school will be open to 28 highly qualified, motivated students, 13 from
the DESIRE project and 15 from outside. PhD students, young researchers or
industrial professionals in the field are encouraged to apply. The
applications will be evaluated as soon as they are submitted on the basis of
their application date and the applicants' curricula vitae (two-page résumé
including reasons for participating in the school). The school is partially
funded by the DESIRE network.

Application Deadline: 3 May 2010

Key note speakers

John Gero is a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced
Study and at the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering,
George Mason University and a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is the author or editor of 46 books and over 550
papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing,
artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and
cognitive science.

Nigel Cross is the Professor of Design Studies at the Open University based
in Milton Keynes, UK. He is a leading thinker in the design research and the
design education communities. His latest book, Designerly Ways of Knowing
showcases his ideas on what designers do when they do design and promotes
Design as a discipline like Science or Arts.

For more information please see http://www.desirenetwork.eu/ht/006s/s01.html