CFP: ECSCW Workshop - Collective Intelligence in Crises

Call for papers

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CSCWSmart? Collective Intelligence and CSCW in Crisis Situations

24th September 2011, European Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Conference (ECSCW 2011), 24-28 September 2011, Aarhus, Denmark

Contact: m.buscher@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:buscher@lancaster.ac.uk>
Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/mobilities-lab/event/3688/

Conference Website: http://www.ecscw2011.org/
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Abstract: There are potentially rich synergies between socio-technical
innovation in collective intelligence, mobilities research and
Computer Supported Cooperative Work research. Examples like Wikipedia,
collaborative sense-making in crisis situations (Palen et al 2007),
participatory sensing projects (Cambell 2008, Goldman 2009, Haque) and
alternative reality games such as 'I love Bees' (Gurzick 2011)
illustrate that collaborative work can mobilise many distributed
people and diverse kinds of information and that the results can
amount to 'crowdsourced' production of intelligence about complex
problems (Zwass 2010). On the other hand, the concept can mask
problematic tendencies - far from being emergent and self-organising
- some forms of collective intelligence may be the result of
'puppetmastering' (McGonigal 2006). Alternatively, sensitive
orchestration of public virtual mobilisation practices may open up
new, genuinely collaborative opportunities for public engagement.
This workshop takes examples of collaborative work and collective
intelligence in disasters and 'creeping' crises such as climate
change to explore opportunities and challenges for innovation.

Description: Crisis situations engender intensive information flows
and need for collaboration not only between official and
non-governmental emergency response agencies and the media, but also
amongst members of the public. People affected by earthquakes, fires,
floods, violence or slow motion disasters such as climate change or
soil erosion, their colleagues, friends and relatives, and those who
may have helpful knowledge increasingly use social media (Facebook,
Twitter) to communicate and make sense of events, and to work together
to respond to the situation. This one day workshop focuses on one
particular phenomenon of social media use in crises: 'collective
intelligence'.

Collective intelligence is an ambiguous and highly productive, but
also potentially treacherous concept. On the one hand, the notion can
highlight positive social innovation, including the collective,
'crowdsourced' mobilisation and production of intelligence about
complex problems (Zwass 2010), new 'means for knowing what we are
doing as a group' (Levy 1997, Malone& Klein 2007, Connected
Environments, Cambell 2008, Goldman 2009), or new distributed
problem-solving capabilities that are 'best understood as emergent
and collective rather than orchestrated' (Vieweg et al 2007). On the
other hand, the concept can mask problematic tendencies.
Informational practices and content in social media can fuel
confusion in crisis situations, spread simplistic messages with
highly affective charge, they can be manipulated - maliciously, or by
the media or organisations seeking to maximise donations, indeed -
far from being emergent and self-organising - some forms of collective
intelligence in crisis may be the result of 'puppetmastering' to take
a term from discussions about totalitarian tendencies in gaming
(McGonigal 2006). Alternatively, sensitive orchestration of public
informational practices may open up new, genuinely collaborative
opportunities for public engagement in crisis response (e.g.
Rogstadius et al. 2011, Starbird 2011, Heinzelman and Waters 2009,
RDTN, SAHANA, Ushahidi,) and provide professionals with new
resources, resonating with experiences in citizen science (Hemment et
al 2010).

This workshop seeks to discuss how members of the public and
professionals in emergency response currently use social media to
collaborate in crises. The boundaries between collaborative
professional and volunteer work are blurred here. Exploiting the
evocative ambiguity of the notion of 'collective intelligence', we
explore examples of real world practices. Longer term aims are to
establish an overview of relevant research, to debate opportunities
and challenges for design and to identify needs for new research.
Questions might include:

Are there historical precedents/precursors?
How is collective intelligence (CI) done in practice? What forms does it take?
Are different forms of CI associated with different kinds of complex problems?
What are intended and unintended consequences?
How do collective intelligence practices evolve over the life-span of a crisis?
How does bottom-up collective intelligence integrate with top-down
crisis interventions by governments and NGOs?

Submissions: We invite submission of (working) papers, up to 15 pages.
We're happy to receive a range of different lengths of papers, so
anything from 3-15 pages would be fine. All contributions must be
formatted in strict accordance with the ECSCW formatting instructions
(author kits and paper templates are available for Word, PDF, and
LaTeX). Please submit a PDF to m.buscher@lancaster.ac.uk
<mailto:buscher@lancaster.ac.uk> . A maximum of 30 participants can be
accepted.

Important Dates

1st June 2011 Deadline for paper sumissions
15th June 2011 Notification of decision
28th June 2011Early Bird Registration ends*
1st September 2011 Background readings, draft papers and videos** in a wiki
23rd September 2011 Dinner in town for those already here

* Please note that registration is for the full conference.

** From a previous workshop at ZiF Bielefeld
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/event/3677> , a range of
resources may be available, including video presentations:

Social media challenges from the perspective of professional
responders - Jonas Landgren (IT University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Communication, Coordination, and Collective Action - David Gurzick
(Hood College, USA)
Crisis Informatics -Leysia Palen (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Connecting emergency management and public use of Twitter in crisis
situations -Irina Shklovski (IT University, Copenhagen)

