Amaryllis Consulting Repost: March 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

CFP: Mobile HCI and Technical ICTD: A Methodological Perspective, Workshop at MobileHCI 2010

Call for Papers for the Workshop

"Mobile HCI and Technical ICTD: A Methodological Perspective"

A Workshop at the Mobile HCI 2010 Conference

September 7, 2010

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Workshop at MobileHCI 2010

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Lisbon, Portugal

http://www.uctictd2010.org/

Submission Deadline: Friday April 30, 2010

THEME
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The workshop "Mobile HCI and Technical ICTD: A Methodological
Perspective" invites papers with focus on experiences, lessons
learned, success stories and failures of technical ICTD research
especially with focus on the utilization of User Centered Design
and Mobile HCI research methods.

Technical Information and Communication Technologies for
Development (technical ICTD) research, which refers to ICTD
topics specifically relevant for computer scientists and engineers,
lacks appropriate research methods along the entire development
lifecycle spanning design, development, deployment, evaluation
and monitoring.

Mobile HCI has a great set of research methods but applying
them unchanged in technical ICTD will fail due to the specific
cultural, infrastructural and governmental context of developing
countries. In this workshop we want to bring together people
who are active in Mobile HCI and ICTD research to elaborate
on Mobile HCI methods and discuss their application for
technical ICTD.

GOALS
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The aim of this workshop is to elaborate on the application
of Mobile HCI methods for technical ICTD research and to
come up with a set of appropriate research methodologies
for technical ICTD and a roadmap of action items of how to
improve current technical ICTD research. We will provide a
forum to share information, results, and ideas on current
research in this area and encourage discussions about future
topics concerning technical ICTD research.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Experiences and Lessons Learned in technical ICTD research

- Success stories and failures of technical ICTD research

- Utilization and combination of Mobile HCI research methods
in technical ICTD research

- Utilization of User Centered Design in technical ICTD research

- Methodologies and Approaches of technical ICTD development
lifecycle (e.g. rapid prototyping, participatory design)

- Definitions of technical ICTD metrics

- Representation of technical ICTD metrics (e.g. personas,
scenarios, use case definitions)

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Friday April 30, 2010 - Submission Deadline
- Friday May 21, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance
- Friday June 4, 2010 - Camera-ready copies
- Tuesday September 7, 2010 - Workshop Date

PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION
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We accept original and unpublished contributions that are not
under review somewhere else in the following two categories

1) Participants are expected to submit a 2 page position
paper to state their interest.
2) Participant presenters should submit a 4 page short paper,
covering one or more workshop topics.

Authors of accepted presentation papers are invited to
demonstrate their submission during the workshop.
Each presentation should not exceed 10 minutes and will
be followed up by a 5 minute round of discussion.

Paper submissions must be anonymized and should be submitted
following the submission instructions at the workshop webpage
(http://www.uctictd2010.org/) as PDF file conform to the
Mobile HCI 2010 main proceedings format.

To participate at the workshop at least one author of accepted
papers needs to register for the Mobile HCI 2010 conference
itself.

PUBLICATION
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Workshop results will be summarized and published on the
workshop website. Selected outcomes and contributions will
be considered to be published in a workshop summary paper.
The selected best workshop paper will be nominated for
inclusion in a Special Issue of the International Journal
on Mobile HCI (IJMHCI).

ORGANIZERS
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Joerg Doerflinger, SAP Research, Germany
Dr. Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
Dr. Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Matt Jones, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Dr. Mark Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

ANN: International Conference on Crisis Mapping ICCM 2010

The International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM 2010): Haiti and Beyond is now Open for Registration!
When: Friday, October 1, 2010
 Where: Boston, MA

The agenda is available here, and you can register here.

ICCM 2010 follows the highly successful ICCM 2009 event which brought together many of the actors currently responding in Haiti and beyond to foster a dynamic network of action-oriented collaboration. Participants called ICCM 2009 one of the very best conferences they'd been to. This video on Conference Highlights may explain why. ICCM 2010 will include Ignite Talks, Keynotes and a Tech/Analytics Fair. We expect up to 500 participants to attend given the proximity of Harvard, MIT, etc., and major tech companies in the area. We will send out a "Call for Ignite Talk proposals" and "Tech/Analytics Fair applications" in June.

Early bird registration fees are $100 (standard) and $50 for students before August 1. You can register here. This fee covers access to all Friday events. Note that these are nonrefundable and waivers are not available. For hotel accommodation, please reserve your room at the Sheraton where a block of discounted rooms has been set aside for you. We recommend you book early.

Thanks for reading, we look forward to repeating the great success of ICCM 2009 with you!

All the best,
Patrick & Jen

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Co-Founders
International Network
of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net)

www.CrisisMappers.net

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Sophia B. Liu

Technology, Media and Society PhD Candidate

connectivIT Lab

Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute

University of Colorado at Boulder

sophiabliu (skype, twitter, facebook)

Sophia.Liu@colorado.edu

http://sophiabliu.com

http://sophiabliu.com/heritageblog

http://epic.cs.colorado.edu

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

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Friday, March 26, 2010

CFP: ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010)

ACM is proud to sponsor a new conference, which is being planned to
become the premier community forum for health informatics researchers
and practitioners. The ACM International Health Informatics Symposium
(IHI 2010) will focus on the application of computing principles and
technology to address problems in healthcare, public health, the
delivery of healthcare services, and consumer health also including
topics related to social and ethical issues in that space. IHI 2010 will
be held during November 11-12 in Washington DC. Technical contributions
including papers and demonstration proposals are due on June 4. For more
information, please visit http://ihi2010.sighi.org
<http://ihi2010.sighi.org/>.

Fred Sampson

VP for Operations, ACM SIGCHI

SIGCHI-VP-Operations@acm.org

Email: fsampson@acm.org

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

ANN: Webcentives Workshop Call - COOP 2010

Call for Participation

Workshop at COOP 2010 - 9th International Conference on the Design of
Cooperative Systems

http://www.coopsys.org/

Full day workshop on May, 18, 2010, COOP 2010 conference in
Aix-en-Provence, France

*Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (Webcentives)*

http://www.disa.unitn.it/net-economy/WEBCENTIVES/index.htm

Social Web and Semantic Web applications are based on large-scale user
participation. Open Source Software projects (OSS), gaming and other
online communities are constituted by voluntary engagement of
contributors, almost self-organized and self-managed. Also large-scale
intranet applications of business companies and non-governmental
organizations are increasingly relying on Social/Semantic Web
technologies and community-building.

The workshop focuses on motivation structures of users to participate in
(online) communities and to contribute to collaborative content
creation: What kind of motivation mechanisms, incentives or rewards are
appropriate to increase the (extrinsic) motivation of users to
contribute to online communities? What kind of community-support tools
are successfully designed for fun or motivation for participation?

Contributions to this workshop can include (but are not limited to):

* · psychological and/or economical studies on motivation and
incentives for web-based collaboration
* · ethnographic case studies on participation in online communities
* · incentives and reward mechanisms in online communities
* · studies on web-based community-building
* · theoretical approaches related to motivation and participation
in online communities
* · sociability (design) requirements for community tools and
applications
* · design studies of community platforms
* · prototypes, demonstrators, show cases of community-support or
web-based collaboration tools
* · asf.

/Workshop Design/

Full day workshop on May, 18, 2010 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to present a
position paper (max. 10 minutes presentation). Main focus of the
workshop will be discussion of approaches, projects, studies etc. on
incentives or motivation mechanisms in online communities and for
web-based collaboration.

/ /

/Submission/Participation/

Each workshop participant should prepare a position paper (3-5 pages)
and send this position paper to the workshop organizers (mailto:
markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de<mailto:markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de>) until
April, 15.

It is planned to publish a selection of the best position papers (as
extended versions) in a workshop report as a Special Issue of the
International Report on Socio-Informatics (IRSI, see:
http://www.iisi.de/102.0.html).

