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CFP: ECSCW Workshop - Collective Intelligence in Crises

2011-04-22T09:30:00.001-07:00

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"

2011-04-19T09:50:00.001-07:00

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

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

2011-04-19T07:54:00.001-07:00

:: 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

2011-03-21T09:40:00.001-07:00

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

2011-03-21T09:34:00.001-07:00

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

2011-03-16T09:15:00.001-07:00

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

2011-03-14T09:53:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-13T13:01:00.001-07:00

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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)

2011-03-11T08:50:00.001-08:00

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

2011-02-28T10:46:00.001-08:00

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

2011-02-24T08:45:00.001-08:00

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:
â¢ preparation for disasters?
â¢ the crisis management team in their decision making on handling the event?
â¢ 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?
â¢ all parties build a picture and share information about a developing crisis?
â¢ widen the range of stakeholders who can join fully in handling the crisis and recovery?
â¢ involve communities fully during the recovery phase to rebuild and return to normality?
â¢ communities to work together, alongside but independently of government and non-governmental agencies, to inform and help themselves, co-ordinating citizen-led efforts?
â¢ 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:

â¢ Case studies of user participation/ design research in the design and evolution of such systems.
â¢ 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.
â¢ 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.
â¢ Behavioral studies of collaboration which have implications for the use of networking and web technologies in crisis response and management, including experimental studies.
â¢ 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)

2011-02-21T10:21:00.001-08:00

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

2011-02-19T08:52:00.001-08:00

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

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

2011-01-18T10:16:00.001-08:00

*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

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

2010-12-21T07:44:00.001-08:00

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

Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large& Heterogeneous Data

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

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

Workshop Description

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

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

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

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

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

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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

Submission

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010-12-21T06:51:00.001-08:00

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION II

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

http://mobilebroadcasting.wordpress.com/

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

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

TO PARTICIPATE:

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

IMPORTANT DATES:

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

ORGANISERS:

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

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

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

CFP: Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices 2011

2010-12-21T06:50:00.001-08:00

Take another look at standard, "packaged" technolologies:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (apologies for any cross posting)

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

Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices
(DUCUD 2011)

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

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

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

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

Best regards and welcome from
Steinar Kristoffersen,
workshop chair

CFP: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

2010-11-04T09:47:00.001-07:00

Call for papers: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

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

Important Dates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010-09-24T12:22:00.001-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**Key Topics**

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

**Important Dates**

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

**Chairs**

General chairs:

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

Program chairs:

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

Keynote Speakers:

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

**Papers**

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

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

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

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

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

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

**Proceedings**

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

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

2010-08-03T10:25:00.001-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Committee
-----------------

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

Important Dates
---------------

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

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

2010-07-30T09:28:00.001-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Benjamin Poppinga
Human Machine Interaction

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

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

2010-07-17T06:04:00.001-07:00

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Call for Participation: CSCW 2011

The ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

March 19–23, 2011 · Hangzhou, China

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

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

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

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

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

Appropriate topic areas for CSCW include:

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

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

2010-07-16T05:09:00.001-07:00

Call for Participation and Presentations

Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth
Principal Research Fellow

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

2010-07-15T18:06:00.000-07:00

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

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

Deadline: September 10, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Email submissions to carman_neustaedter@sfu.ca

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

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

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

2010-07-06T09:47:00.001-07:00

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The 3rd Workshop on HCI and Services

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

Tuesday 7th September 2010

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1. INTRODUCTION

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

2. GOALS

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

3. TOPIC RELEVANCE

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

4. TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. DEADLINES

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

Workshop 7th September 2010

8. WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

Peter J Wild

Emma Pickering

John Knight
Director of Intiuo Design and Research

9. CONTACT INFORMATION

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

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

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

ANN: Wipro funding for ACM-W Scholarships

2010-06-30T20:42:00.001-07:00

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

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

For further information please see

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

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

2010-06-21T09:04:00.001-07:00

Call for Participation: Workshop on Accessible Electronic Health Records

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010-06-16T19:43:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010-05-28T09:45:00.001-07:00

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Call For Papers

Workshop on

THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES - a Challenge for User Involvement in Design

17th October 2010

at NordiCHI, Reykjavik, Iceland

Deadline for submissions: 1st August 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFP: ISCRAM2011 Lisbon, Portugal, first announcement

2010-05-21T09:41:00.001-07:00

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

8-11 May 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFP: iConference 2011 in Seattle

2010-05-20T08:51:00.001-07:00

Call for Participation: iConference 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timeline:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFP: SOUPS 2010

2010-05-20T08:49:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR POSTERS -- SOUPS 2010

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

Poster submissions due May 28, 2010

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

POSTERS

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

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

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

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

General Chair:
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University

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

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

2010-05-11T10:22:00.001-07:00

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

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

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

2010-05-10T09:59:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TO APPLY:

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

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

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

CFP: MobileHCI 2010 Workshops

2010-05-04T09:08:00.001-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFP: ACM SIGCHI EICS 2010

2010-04-28T10:09:00.001-07:00

ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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

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

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

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

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

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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