References
Campbell, A. T., Eisenman, S. B., Lane, N. D., Miluzzo, E., Peterson,
R. A., Lu, H. Zheng, X. Musolesi, M., Fodor, K., Ahn, G-S. (2008).
The Rise of People-Centric Sensing, IEEE Internet Computing, pp.
12-21, July/August, 2008
Connected Environments http://www.connectedenvironments.com/
<http://www.connectedenvironments.com>
Gurzick, D., White, K.F., Lutters, W.G., Landry, B.M., Dombrowski, C.
and Kim, J.Y. (2011). Designing the future of collaborative workplace
systems: lessons learned from a comparison with alternate reality
games. In Proceedings of the 2011 iConference (iConference '11). ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 174-180.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1940761.1940785
Goldman, J., Shilton, K., Burke, J., Estrin, D., Hansen, M.,
Ramanthan, N., Reddy, S., Samanta, V., Srivastava, M., West. R.
(2009). Participatory Sensing: A citizen-powered approach to
illuminating the patterns that shape our world. Woodrow Wilson Center
for International Scholars, May 2009.
Haque Design and Research http://www.haque.co.uk/pachube.php
Heinzelman, J. and Waters, C, (2009). Crowdsourcing Crisis
Information in Disaster-Affected Haiti. United States Institute of
Peace. http://www.usip.org/publications/crowdsourcing-crisis-information-in-disaster-affected-haiti
Hemment, D., Ellis, R., Wynne, B. (2011) Participatory Mass
Observation and Citizen Science
<http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_a_00096?journalCode=leon>
. Leonardo Transactions Vol. 44, No. 1, Pages 62-63. MIT Press
Levy, P. (1997) Collective Intelligence. Mankind's Emerging World in
Cyberspace. Translated by R. Bononno. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books.
Malone, T.W. and Klein, M. (2007) Harnessing Collective Intelligence
to Address Global Climate Change.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2007.2.3.15
McGonigal, J. (2006) The Puppetmaster Problem: Design for real world,
mission based gaming. In Harrigan, P. and Wardrip-Fruin, N. (Eds)
Second Person. Cambridge: MIT Press: 251-264.
Palen, L., S. Vieweg, J. Sutton, S.B. Liu& A. Hughes (2007)
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on E-Social Science,
Ann Arbor, MI, Oct 7-9, 2007.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/palen_papers/palen-crisisinformatics.pdf
<http://www.cs.colorado.edu/%7Epalen/palen_papers/palen-crisisinformatics.pdf>
RDTN http://www.rdtn.org/<http://www.rdtn.org>
Rogstadius, J., Kostakos, V., Laredo, J., Vukovic, M. (2011) Towards
Real-time Emergency Response using Crowd Supported Analysis of Social
Media. CHI 2011 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation.
http://crowdresearch.org/chi2011-workshop/
<http://crowdresearch.org/chi2011-workshop/%20>
SAHANA http://www.crowdsourcing.org/site/sahana/wwwsahanafoundationorg/3293
Starbird, K. Digital Volunteerism During Disaster: Crowdsourcing
Information Processing. (2011) CHI 2011 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and
Human Computation. http://crowdresearch.org/chi2011-workshop/
<http://crowdresearch.org/chi2011-workshop/%20>
Ushahidi http://www.ushahidi.com/<http://www.ushahidi.com>
Vieweg, S., L. Palen, S. Liu, A. Hughes, J. Sutton (2008). Collective
Intelligence in Disaster: An Examination of the Phenomenon in the
Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting. Proceedings of the 5th
International ISCRAM Conference, Washington DC, USA, May 2008.
Zwass, V. (2010) Series Editor's introduction. Van De Walle, B.,
Turoff, M., Hiltz, S.R. (Eds.) Information Systems for Emergency
Management. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, ix-xii.

Schedule on the Day (preliminary)

09:00 Coffee
09:30 Introductions
10:00 Presentations
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Presentations
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Presentations
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Group Discussions (Small Groups)
16:30 What next?
19:00 Dinner

Post workshop Depending on our 'What next?' discussions we may
continue our online collaboration.

Organisers Matthias Betz1, Monika Büscher2, Rebecca Ellis3, Maria
Angela Ferrario4, Gerd Kortuem4, Marén Schorch5, Jon Whittle4, Andreas
Zimmerman1

Fraunhofer Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik, FIT, Germany
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK
Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK
Research Group 'Communicating Disasters', Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies ZiF, Bielefeld University, Germany

{m.buscher, r.ellis, m.ferrario, g.kortuem,
j.whittle}@lancaster.ac.uk;<http://lancaster.ac.uk>
maren.schorch@uni-bielefeld.de;<mailto:schorch@uni-bielefeld.de>
{andreas.zimmermann; matthias.betz}@fit.fraunhofer.de

Acknowledgements: This workshop builds on work undertaken in the
Bridge Project (EU FP7, http://www.sec-bridge.eu), the Citizens
Transforming Society: Tools for Change (CaTalyST) Project (EPSRC,
UK), Next Generation Resilience Project 'DFuse' (EPSRC) and the
Communicating Disasters Programme at the Centre for Interdisciplinary
Studies, ZiF (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/FG/2010CommunicatingDisaster/),
Bielefeld University, Germany.

Fwd: CfP: ECSCW Workshop "Online communities in social and caring professions"

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On-Line Communities for Social and Caring Professions

ECSCW 2011 Workshop on September 24th at Aarhus University, Denmark

Workshop submission deadline: June 1st 2011

Workshop homepage:https://sites.google.com/site/olcacp/

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Workshop Theme
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Understanding and supporting the practices of collaborative work is one
of the core goals of CSCW research. Online communities are an important
setting in which shared work practices can emerge and become subject to
joint improvement. The concept of communities of practice is frequently
mentioned in this context. This workshop will take a closer look at the
interplay of technical, social and learning aspects of communities of
practice for social and caring professions. These domains have in common
that the typical primary activity does not involve computer use to a
large extent. Communities of practice still exist (and have their
value), but the opportunities for computer mediated communication in
these communities are not well investigated. The goal of this workshop
is to bring together researchers and practitioners experienced in
communities for social and caring professions. We will discuss lessons
learned with the goal of finding socio-technical design patterns and
determining a research roadmap.

How to Participate
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We invite you to share your experiences with designing, facilitating or
studying online-communities in caring and social professions. Relevant
topics are (but not limited to):

- Self-organization and moderation of these communities
- Communities of practice involving both professionals and volunteers
- Communities of service providers and their relationship with service users
- Sharing innovative work practices in on-line communities
- Communities for learning, support and improvement of practices
- Inter-organizational learning in communities
- Communities fostering Open Innovation
- Blended interactions in communities (combining co-located face to face
interaction with distributed online interaction)
- Engagement of "digital immigrants" (i.e. people who are less familiar
with digital communications technologies) in online communities
- Knowledge sharing in communities
- The role of mobile devices as community support technologies
- Communities that cross international borders

Please submit a short position paper no longer than 6 pages. Submissions
should be sent electronically to till.scheummer@fernuni-hagen.de. Please
adhere to the ECSCW style guidelines found at the ECSCW web site (e.g.,
http://www.ecscw09.org/authors/ECSCW_template.doc).