/Organizers/

Dr. Elena Simperl, Innsbruck University, Austria

Elena Simperl works as a senior researcher at the Semantic Technology
Institute (STI) Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She
holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin and a
Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. She
held positions as a research assistant at the Technical University of
Munich (2002-2003) and the Free University of Berlin (2003-2007) before
joining STI Innsbruck early 2007. Elena contributed to several European
and national projects in the field of semantic technologies. She was
scientific coordinator of the TripCom project, and project manager of
the NoE Knowledge Web; currently she is acting as coordinator of the
projects Service Web 3.0 and INSEMTIVES, and as activity leader in the
project SOA4All. Starting from January, 2010 Elena joined the Institute
AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Dr. Roberta Cuel, Trento University, Italy

Roberta Cuel holds a Ph.D. in Organization and Management (University of
Udine) and is currently Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at
the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento. Her research interests
are aimed at discovering the interdependencies between technology and
organizations, such as the impacts of innovative technologies on teams,
communities, and organizational models, the study of distributed tools
and processes that allow organizational learning and knowledge
management, and knowledge representation systems (such as ontologies,
classifications, taxonomies) as mechanisms for knowledge reification
processes. She has written a number of chapters in books, articles in
international journals, and has served as the PC member for various
interdisciplinary conferences.

Dr. Markus Rohde, Siegen University, Germany

Markus Rohde studied psychology and sociology at the University of Bonn.
He got his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from Roskilde University,
Denmark. He is working as project manager for the International
Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI), Bonn and as research manager for
community informatics at the Institute for Information Systems and New
Media at the University of Siegen. Moreover he is editor of the
political science journal "Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen"
(New Social Movements).> From 1997 until 2001 he worked as CEO of AGENDA
CONSULT GmbH and as a consultant for medium-sized enterprises and for
nonprofit-organizations. His main research interests are community
computing, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer
interaction, virtual organizations, non-governmental organizations and
(new) social movements.

/Contact/

Dr. Markus Rohde, Information Systems and New Media, University of
Siegen, Hoelderlinstr.3, 57068 Siegen, Germany,
markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de<mailto:markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de>

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university of siegen * institute for information systems
hoelderlinstr. 3 * 57068 siegen * room: H-B 8417
fon: +49 271-740-4069 * fax -3384 *markus.rohde@uni-siegen.de
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contact/ home office * dorotheenstr. 76 * 53111 bonn
fon +49 228 6910-43 * fax -53 *ma.rohde@t-online.de
forschungsjournal neue soziale bewegungen *www.fjnsb.de
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international institute for socio-informatics (iisi)
markus.rohde@iisi.de *www.iisi.de

Monday, March 22, 2010

CFP: ServDes.2010

> ServDes.2010 ExChanging Knowledge
> 1-3 December, Linköping, Sweden
> http://www.servdes.org/
>
> The Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation,
> ServDes, is
> the premier research conference within service design and service
> innovation. Submitted contributions are subject to a double-blind
> peer-review process. Accepted contributions will be published
> electronically
> and in the conference proceedings.
>
> Important dates:
> June 19 2010: Deadline for all contributions (including design cases,
> artefacts, tutorials, workshops)
> Mid October: Notification of acceptance with suggestions for revision
> Mid November: Final paper submissions uploaded to website
> 1 – 3 December: Conference in Linköping
>
> Call for contribution:
> Service design as a field has established itself as a strong
> discipline,
> through efforts in practice and academia. However, publications have
> mainly
> focused on establishing service design. There is a growing need for
> original
> research on service design. The ServDes conference is an answer to
> this
> call. The first Nordic Service Design and Service Innovation
> Conference
> offered a venue for investigating the legacy from other design
> disciplines
> as well as opening up towards other fields.
>
> The topic for this year's conference is ExChanging Knowledge. ServD
> es
> invites contributions from researchers and practitioners that wish to
> contribute to the development of a knowledge base on service design,
> and
> openly discuss challenges of the field. Changing Knowledge is about
> investigating the fundamentals in service design and challenging the
> knowledge inherited from the disciplines which service design has
> grown out
> of. Exchanging Knowledge refers both to integrating knowledge from
> other
> fields and the ongoing conversation between conference participants
> with
> their various roles; consultants, students, in-house, clients and
> academics.
> The scientific programme will be composed of papers that have been
> peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process.
>
> In line with the conference theme ExChanging Knowledge sessions will
> be held
> according to general themes, rather than presenters' backgrounds. Al
> ong the
> lines of the theme we will also invite a wide range of contributions:
> - full length research papers (max 10 pages)
> - workshop suggestions
> - shorter research papers
> - focused case descriptions (2 page abstracts)
>
> Within overall trends of research, challenges such as the
> prototyping of
> services, identifying sound theoretical foundations for service design
> research and developing methods and tools all aim at changing the
> knowledge
> we teach new students and our understanding of service design.
> Exchanging
> knowledge with other relevant areas such as service management,
> anthropology, computer-mediated communication, activity theory and
> cognitive
> science, aims at improving the everyday practice of service
> designers. The
> conference invites contributions on, e.g., the following themes:
> - the business of service design
> - politics and design of services
> - user involvement
> - design in health-care and public services
> - service design in for-profit organizations
> - theoretical foundations
> - the processes of service design
> - rigor and relevance of research methods
> - novel design tools and techniques
> - service design across cultures
> - design and service-dominant logic
>
> Deadline for all paper contributions is June 19 2010.
>
>
> On behalf of the conference committe
>
> Stefan Holmlid
> Fabian Segelström
> Johan Blomkvist
>