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

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

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LIST OF RESEARCH PAPERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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LIST OF LATE BREAKING RESULTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFP Human Computation Workshop (HComp2010)

2010-04-27T09:39:00.001-07:00

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

Human Computation Workshop 2010 (HCOMP 2010)

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

Collocated with ACM SIG KDD-2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

recognize with certainty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Workshop Format
* Presentations by Authors
* Talks by invited speakers

* Poster/Demo session

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

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

* Papers must be submitted electronically via CMT at

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Resnick, University of Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

2010-04-21T09:00:00.000-07:00

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Call for short papers and demos

DIS 2010

The ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Aarhus, Denmark, August 16-20, 2010

Short Papers, Demonstrations, and Doctoral Consortium

Deadline: May 1, 2010

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

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

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

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

CFP: 2nd DESIRE summer school on Creative Design

2010-04-21T08:57:00.001-07:00

International Summer School

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

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

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

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

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

Applications

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

Application Deadline: 3 May 2010

Key note speakers

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

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

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

CFP: Workshop on Exploring Collaboration with Shareable Interfaces

2010-04-13T10:51:00.001-07:00

WORKSHOP ON EXPLORING COLLABORATION WITH SHAREABLE INTERFACES

16th and 17th of September 2010

– Call for participation: deadline 28th May 2010 –

This 2-day workshop at the University of Sussex aims to bring together researchers from across disciplines who are analyzing interaction, talk and gesture, involved in the development of collaboration. It will focus on how shareable interfaces can both support and help us understand processes of collaboration associated with typical and atypical development. It follows from the highly successful workshops on shareable interfaces held in 2008 at the University of Sussex (http://www.shareitproject.org/25) and 2007 at the Open University (http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pm5923/si2007/index.html).

Shareable interfaces are designed to support co-located collaboration. They include technologies such as interactive multi-touch walls and tables, tangibles, single display groupware and multiple personal devices used to interact with a shared representation. These technical innovations provide both opportunities and challenges to educators and designers who aim to build systems to better support co-located collaborative learning. On the one hand, these technologies would intuitively seem to support collaborative activity better than the single user PC or the one-to-many whiteboard presentation. For example, tabletop interfaces might encourage equity of participation and be less restrictive of embodied aspects of collaboration such as gesturing and establishing joint visual attention than a keyboard and mouse interface. Carpet sensors, gesture recognition and large wall-mounted displays may support broad channels of communication. On the other hand, shared interfaces can dissipate joint attention, with each person engaged in their own action, or can require negotiation of turn-taking rules that draws effort away from the task in hand. Since the ShareIT project began, there is more research and better understanding of design guidelines to suggest how new technologies might best be used to support collaboration. In addition, a little-explored aspect of shareable interfaces is that they show us forms of interaction we may not have seen before, as users negotiate shared use in a new environment, with different tools at their disposal. In particular, children are growing up in a world populated by such tools as they develop abilities required for collaboration such as self-regulation, joint attention, turn-taking and coordination of social interaction with peers. How do these new tools for collaboration illuminate developmental processes and how might they be used to support these processes?

This workshop, sponsored by the ShareIT project (www.shareitproject.org), will draw together researchers using a range of analytic techniques, whether or not in the sphere of new technology, to illustrate productive ways of bringing out the possible benefits of shareable interfaces. Workshop themes will include:

- analysis of conversation in collaborative working using shareable interfaces, and how such conversation might support learning and conceptual change

- the role of gesture and the body in supporting collaboration, e.g. simulation, analysis of gestures that support mutual knowledge, methods of assessing gesture and its importance

- planning and coordination of joint activity, turn-taking and reciprocity, perspective taking, speaking and listening skills

- the role of shareable interface technology in illuminating and supporting coordination of joint action in typical and atypical development e.g. autism

- developmental prerequisites for joint action and collaboration and the use of shareable interfaces to understand and support these

The workshop will feature 3 invited talks and several activity sessions to ground discussion and provide a shared focus. The invited speakers will be:

- Andy Tolmie: Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University of London (http://www.ioe.ac.uk/study/PHDT_80.html)

- Claire O'Malley: Learning Sciences Research Institute, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham (http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/Claire.O'Malley/)

- and one other to be announced

In addition, it will be associated with two future publications:

- A CSCL flash issue on supporting and illuminating co-located collaboration and conversation with technology

- A Special issue of BJEP on new directions in conversation and collaborative learning.

SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION

Please email a 1 page document including your name, affiliation, research keywords, summary of your work in relation to the themes of the workshop, and short statement of what you hope to get out of the workshop to r.m.m.fleck@sussex.ac.uk A template can be downloaded here: http://shareitproject.org/uploads/24/ShareIT%20workshop%20Application.doc In order to facilitate coherent discussion participation will be based on accepted submissions only.

Participation is free and will be funded by the ShareIT project. Lunch and refreshments during the workshop will be provided. There will be charge of around £30 for the conference dinner to be paid in cash on arrival at the workshop. Some financial assistance may be available to PhD students to enable participation.

LOCATION

University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

TIME AND DATE

10am 16th – 4pm 17th September 2010.

