CFP: WISH Mentoring and Scholarship Program

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CFP: Mentoring program at the
Workshop on Interactive Systems for Healthcare (WISH)
April 10-11, 2010
Atlanta, GA USA
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The Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) will take place April 10th and 11th, 2010 collocated with the ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, at the CHI conference site, the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This event is designed to foster conversation and bridge communities and will include specialists in biomedical informatics, nursing informatics, medical sociology, human-computer interaction, and related fields.

WISH is pleased to offer a mentoring program for students and other junior researchers joining the fields of HCI, health, wellness, and biomedical informatics. This program will match up participants with members of the steering committee for one on one mentoring as well as inclusion of these participants in some invite-only events for mentors and mentees starting the evening of April 10 and moving through the open WISH event on April 11. Finally, we will be able to offer scholarships for partial travel and registration support for those accepted to the program. To apply, please email Desney Tan (desney@microsoft.com) and Gillian Hayes (gillianrh@ics.uci.edu) by February 15th, 2010 with your CV, the name of your supervisor or advisor, and what kind of financial support you might need. Some preference will be given to authors of accepted papers for WISH, but the program will be open to anyone, and we strongly encourage applicants who are not presenting at WISH.

Please forward this on to other interested people, both within and outside of the CHI community.

Best,

Desney and Gillian
http://www.chi2010.org/wish

CFP: CHINZ (CHI New Zealand)

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CHINZ 2010, 11th annual Conference on the New Zealand ACM Special Interest
Group on Human-Computer Interaction
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Conference Theme: Interaction on the move
Massey University Auckland, 8th ­ 9th July, 2010

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The CHINZ conference provides a general forum for all those involved with
Computer Human Interaction (CHI or HCI) to address design centred human use
of technology. We welcome full length and short research papers in all areas
of this diverse field and especially encourage graduate students to present
at the conference. There will poster sessions and hands-on demonstrations
during the conference, at which we would encourage industry practitioners to
present.

In recent years more and more researchers in the field of HCI have looked to
apply principles from the design industry to their work. Many have come to
see themselves as Interaction Designers rather than just Interface
Designers. The conference will address a wide range of topics around the
central theme of Interaction on the move. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

* Interaction design
* User centred design
* Applying design principles in HCI
* Social implications of technology (e.g., for disabled or elderly)
* Mobile technologies; games; robotics
* Cognitive psychology
* Usability
* Guidelines and heuristics
* Implications of technology for cognition
* Education aspects
* Industry case studies.
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Important date
30th March, 2010 ­ All submission due
27th April, 2010 < All reviews due
4th May, 2010 ­ Response to authors
5th June, 2010 - Final submission die
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Submissions
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference, published in the
conference proceedings, and the ACM Digital Library. All the submissions
will be peer reviewed by an ³international² programme committee
* Long papers - no more than 8 pages in length
* Short papers - no more than 4 pages in length
* Posters and demos - no more than 2 pages in length

All submissions must adhere to the ACM SIG Proceedings format and be
submitted as PDF files.
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For all other informal enquires please email to Dr. Hokyoung Ryu
(h.ryu@massey.ac.nz) or +64 9 4140800 xtn. 9140.

Hosted by: Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences and Centre for
Mobile Computing, Massey University, ACM SIGCHI New Zealand (
http://www.acm.org/chapters/sigchi_nz)

GRA: 10 PhD scholarships available – deadline for applications: 15 February 2010

10 PhD positions - Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Interactive and Cognitive
Environments (ICE)

Research areas of interest:

- Assistive technologies

- Network-embedded systems

- People-inspired technologies

- Designed intelligence

- Multi-sensor surveillance
More details and sample project descriptions at http://www.icephd.org/research_areas
The ten grants will be covered by the European Commission funds and students will be enrolled under a three-year employment contract leading to the acknowledgement of a joint or a double PhD title recognized by the ICE partner universities: Università degli Studi di Genova (UNIGE), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitaet Klagenfurt (UNIKLU), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
The total gross amount of the grant is 43,300 € per year. For more information and for application please visit www.icephd.org<http://www.icephd.org>

CFP: CRIWG 2010

The Collaboration Researchers International Working Group presents:

***The 16th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology***

September 20-23, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

The CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology seeks scientific
papers that inform the design, development, deployment, and use of
collaboration technology (groupware) and the work practices they
support. Founded in 1995, CRIWG has become a significant forum for
researchers and professionals to exchange ideas and experiences about
problems and solutions related to collaboration technology.

Most challenges in the collaboration technology field require a
multidisciplinary, multi-methodological approach. CRIWG seeks papers
on groupware from a wide variety of academic perspectives and
epistemologies, ranging from collaborative and exploratory research,
to theory building and testing, applied research, design science,
engineering, and innovative evaluation methods. Researchers can report
their ideas, theories, models, designs and experimental results to
CRIWG either by submitting full paper contributions, in case of mature
works, and shorter papers reporting innovative work in progress. As in
previous years, the authors of the best papers will be invited to
submit extended versions to selected journals. PhD students are
invited to present their research in the doctoral colloquium.

The CRIWG conference is supported by the Collaboration Research
International Working Group, www.criwg.org, an open community of
researchers. Traditionally, CRIWG is organized in remote places
alternating between the Americas and Europe, with a small number of
presentations, fostering critical discussion, team building and
collaboration. The location selected for the CRIWG 2010 conference is
Maastricht, the Netherlands. Delft University of Technology will
organize the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full and Work in Progress Papers
Submission deadline: March 26, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2010
Camera ready papers: May 14, 2009
Doctoral Colloquium Papers
Submission deadline: June 14, 2009

Doctoral Consortium September 19, 2010
Conference September 20-22, 2010
Social event September 23, 2010

The CRIWG 2010 conference seeks paper contributions on the following key areas:

Collaboration technologies and technology issues:
Jointly authored pages
Streaming, and information access
Groupware UI considerations
Experience design
Groupware frameworks & toolkits
Groupware design approaches
Access control, alerts, attention mechanisms
Presence indicators, awareness
Collaboration and surface computing
Privacy, security, access, IP
Collaboration concepts and theories, for example:
Group Productivity, efficiency, effectiveness
Theory on satisfaction, acceptance,
Adoption, and diffusion
Collaboration across and between cultures
Trust, Consensus, Commitment
Aggregated systems
Group support systems
Collaborative modeling tools
Workflow management systems
Collaborative project management systems
Application Domains for Groupware:
Medical applications
Organizational learning
Emergency management
Mobile collaboration
Gaming
Collaborative Engineering or Design
Social Aspects of groupware:
Social creativity
Group dynamics
Facilitation and scaffolding of collaboration
Virtual worlds, communities
Social Network Systems
Ethics and values

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The CRIWG 2010 full and work in progress papers will be published by
Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. Extended and reviewed best papers will be published in special
issues of international journals.