CFP: EICS-MIXER: The Challenges of Engineering Mixed Reality Systems

> Call for Submission to the workshop :
>
> *"EICS-MIXER: The Challenges of Engineering Mixed Reality Systems: A
> Bottom-Up Workshop"
> *
> To be held the *20th of June 2010*
> as a workshop of the EICS 2010 conference – BERLIN
>
> Organizers: Emmanuel Dubois, Philip D. Gray, Laurence Nigay
> Contact: mixer@irit.fr
> Web site : http://ihcs.irit.fr/dubois/Research/Events/EICS_Mixer/EICS_Mixer.htm
>
> =================================================================
> THEME, GOALS, AND RELEVANCE
> =================================================================
> Currently one of the most challenging aspects of interactive systems
> is the integration of the physical and digital aspects of
> interaction in a smooth and usable way. The design challenge of such
> Mixed Reality (MR) interactive systems lies in the fluid and
> harmonious fusion of the physical and digital worlds. Examples of MR
> interactive systems include tangible user interfaces (TUI),
> augmented reality (AR), augmented virtuality (AV), Reality Based
> Interaction (RBI), and embodied interfaces. The diversity of terms
> highlights the ever growing interest in MR systems. The MR domain
> represents a very active interdisciplinary research area which has
> expanded rapidly, since the seminal Digital Desk 3. Significant
> achievements have been made in terms of both real MR systems for
> various application domains (medical, military, game, production,
> museum) and conceptual/software tools for their design (taxonomies,
> notational support and models). However, models and notations are
> hard to evaluate and hard to compare. Indeed, most of the design
> models and notations proposed in the MIS domain are used by a very
> limited set of people, mainly limited to their creators.
> In this very dynamic context, the objective of this workshop is to
> bring together researchers, designers and practitioners with a clear
> interest in conceptual and software tools for the design,
> development and evaluation of MR systems in order to contribute to a
> vivid discussion leading to a framework for organizing and comparing
> the various existing design approaches.
> For structuring the discussion and being able to compare the
> existing design approaches and highlight their complementarities
> based on their identified strengths and limitations, we adopt a
> bottom-up approach by focusing on a set of case studies (i.e.,
> existing MR interactive systems) that represents the diversity of
> existing MR systems. Participants will be invited to apply existing
> design approaches for designing those selected MR systems. The
> comparison of the resulting design will serve as the basis for
> elaborating a framework for organizing/comparing the existing design
> approaches. Such a framework will be structured along a set of
> design elements and metrics for characterizing the design approaches.
> During this workshop, participants will break into subgroups. Each
> subgroup will be invited to make use of one existing design
> resources (models, notations, etc.) for MIS in order to address
> several representative and realistic mixed reality development
> challenges based on case-studies. Design resources and case studies
> will be selected by the organizers amongst the ones proposed by
> participants in their workshop submission. Following this practice
> session, subgroups will present the results of the modelling of each
> case-study to the rest of the workshop, including a critical
> assessment of the strengths and limitations of the method, model,
> technique or tool. It will lead to comparisons and discussions of
> the results of the modelling exercises. Finally, it is intended that
> the workshop will identify comparison framework, that is, a set of
> descriptors, model element and metrics for characterizing MIS design
> resources (models, tools, notation, etc.).
>
> =================================================================
> Submission formats
> =================================================================
> In this workshop our goal is to bring together researchers,
> designers and practitioners with an interest in conceptual and
> software tools for the design, implementation and evaluation of MR
> systems. Participants are invited to submit a position paper. There
> are three ways of participating in this workshop:
>
> -- Proposing a design resource:
> Such participants offer to consider a / their design resource for
> MIS as one the potential design resources used during the workshop.
> The design resources overview should (1) present the basic elements
> of the model, notation, tool or technique, (2) state the benefits of
> its use when designing a MIS, (3) express the kind of application /
> considerations that can be and cannot be modelled with it.
> These "Primary" participants must commit to be in charge of a
> subgroup of participants with whom the "Primary" participant will
> use his/her design resource to model or develop the selected case st
> udies.
> These workshop submissions should be 2 to 4 pages, and should follow
> the SIGCHI publication format: http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform. It
> must be sent to mixer@irit.fr by the 2nd of April 2010
>
> -- Proposing a case study:
> such participants present a particular mixed reality system and its
> design challenges. Such a paper could state (i) the overall task(s)
> and context of use supported by the system, (ii) the main
> functionalities of the system, (iii) constraints linked to its use,
> (iv) an overall profile of the targeted users and (v) method by
> which the case study results might be evaluated.
> They will be involved during the workshop in the use of existing
> design resources in the context of predefined scenarios. They will
> be taught how to use one of the existing design resources for MIS
> and raise questions about its use.
> These workshop position papers should be 1 to 2 pages, and should
> follow the SIGCHI publication format: http://www.sigchi.org/
> chipubform. It must be sent to mixer@irit.fr by the 2nd of April 2010
>
> -- Expressing a prospective view:
> such participants are invited to express design challenges of mixed
> reality systems that current or future conceptual and software
> design tools should address.
> They will be involved during the workshop in the use of existing
> design resources in the context of predefined scenarios. They will
> be taught how to use one of the existing design resources for MIS
> and raise questions about its use.
> These workshop position papers should be 1 to 2 pages, and should
> follow the SIGCHI publication format: http://www.sigchi.org/
> chipubform. It must be sent to mixer@irit.fr by the 2nd of April 2010
>
> =================================================================
> IMPORTANT DATES
> =================================================================
> Submissions
> -- Design resources: the 2nd of April 2010
> -- Case studies and prospective: the 2nd of April 2010
>
> Notification of Acceptance
> -- Design resources: 9th of April 2010
> -- Case studies and prospective: 9th of April 2010
> -- Final version of models presentation and case studies : 7th of June
> (long in advance in order to allow some time to the primary
> participants to prepare the modelling of the different case-studies)
>
>
> =================================================================
> ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
> =================================================================
> 1-"MIXER: Exploring the Design and Engineering of Mixed Reality Syst
> ems", Dubois, E., Gray, P., Trevisan, D., Vanderdonckt, J., Workshop
> of the CADUI'04 conference, Proceedings available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-9
> 1/, (2004).
> 2-"The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems", Dubois, Emmanuel;
> Gray, Philip; Nigay, Laurence (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction Ser
> ies, Vol. 15, (2010), 450 p.
> 3-Wellner, P., 1993. Interacting with paper on the DigitalDesk,
> Communications of the ACM, 36, 7 (July 1993), 87-96.
>

Sunday, March 21, 2010

ANN: ISCRAM at EMForum Mar 24

EMForum.org is pleased to host a one hour presentation and interactive discussion Wednesday, March 24, 2010, beginning at 12:00 Noon Eastern time (please convert to your local time). The International Association for the Study of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) is an international professional organization aimed at promoting research, development and exchange of knowledge of information systems for crisis response and management. To meet its fundamental objective of helping to improve disaster management, the Association is actively working to foster research that is critical, relevant and timely to practice.

Our guests include Dr. Susanne Jul, current Vice Chair and a founding board member of ISCRAM. As an independent researcher, she focuses on ways of interpreting research results for practical application, and developing research methods from successful design and innovation practices. Dr. Jul is also President of Amaryllis Consulting and is an active volunteer with American Red Cross Disaster Services.

Dr. Mark P. Haselkorn, ISCRAM Conference Chair, will also join us to provide information about the upcoming 7th Annual ISCRAM 2010 conference, scheduled for May 2-5, in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Haselkorn also serves as Director of the Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center, a DHS-funded regional center of excellence focused on enhancing distributed collaborative decision making.

Please make plans to join us, and as always, feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues. Please see the Background Page for related materials and Instructions, and if this will be your first time to participate, please check your connection at least a day in advance by clicking on the Live Meeting Login link. The Live Meeting client must be used in order to access the audio.

NOTE: The transcript of the March 10^th EMForum.org session with Elaine Enarson, Gender Dimension of Emergency Management, is now available from our home page – OR – directly via the following link:

http://www.emforum.org/vforum/lc100310.htm . Enjoy!

These educational opportunities are provided by the Emergency Information Infrastructure Project (EIIP).

Thursday, March 18, 2010

CFP: HCI-special issue Designing for Personal Memories

call for papers

special issue of Human-Computer Interaction

---Designing for Personal Memories-----------------------------

---Special issue editors---------------------------------------
Elise van den Hoven Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Corina Sas Lancaster University, UK
Steve Whittaker IBM Research, USA

Where would we be without our personal memories? We use them to
maintain our personal identities, to start and mediate
relationships, to shape our likes, dislikes, to regulate our
moods and solve problems. They allow us to share rich life
experiences and tell our stories to our family and friends.
There is no question about the importance of autobiographical
and episodic memory - the memories of the events that happen in
our lives.

As more and more media become digital (whether these be photos,
videos/audio snippets, or even olfactory or haptic cues), new
ways of cueing our memory are emerging. These will support,
enhance, or possibly even undermine the way we remember our
experiences. The growing importance of this research area is
indicated by "Memories for Life", one of the seven grand
challenges identified by the UK Computing Research Committee,
and by ambitious research programs at Microsoft Research,
supporting "Digital Memories (Memex)", and projects such as
MyLifeBits and SenseCam.

The focus of this special issue, Designing for Personal Memories,
is on ordinary people using digital media to help them remember
in everyday situations. This could mean developing interactive
systems or services for supporting, enhancing or extending
personal memories, but also studies that inform the design of
these systems. Contributions could come from diverse fields,
such as HCI, psychology, sociology, interaction design,
engineering, computer science, design, material culture, etc.

We welcome papers on the following topics:
- Designing and evaluating new technologies for triggering,
capturing, storing and sharing memories;
- Psychological and sociological aspects related to memory
applications, including: privacy, ownership, anonymity;
- Studies of how people capture, organize and use personal
digital archives, e.g. digital photo and video
collections, personal email collections;
- Methods for evaluating memory technologies;
- The social construction of memories in different kinds of
conversations and interactions;
- Designing for engagement/enrichment of emotional aspects
associated with accessing and sharing memories.

This special issue follows upon three successful workshops: the
CHI 2006 workshop "Designing for collective remembering"
organized by Sas and Dix, the HCI 2007 workshop "Supporting
Human Memory with Interactive Systems " by Lalanne and Hoven,
and the CHI 2009 workshop "Designing for reflection on experience"
organized by Sas and Dix.

