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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Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth
Principal Research Fellow

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

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