Electronic paper submissions are accepted in two categories: full
papers and work in progress papers. Full papers have a length of up to
16 pages based on mature and finished research while work in progress
papers should have a maximum length of 8 pages, both of them following
the Springer LNCS format. Electronic submission site will be soon
available in this Web site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=criwg2010. Further news
will be published in this Web site: http://criwg2010.tudelft.nl

We will use a double-blind reviewing process. Please, do not include
the author's name and affiliation in the submitted paper itself. As a
result of the reviewing process, the Program Committee may suggest
changes in the format and/or the contents of the paper, including the
category of the paper. In this case, a paper will be conditionally
accepted. The PC Chairs will decide on the final acceptance or
rejection, based on the analysis of the revised paper. The format for
the final version will be the Springer LNCS format, which includes
e.g. templates for MS Word and Latex.

For submission guidelines concerning the doctoral colloquium please
refer to the CRIWG 2010 Web site: http://criwg2010.tudelft.nl

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Thomas Herrmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

ORGANIZING CHAIR
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

STEERING COMMITTEE
Pedro Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Marcos Borges,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Gert-Jan de Vreede,
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, Jesus Favela, CICESE, Mexico,
Jörg M. Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, José A. Pino,
Universidad de Chile, Chile, Carolina Salgado, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Brazil, Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology,
the Netherlands.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.
Jan-Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel, Germany.
Rafael Gonzales, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Adriana Vivacqua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Aurora Vizcaíno-Barceló, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Benjamim Fonseca, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Bertrand David, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.
Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
Carlos Duarte, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
César Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia.
Dominique Decouchant, LSR-IMAG, Grenoble, France.
Doug Druckenmiller, Western Illinois University, USA.
Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Etienne Rouwette, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Flávia Santoro, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gerhard Schwabe, Universität Zürich, Schweiz.
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
Gustavo Zurita, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Hugo Fuks, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hugo Paredes, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Imed Boughzala, Institut Telecom, France.
Ingrid Mulder, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Jan-Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel, Germany.
Jesus Favela, CICESE, Mexico.
Jörg M. Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen
José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Luis A. Guerrero, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Luis Carriço, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Marcos Borges, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.
Miguel Nussbaum, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
Nelson Baloian, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Nicholas Romano, Oklahoma State University, USA.
Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany.
Nuno Preguiça, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Pedro Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Robert O. Briggs, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
Sergio F. Ochoa, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Till Schümmer, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
Tom Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA.
Traci Carte, University of Oklahoma, USA.
Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Volker Wulf, Universität Siegen, Germany.
Volkmar Pipek, Universität Siegen, Germany.
Werner Geyer, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA.
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, St.Augustin, Germany.
Yannis Dimitriadis, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.

Best regards,
CRIWG Program Chairs
Thomas Herrmann & Gwendolyn Kolfschoten.

thomas.herrmann@rub.de
g.l.kolfschoten@tudelft.nl

CFP Ubiprojection 2010 - Workshop on Personal Projection in conjunction with Pervasive 2010

Ubiprojection 2010 ist the 1st workshop on personal projection via
mobile and wearable pico projectors. The main goal of the workshop is
to develop an understanding of how mobile and wearable pico projectors
could be combined with new user interfaces, interaction techniques and
applications. We seek for new ideas, prototypes, and insights as a
basis to develop a deeper understanding of the field.

In addition, we will provide an open forum to share information,
results, and ideas on current research in this area. This workshop
encourages discussion about future topics concerning personal
projection. Furthermore, we aim to develop new ideas on how such
devices can be exploited for new forms of interaction with the
environment.
We will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned
with design, development, and implementation of new applications and
services using personal mobile and wearable projectors in their user
interfaces. Moreover, the workshop aims at conveying hands-on
experience with current state-of-the-art technology and prototypes
through demonstration sessions.

The workshop will be held in Helsinki, Finland on 17 May 2010 in
conjunction with Pervasive 2010.
Important Dates

* February 1, 2010: Submission Deadline (submission system)
* March 1, 2010: Author Notification
* March 31, 2010: Submission of camera-ready version
* May 17, 2010: Workshop in Helsinki, Finland

Submission system: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ubiprojection2010
Workshop website: http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/

Kind regards,
Johannes Schöning

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ITS 2010, Saarbrücken Germany
Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
http:/www.its2010.org
http://twitter.com/ITS_Germany2010
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Johannes Schöning
Innovative Retail Laboratory
DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
www.innovative-retail.de
www.dfki.de/~jschoen
www.dfki.de
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff

Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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Sent from Berlin, Germany

Help needed: English to French translation for Sahana/Haiti

Sahana is free and open-source software developed to support relief
efforts in catastrophic situations. It started with volunteers in Sri
Lanka after the Banda Ache tsunami and has now grown to where it is
being used in international responses. They have just started a
non-profit to make it a stable world-wide resource. (It has a variety of
different modules, individual organizations can use whichever they need,
and can install it on their own servers, or, increasingly, on shared or
donated resources. It has modules for logistics, volunteer management,
family reunification, etc.)

Sahana is being deployed in Haiti and they desperately need people to
help translate it into French (and Creole). The way it worked for
Myanmar was that all the user-facing messages were listed in one long
list, and volunteers would sign up to translate/validate blocks of text
strings.

If you, or someone you know, is interested, willing and able to help,
please go to

http://translate.sahana.lk/wiki/PootleGuide

for further information and to sign up.

Mèsi [thank you, Creole],
-- Susanne

CFP: Special Issue of JCSCW: Knowledge Management in Action

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN ACTION

Special Issue of
Journal on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW)
http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/cfp.html

Guest Editors:
- Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan
- Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca
- Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT

THEME: Organizations of different kinds, from structured companies up to
social networks or virtual communities, are becoming increasingly aware
of the need to collect, organize, mobilize, increase, in sum manage,
expertise and knowledge which characterize their ability to stay alive,
adapt and evolve in a turbulent context. Knowledge Management (KM) is a
keyword under which different organizational and technological
approaches to answer this need are referred to. From the beginning of
the KM discourse, the CSCW community has taken a critical stance both in
asking for applied research in the practices of real organizations and
relating technological and organizational innovations. The Special Issue
aims to collect papers reporting on ethnographically-based or
field-based experiences that are confronted with real situations and
highlight problems, requirements and technical solutions that are
derived from those experiences by taking into account the following
perspectives:

- organizational strategies to enact and promote KM within
organizations, and their relation with ICT technology
- various kinds of knowledge, application domains, organizational
structures, and their implication on KM
- methods and approaches for the design of KM solutions
- techniques and technologies for a sustainable KM (CSCW-based
approaches, web-based approaches, etc.)
- critical success factors for KM socio-technical solutions
- evaluation of KM applications in real situations
- lessons-learned in each phase of the KM application life-cycle, from
conception up to continuous adaptation
- critical comparison of technologies, field studies and strategies in KM
- any other perspective contributing to a better understanding of KM in
action

Papers presenting original research must comply with standards specified
at the IJCSCW site: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/ where it is
possible to upload them.

Papers written in English should be sent by 30 April 2010. All submitted
papers will be blind refereed by at least three reviewers.

Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, originality of the work
and reviewers' comments. Authors will be notified of acceptance or
rejection via e-mail by 30 June 2010. Camera-ready papers are due by 15
September.

RFH (URGENT): Python programmers for Haiti response

This is an urgent call for experienced Python programmers to help in the Sahana Disaster Management System immediately - knowledge of Web2Py platform would be best.  Please recruit any available programmers for the Haiti effort as quickly as possible and have them contact me immediately so that i can put them in touch with the correct people.  Thank you kindly and I do hope that we can quickly identlfy some contributors for this monumental effort -

They are needed ASAP.

http://sahanapy.org/ is the developer site and the demo is http://demo.sahanapy.org/

Please forward to others: Can we identify some student and or faculty programmers who could help and ask them if they are willing to do so to contact me straight away.  Thank you -

connie.m.white@gmail.com

ANN: Search Haiti earthquake shaking intensity by address

>
> Just launched a web app to let friends and family find the shaking
> intensity for addresses in Haiti affected by the earthquake. The
> shaking intensity and description may help them get an idea of damages
> if they aren't able to contact their loved ones.
>
> Please spread the word via email, twitter, other social apps.
>
> http://bit.ly/7e15RS

CFP: AoIR Internet Research 11.0 - Sustainability, Participation, Action

Call for Papers

Internet Research 11.0 - Sustainability, Participation, Action

The 11th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
October 21-23, 2010 University of Gothenburg/Chalmers University of
Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

The challenge of this conference is to find multiple avenues for
participation and action towards a sustainable future. In a society
increasingly aware of social and ecological imbalance, many people now
see information and communication technologies as key technologies for
solving problems associated with an unsustainable future. However,
while information technology may solve some problems, it can magnify
others. As pointed out by world forums such as the United Nations and
the European Commission, use of ICTs contributes to the unsustainable
consumption of energy and resources. Similarly, unequal access and
exploitative practices remind us that IT is not a utopian answer to
complex social problems. A sustainable future is not only about
greening processes and products at any cost, but also entails social
responsibility, cultural protection and economic growth. Therefore the
conference has a multi-dimensional focus, where the Internet is seen
as a possible liberating, empowering and greening tool.

The conference will focus on how the Internet can function as a
conduit for the development of greater global equality and
understanding, a training ground for participation in debates and
cross-cultural projects and a tool for mutual action; in short a
technology of empowerment. The flip-side of the internet as a tool for
empowerment is the issue of exploitation. Exploitation of resources
and people is what has led to the current crisis, and issues of
exploitation are highly relevant online, from abuse of the commons to
censorship, fraud and loss of privacy and the protection of the rights
of the individual.

Sustainability, Participation, Action invites scholars to consider
issues concerning empowerment and/or exploitation in relation to the
Internet. We ask scholars to specifically consider issues concerning
integrity, knowledge production, and ethics in relation to the
Internet and sustainable development. How do we, as Internet
researchers, regard our work in relation to the unsustainable current
situation and the possibilities of a sustainable future? How far can
we take the Internet, and with it, people, individuals, groups and
societies in order to create an arena for participation and action,
all key elements in imagining a sustainable future? How can we apply
previous knowledge to serve future solutions?

To this end, we call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations
from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions
of multiple disciplines, methodologies and academic communities that
address the conference themes, including papers that intersect and/or
interconnect the following:

Internet and an equal and balanced society
Internet as an arena for participation
Internet as a tool and arena for action
Internet and an informed knowledge society
Internet and a green society
Internet and e‐commerce, dematerialization and transportation
Internet and security, integrity and surveillance
Internet and a healthy society
Internet as an arena for cultural expressions, and source of a culture
of its own.

Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically
address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting,
and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on
topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic,
economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the
conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and
interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations
from both AoIR and non‐AoIR members.

SUBMISSIONS
We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We
welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS and we
also welcome proposals for ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS that will focus on
discussion and interaction among conference delegates, as well as
organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a
single theme.

DEADLINES
Call for Papers Released: 24 November 2009
Submissions Due: 21 February 2010 (Details here)
Notification: 21 April 2010
Full papers due: 21 August 2010

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All papers and presentations in this session will be evaluated in a
standard blind peer review.

Format
PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800 words
FULL PAPERS (OPTIONAL): For submitters requiring peer review of full
papers, manuscripts of up to 8,000 words will be accepted for review.
These will be reviewed and judged separately from abstract submissions
PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a 600-800 word description of the panel
theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation
ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the
roundtable discussion and interaction
Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted
proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and
overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual is invited to submit a
proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. A person may also propose a
panel session, which may include a second paper that they are
presenting. An individual may also submit a roundtable proposal. You
may be listed as co-author on additional papers as long as you are not
presenting them.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special
issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society, edited by
Caroline Haythornthwaite and Lori Kendall. Authors selected for
consideration for submission to this issue will be contacted prior to
the conference.

All papers submitted to the conference system will be available to
AoIR members after the conference.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
On October 20, 2010, there will be a limited number of pre-conference
workshops which will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/
or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-
conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose
workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or
studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and
should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs,
equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining
relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if
they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the
overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or
local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These
proposals and all inquiries regarding pre-conference proposals should
be submitted as soon as possible to both the Conference Chair and
Program Chair and no later than March 31, 2010.

FEE WAIVER
In order to increase the diversity of participation in the AoIR annual
Internet Research (IR) conferences, the Association of Internet
Researchers will make available up to three conference fee waivers per
year. The number of fee waivers will depend first of all upon the
ability of the conference budget to sustain such waivers (a judgment
to be made by the AoIR Executive Committee upon the advice of the AoIR
Treasurer and the local organizing committee) as well as upon the
quality of the applications for fee waivers.

Applications for fee waivers are invited from student or faculty
authors whose paper or panel proposals have already been accepted via
the AoIR IR conference reviewing process. All applications should be
directed to the Vice-President of AoIR, and must be received by June
30 of the conference year. Late applications cannot be considered.
More information and submission guidelines will be published in a
separate announcement.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Program Chair: Torill Elvira Mortensen, Volda University College,
Norway. torill.mortensen@gmail.com
Conference Co-Chairs and Coordinators: Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Chalmers
University of Technology and Ylva Hård af Segerstad, University of
Gothenburg, Sweden.

Important Dates

Submissions Due 21 February 2010

Notifications of Acceptance 21 Apr 2010

Abstract Revisions Due7 May 2010

Full Papers Due 21 August 2010

Pre-Conference Workshops 20 Oct 2010

Main Conference 21-23 Oct 2010

--
Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth
Principal Research Fellow

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

CFP: Information Interaction in Context IIiX 2010

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Information Interaction in Context 2010
http://www.iiix2010.org/
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[Papers and posters are due April 11, 2010]

The Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX) explores the
relationships between and within the contexts that affect information
retrieval and information seeking, how these contexts impact
information behavior, and how knowledge of information contexts and
behaviors improves the design of interactive information systems.