ORGANISERS

Rowanne Fleck and Nicola Yuill (Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK: r.m.m.fleck, nicolay@sussex.ac.uk)

Paul Marshall, Jochen Rick and Yvonne Rogers (Pervasive Interaction lab, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK: p.marshall, j.rick, y.rogers@open.ac.u

ANN: CHI 2010 SIG : Best Practices in Longitudinal Research

2010-04-06T13:27:00.000-07:00

CHI 2010 SIG : Best Practices in Longitudinal Research

When: Tue, 13 April 2010 @ 9:00 to 10:30am
Where: Room: Chicago ABC

Abstract:
This SIG will help to identify best practices for longitudinal research
through a collaborative discussion of methods and metrics for collecting and
analyzing user data over time. This is the fifth event in an ongoing effort
by the facilitators to enhance our current body of knowledge about
longitudinal research.

Introduction:
As user experience issues become more central to HCI, the value of
longitudinal research—collecting user data over time—is increasingly
recognized. Design researchers understand the importance of observing
extended use of products and systems, and seek to improve methodology and
develop best practices for longitudinal research.

Traditional user research and evaluation methods tend to focus on
'first-time' experiences with products, which trends the results more
towards discoverability or learnability problems, rather than usability
concerns that may persist over time. This SIG seeks to extend current
thinking by providing a forum for discussion of methods and metrics that
have proven effective for longitudinal data collection.

Goals of the SIG:
The goal of this SIG is to help participants gain a better understanding of
the longitudinal user experience research taking place in both industry and
academia. The desired SIG outcomes are:
• Collaborative discussion of key issues, both appropriate methodology and
research questions that lend themselves to longitudinal study
• Sharing and capturing detailed experiences of longitudinal research to
fulfill the immediate need for use cases
• Publishing in the longitudinal research wiki the information supplied by
participants

Questions to be Addressed:
- What are the methods for longitudinal research?
- What are the risks associated with longitudinal research?
- What research questions can longitudinal studies can help answer?
- What techniques/tools can I use for comparative data analysis?
- Is iterative design/testing considered longitudinal?

We look forward to meeting researchers and practitioners with shared
interests in Atlanta. Please contact one of the organizers if you want to
propose discussion points or find out more about this SIG.

Jhilmil Jain, HP Labs (jhilmil.jain@hp.com)
Stephanie Rosenbaum, Tec-Ed (stephanie@teced.com)
Catherine Courage, Citrix Systems (catherine.courage@gmail.com)

Visit http://longitudinalusability.wikispaces.com/ for more details

ANN: ISCRAM2010 PLENARIES ANNOUNCED

2010-04-02T14:37:00.000-07:00

As many of you know, ISCRAM has the tradition of launching each
conference day

with a plenary session that sets a powerful tone for the sessions and
activities that follow. We are pleased to announce our 2010 plenary sessions:

1. An NGO-led Plenary on Haiti led by George Fenton, Associate Director,
Humanitarian Logistics at World Vision Internaitonal and Chairman of
Humanitarian Logistics Association. This session will cover (a) early stages
of assessment among the chaos, (b) challenges of communication and
coordination, and (c) recovery and resilience issues.

2. A session on next generation precision information environments for crisis
management decision-making by Dr. Joseph Kielman, Science Advisor, Science and
Technology Directorate (S&T) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS). Dr. Kielman is Chief Scientist and Lead for Basic/Futures Research in
the DHS Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID)

3. A session on visualization and geo-collaboration by Alan M. MacEachren,
Ph.D., Professor of Geography, Affiliate Professor of Information Sciences and
Technology, and Director of the GeoVISTA Center at the Pennsylvania State
University. Dr. MacEachren's focus includes geographic visualization,
geo-collaboration, visual analytics, interfaces to geospatial information
technologies, spatial cognition, human-centered systems, and user-centered
design

Please go to our recently updated website at www.iscram.org/iscram2010 for
more information and other news such as our banquet speaker and a draft list
of reviewed papers. The full program will be posted soon.

We have over 120 registrants already and are looking forward to seeing you all
in Seattle for an exciting international event.

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

2010-03-30T10:18:00.000-07:00

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
-------------------
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
---------------
- 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
-----------------------
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
-----------
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
----------
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

2010-03-30T09:59:00.001-07:00

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

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2010-03-28T15:44:00.001-07:00

CFP: ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010)

2010-03-26T16:59:00.001-07:00

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

ANN: Webcentives Workshop Call - COOP 2010

2010-03-24T11:40:00.001-07:00

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
*
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
*
international institute for socio-informatics (iisi)
markus.rohde@iisi.de *www.iisi.de

CFP: ServDes.2010

2010-03-22T08:58:00.000-07:00

> 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

2010-03-22T08:54:00.000-07:00

> 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.
>

ANN: ISCRAM at EMForum Mar 24

2010-03-21T11:25:00.000-07:00

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).