The aim of this special issue is to present high quality, original
and mature work related to the topic of Designing for Personal
Memories.

---Timeline----------------------------------------------------
Invitation for proposals: March 15, 2010
Deadline for proposals: June 25, 2010
Response to authors: August 2, 2010
Full papers due: November 22, 2010
Reviews to authors: April 18, 2011
Revised papers due: June 20, 2011
Reviews to authors: October 12, 2011
Final papers due: November 30, 2011

---Submission of proposals-------------------------------------
Proposals should be at least 1000 words and provide a clear
indication of what the paper will be about. Proposals and papers
should be submitted by email to the HCI Administrative Editor,
Patricia Sheehan (patricia.sheehan@parc.com). Mention explicitly
in the email that your submission is intended for this special
issue. Further information, including manuscript formatting, can
be found at hci-journal.com under the Instructions for Authors
tab. All contributions will be peer reviewed to the usual
standards of HCI.

Elise van den Hoven
Assistant Professor
User-Centered Engineering
Industrial Design Department
Eindhoven University of Technology
Den Dolech 2 - HG 2.53
P.O.Box 513 - 5600MB Eindhoven
Tel. +31 40 247 8360
Fax. +31 40 247 3285
http://www.elisevandenhoven.com
http://www.industrialdesign.tue.nl

CFP: WIRSS 2010

Call For Papers

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Third International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
(WIRSS 2010)

August 31, 2010
Toronto, Canada

Held in collaboration with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI 2010), August 31 - September 3, 2010 in Toronto,
Canada.

WIRSS 2010: http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2010/
WI 2010: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/index.php

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WIRSS 2010 OVERVIEW
---

The focus of the Third International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval
Support Systems is on the aspects of Web information retrieval that consider
the specific needs of individuals conducting Web searches. Web Information
Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS) move beyond the traditional focus of
automated searching within digital collections, applying intelligent
methods and Web-based technologies to assist users in specifying their
information needs, evaluating and exploring search results, and managing the
information they find.

Fundamentally, WIRSS research supports a change in design philosophy, moving
the focus of Web search from the documents being searched to the tasks that
people need to perform. We believe this philosophical shift will mark the
move towards next-generation Web search systems, and a transition from
information retrieval to knowledge retrieval.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry
researchers to discuss advances in providing intelligent support for the
user-centric tasks associated with Web search. Researchers from diverse
fields such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence,
human-computer interaction, information visualization, Web systems, natural
language processing, and agent systems are invited to contribute to this
workshop.

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WORKSHOP TOPICS
---

- interactive query refinement
- search results representations and visualization
- search results exploration
- re-finding information
- search results storage and organization
- document summarization
- personalization
- multi-level and multi-view representations
- Web search user behaviour
- user studies of WIRSS
- knowledge management systems
- human-centred search

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WORKSHOP FORMAT
---

The WIRSS 2010 Workshop is being offered as a full-day workshop at the 2010
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2010), August
31 - September 3, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. A single registration entitles
delegates to attend the workshops and the full conference.

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SUBMISSIONS
---

All papers for the WIRSS 2010 Workshop are to be submitted through the
WI/IAT 2010 Workshop Paper Submission system. The length of accepted papers
should not exceed 4 pages in the IEEE-CS format. Extra payment is only
available for one additional page. The details for the submission procedures
and the style files for preparing your paper are provided on the Workshop
Web site (http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2010/).

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program
Committee on the basis of:

- technical quality
- relevance to Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
- originality and significance of the research
- clarity of the writing

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IMPORTANT DATES
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April 16, 2010: Due date for workshop paper submission
June 7, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance
June 21, 2010: Camera-ready of accepted papers
August 31, 2010: WIRSS 2010 Workshop

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE/WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
---

Orland Hoeber, Memorial University, Canada
hoeber@cs.mun.ca

Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
yyao@cs.uregina.ca

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
---

Elizabeth Diaz, University of Texas at Permian Basin, United States
Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Pavol Navrat, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana Lafayette, United States
Biren Shah, Hewlett-Packard, United States
Rahul Singh, San Francisco State University, United States
Peter Vojtas, Charles University, Czech Republic
Geraldo Xexeo, DCC/IM/UFRJ, Brazil
Ying Xie, Kennesaw State University, United States
Xue Dong Yang, University of Regina, Canada

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INQUIRIES
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If you require further information, please contact Orland Hoeber at
hoeber@cs.mun.ca

CFP: UMAP 2010: Workshop on Architectures and Building Blocks of Web-Based User-Adaptive Systems (WABBWUAS)

================================================================

Call for Papers

Workshop on Architectures and Building Blocks of Web-Based User-Adaptive
Systems

Monday June 21, 2010 | Big Island of Hawaii
http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/WABBWUAS

In conjunction with 2nd and 18th Conference on User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

================================================================

+++++++++++++++
Important dates
+++++++++++++++

* Submissions due March 29, 2010
* Notification of acceptance May 3, 2010
* Camera-ready versions due May 24, 2010
* Workshop held June 21, 2010

++++++++++
Submitting
++++++++++

* All papers should represent original and unpublished work that is
not
currently under review
* Submission types
- Full paper (up to 12 pages)
- Short paper (up to 6 pages)
- Demo (up to 3 pages)
* Format
LNCS instructions for authors can be found here
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
* Submission procedure
Submit via EasyChair
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabbwuas2010
* Review
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the
workshop
program committee. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance,
originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to
the
workshop.

There will be no separate workshop registration fees. At least one of
the
authors of an accepted submission must register to the main conference
and
participate to the workshop with paper presentation.

++++++++
Overview
++++++++

User-adaptive systems have evolved from small-scale stand-alone
applications to
interactive Web-based applications that are often deployed on a larger
scale.
Consequently, the need has arisen to move from prototypical systems to
scalable,
deployable solutions. At the same time, a shift can be seen from
rule-based,
mentalistic user modeling approaches to 'Web 2.0' approaches that
involve
machine learning, data mining, and collaborative techniques.

Past research provided a large body of methods for
adaptation/personalization,
and techniques for user modeling, usage mining, and collaborative
filtering.
Conceptual frameworks splitting the adaptation process into various
layers
provide guidance for implementing user-adaptive systems. Based on these
building
blocks, various groups have created their own frameworks, among others
AHA!,
APELS, and Personal Reader. Framework design provides an opportunity to
reuse
components or even whole layers of the adaptation process. Reuse of
components
such as user behavior observation and logging tools, user model storage
promotes
faster development, better feature selection, and more robust systems.

Although, system fragmentation enables component reuse and speeds up
the
development of the new systems, there are several issues. First,
decomposition
of a monolithic system should result in a good abstraction of the data
and
process model to provide a convenient basis for reuse. Second, the data
traffic
between the separated system components may intensify. As the number of
system
users increases issues related to scalability might arise. This is
especially
true for user-adaptive and cognitive systems where the modeling
and
personalization components are traditionally computationally and data
intensive.

Existing work on the Web-based user-adaptive and cognitive systems,
including
work on frameworks, shown that there exists a strong overlap between
conceptual
models of the decomposed adaptation process and the practical
implications of
its design. In this situation, a logical step is to compare already
working
systems with emerging approaches and models. In this workshop we
seek to
identify current practices and experiences with concrete
implementations of
user-adaptive and cognitive systems or specific components - varying
from
experimental, small-scale prototypes to systems that are deployed on a
larger
scale.