The intention of IIiX is to foster an integrated approach to
information access by bringing together members of the research
communities in information seeking behavior (Behavior Track),
interactive information retrieval (Interaction Track), and information
retrieval system design (System Track). A list of topics of interest
can be found at the conference website.

Submissions are sought that integrate two or more of these
perspectives. While it is understood that one area might be the
dominant theme of the submission, the expectation is that authors will
provide an explicit discussion of how their submission informs at
least one other area. For example, a submission that primarily
discusses system aspects should provide mention of how the system
impacts interaction or behavior. A paper that primarily discusses
information behavior should discuss implications for interaction or
system design. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are
especially welcome.

PAPERS & POSTERS

IIiX encourages the submission of original, high quality research
papers that have not been published previously and are not under
review for another conference or journal. All submissions will be
reviewed by an international program committee. Full papers,
describing completed research results, should be no more than 10 pages
in length.

Provocative and interesting poster submissions, describing planned,
in-progress, and late-breaking results are also sought. The aim of the
poster session is to encourage debate, discussion, and future
collaboration. As well as being reviewed according to typical measures
of originality and technical merit, submissions will also be reviewed
for their suitability for an exciting and engaging poster session.

Poster papers should be no more than 4 pages in length. In addition,
authors of accepted posters are expected to include a 1 page image of
their posters (in PDF) as part of their FINAL submissions. It will be
included alongside the paper in the ACM Digital Library. This image
SHOULD NOT be included as part of the initial submission.

Papers and posters are due April 11, 2010.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

A Doctoral Consortium held in conjunction with the main conference
provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss
their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in
a seminar format. The Doctoral Consortium focuses on 1) advising
students regarding currentcritical issues in their research, and 2)
making students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their
research as viewed from different perspectives.

Submissions should include a short thesis description of 1,200-1,500
words and a statement of support from the applicant's thesis advisor.
Additional details (including information about how to submit) can be
found at: http://www.iiix2010.org/doctoral.php. Submissions are due
on April 30, 2010.

HCIR WORKSHOP

The 4th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information
Retrieval (HCIR 2010) will be held in conjunction with IIiX 2010. HCIR
is the study of information retrieval (IR) techniques that bring human
intelligence into the search process. It combines research from the
fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and IR, placing an emphasis
on human involvement in search activities. Additional details can be
found at: http://www.iiix2010.org/hcir-workshop/.

IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2010)

APRIL 11 Papers and Posters Due
APRIL 30 Doctoral Consortium Submissions Due
MAY 28 Notifications
JUNE 18 Camera Ready Copy Due
AUGUST 18-22 IIiX Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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Jacek Gwizdka, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication and Information
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
+1 732 932 7500 x 8236
4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

http://www.comminfo.rutgers.edu/~jacekg/
http://calendar.yahoo.com/jacekgw
http://jsg.tel

CFP: IWSSI/SPMU 2010 (in conjunction with Pervasive 2010)

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2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous
Interaction and Mobile Device Use (IWSSI/SPMU 2010) - Call for Papers
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http://www.mimuc.de/iwssi2010
Helsinki, Finland
in conjunction with Pervasive 2010

*Important Dates*
-----------------

Submission Deadline: February 01, 2010
Notification to Authors: March 08, 2010
Camera-Ready Papers: March 17, 2010
Workshop: May 17, 2010

*Scope*
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Mobile devices in general, and mobile phones in particular, present unique
challenges not only in terms of user interface, battery life, and form
factor, but also in terms of ensuring their users' privacy and security.
Privacy and security are often in conflict with another and have been the
topic of many research projects. Emerging mobile payment and ticketing
solutions require the secure transmission and storage of financial
information, while electronic health records or access certificates/tokens
might imply the use of highly sensitive personal information on such
devices. Securing the potentially massive amount of interactions using
mobile devices is difficult, because typically there will be no a priori
shared information such as passwords, addresses, or PIN codes between the
phone, its user, and the service they want to use. Additionally, mobile
devices often lack powerful user interfaces to support classical
authentication methods.

The 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous
Interaction and Mobile Device Use (IWSSI/SPMU'2010) provides a forum
to discuss these challenges and to put forward an agenda for future
research. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation between research
groups and to establish a highly connected research community. Authors of
selected workshop submissions will be invited to submit an extended
version to a special issue in a renowned international journal.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to,
the following items as they appear in the context of spontaneous
interaction and/or mobile device use:
* Authentication protocols and methods for device pairing or
user authentication
* Sensor-, context-, and location-based authentication methods
* Authorization, access control, and trust management
* Logging and auditing of spontaneous interactions with mobile devices
* Network and system models
* Security and privacy of mobile phone users
* Security and privacy issues in mobile phone networks
* Privacy and anonymous/pseudonymous interactions
* User interfaces and models for user interaction on mobile devices
* Making use of spontaneous interaction in applications
* Public perception of security and privacy issues of mobile phones
* Legal and social issues of security and privacy for mobile phones
* Options for lawful, auditable, and restricted tracking and
surveillance using mobile phones in law enforcement

*Contributions*
---------------

There will be two separate categories for submission:

* Full papers: We solicit novel contributions of up to 6 pages
(ACM Format)on any of the topics of interest or related areas.
These papers must not significantly overlap with other papers
previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Accepted papers will be published online on the IWSII/SPMU09
website. Authors of selected submissions will also be invited
to submit an extended version to a special issue in a renowned
international journal.

* Position papers: Position papers should be no longer than 2 pages
(ACM Format) and may present already published work in the context
of this workshop, work in progress, as well as ideas and concepts
for future research.

We encourage authors to submit to both categories if deemed appropriate.

An international program committee will select around 12-15
contributions. Authors of accepted full and position papers will be
invited to give short presentations at the beginning of the workshop
with brief discussion phases, followed by an open panel and more
specific discussion groups to discuss common ground and open
challenges. The open panel is also a forum for informally presenting
demonstrators, which will be actively encouraged. Video and other
supplementary material will be published on the workshop web page to
provide further incentive for showing prototypes.

Contributions must be sent by email to <iwssi@lists.inf.ethz.ch> no later
than February 01, 2010, and should be in PDF format. If you have any
questions, we encourage you to contact the organizers at the above
email address.