CFP: HCI-special issue Designing for Personal Memories

2010-03-18T04:13:00.001-07:00

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

2010-03-18T04:13:00.000-07:00

Call For Papers

---------------

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

---
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
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- 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)

2010-03-18T04:12:00.000-07:00

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

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)

2010-03-18T04:08:00.000-07:00

####################### 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)

2010-03-18T04:07:00.000-07:00

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

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

2010-03-18T04:05:00.000-07:00

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)

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

2010-03-16T11:29:00.001-07:00

[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

2010-03-16T11:27:00.001-07:00

********************* 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.

ANN: S-Match Open Source, the first release

2010-03-15T03:42:00.000-07:00

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S-Match Open Source Released
===============================================================

ANNOUNCING S-Match Open Source, the first release.

About S-Match
--------------
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
---------
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:
http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_keepsake.php?group_id=288592

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

2010-03-15T03:31:00.000-07:00

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/

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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

regards
mtesc chair

CFP: Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration Support (@ UMAP2010)

2010-03-14T03:23:00.001-07:00

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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.

-------------------------------------------------------------

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
---------------

- 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
-------------------

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
----------

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/

----------

[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/

CFP: Social Networks Security and Privacy Workshop at Oakland 20th may

2010-03-14T03:20:00.001-07:00

Social Networks Security and Privacy'10 Call for paper

=======================================
[http://snsp.socialnetconf.com]

The goal of this one day workshop, held in conjuction with Security and
Privacy 2010,
is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and
industry to focus
on understanding social network security and privacy issues, and
establishing new
collaborations in these areas.

Online social networks such as Facebook are among the most popular sites on
the Web
and continue to grow rapidly. They provide mechanisms to establish
identities, share
information, and create relationships. The resulting social graph provides a
basis for
communicating and distributing and locating content.

Even if social networks are now widely used , their security and privacy
remain challenging
because of the tension between sharing information and ensuring privacy.
This workshop is
intended to discuss the current security and privacy issues of social
network and explore new
ways to address them.

Scope
=-=-=-=

The scope of SNSP 2010 includes, but is not limited to :

- User Privacy
- Anonymity and identity
- Account security
- Spam
- User authentication and verification
- Information flow security
- User and platform trust issues
- Malware and botnets
- Scams
- Reputation
- Social engineering
- Phishing

For papers that focus on web security including browser and mashup security,
we encourage authors
to submit their paper to our twin workshop W2SP (http://w2spconf.com/2010/).
Submitted papers
may be referred to the W2SP program committee for consideration.

Important Dates
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 (11:59pm US-Eastern)
Workshop acceptance notification date: April 11, 2010
Workshop date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Workshop url: http://snsp.socialnetconf.com

CFP: Participatory Design Conference - PDC2010

2010-03-14T03:11:00.001-07:00

The 11th Participatory Design Conference. PDC 2010.

November 29 - December 3, 2010.
Sydney, Australia.
www.pdc2010.org

May 3 is the final submission date for research papers and proposals for
workshops and tutorials.

All other submissions are due on August 3.

A full call for participation and all submission details are available
from the conference website www.pdc2010.org.

Research papers: (full paper – maximum 10 pages) Research papers should
report on completed research which furthers topics in Participatory
Design. Research papers will be published in the ACM International
Conference series. High academic standards will be expected. Each
submitted paper will be double blind reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.
Accepted papers should be revised according to the review reports and the
language should be checked by a native English speaker.

Interactive workshops: (2 page proposal) Half and full day sessions on
topics that include methods, practices, and other areas of interest and
that support an interactive format where active participation beyond
presentation is solicited. The proposal must justify the need for the
workshop and should contain a title, goals, technique, relevance to
Participatory Design and a schedule. Intended participants and how they
will be recruited should also be described.

Tutorials: (2 page proposal) Half and full day sessions for teaching
conceptual frameworks, methods/techniques, and novel approaches. The
proposal should contain a title, goals, technique, relevance to
Participatory Design and a schedule. Please describe any handouts that you
intend to make available in the proposal.

Toni Robertson
Conference Chair, PDC 2010

CFP: SPeL 2010 (3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities)

2010-03-08T09:23:00.001-08:00

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* 3rd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing
* for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2010)
* http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/
*
* in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Database and
* Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'10)
* http://www.dexa.org/
*
* Bilbao, Spain
* University of Deusto
* 30 August - 3 September 2010
***************************************************************************

Motivation
==========

The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2008/) and SPeL 2009
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2009/) workshops held in
conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference
(http://www.icta.ufl.edu/saint08/) and WI/IAT 2009 conference
(http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/) respectively. The general topic of
the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported
learning communities. This year, the workshop focuses on social and
intelligent systems in education, with particular interest on aspects
related to data, information, and knowledge within such systems.

Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems
to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social
software (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, and media-sharing services) is
increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel
learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet,
learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in
constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized
instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically
adapt to their individual needs.

Social learning is based on creating and sharing information and knowledge
within the learning community and personalized learning can only take
place if enough data about learners (e.g., their behavior, actions,
characteristics, and so on) have been gathered and correctly analyzed and
interpreted. For both social and personalized learning, the role of data,
information, and knowledge is essential. In this context, the workshop
addresses the challenges of social and personal computing in Web-supported
learning communities focusing on aspects related to acquiring and managing
data, information, and knowledge. Its aim is to provide a forum for
discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research
about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of
intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn together in a
personalized way through social interaction with other learners.