++++++
Topics
++++++

Topics include but are not limited to:
* user behavior observation and user data collection: embedded into the
adaptive
system or available as standalone components or add-ons,
* user data management: data storage platforms and formats, the use of
open
standards, querying techniques or APIs, interoperability issues,
* reusing reasoning and adaptation techniques,
* scalability and performance issues of user modeling and adaptation,
* generalizable techniques for adaptation, personalization and
recommendation,
* translations of conceptual designs into concrete implementati

+++++++++++++++++++
Organizing Commitee
+++++++++++++++++++

* Abel, Fabian (University of Hannover)
* Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology)
* Herder, Eelco (University of Hannover)
* Pechenizkiy, Mykola (Eindhoven University of Technology)
* Yudelson, Michael (University of Pittsburgh)

+++++++++++++++++
Program Committee
+++++++++++++++++

* De Bra, Paul (Technical University of Eindhoven)
* Brusilovsky, Peter (University of Pittsburgh)
* Conlan, Owen (Trinity College Dublin)
* Davis, Hugh (University of Southampton)
* Heffernan, Neil (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
* Henze, Nicola (University of Hannover)
* Knutov, Evgeny (Technical University of Eindhoven)
* Koidl, Kevin (Trinity College Dublin)
* Krause, Daniel (University of Hannover)
* O'Keeffe, Ian (Trinity College Dublin)

+++++++++++++++++++
Contact Information
+++++++++++++++++++

Michael V. Yudelson
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Email: mvy3@pitt.edu
Tel: +1 (412) 624-9437

CFP: Nudge and Influence Through Mobile Devices (NIMD'10)

####################### NIMD2010 || Call for Participation
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1st International Workshop on Nudge and Influence Through Mobile Devices (NIMD'10), September 7, 2010, Lisboa, Portugal

http://cs.swan.ac.uk/Nudge&InfluenceThroughMobileDev/

NIMD'10 will take place during Mobile HCI 2010 at the University of Lisboa.

* Papers will be peer-reviewed and the workshop proceedings will be published online through CEUR Workshop Proceedings. The best paper from the workshop will also be nominated for inclusion in a Special Issue of the International Journal on Mobile HCI (IJMHCI).

Important Dates
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15th May 2010 11:59pm GMT - All Submissions
Submission: Use the Workshop Submission System (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nimd10)
30th Jun 2010 - Notifications
30th Jul 2010 11:59pm GMT - Camera Ready versions
7th Sept 2010 - Workshop Date
Organisers
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Parisa Eslambolchilar, Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom (Chair)
Max L. Wilson, Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom (Co-organiser)
Andreas Komninos, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, United Kingdom (Co-organiser)
Workshop Overview
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The aim of this workshop is to provide a focal point for research and technology dedicated to persuasion and influence on mobile platforms. We inspire to establish a scientific network and community dedicated to emerging technologies for persuasion using mobile devices. This workshop would be a unique opportunity for interaction designers and researchers in this area to share their latest research and technologies on 'nudge' methods with the scientific communities.

More Information
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Patterns of consumption such as drinking and smoking are shaped by the taken-for-granted practices of everyday life. However, these practices are not fixed and 'immensely malleable'. Consequently, it is important to understand how the habits of everyday life change and evolve. Our decisions are inevitably influenced by how the choices are presented. Therefore, it is legitimate to deliberately 'nudge' people's behaviour in order to improve their lives. Mobile devices can play a significant role in shaping normal practices in three distinct ways: (1) they facilitate the capture of information at the right time and place; (2) they provide non-invasive and cost effective methods for communicating personalised data that compare individual performance with relevant social group performance; and (3) social network sites running on the device facilitate communication of personalised data that relate to the participant's self-defined community.
Among the issues the workshop will take on are:
What opportunities do mobile interventions provide?
How far should the intervention go?
Is persuasion ethical?
How can we extend the scale of intervention in a society using mobile devices?
What types of subtle and direct interventions will people find acceptable?
Participants will contribute to the workshop with examples of nudge and persuasive technologies, and we will work together to create novel ideas, interactive applications on the phone, and discuss future opportunities.

Paper Submission
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The workshop seeks to bring together researchers, developers, practitioners and students from academia and industry who are concerned with envisioning, creating and implementing persuasive and influential mobile user interfaces. We aim to attract minimum 25 participants to enable inspiring and exciting discussions in streams.
Workshop participants must register for the whole Mobile HCI'10 conference.

Participants will be selected based on their submissions by a program committee; papers will undergo a peer-review (a minimum of three reviews per submission). Two types of submissions are encouraged:
Research papers describing original research work on persuasive user interfaces on mobile devices
Experience reports and case studies with nudge-based mobile user interfaces
The length of the submissions can be 2-4 pages for both categories. Contributions can be written in English language. Please mind the format guidelines

Participants are required to submit their contributions to the Workshop Submission System.

Papers will be peer-reviewed and the workshop proceedings will be published online through CEUR Workshop Proceedings. The best paper from the workshop will also be nominated for inclusion in a Special Issue of the International Journal on Mobile HCI (IJMHCI).

Topics
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There are many challenges and topics that we like to address in the workshop. Original contributions from the following areas and beyond are welcome:
new concepts for persuasive mobile interfaces
multi-modal persuasive interfaces
interfaces for focused and divided secondary attention
methods and tools for influential and persuasive user interface research
approaches for the evaluation of persuasive mobile user interfaces
ethical issues for persuasive mobile functionality
novel persuasive mobile interfaces
persuasive mobile user interfaces vs. persuasive non-mobile interfaces
mobile nudge user interface frameworks and toolkits
development tools and methods for persuasive mobile interfaces
detection and estimation of social success of persuasive mobile applications
social nudge and mobile applications
social nudge applications
using sensors and context as means of persuasion

Please send any questions to nudgeinfluencemobile10@googlemail.com

CFP: UMAP'10: Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web - (SasWeb2010)

===========================

CALL FOR PAPERS
============================

*Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web - (SasWeb2010)*
http://ailab.dimi.uniud.it/en/events/2010/sasweb/
e-mail: sasweb@uniud.it
Deadline for submission: March 29, 2010.
in connection with
UMAP 2010, Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010.

*MOTIVATIONS*
------------
Social Web, also called Web 2.0, generates a significant part of Web
content and traffic: users collaborate, connect, create, share, tag,
remix, upload and download, new or existing resources in an architecture
of participation, where user contribution and interaction add value. Web
2.0 is growing daily, together with the number of users and applications.
Semantic Web, also called Web 3.0 or Intelligent Web, refers to the
incorporation of high-quality user contributed content and semantic
annotations using Internet-based services and Web 2.0 technology as an
enabling platform.This workshop aims at discussing the state-of-the-art,
open problems, challenges and innovative research approaches in
adaptation and personalization for Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. It provides a
forum for proposing innovative and open model, applications and new data
sharing scenarios, as well as novel technologies and methodologies for
creating and managing these applications. Examples of stimulating
application fields are social bookmarking environments, publication
sharing systems, social networking sites and in extend, digital
libraries and Learning 3.0.
Four specific questions motivate this workshop.
- How adaptation and personalization methodologies can augment Web 2.0
and Web 3.0 environments?
- What models, techniques, and tools are the most adequate to support
Web 2.0 and 3.0 users?
- What are the features and challenges of current applications and
services?
- How Semantic Web advances can be exploited for adaptation in such
context?

The list below provides the topics of interest of this workshop.

*TOPICS*
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General
- Social Web and Semantic Web: features, limitations, advantages,
differences
- Adaptation and personalization and recommendation models and goals
- User modeling, group modeling, and community modeling in in Social Web
and Semantic Web
- Reasoning and personalization based on semantics in the Social Web and
in Semantic Web
- Semantic Web platforms and applications
- Novel approaches and/or systems combining semantic, social and
adaptive aspects
- The impact of Social Web on Semantic Web, and viceversa

Information Access and Extraction
- Advanced tools for information access
- Recommender Systems
- Personalized content ranking
- Social navigation support
- Social search and browsing
- Personal information Spaces
- Information extraction, opinion mining, and sentiment analysis
- Creation of structured collective knowledge from usersÕ contributions
- How collective knowledge of users can improve the intelligent
behaviour of the systems

Sharing data and Knowledge
- Knowledge sharing
- Sharing user profiles in social networks
- User contribution
- Decentralized user modeling in social networks
- Sharing ontologies
- Mashups

Folksonomies and tagging
- Automatic tagging
- Folksonomies vs Ontologies
- Ontology-based computer supported tagging
- User profile construction based on tagging and annotations
- Tag recommendation

User Awareness
- User awareness
- Personalized and adaptive views
- Motivating participation
- User identities
- Capturing and processing implicit and explicit feedback
- Trust-based recommendation
- Social visualizations

Evaluation methodologies and approaches

*FORMAT/SUBMISSION*
-----------------------
We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe
applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions.
Papers accepted will be published in the workshop proceedings of the
UMAP 2010 conference.
* Full papers (10-12 pages)
* Short papers (4-6 pages)
* Demos (2-4 pages for description)
should be formatted according to the general UMAP2010 submission
guidelines. Papers will be peer reviewed by the workshop organizing
committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings
and will be published on the workshop webpage and on CEUR-WS.org site.
All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG
proceedings template
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Accepted
formats are Postscript and PDF.