*Organizing Committee*
----------------------

Rene Mayrhofer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Marc Langheinrich (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Kaisa Nyberg (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Alexander De Luca (LMU Munich, Germany)

*Program Committee* (confirmed)
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Georg Treu (Aloqa Inc., Palo Alto, US)
Pieter Hartel (University of Twente, NL)
Jonathan M. McCune (Carnegie Mellon University, US) John Krumm
(Microsoft Research Redmond, US)
John Krumm (Microsoft Research Redmond, US)
Alex Varshavsky (University of Toronto, CA)
Ersin Uzun (University of California, Irvine, US)
Apu Kapadia (Indiana University Bloomington, US)
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (CMU, US)

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Alexander De Luca

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
LFE Medieninformatik
Amalienstr. 17
D-80333 München
Fon +49-89-2180-4688
Fax +49-89-2180-4652
Skype: Alexander De Luca

alexander.de.luca@ifi.lmu.de
www.medien.ifi.lmu.de

CFP: IEEE HST 10

NEWS from IEEE-USA 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036-4910   IEEE Homeland Security Conference Seeks Technical Papers, Posters, Tutorials WASHINGTON (3 December 2009) -- Organizers of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 10) are seeking technical papers, posters and tutorials in the following areas: -- Homeland cyber security -- Land & maritime border security -- Attack & disaster preparation, recovery & response -- Counter-WMD techniques & key resources protection physical security   Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and presented at HST 10 at the Westin Waltham Boston in Waltham, Mass., USA, 8-10 November 2010. At least one author of an accepted paper has to register for the conference and pay the conference fee.     The event, the 10th in an annual series, will bring together leading researchers and innovators working on technologies designed to deter and prevent homeland attacks, protect critical infrastructures and people, mitigate damage and expedite recovery. Input from international partners is encouraged.   Papers should focus on technologies capable of deployment within five years, particularly applied research addressing areas in which breakthroughs are needed. Proposals should be no more than 500 words. Tutorial and poster submissions should include a one-page abstract and one-page biography.   Here are important 2010 submission dates to keep in mind: -- Abstract & tutorial proposal deadline - 24 April -- Tutorial acceptance notification - 10 May -- Full paper submission deadline - 25 June -- Paper acceptance notification - 6 August -- Poster abstract submission deadline - 13 August -- Poster acceptance notification - 27 August -- Publication-ready paper deadline - 3 September -- Tutorial presentation deadline - 3 November   All submissions must describe original work not previously published or currently under review for publication in another conference or journal. Instructions can be found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf . For more information on submitting paper, poster and tutorial proposals, go to http://www.ieee-hst.org/technical_program/cfp/HST_2010_CFP_Nov_24_09.pdf. For general information on the conference, see http://www.ieee-hst.org/. The IEEE Boston Section (http://www.ieeeboston.org/) is producing HST 10 with organizational support from IEEE-USA. More than 450 people attended the 2009 conference, including representatives from at least 10 foreign countries. The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate and the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office are providing technical assistance. IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.  Contact: Chris McManes IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager Phone: 1 202 530 8356 E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org

CfP: WWW2010 Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW2010)

The 4th Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2010)

in conjunction with the 19th World Wide Web Conference 2010

April 27, 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA
http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow4/

* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION*

As computers and computer networks become more common, a huge amount
of information such as that found in Web documents has been
accumulated and circulated. Such information gives many people a
framework for organizing their private and professional lives.
However, in general, the quality control of Web content is
insufficient due to low publishing barriers. In result there is a lot
of mistaken or unreliable information on the Web that can have
detrimental effects on users. This situation calls for technology that
would facilitate judging the trustworthiness of content and the
quality and accuracy of the information that users encounter on the
Web. Such technology should be able to handle a wide range of tasks:
extracting credible information related to a given topic, organizing
this information, detecting its provenance, clarifying background,
facts, and other related opinions and the distribution of them, and so
on. The problem of Web information reliability and Web data quality
has become also apparent in the view of the recent emergence of many
popular Web 2.0 applications.

* TOPICS *

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion on
issues related to information credibility criteria and the process of
its evaluation. We invite submissions on any aspect of information
credibility on the Web. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Information credibility evaluation and its applications
- Web content analysis for credibility evaluation
- Author's intent detection
- Content quality and credibility in Web archiving
- Credibility of Web search results
- Search models for trustworthy content on the Web
- Conflicting opinion detection
- News credibility
- Multimedia content credibility
- Credibility evaluation of user-generated content (ex. Wikipedia, Q&A)
- Information credibility evaluation in social networks
- Analysis of information dissemination on the Web
- Spatial and temporal aspects in information credibility on the Web
- Information credibility theory and fundamentals
- Estimation of information age, provenance and validity
- Estimation of author's and publisher's reputation
- Sociological and psychological aspects of information credibility estimation
- Users study for information credibility evaluation
- Persuasive technologies
- Information credibility in online advertising
- Web spam detection
- Data consistency and provenance
- Processing uncertain data and information
- Modeling trust on the Web
- Credible interaction on the Web
- Credibility and trust in e-commerce

* KEYNOTE *

Speaker: Miriam Metzger (UCSB, USA)

* IMPORTANT DATES *

January 25, 2010 - Paper submission deadline
February 12, 2010 - Notification of acceptance
February 19, 2010 - Camera ready deadline
April 27, 2010 - Workshop

* SUBMISSION *

Submissions should be sent in English in PDF format. Papers should
adhere to ACM formatting guidelines and be no longer than 8 pages.
They must be original and have not been submitted for publication
elsewhere. We encourage also submission of position papers outlining
interesting research directions.

* ORGANIZATION *

Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
Min Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)

Program Committee:

see the website.

* CONTACT *

Adam Jatowt
email: adam [at] dl [dot] kuis [dot] kyoto-u [dot] ac [dot] jp
phone/fax: +81-75-231-4282

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CFP: Doctoral Workshop for PHD students at ICIC 2010

Call For Participation: ICIC 2010 Doctoral Workshop

ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration
August 19-20, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

The ICIC 2010 Doctoral Workshop is a forum for Ph.D. students doing
research in the area of intercultural collaboration to meet and
discuss their work with each other and an international panel of
experienced researchers. The workshop will be held on Wednesday
August 18, the day before the ICIC 2010 conference begins. For more
details on the conference itself, see
http://langrid.nict.go.jp/icic2010/

Applicants should be Ph.D. students with an already well-established
direction of research relevant to culture and collaboration, and who
would benefit from attendance at the Doctoral Workshop. We welcome
applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches,
including anthropology, cognitive science, computer science,
information science, linguistics, organizational studies, psychology,
sociology, and related fields.

The Workshop committee will select approximately 12-15 participants
who will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their
work during the Workshop, to be followed by extensive group
discussion. Selected participants will receive complimentary
conference registration. Additional support may be available, but
this cannot be guaranteed.

Applicants should submit the following items to
icic2010-doctoral@khn.nict.go.jp by April 15 2010:

(a) An overview of your doctoral research that describes your
research question and methodological approach, work in progress, and
expected contributions. This overview should also include a paragraph
that articulates what you hope to get from attending the ICIC
Doctoral Workshop. This document should be formatted according to
the ACM SIGCHI template and submitted in PDF format. Please see the
SIGCHI author instruction page
(http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) for more information
and downloadable templates.

(b) A one paragraph biographical sketch

(c) An email letter from your academic advisor/supervisor sent to
icic2010-doctoral@khn.nict.go.jp by April 15, 2010, indicating that
they support your application to the colloquium and that they agree
that your research is at an appropriate stage for participation.

Please email questions to icic2010-doctoral@khn.nict.go.jp.

We look forward to your workshop applications.