The workshop organizing committee will review all papers. Workshop
participants will be selected based on the appropriateness and quality
of their position paper. On acceptance, you will be asked to 1) prepare
a poster about your position paper, 2) read two other position papers to
serve as a discussant, and 3) prepare one slide, answering the following
questions:

Who is the community?
How big it the community (number of participants / broadness/ ...)?
Major challenges faced?
Number one recommendation for someone else?
Stuff not to do?

All accepted position papers will be published on-line. We are currently
negotiating publication opportunities in special issues of highly
visible journals in which extended versions of the best contributions
shall appear.

Important Dates
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1st of June 2011: Deadline for submitting position papers electronically
to Till Schümmer (till.schuemmer@fernuni-hagen.de)

15th June 2011: Acceptance notification

28th June 2011: Early registration deadline for ECSCW 2011

24th or 25th September 2011: Workshop in Aarhus, Denmark

Please note that workshop participants are required to register for the
full conference.

Workshop Organizers
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Till Schümmer
FernUniversität in Hagen, Cooperative Systems (Germany)
Till.schuemmer@fernuni-hagen.de

Niels Pinkwart
Clausthal University of Technology, Department of Informatics (Germany)
niels.pinkwart@tu-clausthal.de

Andrew M. Dearden
Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Communication& Computing Research
Centre (UK)
a.m.dearden@shu.ac.uk

Ann Light
Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Communication& Computing Research
Centre (UK)
a.light@shu.ac.uk

CFP: Workshop on mobile interaction design practice and theory

:: Beyond Mobile Context ::
Workshop on mobile interaction design practice and theory
(+ Keynote by Prof. Paul Rodgers on Creative Practice at the Boundaries of Architecture, Design and Art)
5 July 2011
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Held in conjunction with BHCI 2011 (www.hci2011.co.uk)
For further information please visit http://beyondmobilecontext.wordpress.com

Important Dates:
* Submission deadline: 1 May, 2011.
* Workshop: 5 July, 2011 (as part of BHCI 2011)

- General Theme:

We are witnessing a new quality of mobile interactions triggered by emerging new mobile technologies and services ranging from location-based apps and mobile learning services to mobile projectors and wearable computing which in turn is creating new practices of use, new experiences, new places and ways to socialize, etc. This workshop will provide a forum to scrutinize the current understanding of "mobility" in human centred interaction research in order to identify current and future challenges for design and evaluation practices, methodologies and theories.

- Workshop Topics:

Novel and emerging aspects of mobility: This workshop will discuss novel ways, practices, situations and locations to express and strive for sociality, experiences and values that are enforced, induced and enabled by emerging and future mobile tools and services.

Design and evaluation practice (+ methodologies) in mobility: The workshop will reflect on the state of the art in mobile practice and application to discuss further how to design for a new quality of mobile practices and how to evaluate for such new settings.

Theories and Frameworks for mobile interaction: This workshop will discuss common understandings of mobility (e.g. mobile context theory), their strengths and weaknesses, and their relationship to trends and research as discussed earlier in the day.

- Submission guidelines:

We encourage submissions including, but not limited to, the following topics (see website for detail):

* Innovative mobile tools, services and applications
* Novel mobile experiences, motives and values (studies, discussions, opinions)
* Studies and discussion of novel mobile social and usage behaviour
* Presentation, reflection and discussion of innovative mobile design and evaluation methods
* Scrutiny of "mobile context theory" and related theoretical and methodological approaches

Contributions are invited in the following formats:
* A position paper, max. 2 pages in length;
* A demo or a video of technologies, case studies, usage behaviour, etc.

Submission deadline: 1st of May, 2011.
Please send your submissions to michael.leitner@northumbria.ac.uk and schrammel@cure.at

- Organisers:

* Michael Leitner, Northumbria University, School of Design, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

* Johann Schrammel, CURE - Center for Usability Research and Engineering, Vienna, Austria

* Manfred Tscheligi, HCI-Unit, ICT&S, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, CURE - Center for Usability Research and Engineering; Vienna, Austria

We are glad to be supported by the following Programme Committee:

Gilbert Cockton, Professor of Human Centred Problem Solving, Northumbria University, School of Design

Joyce Yee, Programm Leader, MA Design and Design Professional Practice, Northumbria University, School of Design

Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria; Remote Sensing and Geoinformation; Responsible for the Research Initiative "Advanced Image Analyses"

Martin Tomitsch, Lecturer in Design Computing and at the, Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design& Planning; The University of Sydney

Paul Rodgers, Professor of Design Thinking, Northumbria University, School of Design.

Peter Fröhlich, Senior Researchers and Project Manager at FTW, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna

Thomas Greenough, Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Design - Northumbria University, School of Design

CFP: Symposium on Usability, Information Design, and Information Interaction to Communicate Complex Information

Symposium on Usability, Information Design, and Information Interaction

to Communicate Complex Information

February 24-25, 2012

East Carolina University
Greenville NC

http://albersm.rhetoricalengagement.net/workshop/home.htm

The future will see the design of information and communication
technologies that serve ever more complex purposes and problems. For
these technologies, creating user centered design is particularly
challenging when users are engaged in sophisticated knowledge work and
collaborations and do not want to become power users to conduct this
work electronically. Goals of this workshop are to clarify what we
already know about communicating complex information and clarify our
understanding of what issues urgently need further research.

We hope to reach new insights about
* The current major research issues that need to be addressed
* Ways to transform research into practical applications

Keynote address will be by Carol Barnum, Southern Polytechnic State
University.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Contact
Michael J. Albers albersm@ecu.edu

This workshop sponsored in part by
East Carolina University
ACM SIGDOC

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Dr. Michael J. Albers
Technical and Professional Writing
Department of English
Mailstop 555
East Carolina University
Greenville NC 27858-4353

CFP: Designing & Evaluating Mobile Systems for Collocated Group Use Workshop @ Mobile HCI 2011

1st International Workshop on Designing & Evaluating Mobile Systems for
Collocated Group Use @ Mobile HCI 2011 - Stockholm, Sweden

http://nirmalpatel.com/mobile_collocated/index.html

Important Dates
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Submissions Due: April 30th, 2011 by 23:59 PDT (UTC-7)
Acceptance Notification: May 21, 2011
Camera-ready submission: June 1, 2011
Workshop: August 30, 2011

Workshop Overview
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With the proliferation of mobile devices it has become common to see groups of users working or playing together using multiple mobile devices. While much effort is exerted to ensure that interaction with a mobile device is useful for each individual user, less effort has gone into considering how to design and evaluate mobile interfaces and platforms for group use. Recent improvements in the interaction, computing, connectivity and general flexibility of mobile devices make them an ideal, yet underutilized, platform for group level interaction.