Please submit your paper via EasyChair before registration:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sasweb10
You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not
have one.

I*MPORTANT DATES*
---------------
March, 29 2010 Paper submission
May, 3 2010 Acceptance/rejection notification
May, 24 2010 Camera-ready

The workshop is scheduled for Monday June 21th, 2010

*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*
--------------------
/Program Chair/
Carlo Tasso, University of Udine, Italy

/Program co-chairs/
Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy
Antonina Dattolo, Universiy of Udine, Italy
Styliani Kleanthous University of Leeds, UK
David Bueno Vallejo, Universidad de M++laga, Spain
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*
-----------------
Shlomo Berkovsky, Tasmanian ICT Centre, Australia
Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas, US
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, US
Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain
Francesca Carmagnola, University of Turin, Italy
Marco De Gemmis, University of Bari, Italy
Darina Dicheva, Winston Salem University , USA?
Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
Werner Geyer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Cambridge
Cristina Gena, University of Turin, Italy
Dominik Heckmann, Saarland University, Germany
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherland
Gilles Hubert, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Pasquale Lops, University of Bari, Italy
Alessandro Micarelli, University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney, Australia
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Sergey Sosnovsky, DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany
Ilaria Torre, University of Turin, Italy
Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria

*CONTACT*
-----------------
For any queries please contact:
e-mail: sasweb@uniud.it
Web page: http://ailab.dimi.uniud.it/en/events/2010/sasweb/

CFP Seamless Remote Social Interaction - AVI Workshop

Call for Participation

Mind the Gap-Towards Seamless Remote Social Interaction
http://research.microsoft.com/srsi/

AVI 2010 Workshop
25 May 2010
Rome, Italy

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together participants interested in issues of connectivity and seamlessness for remote social interaction. We would like to address the following topics from multiple perspectives: including empirical work and experience on user behaviour, system design and technical issues, as well as methodological questions and answers on how to tackle these points:
* Embeddedness of audio and video conferencing in social settings
* Interruption and seamlessness
* Integration of audio and video conferencing in the technological fabric of existing work and everyday
environments
* Conventions and rhythms of remote social interaction
* Visual and aesthetical integration of communication technology in ambient intelligence

PARTICIPANTS

We would like to invite a diverse group of workshop participants with multifarious backgrounds and viewpoints such as interaction design, usability engineering, computer- mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work, and new media arts and technology.

Selection of workshop participants and presentations will be based on refereed submissions. We invite authors to submit 2-4 page papers reporting contributions in the field of the workshop or 2-page position statements motivating their interest in specific workshop topics. Papers should be formatted according to the AVI 2010 (ACM SIG Proceedings) format. An expert panel of 3-4 researchers will be recruited to review the submissions and participate in the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: 26 March 2010
* Notification of acceptance: 9 April 2010
* Final submission: 23 April 2010
* Workshop date: 29 May 2010

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
(email@tomgross.net)
Kori Inkpen, Microsoft Research, USA
(kori@microsoft.com)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

CFP: ESWC 2010 Last CFP: Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web (LUPAS)

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been

posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute
within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!]

LUPAS 2010
International Workshop on
Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web

In conjunction with ESWC 2010
Heraklion, Greece
30 May - 03 June 2010

http://www.personal-reader.de/lupas/

** DEADLINE EXTENSION **

IMPORTANT DATES
====================================
* 21 March 2010: Full& short paper submission deadline (NEW)
(11:59pm Hawaiian time)
* 5 April 2010: Notification of acceptance
* 18 April 2010: Final camera-ready paper
* 30 or 31 May 2010: LUPAS 2010 workshop day

OVERVIEW
========
Nowadays, numerous Web applications rely on implicitly or explicitly
collected data on their users and their behavior in order to
provide adapted and personalized contents and services. As these
applications become increasingly connected, a major challenge is
to allow various applications to exchange, reuse, and integrate
their data and user models, hence, to allow for user modeling and
personalization across application boundaries. A great body of
Semantic Web research on the use of well-defined standards,
vocabularies, and ontologies is currently being adopted to provide
extensibility, flexibility, interoperability, and reusability.

On the one hand, the ability of exchanging, reusing, and integrating
the user models allows applications to enhance and broaden their user
models with additional data. On the other hand, it helps users to get
the content and services that suit their needs and situations and to
syndicate these services in so-called mash-ups. This type of open-world
user modeling poses challenges to the Semantic Web community:

* How can Semantic Web technology be employed to cope with semantic
and syntactic heterogeneity in user modeling?
* How can personalization and user modeling techniques be beneficial
for Semantic Web systems?

This workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers
and practitioners in the fields of Semantic Web, user modeling, and
personalization in order to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge,
open research issues, applications, and experiences for common benefit.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
==================
The workshop will tackle challenges posed by linking user data
and applications, including, but not limited to, the following
themes:

* User modeling and personalization in the Semantic Web
* Aggregation and integration of distributed user data/profiles
* Linking data on the Social Web
* Semantic Mashups linking applications
* Techniques for connecting distributed user-generated data
* Methods for exchanging user data
* Intertwining social networking services
* Studies assessing the use of external/public user data for
personalization
* Applications demonstrating intermixing of user profiles from
different sources

PAPER SUBMISSION
================
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not
currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two
independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper
is expected to attend the workshop.

Research papers must be formatted according to the information for
LNCS authors; and further information about Springer's Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) are available at:

* http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

We welcome both full papers and short papers (e.g. experience reports,
preliminary reports of work in progress, system demonstration, etc).
Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in length, short papers should
not exceed 6 pages. Papers must be written in English. Please submit
your contributions electronically in PDF format at:

* http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lupas2010

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop
Proceedings.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
===================
* Fabian Abel (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
* Erwin Leonardi (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
===================
* Available at http://www.personal-reader.de/lupas/

For further questions please contact us at e.leonardi@tudelft.nl or
abel@l3s.de

CFP: International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) inaugural issue

********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************

***INAUGURAL ISSUE***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 1st May 2010

International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP)

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJPOP

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Steve Goschnick& Sandrine Balbo
Published: Semi-annual (both in Print and Electronic form)

Mission of IJPOP:

The International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) is
cross-discipline in range yet singularly focused on empowering individuals
to conceptualise, design, program, configure and orchestrate
Internet-powered mashups, game mods (modifications), aggregate and
structure personal media and build standalone cloud-based and client-side
applications (on smartphones, netbooks, laptops, desktops, home network
and
novel appliances) – into self-fashioned tools and products that ultimately
suit the user's own unique needs and aspirations. Other individuals may
well take up such apps, mods and mashups for themselves, further
customising, enhancing and embellishing them, or they may in part be used
in a social or family context (to the benefit of the collective
aspirations
of those Social Worlds of which the individual is a part) – nonetheless,
the focus of composition, development and customisation is on a product
for
oneself, upon theory, concepts, techniques, methodologies and ultimately
tools that service a market of one. Our mission is to be the first journal
that comes to mind to academics and practitioners alike and remain the
best
with regard to all aspects of People-Oriented Programming. Our papers and
reviews will be insightful and compelling to both educators and
researchers, and often to a wider audience too – the people for whom this
paradigm of software development has come about.