Topics of interest
==================

The workshop topics cover all aspects of intelligent systems in
e-learning, particularly related to issues about data, information, and
knowledge in social and personalized learning, including (but not limited
to):
- Ontologies and semantic Web for e-learning
- Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
- Knowledge management in e-learning systems
- Educational data mining
- Student data privacy and security
- Interoperability issues
- Intelligent learner and group modeling
- Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
- Social information retrieval
- Semantic social networks
- Knowledge community formation and support
- Web 2.0 and social computing for learning
- Virtual spaces for learning communities
- Web supported ubiquitous learning
- Web services in e-learning
- Mobile e-learning applications
- Adaptive and personalized learning environments
- Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
- Cognitive aspects in intelligent web-based learning systems
- Web-based cooperative learning
- Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
- Pervasive e-learning scenarios
- Lifelong learning networks
- Social software for collaborative learning
- Socially intelligent agents
- Community discovering in social learning systems
- Social structure exploitation in e-learning
- Socially-inspired e-learning systems

Paper submission and publication
=================================

The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press (indexed by IEEE Xplore, EI, INSPEC, DBLP).

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 5 pages, IEEE-CS
format. Please follow the instructions on the DEXA 2010 website
(http://www.dexa.org/node/12), where you can find the Manuscript
Formatting Guidelines.

Important dates
===============

March 20, 2010 Workshop paper submission
April 20, 2010 Workshop paper notification
May 17, 2010 Camera ready paper
30 Aug. - 3 Sept. 2010 SPeL 2010 workshop (exact date is TBA)

Workshop Chairs
===============

Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada

Program Committee
=================

http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2010/committee.php

CFP: Special Issue of JCSCW: Knowledge Management in Action

2010-03-08T09:22:00.001-08:00

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN ACTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFP: ComposableWeb 2010

2010-02-19T13:23:00.001-08:00

SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LIGHTWEIGHT INTEGRATION ON THE WEB

(COMPOSABLEWEB 2010)

Workshop held in conjunction with ICWE 2010
5-9 July 2010, Vienna, Austria

Workshop website: http://mashart.org/composableweb2010

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
April 21, 2010: Paper submission (23h59 Hawaii Time)
May 21, 2010: Author notification (23h59 Hawaii Time)
June 7, 2010: Camera-ready submission (23h59 Hawaii Time)

WORKSHOP RATIONALE AND AIMS
---------------------------
While the word "mashup" is widely used, it is not really clear what a
mashup is and what it is not. Some applications focus on integrating RSS
feeds, others on integrating RESTful services or SOAP services, others
of Atom feeds, and there are those that focus on integrating user
interfaces. However, we believe mashups - and especially mashup tools
with their models, languages and instruments for mashup development - do
bring innovation, in that they tackle integration at the user interface
level (most mashups do integrate presentation content, not "just" data),
they aim at simplicity more than completeness of features (up to the
point that advanced Web users, not only programmers, can develop
composite applications), and they allow fairly sophisticated development
tasks in the Web browser.

Over the last years, we have seen many efforts invested in research on
mashups, in both the industrial and the academic context, yet we are
still far from a common understanding of the problems that drive the
research, of the approaches that best fit given problems, and even of
the benefits of the results achieved so far.

In light of these considerations, the goal of ComposableWeb is to
stimulate the discussion of key issues, approaches, open problems,
innovative applications, and trends in the area of web mashups and
lightweight composition on the Web, so as to accelerate progress.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
------------------
Areas of particular interest for the Workshop include (but are not
limited to):

- Web/service mashups
- Web composition technologies for data, services, and user interfaces
- Web composition models and languages
- Graphical support for Web composition/mashups
- Lightweight data integration
- Lightweight application integration
- Lightweight UI integration (integration at the presentation level)
- Lightweight (semantic) (meta)data or knowledge integration
- Design methodologies with/without user involvement
- New development models
- User interface aspects of Web composition
- Context-aware and personalized Web composition/mashups
- Usability and Accessibility of composite Web applications
- Evaluation/quality of composite Web applications
- Case studies and industrial experiences

TARGET AUDIENCE
---------------
ComposableWeb aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
with different research interests and belonging to communities like Web
Engineering, Service Engineering, Business Process Management,
Databases, Semantic Web, Software Composition, and Software Engineering.

PAPER SUBMISSION
----------------
Authors are invited to submit full research papers (page limit: 12
pages) or short demo papers (page limit: 3 pages). In addition to the
traditional paper presentation sessions, there will be a session
dedicated to the demos.

Papers are submitted using the Easychair conference management system,
at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=composableweb10. All
papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format.
Submitted papers may not overlap with papers that have already been
published, or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference
or workshop.