Goals
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Our goal with this workshop is to bring together researchers who have started to investigate the collocated group use of mobile devices and to shed light on the challenges of designing and evaluating mobile collocated group experiences. We hope to bring together researchers from various research domains with the goal of creating a deeper understanding of issues involved in designing, building, and evaluating end-to-end mobile collocated group experience. Though there are many open research questions in this space we intend to focus our discussion on HCI issues.

Submissions
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Submissions should be a maximum of four pages in the MobileHCI 2011 Archive Format and address open research questions on the topics of interest which will be used to foster workshop discussion. Submissions are due by April 30th, 2011 by 23:59 PDT (UTC-7) and should be emailed to mobile.collocated@gmail.com.

A small committee will peer-review submitted papers. Papers will be selected based on several criteria:

- Does the paper fit the theme of the workshop?
- How potentially transformative are the ideas in the paper?
- Does the paper address the research questions of the workshop, or pose new
research questions?
- Is the paper well-written?

Notification of acceptance will be provided by May 21st, 2011. Please note that accepted workshop papers will NOT be published in the conference proceedings nor in the ACM Digital Library. However, the accepted papers will be disbursed to all participants so that they may familiarize themselves with the workshop material prior to attending.

Organizers
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Nirmal Patel, Google, nirmal@gatech.edu
James Clawson, Georgia Tech, jamer@cc.gatech.edu

For more details please see our website at:
http://nirmalpatel.com/mobile_collocated/index.html

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

Reminder: Call for Papers

Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility
Special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics
http://www.ci-journal.net/

Submissions close 31 March 2011.

Theme

Following on from the successful workshop held in conjunction with Making Links 2010, this special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will bring together contributions from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss how academic researchers and community practitioners and activists can work together to explore the use of information and communication technologies, social media, augmented reality, and other forms of network technologies for research and action in pursuit of social responsibility. The aim is to connect people with ideas, ideas with research projects, and harness new media to further inquiry into socially just outcomes in our communities.

Topics

Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:

Action research
Civic intelligence
Community engagement strategies, methods and approaches
Community research partnerships for mutual advantage
Ethical considerations
Funding, managing and maintaining community-university research partnerships
Participatory design
Research impact assessment
Role of university researchers in community-based research

Organisation and Submission Details

Authors are requested to follow the instructions at http://www.ci-journal.net/. We invite the submission of conceptual or empirical (quantitative and/or qualitative) work up to 6000 words on the special issue's theme. Deadline for completed manuscripts: 31 March 2011. Papers should follow the Author Guidelines, and be submitted online to http://www.ci-journal.net/. Acceptance notifications are sent to authors by 31 May 2011. Final revised papers are due by 30 June 2011. The special issue is scheduled for publication early 2012. Inquiries about possible topics are welcome. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to the guest editors.

Guest Editors

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

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

Making Links 2010 workshop archive
http://www.makinglinks.org.au/research-for-action/

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Principal Research Fellow

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

CFP: MobileHCI 2011

MobileHCI 2011
13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with
Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2011),
August 30th - September 2nd, 2011, Stockholm Sweden

www.mobilehci2011.org/
www.facebook.com/mobilehci2011 www.twitter.com/mobilehci2011
MobileHCI 2011 will be held between the 30th of August and
the 2nd September, 2011, in Stockholm Sweden,
Doctoral Consortium Day, Workshops and Tutorials on August 30th, 2011.

MobileHCI 2011 is organised by the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Centre
(Stockholm University, Interactive Institute and SICS) in collaboration
with Ericsson, Nokia, Kista Science City, the City of Stockholm, and in
cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE.

Upcoming deadlines
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- Posters submission: 8th April, 2011
- Demos and Experiences submission: 8th April, 2011
- Industrial Case Studies submission: 8th April, 2011
- Doctoral Colloquium: 8th April, 2011
- Panels: 8th April, 2011
- Design Competition: 22nd April, 2011

- Conference Dates: August 30th - September 2nd, 2011

Conference Scope and Description
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The Mobile HCI conference is at the centre of the most expanding area of
computing, i.e. the astonishing emergence of a mobile application market
and the expansion of internet services to wide and mobile user groups.
It is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction
with Mobile Devices and Services. The MobileHCI series provides a forum
for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential
solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It
covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and
approaches for mobile and wearable computing devices and services.
MobileHCI is now on its 12th Edition with some of the previous events
taking place in Lisbon (2010, Bonn (2009), Amsterdam (2008), Singapore
(2007), Espoo (2006), Salzburg (2005), Glasgow (2004), Udine (2003),
Pisa (2002), Lille (2001), Edinburgh (1999), Glasgow (1998).

Suggested topics
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We solicit original research and technical papers not published
elsewhere focusing on the following topics (but not limited to):
- Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques
- Mobile social networks
- Context-aware systems
- Multimodal interaction (including audio and speech)
- User centred design tools and methods for mobile systems
- Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology
- Group interaction and mobility
- Mobile social networks
- Interfaces for mobile communities
- Services for mobile devices
- The design of location based services for mobile devices
- The design; evaluation and case studies-of-use of application
development environments
- Wearable computing, smart clothes, new devices and sensors
- Mobile entertainment, storytelling and location based gaming
- Aesthetic interaction and experience design
- Affective Computing and mobile embodied interaction
- Perception and modelling of the environment
- Personal assistance with mobile devices
- Mobile art
- Mobility and work environments
- Evaluation and usability of mobile devices and services
- Mobile accessibility
- Model-based design of interactive mobile systems
- Visualization techniques for the mobile context (including 3D graphics
on mobile devices)
- Safety issues e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments
- Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects& issues in mobile
applications& services