International Editorial Review Board:

* Prof. David Benyon,?School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
* Prof. Birgit Bomsdorf,?Applied Computer Science, Fulda University,
Germany
* Dr. Lawrence Cavedon, Senior Researcher, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
* Ass. Prof. Erik Champion, Auckland School of Design, Massey University,
NZ
* Prof. Karin Coninx, EDM, Hasselt University, Belgium
* Prof. Larry Constantine, University of Madeira, Portugal
* Ass. Prof. Virginia Dignum,?Policy& Management, Delft University of
Technology, NL
* Dr. Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock, Germany
* Prof. Alan Dix, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, UK
* Dr. Rod Farmer, Experience Strategy, Vodafone Hutchison Australia
* Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* Prof. Peter Forbrig, Rostock University, Germany??
* Dr. Martin Gibbs, DIS, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Prof. Patrick Girard,?LISI, Ensma, France
* Dr. Judith Good,?Director, IDEAs Lab, The University of Sussex, UK
* Prof. Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
* Prof. Christophe Kolski, LAMIH, University of Valenciennes, France
* Prof. Ryszard Kowalczyk, CS3, Swinburne University, Australia
* Prof. Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University
* Prof. Kris Luyten, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Hasselt
University, Belgium
* Prof. Philippe Palanque,?IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, France
* Dr. Fabio Paterno,?CNR, Italy
* Ass. Prof. Philippe Pasquier,?SIAT, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Dr. John Rooksby, Computer Science, University of St Andrews, UK
* Dr. Mark Rouncefield,?Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK
* Dr. Dominique Scapin, INRIA, France
* Prof. Graeme Shanks, DIS, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Prof. Ian Sommerville, University of St Andrews, UK
* Prof. Ulrike Spierling, University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany
* Prof. Constantine Stephanidis, ICS, Greece?
* Prof. Leon Sterling, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University, Australia
* Prof. Christian Stary, Kepler University, Linz, Austria
* Peter J. Wild, Independent Researcher, Cambridge, UK
* Prof. Gerrit van der Veer,?School of Computer Science, Open University,
NL

Associate Editors

* Dr. Connor Graham, Independent Researcher, Singapore?
* Ass. Professor Yusuf Pisan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
* Ass. Professor Aaron Quigley, HITLab, University of Tasmania, Australia
* Dr. Christine Sun, www.taiwan.com.au, Australia?
* Dr. Daniel Sinnig, Concordia University, Canada

SCOPE:

People-Oriented Programming requires high-level tools to empower both the
technical and non-technical user, which in turn calls upon research into
meta-models that inform design and construction, that aid comparisons of
these tools, and facilitates the interchange of content between them. The
meta-models of most interest to POP initially, are drawn from two
disparate
disciplines – the Task Analysis (TA) and Agent-Oriented (AO) paradigms–
both of which often have models with representations of entities matching
the needs of POP, e.g. goal, task, object, agent, individual, role,
intention and communication. Several AO architectures and methodologies
have called upon branches of Psychology to formulate AO meta-models that
incorporate mentalistic notions such as perception, motivation and
intention, but which are most often aimed at constructing artificial
humans
and the like. In POP we too call upon those same Psychologies and
similarly
enhance and formulate meta-models and methodologies influenced by them,
but
with the intention of augmenting and empowering the individual human, in
areas where they themselves desire aid or have identified a gap in their
own abilities or resources, which they want to enhance.

> From Sociology, POP draws upon ethnography with a focus on
self-ethnography using tools such as cultural probes, life blogs and life
logs to capture aspects of the individual's own life, themselves (or
through a life coach), from which they draw the desire and/or frame the
need for new technological artefacts to be used in their own lives.
Interactivity, with respect to facilitating and streamlining a regular
user's intention to build their own artefacts, and situatedness in terms
of
the individual's current location and activities, are two other facets of
HCI (human computer interaction) that POP encompasses.

Video gaming is the first application area where large numbers of everyday
users have been able to envisage and then developed their own innovations
within existing games. So-called game mods are working examples of POP
where players have appropriated userfriendly tools, usually built into the
game engines by the vendors (e.g. The Sims, World of Warcraft, etc.).
Video
games have joined other media (e.g. movie, novel, comic) in the new genre
of transmedia storytelling (e.g. franchises such as Tomb Raider, The
Matrix, Harry Potter), allowing the player to enter the story 'so far',
extending it in the 'now', constructing their own individualised
narratives
and increasingly, with the capability to enhance and extend the realm of
the game itself. These individual constructed game mods allow players to
extend virtual realms and narratives in real-time, in directions often
unforeseen by the game engine makers. Such activities are increasingly a
part of an individual's entertainment and education. Game modding as
described, and the engines and tools that enable it, are within the scope
of POP.

Internet-based mashup tools (e.g. Google Wave) have opened up a second
application front beyond game mods, where POP is likely to gain mass
adoption and occasionally produce radical user innovation. The selection
and orchestration of disparate distributed services (e.g. web services;
information feeds; the Cloud) by an individual within a user-friendly
toolkit or framework, is also in the scope of POP. While the formal
protocols and the technical enactment of such specific services are of
little interest here, the quality, access, usage, aggregation and
orchestration of them by the individual themselves, into a personalised
synergy of capability made available through some enacting technology, are
of acute interest to POP. Modeling techniques and people-friendly
notations
that bridge and coordinate distributed services together with local
resources within POP tools – ones that the layperson can understand and
use
in conceptualising their designs - encompasses another cross-discipline
facet of POP.

Monday, March 15, 2010

ANN: S-Match Open Source, the first release

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S-Match Open Source Released
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ANNOUNCING S-Match Open Source, the first release.

About S-Match
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S-Match is a semantic matching framework.

S-Match takes any two tree like structures (such as database
schemas, classifications, lightweight ontologies) and returns
a set of correspondences between those tree nodes which
semantically correspond to one another.

S-Match contains implementations of the semantic matching,
minimal semantic matching and structure preserving semantic
matching algorithms.

S-Match applies as a solution in many fields, including:
* information integration,
* ontology evolution and alignment,
* peer-to-peer information sharing,
* digital libraries integration,
* web service composition,
* agent communication, and
* query answering on the web.

S-Match is extendable to host new algorithms.

Subscribe to S-Match low traffic mailing list or RSS news feed
to receive further announcements.

Resources
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Homepage:
http://semanticmatching.org

Documentation:
http://semanticmatching.org/documentation.html

Download:
http://semanticmatching.org/download.html

Bug Tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/s-match/

Mailing Lists:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/s-match-announce

Forums:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-match/forums/

RSS News Feed:
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CFP: International Mobile Technologies in Enterprise and Social Computing Workshop MTESC2010

Dear Colleagues

The Mobility 2010 conference will take place in SINGAPORE from 18-21 October 2010.

We would like to invite you to submit a paper (4 pages or 6 pages) to the International Mobile Technologies in Enterprise and Social Computing Workshop MTESC2010.

Please visit the web site for details: http://sites.google.com/site/mtesc2010/

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Important Dates

* Papers Submission : 19 April 2010
* Notification of Acceptance of Paper: 07 June 2010
* Full papers Submission Deadline: 12 July 2010
* Author Early Registration Deadline: 12 July 2010

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Workshop topics are not limited to the followings:

Mobile cloud computing

Mobile enabled enterprise 2.0/3.0 systems

Mobile technologies for developing countries and NGOs

Mobile e-government

Mobile e-health

Mobile business intelligence and data mining

Mobile system design architectures framework and methodologies

Mobile enterprise and social computing context management

Mobile web services for enterprise and social computing systems

Software for mobile service

Mobile event-based systems for the enterprise

Security and privacy-aware aspects of mobile enterprise and social computing

Mobile enterprise and social computing applications development& tools

Methodologies for mobile enterprise and social computing evaluation

Usability issues in mobile enterprise and social computing systems

Visualisation of data on mobile platforms

Mobile enterprise and social computing strategies and case studies

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Please visit the web site for details: http://sites.google.com/site/mtesc2010/

regards
mtesc chair

Sunday, March 14, 2010

CFP: Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration Support (@ UMAP2010)

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CFP Summary:

Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration Support
Sunday, June 20, 2010, Big Island of Hawaii
http://acs2010.ascolla.org/

In conjunction with the 18th International Conference on User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

Paper submission deadline: 29th March 2010

The full CFP follows.