Susan Fussell, Cornell University
ICIC 2010 Doctoral Workshop Co-Chair

CFP 2010 Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (USA)

Call for Participation:

2010 Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems:
13-17 June, 2009
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA (www.skamania.com)

We are seeking 30 scholars to join the outstanding set of mentors for this
year?s Summer Research Institute

If you are an advanced doctoral student, post-doctoral scholar or pre-tenure
faculty at a US-based institution, you are eligible to participate.

Application screening begins 1 March, 2010 with notification by early April,
2010. Application requirements can be found below.

Most costs will be covered for accepted participants.

Background
---------------
A multi-disciplinary science of socio-technical systems is emerging from
research in the fields of CSCW, social computing, social informatics, the
sociology of computing, HCI, organizational studies, ICT for development,
medical informatics, information systems, library and information science,
and other related intellectual communities. To support this, the Consortium
for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST, see http://sociotech.net)
was established in 2007 as an organization devoted to advocating for this
intellectual movement.

Building on the successes of the 2008 and 2009 Summer Research Institutes,
the CSST will, with generous support by the National Science Foundation,
again be organizing a summer research institute for advanced doctoral
students and pre-tenure faculty to be held 13-17 June, 2010. A primary goal
of the institute is to build a trans-disciplinary cohort of scholars who
examine the complex interplay among the technical and the social across all
levels of analysis: individuals, groups, organizations, cultures, and
society.

Examples of this kind of work include research on:
* new forms of organizing (e.g., virtual organizations, massive online
activities)
* social computing (e.g., online communities, online social networks);
* distributed work (e.g., collaboratories, virtual teams);
* emerging technologies (e.g., recommender systems, prediction markets);
* novel forms of production (e.g., open source software, Wikipedia);
* new forms of expression and entertainment (e.g., blogs, wikis, massively
multiplayer online games); and
* information and communication technologies for developing regions
(e.g., cell phone-based applications to assist economic development,
infrastructure development for local economic action).

2010 Institute Mentors
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. Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University, Director
. Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
. Geoff Bowker, University of Pittsburgh
. Brian Butler, University of Pittsburgh
. Christine Halverson, IBM Corporation
. C. Suzanne Iacono, National Science Foundation
. David McDonald, National Science Foundation
. Christine Neuwirth, Carnegie Mellon University
. Gary Olson, University of California, Irvine
. Judith Olson, University of California, Irvine
. Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation
. Susan Leigh Starr, University of Pittsburgh
. Michael Twidale, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Institute goals
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The goals of the institute are to:
* Expand on and strengthen connections among researchers in this area,
linking across intellectual communities and further building upon the
network of relations formed through the 2008 and 2009 Summer Research
Institutes.
* Guide the work of the new researchers by interacting with experts in the
sciences of socio-technical systems.
* Provide encouragement and support for the selection of socio-technical
systems research topics.
* Illustrate both the connection among and diversity of the fields that
contribute to socio-technical systems research.

How the institute will be conducted
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The institute will be conducted as a residential program at Skamania Lodge
(www.skamania.com) with a combination of small group sessions devoted to
providing feedback on participants? research and larger group sessions
consisting of panels and presentations led by the institute mentors. These
sessions will cover research topics such as core principles and viable
methods and also career development, how to obtain funding, and publication
strategies. Time will be reserved for informal recreational activities.
Costs of participation, including travel, food and accommodations, are
covered thanks to the funding provided by the NSF.

How to apply
----------------
The application process requires two parts:

1. A 350 word response to the question: ?How will your research contribute
to advancing our scientific understanding of socio-technical systems??

In responding to this question, please also explain what you mean by
socio-technical. You may also want to include a core or defining reference
that guides your work in this area.

2. A current curriculum vitae.

Please email your application materials as attachments (in PDF or in a
common word processing format) to csst2010@syr.edu with the email subject
line being ?CSST 2010 Application?

If you have questions, contact Steve Sawyer or Wayne Lutters directly.

CFP: Ubiprojection 2010 - Workshop on Personal Projection

**** Call for Papers ****

*** Please distribute ***

Ubiprojection 2010 - Workshop on Personal Projection

in conjunction with Pervasive 2010 in Helsinki, Finland

http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/

The main goal of the workshop is to develop an understanding of how
mobile and wearable pico projectors could be combined with new user
interfaces, interaction techniques and applications. We seek for new
ideas, prototypes, and insights as a basis to develop a deeper
understanding of the field.

In addition, we will provide an open forum to share information,
results, and ideas on current research in this area. This workshop
encourages discussion about future topics concerning personal
projection. Furthermore, we aim to develop new ideas on how such
devices can be exploited for new forms of interaction with the
environment.

We will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned
with design, development, and implementation of new applications and
services using personal mobile and wearable projectors in their user
interfaces. Moreover, the workshop aims at conveying hands-on
experience with current state-of-the-art technology and prototypes
through demonstration sessions.

** Important Dates **

February 1, 2010: Submission Deadline

March 1, 2010: Author Notification

March 31, 2010: Submission of camera-ready version

May 17, 2010: Workshop in Helsinki, Finland

** Website and more Information **

http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/

if you have any additional questions please contact us via
ubiproject@comp.lancs.ac.uk

** Organizers **

Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK

Johannes Schöning, DFKI, Germany

Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research Center Tampere, Finland

Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany

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ITS 2010, Saarbrücken Germany
Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
http:/www.its2010.org
http://twitter.com/ITS_Germany2010
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Johannes Schöning
Innovative Retail Laboratory
DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
www.innovative-retail.de
www.dfki.de/~jschoen
www.dfki.de
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff

Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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Sent from Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

CFP: Final call for submissions to ISCRAM 2010

ISCRAM2010: 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

DEFINING CRISIS MANAGEMENT 3.0
 
May 2-5 2010
Crown Plaza Hotel
Seattle, Washington USA

Just over another couple of weeks to submit short papers, discussions and practitioner reports.  We already have over 80 full research papers submitted to and under review for ISCRAM2010.  Alongside their presentation of completed work and new findings we are anxious to have a number of shorter work-in-progress papers, practitioner reports, discussions, panels and other presentations that will stimulate wide discussion and shape future thinking.  You have until January 18th to submit these.  If you have ideas or suggestions that you wish to discuss please email us on iscram2010@iscram.org.




UPDATE

Submission of work-in-progress, discussions, and practitioner papers remains open until January 18th 2010.

When submission of full research papers closed at the end of November, over 80 papers had been submitted and these are now going through full double-blind, academic peer review.  However, ISCRAM conferences are much more than presentations of research results.  They are full of vibrant discussion and networking opportunities.  We are still seeking three types of submission to stimulate discussion, focus on practitioner needs and priorities and explore research still in progress:

1.        Work in progress and discussion papers.  
2.        Practitioner reports and discussions which raise issues, examples and case studies, examples of best practices, improvements, and significant insights or examples.  
3.        Demonstrations.

** NOTE ** if anyone wishes to discuss ideas for a discussion paper or panel before submitting their proposal on the submission site, please email iscram2010@iscram.org

Full  details of the calls are available at www.iscram.org.  