Chairs
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- General: Markus Bylund, SICS, Sweden
- Local: Maria Holm Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden
- Program: Oskar Juhlin, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University,
Sweden and Ylva Fernaeus Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden
- Papers and notes chairs: Elizabeth Churchill, Yahoo! Research, USA
and Albrecht Schmidt, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Doctoral consortium: Kristina Höök, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm
University and SICS, Sweden and Jofish Kaye, Nokia Research, USA
- Demonstrations: Paul Coulton, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK and
Jakob Eg Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Workshop: Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute of Technology, Finland
and Sara Ljungblad, Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden
- Design competition: Mauro Cherubini, Telefonica Research, Spain and
Younghee Jung, Nokia Research, India
- Industrial design case: Virpi Roto, Helsinki Institute of Technology,
Finland and Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA
- Poster: Henriette Cramer, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
and SICS, Sweden and rank Bentley, Motorola Research, USA
- Tutorial: Cristian Norlin, Ericsson Research, Sweden and Johan
Bornebusch, School of Communication, Media and IT, Södertörn
University, Sweden
- E-publication: Jarmo Laaksolahti, Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden
- Student volunteers: Zeynep Ahmet, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm
University and SICS, Sweden and Pedro Sanches, SICS, Sweden
- Social buzz: Alexandra Weilenmann, Mobile Life Centre, Gothenburg
University, Sweden and Mattias Rost, Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden
- Industrial exhibit: Tomas Bennich, Kista Mobile Showcase, Sweden
- Web: Pedro Ferreira, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm
University and SICS

Keynote Speakers
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- Jeanna Kimbré, Manager, Colours& Materials, Creative Design Centre,
Sony Ericsson Sweden

- Professor Adrian Cheok, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio
University, Japan

CFP: C&T 2011 Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement

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1st CFP: Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement

http://cs.au.dk/~mkorn/citizengov/

in conjunction with
5th International Conference on Communities& Technologies (C&T 2011)
29 June - 2 July 2011, Brisbane, Australia

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2011
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The trend towards more user contributions on the web and an increased
interest in e.g. social media technology, from both governments and
citizens, leads to new potentials and challenges in designing for
citizen-government interactions.

In the workshop we will look at both of these sides: citizen
empowerment as well as governments as collaborators in these
interactions. Of course, these ideas are not new. However, while the
Internet has often been praised as a means to empower citizens in
democracies, research has shown that merely increasing the available
amount of information about public policy does not lead to increased
democratic engagement.

For several years now, governments have recognized the potential of the
Web 2.0 to bring citizens and their governments closer together.
Indeed, the social web holds the potential of supporting a better
two-way communication where citizens are engaged through public
consultations, contributing to the design of government policies. The
question is what role governments have to play in this development. How
do we best support the notion of government as a collaborator that is
more accountable, responsive and transparent?

In the workshop we wish to address challenges such as how to render
information more usable by citizens, how to strengthen citizen
influence through citizen-citizen collaboration, how to bridge the gap
between citizen deliberation and concrete citizen influence on
democratic issues, and how to promote a better two-way communication
between government and citizens, building citizen communities that are
facilitated by government to discuss and improve government services.

Participants are encouraged to present and demonstrate concrete
examples of citizen-government interaction design cases during the
workshop. We will also have interactive discussions to identify the
predominant challenges and opportunities in this area. It is our goal
that the workshop will lead to new insights on a conceptual level, as
well as new ideas for future research and design efforts regarding
citizen empowerment and governments as collaborators in
citizen-government interactions.

For more information please visit: http://cs.au.dk/~mkorn/citizengov/

Important Dates
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- Submission of position and experience papers April 1, 2011
- Notifications of acceptance April 30, 2011
- Final papers due May 27, 2011
- Workshop in Brisbane, Australia June 30, 2011

Topics of Interest
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- Data Sharing between Government and Citizens
- Citizen Influence on Policy-Making Processes
- Citizen-Citizen and Citizen-Government Collaboration and Community
Support through Web 2.0 Tools
- Boundary Objects in Citizen-Government Collaboration
- Situating Citizen Deliberation
- Introduction of Social Media into Government Agencies
- Grassroots Approaches and Activism
- Inclusion and Accessibility
- Designing for Local Conditions
- Privacy, Anonymity and Public Opinions

Author Guidelines and Submission
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Workshop contributions are expected in the form of papers addressing
previous experiences and, for example, case studies (6-8 pages), or
position papers on the opportunities and challenges ahead (3-4 pages).
Contributions should be formatted according to the ECSCW/Springer
template (get Word, PDF, and LaTeX templates from the website).
Submissions must not be anonymous and will be reviewed by the
organizers.

All submissions will be handled via eMail. The documents should be
submitted in PDF format to citizengov2011@gmail.com<mailto:citizengov2011@gmail.com>. If your submission
contains additional material (such as a video), then everything should
be packed in one ZIP file. If you have any questions, please email the
workshop's organizers.

The workshop proceedings will be published in the International Reports
on Socio-Informatics (IRSI) (ISSN 1861-4280) after the workshop
(post-proceedings). A draft version will be made available to the
participants prior to the workshop. Depending on the quality of
submissions, we may propose to edit a Special Issue for a journal as a
follow-up event.

Audience
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This full-day workshop aims to bring together passionate researchers
and practitioners in a shared forum to debate important issues emerging
in this rapidly evolving field. Participants are required to submit
position papers, or concrete design cases. Participants will be asked
to actively prepare and participate in the workshop. Apart from
academia, we highly encourage contributions from a wide audience, e.g.
social media design professionals and government.

Organizers
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- Scott Anderson, Human Services Portfolio Communication Division
- Nikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Aarhus University
- Susanne Bødker, Aarhus University
- Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO
- Amanda Dennett, Human Services Portfolio Communication Division
- Matthias Korn, Aarhus University
- Cécile Paris, CSIRO

CFP: Workshop on "Resilience and IT-Risk in Social Infrastructures (RISI 2011)

CfP - Workshop on "Resilience and IT-Risk in Social Infrastructures
(RISI 2011)"

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Held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES) 2011
August 22nd - 26th, 2011 Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria
WWW:<http://www.ares-conference.eu>

Accepted papers will be published in the ARES proceedings.
Submission deadline: April 24, 2011.
The submission server is ready to welcome your submissions:<http://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ares2011/>

Description
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Populations of cities will continue to increase: the share of the world's population living in cities is predicted to rise from 50% in 2011 to 70% in 2050. Threats to cities and their social infrastructures, e.g. from natural disasters, crime, and terrorism, endanger human life directly and indirectly. Resilience is gaining importance as a core concept to cope with such threats. In general, resilience means strengthening social infrastructures to prevent or mitigate such threats and to consistently deliver the intended services in a trustworthy and normal way even in changing situations.