PROCEEDINGS
-----------
Accepted papers will be made available on the workshop Web site ahead of
the workshop and as official Springer LNCS post-proceedings after the
workshop. For a paper to be published, at least one of its authors must
register for the main conference and participate in the workshop.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
--------------------
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands

STEERING COMMITTEE
------------------
Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------
- Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy
- Francisco Curbera, IBM Research, USA
- Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK
- Frank Leymann, University Stuttgart, Germany
- Michael Mrissa, University of Lyon, France
- John Musser, ProgrammableWeb.com, USA
- Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Florian Rosenberg, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
- Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
- Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada

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Florian Daniel
University of Trento
Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione
Via Sommarive 14, I-38100 POVO (TN), Italy
email: daniel@disi.unitn.it
phone: +39 0461 883780
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CFP: workshop on designing for crowds @ Pervasive 2010

2010-02-17T10:06:00.001-08:00

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: WORKSHOP ON DESIGNING FOR CROWDS @ PERVASIVE 2010

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stuartr/pages/crowds_workshop.html

Helsinki, Finland, May 17th, 2010

http://www.pervasive2010.org
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

As part of the growing ubiquity and pervasive reach of technology, there
has
been an expanding interest in how interaction with technology in public and
semi-public places plays out. Crowds and crowded places are a major
feature of
these settings. In this workshop we will be interested in:

o Developing our understanding of crowds

o Exploring how existing technologies (e.g., mobile phones, interactive
screens, digital photos and video) are woven into crowd practices

o Discussing the ways in which emerging pervasive technologies can be
designed to fit or perturb crowd phenomena.

The workshop format will be that of a *data session* where *participants
bring
their own data of technology-in-action at crowd events* (e.g., video
recordings
of crowd activity, other ethnographic collections) which can then be
explored
and analysed collectively by the group.

Through exploring diverse crowd settings and exhibits of
technology-in-action,
we aim to compare and contrast different crowd formations. These
observations
will be used to ground discussions on how to develop design frameworks or
recommendations in order to contribute to HCI. We will also aim to produce
documented outcomes from the workshop such as the potential for a journal
special issue, or perhaps collectively authored journal or conference
papers
based upon the analysis during the workshop.

SUBMISSION

Participants should submit a *short position paper* (1-2 pages)
outlining their
interests with respect to understanding crowd behaviours, the use of
current
technologies in shaping crowd practices and new applications that are
designed
to fit or perturb crowd phenomena.

We would also encourage participants to contribute to the data session by
*bringing along and presenting their own data at the workshop*. We would
request they submit relevant sections of their data in some form, such as
*documents providing brief outlines of ongoing analysis, short video
clips, and
so on*. We would also share these submissions between participants
before the
workshop.

Submissions (or any further questions!) may be emailed to
stuartr@dcs.gla.ac.uk
(Stuart Reeves).

IMPORTANT DATES

March 1, 2010: Submission of data contribution outline / brief position
paper
May 1, 2010: Participant notification
May 17, 2010: Workshop in Helsinki, Finland

CFP: ACM IHI 2010

2010-02-17T09:45:00.001-08:00

Please find attached below the call for papers for ACM First International

Conference on Health Informatics, IHI 2010. Apologies for multiple
postings.

Best Regards

Deepak Turaga

CALL FOR PAPERS, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1st ACM International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI)

IHI 2010
November 11-12, 2010
Washington, DC
http://ihi2010.sighi.org

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
------------------------
We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 2010 ACM
International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI 2010).

IHI 2010 is ACM's premier community forum concerned with the application
of computer and information science principles and information and
communication technology to problems in healthcare, public health, the
delivery of healthcare services and consumer health as well as the related
social and ethical issues.

For technical contributions, IHI 2010 is primarily interested in
end-to-end applications, systems, and technologies, even if available only
in prototype form. Therefore, we strongly encourage authors to submit
their original contributions describing their algorithmic and
methodological contributions providing an application-oriented context.
For social/behavioral scientific contributions, we are interested in
empirical studies of health-related information needs, seeking, sharing
and use, as well as socio-technical studies of heath information
technology implementation and use. Topics of interest for this conference
cover various aspects of health informatics, including but not limited to
the following:
- Accessibility and Web-enabled technologies
- Analytics applied to direct and remote clinical care
- Assistive and adaptive ubiquitous computing technologies
- Biosurveillance
- Brain computer interface
- Cleaning, preprocessing, and ensuring quality and integrity of
medical records
- Computational support for patient-centered and evidence-based care
- Consumer health and wellness informatics applications
- Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing
and use
- Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies
- Data management, privacy, security, and confidentiality
- Display and visualization of medical data
- E-communities and networks for patients and consumers
- E-healthcare infrastructure design
- E-learning for spreading health informatics awareness
- Engineering of medical data
- Health information system framework and enterprise architecture in
the developing world
- Human-centered design of health informatics systems
- Information retrieval for health applications
- Information technologies for the management of patient safety and
clinical outcomes
- Innovative applications in electronic health records (e.g.,
ontology or semantic technology, using continuous biomedical signals to
trigger alerts)
- Intelligent medical devices and sensors
- Issues involving interoperability and data representation in
healthcare delivery
- Keyword and multifaceted search over structured electronic health
records
- Knowledge discovery for improving patient-provider communication
- Large-scale longitudinal mining of medical records
- Medical compliance automation for patients and institutions
- Medical recommender system (e.g., medical products, fitness
programs)
- Multimodal medical signal analysis
- Natural language processing for biomedical literature, clinical
notes, and health consumer texts
- Novel health information systems for chronic disease management
- Optimization models for planning and recommending therapies
- Personalized predictive modeling for clinical management (e.g.,
trauma, diabetes mellitus, sleep disorders, substance abuse)
- Physiological modeling
- Semantic Web, linked data, ontology, and healthcare
- Sensor networks and systems for pervasive healthcare
- Social studies of health information technologies
- Survival analysis and related methods for estimating hazard
functions
- System software for complex clinical studies that involve
combinations of clinical, genetic, genomic, imaging, and pathology data
- Systems for cognitive and decision support
- Technologies for capturing and documenting clinical encounter
information in electronic systems
- User-interface design issues applied to medical devices and
systems