There is also a call for participation in the doctoral colloquium: see www.iscram.org.

Submissions should be made through www.conftool.com/ISCRAM2010.

ISCRAM conferences present the latest findings from academia and the field on the design, development, implementation, use and evaluation of information systems in the domain of crisis management and response, through a unique program of academic research, practitioner cases and technology demonstrations, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and social events. As always the conference will be multi-disciplinary drawing together perspectives from across all socio-technological domains. Human behaviours are as important to us as the technologies that enable us to
share information and situation assessments quickly and in increasing volumes.  The theme for ISCRAM2010 is Defining Crisis Management 3.0.  Our aim is to look forward at the conference and consider how our rapidly changing technologies may change the way that we respond to crises in our ever more interconnected world.  While we particularly solicit papers, discussions, case studies and demonstrations emphasising the conference theme,  we welcome papers covering all aspects of information systems for crisis response and management.

Further details of ISCRAM2010, as they become clear, will be published on http://www.iscram.org and through its discussion and mailing lists.

We look forward to seeing you in Seattle!!

Mark Haselkorn, Conference Chair
Simon French, Programme Chair
Brian Tomaszewski, Program co-Chair

MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.iscram.org
ISCRAM group on Facebook
Email: iscram2010@iscram.org




Simon French
Professor of Information and Decision Sciences
Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
Booth Street West, Manchester M15 6PB, UK
T: +44-161-275-6401.  M: +44-7739-825358.  F: +44-161-306-3518.  E: simon.french@mbs.ac.uk

Secretary: Linda Stocks
T: +44-161-306-68984.  E: Linda.Stocks@mbs.ac.uk

CFP: Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems

(CTS 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center Chicago, Illinois, USA May 17-21, 2010 In
Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP (Pending)

http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010

Brief Description:

Dynamic, on-demand, whole life-cycle, multi-domain, coalition, fusion between
security technologies and models.

Collaboration relies on distributed systems that combine different resources, often provisioned on-demand for the duration of the mission or project. Security services are an important component of the collaboration infrastructure that ensures normal uninterruptible reliable operation of the collaborative systems. The open Internet and networking environment, over which the modern collaborative systems operate, impose a number of common and specific security threats and attacks (spamming, worms, session hijacking, buffer overflow, denial of service, social engineering, etc.). Collaborative organizations require better security properties (strong authentication, efficient encryption, Mandatory Access Control, integrity, non-repudiation and availability). Nowadays, collaborative organizations use new technologies such as mobile devices, smartcards, wireless networks, high performance networks, cloud and grid computing, multi-agent systems. These environments introduce new needs, requirements and difficulties related to security. Hence, collaborative organizations and technologies face several challenges in the field of security.

This Workshop on Security and Collaboration, to be held as part of the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'10), will focus on security issues related to collaborative systems with emphasis on distributed environments, Grid and cloud based resource virtualisation and on-demand provisioning, multi-agent systems, mobile and wireless cooperation. The aim is to have a dedicated workshop that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. The workshop will address issues related to the security infrastructure and services design, implementation and operation. It intends to address new security challenges and present new ideas and solutions addressing modern security requirements, specific methods of access control that should allow large scale cooperation, use of mobile technologies and smartcards, enable intrusion detection, system recovery and healing in the context of cooperative systems.

We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research institutions and industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology.

Workshop topics must address security and collaboration:
* Frameworks for Security in Collaborative Systems
* Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures Supporting Cooperative Applications
* Security models for emerging Cloud Computing
* High performance optical networking infrastructure for collaboration
* Access Control in Collaborative Environments
* Role Based Access Control, Reputation, and Trust
* Cross Domain Identity and User Attributes Management Systems
* Security Context Management in Scientific Workflow Applications
* Security models and infrastructure for Complex Resource Provisioning in Distributed Collaborative Systems, supporting the whole life-cycle of the provisioned resources
* Security model for Coalition Networks combining on-demand provisioned multilayer infrastructure for communications, Information exchange and human interaction
* Security standards and security education
* Relation between Infrastructure security, information security and security management
* Policy driven SLA negotiation
* Privacy Protection for Collaborative Systems
* Encryption and Cryptography Systems Supporting Cooperative Systems, including group oriented and Identity Based Cryptography
* Security for Specific Collaboration Domains (e.g., e-Government, e-Business, Public Services, P2P, e-Social Security, Medical Collaboration, etc.)
* Virtual Organisations and dynamic security associations
* Trust and reputation management in dynamic environment
* Web Services Security
* Security in multi agent systems
* Secure collaborative agents
* Using multi agent systems for security
* Middleware Security
* Use of Smartcards in the Context of Collaboration
* Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks
* Usability and security
* Trusted Operating Systems for Distributed Environments
* Honeypots for Collaborative Systems
* Intrusion and Attacks Detection for Collaborative Systems
* Collaborative Security Monitoring Schemes and Systems
* Disclosure and Integrity Issues
* Resistance to Denial of Service
* Detection and Self-Recovery Schemes and Strategies Supporting Cooperation

Submission Instructions:

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on above and any other related topics are solicited. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email addresses. Please indicate clearly the corresponding author. Include up to 6 keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript not to exceed 8 pages in length in single-space, two columns IEEE format Conference style. If accepted the final camera ready version will be following the CTS 2010 template and requirements to be posted on the CTS web site. Electronic submissions will be accepted only in PDF format uploaded at http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/. For other electronic formats, please check with the organizers.

Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers in the Workshop are required to be presented and will be included in the Symposium proceedings. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the web site later.

Further instructions will be provided at
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/.

Organizers Information:
Dr. Patrice Clemente and Dr. Jean-François Lalande
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO)
ENSI-Bourges
10 Bld Lahitolle
18020 Bourges Cedex France
Emails: patrice.clemente@ensi-bourges.fr , jean-francois.lalande@ensi-bourges.fr

Dr. Yuri Demchenko
System and Network Engineering Group
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 107, 1098XG, Amsterdam
Email: y.demchenko@uva.nl

Technical Program Committee:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members.

Program committee chair: Prof. Christian Toinard
LIFO, ENSI-Bourges, France

Pr. Julien Bourgeois, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Dr. Jorge R. Cuellar, Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Germany
Dr. Nora Cuppens, ENST Bretagne, France
Dr. Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA
Dr. Eric Dubois, Centre d'Innovation par les Technologies de
l'Information, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Dr. Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Jean-Bernard Fischer, Nagra, France
Mr. Vincent Glaume, CEA, France
Pr. Claude Godart, INRIA Lorraine, France
Pr. Hervé Guyennet, LIFC, France
Dr. Vincent Louis, France Telecom R&D, France
Dr. Volkmar Lotz, SAP, France
Pr. Philippe Mathieu, University of Lille, France
Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala, New Mexico Tech, USA
Dr. Franck Panaget, France Telecom R&D, France
Pr. Pierre Paradinas, CNAM Paris, France
Dr. Emmanuel Prouff, Oberthur Card Systems, France
Dr. Michael Rusinowitch, INRIA Lorraine, France
Dr. Luca Spalazzi, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Pr. Pascal Urien, ENST, France

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Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: ---------- January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: ------------------ February 8, 2010
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due: ---------- March 3, 2010
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For information or questions about the workshop and the paper submission procedure, please contact the Workshop organizers.