Information and communication infrastructure (IT) is one primary part of the social infrastructure and therefore one of the central objects of resilience research. The provision and processing of real-time information for communication, coordination, and cooperation is a vital role and IT still has to provide its services, e.g., to rescue organizations and for catastrophe management, when a threat becomes reality.

Since resilience research is still in its infancy, the main objective of the RISI 2011 workshop is to identify research problems and to discuss future research initiatives regarding IT support for "Resilience in Social Infrastructures". We encourage academic researchers and industry experts to present and discuss novel ideas as well as ongoing work. Contributions addressing promising approaches, methods and tools supporting resistance against attacks and threats (i.e., prevent and protect) as well as to adapt social infrastructures to deal with threats and attacks (i.e., respond and recover) are invited.

Topics
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- Identification of vulnerabilities in service-oriented computing
- Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
- Modeling of resilience properties
- Data provenance
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Usage control mechanisms
- Resilience in cryptographic and communications protocols
- Digital forensics
- Measurements for Resilience
- Risk assessment and evaluation of IT risks
- Business Continuity Plan and Business Continuity Management
- Economics of controls

Important Dates
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2011-04-24: Submission Deadline
2011-05-09: Author Notification
2011-06-01: Author Registration& Proceedings Version
2011-08-22 - 2011-08-26: Conference/Workshop

Submission Guidelines
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The submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found at: http://www.ares-conference.eu/submission-guidelines

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Stefan Sackmann (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
stefan[dot]sackmann[at]wiwi[dot]uni-halle[dot]de

Sven Wohlgemuth (National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan)
wohlgemuth[at]nii[dot]ac[dot]jp

Program Committee
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Rafael Accorsi (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Markus Aleksy (ABB Corporate Research Germany)
David Basin (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Rainer Boehme (University of Muenster, Germany)
Isao Echizen (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Marlen Hofmann (University of Halle, Germany)
Dennis Kundisch (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain)
Emanuela Merelli (University of Camerino, Italy)
Guenter Mueller (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Ryoichi Sasaki (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
Noboru Sonehara (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Hiroshi Yoshiura (University of Electro-Communications of Tokyo, Japan)

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ARES Workshop on Resilience and IT-Risk in Social Infrastructures (RISI) 2011
Paper submission until: April 24, 2011
http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=69

Dr. Sven WOHLGEMUTH

National Institute of Informatics (NII)
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 101-8430
Japan

Phone +81 3 4212 2594
Fax +81 3 3556 1916 (c/o Prof. Dr. Isao Echizen)

http://www.nii.ac.jp
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iechizen/official/content_e_sven.html

CFP: 3rd Workshop on the Social Mobile Web - SMW2011

Call for papers: The 3rd Workshop on the Social Mobile Web

Held in conjunction with ICWSM

July 17-21, 2011 in Barcelona (Spain)

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The mobile space is evolving at an astonishing rate. At present there are over 5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide and continued advances in handset technology, services and billing models, the mobile web looks set to inspire a new age of anytime, anywhere information access. The world is also witnessing an explosion in social web services. Online social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn continue to experience huge increases in usage, with more and more users seeking novel ways of interacting with their friends and family.

In this workshop, the 3rd in the series, we are interested in the combination of these two exciting research spaces: the social web and the mobile web. The social mobile web is gaining significant momentum at present and we believe that it's going to be a highly influential research area for both industry and academia in the near future. As such this workshop will investigate the current state of the social mobile web. Topics of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Novel social interactions on mobile devices.

* Social mobile content sharing and distribution services.

* Location awareness in social mobile services.

* Context aware mobile services - beyond location.

* Social mobile search and social mobile browsing.

* User evaluations of social mobile services.

* Mobility, social networks and social network analysis.

* Models of mobile social behavior and mobile traces.

* Innovative social mobile applications.

This workshop is targeted towards researchers and practitioners interested in the mobile web and social web spaces. We encourage participation from a broad range of backgrounds including social science, computer science and cognitive psychology.

We are aiming for a variety of submissions from technical research papers to more exploratory position papers. As such, participants are invited to submit: (1) a short position or demonstration paper of 2-4 pages in length or (2) a full-length technical paper of up to 10 pages in length. Papers should be in AAAI publication format and should be submitted via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smw2011

Note that at least one author of accepted papers needs to register and attend the workshop.

Organizing Committee

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* Karen Church, Telefonica Research, Barcelona

* Josep M. Pujol, Telefonica Research, Barcelona

* Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland

* Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, Evanston

Program Committee

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* Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson Research

* Andreas Flache, University of Groningen
* Jill Freyne, University College Dublin

* Scott A. Golder, Cornell University

* Carmen Guerrero, Universidad Carlos III

* Tom Heath, Talis

* Matt Jones, FIT Lab, Swansea University

* David Lazer, Harvard University

* Marc Smith, Connected Action

* Roger M. Whitaker, University of Cardiff

* Peter Mika, Yahoo Research Labs

* Abdullatif Shikfa, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

* Yves-Alexandre de Monjoye, MIT

* Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge

* Stratis Ioannidis, Technicolor

Important Dates

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* 22nd March 2011: Deadline for submissions

* 8th April 2011: Notification to authors

* 21st July 2011: Workshop date

Website

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Further details are available from the workshop website at: http://www.thesocialmobileweb.org or you can simply mail the organizers at socialmobileweb@gmail.com

CFP: Social Media and Collaborative Systems for Crisis Management

Social Media and Collaborative Systems for Crisis Management

A Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI).