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Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on
Adaptive Collaboration Support

in conjunction with UMAP2010

http://acs2010.ascolla.org

The increasing availability of computing and communication
facilities in our environment, along with the resulting ease
with which tasks previously undertaken individually can now be
shared through such facilities, have given rise to new
paradigms of collaboration that permeate many facets of human
activity. Collaborative learning, co-operative knowledge
discovery and maintenance, group recommendation, social
software supporting professional, personal and even
recreational needs, are only a few examples of new forms of
collaboration enabled and fostered by recent technological
advances. As these progressively become established and widely
used, the question naturally arises: can we support the
related collaboration activities and how?

This workshop is the second in a series to examine the
question "How can adaptation be of benefit in modeling and
supporting collaboration processes?" The first workshop in the
series was held in conjunction with the AH2008 conference
(ACS2008, http://www.ah2008.org/index.php?section=38), and
several related workshops have been organized in recent years:
- the "Competitive Challenge on Adapting Activities Modeled
by CSCL Scripts" [1],
- the workshop on "Scripted vs. Free CS Collaboration:
alternatives and paths for adaptable and flexible CS
scripted collaboration" [2];
- the workshop on "Adaptive Systems for Collaborative
Learning" [3]

Thematic Area and Goals
-----------------------

One might think that the accumulated knowledge and experience
on user modeling and adaptation would more than suffice in
addressing the new challenges that arise when one attempts to
provide adaptive support for collaboration. But is this really
the case? Traditional adaptive systems (with their origins in
adaptive user interfaces in the 80s) and intelligent support
systems (such as intelligent tutoring systems) have been
almost exclusively concerned with adapting to the individual
user. The more recent strand of research on adaptive
hypermedia systems has sometimes addressed groups of people
(e.g., groups of learners), and there has even research
"dedicated" to groups of users, such as group recommender
systems. Most often, however, such research has looked at the
users' utilization of content, and ways of modifying such
content for the benefit of the whole, rather than modeling,
monitoring, and supporting the groups' activities themselves.
These and other shortcomings of past research render adaptive
support for collaboration a timely topic of discussion and
work.

The ACS-2010 workshop will center on the question "How can
adaptation be of benefit in modeling and supporting
collaboration processes?". Irrespectively of the application
domains in which collaboration is examined and the provision
of adaptive support is attempted, the main questions remain
the same:

- How can groups (of various sizes, levels of connectivity,
goals, etc.) and their activities (all the way from free-form
to fully-structured) be modeled?

- How can we monitor, analyze and interpret the
interconnected activities of individuals, as well the behavior
of groups as wholes, to establish the need of, and appropriate
ways for intervention?

- What types of intervention are possible, and what are
their potential effects? How can we best support group
formation, scaffolding, communication, organization, joint
artifact creation, etc.?

The workshop will strive to address the above questions from
the perspectives of theoretical issues, methodological
approaches, practical techniques, formal representations,
supporting design-time, run-time and analysis-time tools, etc.
The issue of adaptively managing and supporting collaborative
activity can be approached from different but complementary
perspectives and may be of interest for researchers of various
backgrounds (Adaptive Hypermedia, User Modeling, Intelligent
Tutoring Systems, Intelligent Agents, Group Recommender
Systems, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Computer-
Supported Collaborative Learning, Social Software, etc.)
Consequently, the focus of the workshop is broad and
contributions that approach the problems and questions from
different perspectives are explicitly encouraged.

The aims of this workshop are twofold: Firstly, to bring
together interested researchers and practitioners from the
different communities in a setting which facilitates the
dissemination of knowledge in the field, providing useful
insights on state-of-the-art research. Secondly, to identify
and outline issues that need to be addressed, along with
future directions. The second session of the workshop will
explicitly work towards a roadmap for adaptive collaboration
support in the form of a preliminary research agenda that
sketches open issues and promising approaches to tackle them.

Workshop format
---------------

The workshop will follow a format that facilitates goal-
oriented group discussions (among the workshop participants)
in addition to the standard paper presentations. The workshop
will have two general sessions (to be held in succession), as
outlined below.

The first session will be organized around the general
research themes discussed earlier, i.e., submissions are to be
evaluated in regard to their relevance to / contribution
towards the themes, and the discussion during the workshop
will be structured around the themes. Participants of the
workshop are expected to share their experiences and discuss
the advantages and drawbacks of approaches and positions
presented. In case of a high number of relevant submissions
the organizers will consider the option of accepting some of
the contributions as poster presentations, a format that
worked very well in previous workshops and that allows to
dedicate more time to topic oriented discussions.

A second session will then be explicitly dedicated to the
identification and discussion of current issues and future
directions in this emerging field. Collection of questions at
the beginning of the workshop, group work, and interactive
creation of an on-line mind-map, will be employed to foster
and facilitate discussions. As already stated, the goal of
this second session will be to arrive at an outline of a
research agenda for the field.

Solicited Contributions
-----------------------

The workshop will solicit short and long papers, describing
case studies, theoretical work, position statements, etc.
Contributions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme
committee, with an anticipated three reviews per submission.
The papers to be presented will be selected on the basis of
the quality of the work described therein, the quality of the
papers themselves, their relevance to the workshop's main
themes, and their potential to foster fruitful discussions
during the workshop. Depending on the number of submissions,
selected contributions may be invited for presentation as
posters, to be discussed in a free-form session that will kick
off the workshop's discussion session.

Submission Format
-----------------

Submissions should not exceed 6 pages for short papers and 12
pages for long papers, and should be formatted according to
the Springer LNCS guidelines. Please refer to the submission
section of the workshop's web site for more information on the
submission format, templates, etc.
(http://acs2010.ascolla.org/submission/)

Workshop papers will be published in full length in the
workshop proceedings and presented in talks at the workshop.
Authors of accepted workshop papers will be invited to submit
an extended and updated version of their work for inclusion in
a selected journal or edited volume.

Please, submit your paper by e-mail to acs2010 at ascolla.org
until March 29th 2010.

Portable Document Format (*.pdf) and Postscript (*.ps) files
are preferred.

Important Dates
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- 29th March 2010: Submission of papers
- 3rd May 2010: Notification of authors
- 24th May 2010: Delivery of camera-ready copy
- 20th June 2010: Workshop day (the workshop takes
place in the morning); the conference
lasts from the 20th to 24th of June.

Programme Committee
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1. Paul de Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands
2. Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia
3. Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia,
Spain
4. Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
5. Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
6. Tom Gross, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
7. Davinia Hernandez-Leo, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
8 Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications,
Japan
9. Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil
10. Alexandros Paramythis, Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria
11. Kyparissia Papanikolaou, School of Pedagogical&
Technological Education, Greece
12. Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Ireland
13. Gerhard Weber, University of Education Freiburg, Germany
14. Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada

Organizers
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Dr. Alexandros Paramythis
Institute for Information Processing and Microprocessor
Technology (FIM)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenbergerstraße 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
+43 732 2468 8442
alpar at fim uni-linz ac at
http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/staff/paramythis/

Dr. Stavros N. Demetriadis
Department of Informatics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
PO BOX 114, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece
+30 2310 997902
sdemetri at csd auth gr
http://mlab.csd.auth.gr/sdemetri/

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[1]
http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/wiki/index.php/CSCL_Workshop_Challenge_on_Adaptation

[2] http://mlab.csd.auth.gr/cscl2009/sfc-workshop.htm
[3] http://mlab.csd.auth.gr/iwascl2009/

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