Each contribution will be carefully evaluated by a set of reviewers,
including experts with multidisciplinary experience spanning computing,
information science, social and behavioral sciences, public health,
medicine, and nursing as appropriate, to ensure that proper and
comprehensive peer-review analysis and feedback can be provided to
authors. Submissions will be judged on validity, originality, technical
strength, practical and clinical significance, quality of presentation,
and relevance to the conference topics.

Because of IHI's multidisciplinary nature, the review process will include
at least a computing expert and a medical expert as well as a review
editor to reconcile the evaluation, making a single recommendation to the
Program Committee Co-Chairs. This process is designed to ensure that
experts from multiple areas can assess the importance and validity of the
work. Therefore, we encourage coherent, application-driven submissions
where in-depth ideas from a variety of fields are presented about
important problems in health informatics.

The conference will accept both regular and short papers. Regular papers
(6-10 pages in length) will describe more mature ideas, where a
substantial amount of implementation, experimentation, or data collection
and analysis will be described. Short papers (1-5 pages) can be less
formal and will describe innovative ideas where minimal validation and
implementation have occurred and can be described. All papers will appear
in the ACM Digital Library. The best papers of IHI 2010 will be considered
for a special issue of Springer's Journal of Medical Systems.

Submitted papers must not have appeared in, or be under consideration for,
another conference, workshop, journal, or other target of publication.

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled
electronically. Submissions must adhere to the following formatting
instructions:

• Papers must adhere to the ACM Proceedings Format available for
LaTex, WordPerfect, WordPerfect 9, and Word. Changing the template's font
size, margins, inter-column spacing, or line spacing is prohibited. Each
paper must be submitted as a single PDF file, formatted for 8.5" x 11"
paper.

• The length of submission depends on the type of submission:
- Regular papers must be 6-10 pages long.
- Short papers may be at most 5 pages long.

• Each paper must provide an appendix (which is excluded from the
page limit) indicating the preferred review approach, including:
- The preferred allocation of reviewing expertise. This can be done by
electing the primary and secondary focus of the paper (e.g., Computing,
Information Science, Medicine, Nursing, and Social/Behavioral Science).
- A bulleted list with up to 3 topics covered in the paper (from the list
of conference topics presented above)

IMPORTANT DATES
----------------
Abstract submission deadline: May 24, 2010 11:30pm EST
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2010 11:30pm EST
Notification of acceptance: August 2, 2010 11:30pm EST
Camera-ready copy due: August 16, 2010 11:30pm EST

General Chair
Ümit Çatalyürek, Ohio State University (catalyurek.1 at osu dot edu)

Honorary General Chair
Gang Luo, IBM Research (luog at us dot ibm dot com)

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Henrique Andrade, IBM Research (hcma at us dot ibm dot com)
Neil R. Smalheiser, University of Illinois – Chicago (neils at uic dot
edu)

Steering Committee Members
Dorin Comaniciu, Siemens Corporate Research
Michael D. Larsen, George Washington University
Ching-Yung Lin, IBM Research
Chunqiang Tang, IBM Research
YingLi Tian, City College of New York
Olivier Verscheure, IBM Research
Michael Weiner, Indiana University

Honorary Steering Committee members
Marion J. Ball, Johns Hopkins University& IBM Research
David W. Bates, Partners Healthcare System& Harvard Medical School
Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota
Blackford Middleton, Partners Healthcare System& Harvard Medical School
Joel H. Saltz, Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
-------------------------
To be finalized

CFP: UX Magazine Issue 9.4 on Communication

2010-02-16T09:10:00.001-08:00

UX - User Experience Magazine - is looking for authors to contribute stories
linked to 2010?s World Usability Day theme of ?Communication.?

Issue 9.4, (4th Quarter 2010) ? World Usability Day: Communication
Guest Editor: Elizabeth Rosenzweig

Proposals due by May 3, 2010
Articles due July 2, 2010

If you have a story to tell, a case history to report, a new methodology
twist, or a general article on the theory and practice of usability,
consider writing an article to appear in this special issue of UPA?s
flagship magazine. For an issue on communication, the range of topics is
relatively wide. Consider writing about any of the following areas:

? Telcos
? Intra-office issues
? Web 2.0, Facebook, Twitter
? Advertising
? Usability scripts
? Google, searching, etc.
? Info overload and priority-setting
? Crossing cultural boundaries
? Training, tutorials
? Interactivity
? Translations
? Storytelling
? Standards and Style Guides

Or another topic related to communication and usability.