Special issue editors: Starr Roxanne Hiltz (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Paloma Diaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine)

Important Dates (extended deadline)
Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2011
Reviews Due: April 30, 2011
Author Notification: May 20, 2011
Revised Version Due: August 1, 2011
Special Issue Published: TBD

Overview
Planning and response for large scale disasters usually require the cooperation of many different organizations located in different places. The convergence of information and communication technologies, the growth of the Internet including the mobile Internet, and the advent of technologies known under the general heading of Web 2.0 have all contributed to our ability to collaborate over great distances, both synchronously and asynchronously. Our aim in this special issue is to gather and summarize a set of empirical studies of the design and use of these approaches to support collaboration in crisis management and response, with implications for the design of future systems for crisis management. . Submitted papers should have an HCI and/ or CSCW focus. How might such collaboration technologies help:
• preparation for disasters?
• the crisis management team in their decision making on handling the event?
• the crisis management team in their interactions with a wide range of responders, government bodies, various publics and stakeholders and, of course, the victims and their families?
• all parties build a picture and share information about a developing crisis?
• widen the range of stakeholders who can join fully in handling the crisis and recovery?
• involve communities fully during the recovery phase to rebuild and return to normality?
• communities to work together, alongside but independently of government and non-governmental agencies, to inform and help themselves, co-ordinating citizen-led efforts?
• virtual teams and virtual communities to develop processes and software for emergency management and recovery?

If the paper is based on a study previously appearing in a conference proceedings, it should be substantially revised and expanded from the conference version. The submission should then include a note from the author(s) that points out these changes and additions. All submissions must be through the TOCHI web site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tochi. The cover note should also explicitly state that the paper is being submitted for the special issue on Crisis Management.

Special Issue Topics

Papers are invited that provide rich description and/or evaluation of the actual design process and/ or use of novel web based and other systems for collaboration and/or widespread participation in any phase of emergency management, from initial planning and preparedness, through detection, response, and recovery phases. This might include, among others:

• Case studies of user participation/ design research in the design and evolution of such systems.
• Studies of the use by virtual teams or virtual communities or the general public of .social software. (e.g., social networking sites, knowledge gathering systems such as Wikimapia) in emergency management and response, with data collection methods ranging from laboratory experiments or field studies to qualitative case studies.
• Exploration and assessment of any problems that occur when virtual or partially distributed teams or the general public use information technology to coordinate disaster management related tasks, and how can they be resolved.
• Behavioral studies of collaboration which have implications for the use of networking and web technologies in crisis response and management, including experimental studies.
• New approaches and dedicated-platforms supporting virtual teams and collaboration in Crisis Management

CFP: Research-Practice Interaction (RPI): Addressing Engineering Issues (an EICS2011 half-day workshop)

This workshop will bring together researchers and engineering-oriented
practitioners of human-computer interaction to explore the extent to
which difficulties exist between them, and will endeavor to identify the
dimensions of the problems and propose possible solutions. On the one
hand, we will work to articulate factors that may render the research
literature inaccessible or irrelevant to engineers and to suggest
potential improvements and approaches. On the other hand, we will also
strive to learn from researchers how their research could benefit from
engineer input. We invite both practitioners and researchers to submit a
position statement of two to three pages, plus a short bio, by email to
ebuie [at] luminanze [dot] com by 5pm EST on 13 March 2011, to
participate in this half-day workshop. People who participated in the
CHI2010 workshop on RPI are also welcome, because this is a continuing
conversation.

Your position statement should attempt to answer one or more of the following (or related) questions:
• How can the usefulness of research papers be improved to suit engineers of interactive systems?
• How should research be disseminated to engineers?
• What are the barriers that discourage engineers from adopting research findings?
• How can research papers be made more accessible to engineers?
• How can collaboration between the two subcommunities of CHI be enhanced?
• What should students of computer science be taught about HCI research, to prepare them to engineer more usable and effective interactive systems?
• How can we best include engineers in the RPI conversation?

We will select a variety of viewpoints from participants with diverse experience. Participants will have access to all of the accepted position statements in advance, to facilitate preconference discussion and to support the formulation of discussion questions. The organizers will also publish a draft agenda to prepare for the in-depth discussions during the workshop.
Important dates
• Submission deadline – 13 March 2011
• Notification – 3 April 2011
• Final submissions - 29 April 2011
• Workshop – Monday, 13 June 2011, Pisa (Italy)
Organizers
• Elizabeth Buie (Luminanze Consulting, LLC) - ebuie [at] luminanze [dot] com
• Andrea Resmini (University of Borås, Gothenburg IT University) - andrea [dot] resmini [at] hb [dot] se
Please feel free to contact either of the organizers with questions.

You can learn about the history of our RPI work at http://instone.org/uxrpi-update
The workshop proposal (PDF): EICS2011WorkshopProposal-RPI.pdf
More about EICS 2011.

If you know someone who might be interested in participating, please pass along this call. The URL is http://research-practice-interaction.wikispaces.com/EICS2011 - Thanks!

CFP: Workshop on Adaptive Support for Team Collaboration, at UMAP 2011

International Workshop on

Adaptive Support for Team Collaboration
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in conjunction with UMAP 2011,
Girona, Spain, 11-15 July 2011

http://astc2011.ascolla.org

Contents: Motivation – Topics of Interest – Format /
Submission – Important Dates – Organizing
Committee – Programme Committee – Contact

Motivation
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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, have given rise to new paradigms of collaboration
that permeate many facets of human activity. Collaborative
learning, co-operative knowledge discovery and maintenance,
argumentative spaces, communities of practice, are only a
few examples of new forms of collaboration enabled and
fostered by recent technological advances. These have been
trialled and explored in domains such as scientific
research, medical diagnosis and trials, innovative learning
environments, business analytics, and collaborative
environments.

Despite the increased attention this area is receiving,
research in adaptive support for collaboration is still
unsystematic, and is carried out mainly on "technological
terms". Little input is received from the Social Sciences
-that have a wealth of foundational wisdom to offer in terms
of how groups, teams and communities collaborate-, and
experiments are usually constrained to the application
domain of collaborative learning. Although there exist
obvious connections to issues examined in "neighbouring"
research fields, such as applications of collaborative
filtering, adaptive social software, etc., the requirements
of adaptive support for collaboration are quite distinct and
relate to the very nature of collaboration (the existence of
a team as a cohesive social entity, the fact that there is
often a specific set of concrete and temporally constrained
goals underlying the collaboration process, the possible
production and use of artefacts around which collaboration
revolves, etc.)

The International Workshop on Adaptive Support for Team
Collaboration (ASTC) 2011 aspires to contribute towards
mitigating these problems by offering a venue for targeted
discussion on adaptive support for collaboration. The
workshop aims to bring together researchers from different
scientific fields and research communities to exchange
experiences and discuss the topic of how collaboration
within teams can be supported through the employment of
adaptivity that is grounded on the characteristics of the
teams and their individual members, their activities (which
are increasingly data-intensive and cognitively complex) and
social bonds.