For information or questions about Symposium's paper submission, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panels, posters, workshops and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs:
Bill McQuay at AFRL/RYT, WPAFB (William.McQuay@wpafb.af.mil), or
Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu).

Thank you very much.

Best Wishes and Regards.

COLSEC 2010 Organizers

CFP: CHI workshop on Models of Social Information Systems

Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems

CHI 2010 workshop
April 11th, 2010
Atlanta,Georgia,USA

Note: Deadline is Jan 6th, 2010.

Website:http://www.humanfactors.uiuc.edu/cognitivemodelworkshop/

The main goal of this workshop is to connect researchers from
different areas whose work focuses on the development of
models of user behavior in social information systems. Our hope is to
integrate ideas from diverse domains such as (but not limited to) HCI,
cognitive science, AI, psychology, computer science, information
science, and computational linguistics to generate novel perspectives
on understanding, characterizing, and predicting system
characteristics and user behavior at both the individual and aggregate/
social levels. We also hope that his workshop will provide a venue for
researchers in both academia and industry to discuss the use of
cognitive models to inform designs of future social information
systems in diverse application areas.

We broadly define social information systems as systems that support
social functions. Difference forms of social information systems have
gained significant popularity over the last decade. For example,
social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace and social
tagging systems such as del.icio.us and CiteUlike.org attract several
thousand users a day. While serving different social functions, these
systems provide its users increased social presence and opportunities
for easy collaboration and social interaction. User behavior on these
systems has been generally conducted based on analysis of snapshots of
long-term user interaction patterns such as logs of user activities,
connections between users, etc. But, very little is known about the
cognitive mechanisms underlying these interactions. A good
understanding of the individual cognitive mechanisms is important for
engineering better interface representations and interaction methods
that support user behavior in social systems. Additionally, models
that aim at characterizing these mechanisms can complement existing
research and provide a basis for a more complete explanation of
emergent social and collaborative behavior in social information
systems.

Submission

We welcome submission from researchers and practitioners who are
interested in developing computational models of social information
systems. We particularly welcome submissions from diverse disciplines,
and we welcome and value suggestions about themes or directions of
research related to this area.

Please submit an 3-5 page research or position paper about your work.
Papers will be reviewed and selected based on their relevance to the
workshop and ability to contribute to the discussion.

Email your paper, in PDF, to socialcog2010@gmail.com with the subject
line "CHI 2010 Cognitive Models Workshop" by Jan 6th, 2010.
Authors will be notified by January 20th, 2010. Papers should be in
the ACM SIGCHI submissions format.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us by email
directly.

Organizers
Wai-Tat Fu & Thomas Kannampallil, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
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Wai-Tat Fu
wfu@illinois.edu
Assistant Professor
Human Factors Division and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
http://appliedcogsci.vp.uiuc.edu

CFP: ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

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ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on
Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

April 10, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
http://www.caicoll.org
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WORKSHOP GOALS

This workshop addresses facilitation of collaborative work by context-adaptive techniques. Context-based adaptation can support users in a variety of ways, e.g., by offering the tools most appropriate for a certain type of collaboration, by providing templates for artifacts to be produced, or by filtering content relevant for a joint activity. While adaptive (single) user interfaces have been an area of research for considerable time adaptation for collaboration is far less investigated.

The notion of context in collaborative work raises a variety of interesting research issues. So far, attempts to structure and classify the multi-faceted concept of context have been mainly directed at individual, rather than cooperative usage scenarios. The importance of common ground, e.g., for electronically mediated communication has been pointed out repeatedly, but theoretical concepts have hardly been translated into explicit models or concrete adaptation mechanisms. We also see a major challenge in integrating 'exogenous' physical context such as location, time or device used with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, topical interests, experience profiles or used collaboration tools. For this purpose, integrated, coherent representations of these context aspects will be needed, making them explicit and exploitable by adaptation mechanisms. Ontology-based context models promise to provide coherent representations but are still in their initial stages. Other important issues are how to combine individual contexts into shared collaborative contexts, and how to combine folksonomy-based bottom-up approaches with the benefits of standardization that ontologies traditionally provide. Finally, it is largely unresolved how to define effective and acceptable adaptations for groups. While there has been a considerable amount of research into supporting co-located or remote meetings, more general issues of supporting collaboration by adaptations are still open.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaborative work, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context including physical and tool-related aspects, common ground related to content and process of the collaboration, and other factors. We will also discuss strategies and methods for making these context aspects explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. These models will serve as input for discussions on how to manage and use such context in real-world scenarios. These activities will serve laying the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for this area.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

An initial list of research issues discussed at the workshop comprises the following questions:
- How can the multi-faceted concept of context be structured and classified for cooperative situations?
- What are methods for integrating 'endogenous' physical context with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, activities, topical interests or experience profiles?
- How to combine individual contexts into group contexts?
- What are suitable models and techniques for representing context for the purpose of adapting cooperation support systems? Is there a perspective for a shared context ontology for cooperative work?
- What are effective and acceptable adaptations at the interaction, tool or content level we can implement in systems used for collaboration?

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Context plays an increasingly important role to adapt systems to users' needs and to make access to large information spaces more efficient. Yet, in the area of collaborative work the potential of context-based adaptation of IT systems has so far not been investigated and exploited to a sufficient extent. There is a lack of methods that take into account the manifold aspects of context such as physical, activity-based, thematic or social context in an integrated fashion.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaboration, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context for this field. We will discuss strategies and methods for making these context factors explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. A potential outcome is to provide the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for cooperative work. A further goal is to collect and analyze methods for managing and using context in real-world scenarios, including combinations of folksonomy- and ontology-based approaches.

Persons interested in participating should submit a 2-page proposal describing their background with respect to the workshop theme, their proposed contribution and an initial reaction to a number of research issues published at the workshop website (http://caicoll.org). Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicol.org. Upon acceptance, participants will be asked to provide an extended position paper of 5 pages four weeks prior to the workshop which will be distributed to participants. Workshop results will be summarized on the website. Depending on the submissions received we plan to publish the workshop results to a wider audience, e.g. as a special journal issue.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicoll.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2010
Revised, formatted document due: March 10, 2010
Workshop date: April 10, 2010

ORGANIZERS

Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Joerg M. Haake (FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany)
Volkmar Pipek (University of Siegen, Germany)

WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE

http://www.caicoll.org
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Volkmar Pipek
Assistant Professor for 'CSCW in organisations'/FB 5
University of Siegen
Hoelderlinstr. 3
57068 Siegen
http://www.cscw.uni-siegen.de/
Tel.: +49 271 740 4068
Fax.: +49 271 740 3384
volkmar.pipek@uni-siegen.de