Topics of Interest
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The workshop will be structured around a number of main
questions, including:
- How can we model teams as entities with their
individual and collective characteristics, social evolution,
maturity, etc?
- What (types of activities) can be monitored during the
collaboration process, and how can their significance be
established?
- What are the types of interventions that may have a
beneficial effect on collaboration?
- What are the possible roles of a system in this
respect?
- What are the effects of the application domain on the
collaboration process, and on the ways in which this can be
supported?
- What social and group processes are important for team
collaboration and how can these be supported using UMAP
techniques?

The list below provides possible topics of interest of this
workshop (other topics directly related to the
aforementioned questions are also welcome):
- Theoretical issues on adaptation methods and techniques
for groups.
- User- and Group- modeling to cater for adaptive system
design.
- Adaptive and intelligent forms of tutoring / scaffolding /
scripting in CSCW/CSCL systems.
- Practical approaches to adaptive collaboration support.
- Methods and tools for the design and implementation of
adaptativity for collaboration.
- Formalization efforts of the adaptive collaborative
learning activity.
- Interaction analysis techniques to inform the adaptable
and flexible behavior of CSCW systems.
- Information extraction from large/multiple datasets to
provide adaptive support for collaboration.
- Adaptive support for collaborative innovation networks
- Methodologies& tools: mixed or new methods, approaches
and tools applied to studying or building collaborative
systems.
- Adaptation in data-intensive Web 2.0 / Social
networking collaboration environments
- Adaptive collaboration systems based on emerging
technologies such as mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Format / Submission
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The workshop will comprise a keynote speech by Prof.
Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine, USA --
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark), presentations of accepted
papers, and discussion among workshop participants.

We welcome original work at all stages of development:
papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or
theoretically grounded positions.

Submissions should be either full papers (10 pages), or
short papers (5 pages). All submissions should be formatted
according to the general UMAP2011 submission guidelines and
must adhere to the Springer LNCS format. Additional sub-
mission information can be found on the workshop's web site
(http://astc2011.ascolla.org).

Submissions will be peer reviewed by the workshop organizing
committee. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop
site. The authors will deliver a presentation of the papers
during the workshop.
As already mentioned, the workshop will also include a
session devoted to discussion amongst the participants. The
goal of this session will be to arrive at an outline of a
research agenda for the field.

Important Dates
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Abstract submission deadline: 8 April 2011
Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2011
Notification to authors: 13 May 2011
Camera-ready paper due: 20 May 2011

Organizing Committee
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Alexandros Paramythis, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece
Manolis Tzagarakis, University of Patras, Greece
Styliani Kleanthous, University of Leeds, UK

Programme Committee
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Liliana Ardissono, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Rafael A. Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia
Michaela Cocea, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Ioannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
Nikos Karacapilidis, Research Academic Computer Technology
Institute, Greece
Judy Kay, The University of Sydney, Australia
Florian König, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Eleni Kyza, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
George Magoulas, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine, USA
Estefanía Martín Barroso, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, UK
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Asma Ounnas, University of Southampton, UK
Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Peter Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands, the
Netherlands
Michael Sonntag, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, the
Netherlands
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada

Contact
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For any queries please contact the workshop's organizers at:
astc2011@gmail.com

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Dr. Alexandros Paramythis

Institute for Information Processing and Microprocessor Technology (FIM)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz, AUSTRIA

Tel: +43 (0) 732 2468 8442
Fax: +43 (0) 732 2468 8599
URL: http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/staff/paramythis/
Email: alpar@fim.uni-linz.ac.at

CFP: Special Issue on Information Privacy and Trust in Social Media

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Special Issue on Information Privacy and Trust in Social Media
ICST Transactions on Security and Safety* (
http://icst.org/security-and-safety/)

The extensive display of personal information by users of social media has
made security and privacy concerns particularly salient. Many Web 2.0
technologies are highly collaborative where collective action with rich data
exchange is the norm. Social media brought the voluntary disclosure of
personal data to the mainstream, thus exposing users' published information
with potential abuse by online crooks, stalkers, bullies, and even by their
friends. The goal of this special issue is to report frontier research
addressing the need for a paradigm shift in understanding and addressing
users' privacy needs in social media. Particular emphases will be put on the
interplay between social and technological issues associated with security,
privacy, and trust in social media with a focus on online social networks.
The issue aims to offer an integrated view of the field by presenting
approaches originating from and drawing upon multiple disciplines.

We welcome research papers that examine technological, conceptual, design,
economic, behavioral, managerial, organizational, and societal aspects of
assuring trust, privacy, and security in social media. Submissions should
describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under
review by another conference or journal. Suggested topics include, but are
not limited to:
- Defining Privacy 2.0 in online social networks,
- Security and privacy challenges and protection mechanisms,
- User mental models and behavioral dynamics,
- User awareness and training,
- Risk identification and assessment.

*Instructions for Authors and Review Process:*
Submitted papers should not be under consideration elsewhere for
publication. The language of the journal is English. Each paper should be
formatted in double spacing with 1-inch margin, single column of no more
than 8,000 words in length. All texts (excluding title and section headings)
must be in 12-point in one of the standard fonts such as Times, Helvetica,
or Courier. References should be included in alphabetical order in the
Reference section of the paper at the end. Submission file formats are PDF
and Microsoft Word. The first page of the paper should include the title and
the abstract. Please do not disclose any author information in the
manuscript. A rigorous peer review process will be arranged. Each paper will
have at least two independent reviewers.

Manuscripts should be sent electronically to the guest editors (Email to:
icst2011.security@gmail.com ). Authors are encouraged to submit extended
abstracts to the guest editors prior to the submission deadline for early
feedback and indication of suitability.

*Important Dates:*
Papers submission deadline: Feb 18, 2011
Notification of decisions: March 15, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: April 11, 2011
Publication (tentative): May 2011

*Guest Editors:*
Dr. Heng Xu
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology,
PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Email: icst2011.security@gmail.com

Dr. Chuan-Hoo Tan
Assistant Professor of Information Systems,
College of Business,
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Email: icst2011.security@gmail.com