Send your proposal to ux@upassoc.org
For more information and editorial guidelines, please see:
http://upassoc.org/upa_publications/user_experience/editorial/index.html

Susan M. Dray, Ph.D., CUXP
Director of Publications, Usability Professionals' Association
President, Dray & Associates, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN USA
Phone: +1 612 377 1980
Fax: +1 612 377 0363
Mobile: +1 952 463 0505
susan.dray@dray.com
www.dray.com
"If the USER can't use it,
it doesn't work!"?

CFP: Create10 conference :: innovative interaction design in Edinburgh

2010-02-16T09:08:00.001-08:00

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Create10 :: the conference for innovative interaction design

30th June - 2nd July 2010

Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh UK

http://www.create-conference.org/

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The Create10 conference is seeking submissions in the form of full
papers, workshops, short presentations, demonstrations and exhibits.

THEME : : Transitions

Analogue <> Digital

Academic <>Practice

Place <> Time

Real <> Virtual

We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial,
academic, public, government and research sectors. Cases can come from
any paradigm - the web, mobile and hand held, products or consumer
electronics. We would particularly like to encourage submissions from
students. They will be given the opportunity to showcase and discuss
both finished work and work-in-progress in a supportive environment.

The Create conference centres on the discipline of interaction design,
a young disciple with roots in human-computer interaction, ergonomics,
product and graphic design, multi-media and art. An interaction
designer is a difficult person to pigeon hole and can be found in
mobile phone companies, consumer product manufacturers, design
consultancies, as a single practitioner, or within academic computing
and design departments.

We are seeking original, unpublished work under the following
categories:

Full Papers (2 stage submission)

: : High quality academic papers for peer review (max 6 pages)

Other Submissions (single stage)

: : Practical half-day workshops

: : Short papers and/or case studies from practitioners within the
field

: : Short presentations and/or posters from students to be
presented in informal student sessions

: : Demonstrations and/or videos of installation-based exhibits or
creative work in progress

Please note that all successful authors will be expected to pay to
register for the event.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions of :

max 1 page abstracts for papers : 15th March 2010

max 2 page proposals for all other submissions : 31st March 2010

Notification of acceptance : Early April 2010

Full paper submission : End of April 2010

http://www.create-conference.org/calls-for-participation/

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Student Design Competition

In addition to the above call Create10 is organising a unique
competition for students.
Today's art, design and technology students are the people who will be
defining what the interdisciplinary field of interaction design will
become in the near future. Create10 is a conference that celebrates
innovative interaction design, whether digital products, services,
environments or new interaction paradigms.

This competition is aimed at students from a wide range of
disciplines, for example: interaction design, product design,
industrial design, communications design, architecture, fashion,
multimedia, HCI, and related fields. Students, both undergraduate and
postgraduate, can enter for up to a year after completing their studies.

Entries will be assessed by a jury of leading creative design
practitioners and academics: Dr Shaleph O'Neill, Mark Daniels, Anab
Jain, Crispin Jones, Di Mainstone, Christopher Pearson

All selected submissions will be exhibited at the Create10 conference
exhibition in June/July 2010 in Edinburgh, at New Media Scotland's
Inspace. There will be one free conference place available for each
successful entry, as well as access to assistance with travel.

Further details here: http://www.create-conference.org/student-competition/

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http://www.create-conference.org/

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CFP: Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation

2010-02-15T10:09:00.000-08:00

Second call for papers -

Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation
Workshop in conjunction with Pervasive 2010 Helsinki Finland
Monday 17th May 2010
http://www.haptimap.org/events/organized-events/pervasive.html
and twitter as extremenav10

Submission deadline 15th March 2010

Accepted authors may submit extended versions for inclusion in a special issues of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing to appear in 2010.

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Location-based data and services for geographical and navigational information (such as electronic maps and gps directions), are usually presented using visual displays. With the increasing complexity of information, and the variety of contexts of use, it becomes important to consider how other non-visual sensory channels, such as audition and touch, can be used to communicate necessary and timely information to users. Activities such as running, rock-climbing and cycling, are all examples of activities where navigational and geographical information may be needed, but where the visual modality is unsuitable. Additionally, there are a number of user groups such as visually impaired people and the emergency services, who also require non-visual access to geo-data. This workshop will provide a forum for sharing¬† research ideas and findings about new interaction and perceptualization metaphors, novel application contexts, multimodal and context-aware technologies for mobility -- thereby creating a solid foundation for further exploration of pervasive extreme navigation.

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

Sensing and applying user context to navigation and wayfinding
Multimodal techniques to augment visual map displays
Multimodal navigation systems for extreme sports
Multimodal navigation systems for runners
Multimodal systems for rescue workers
Navigation systems for "eyes-busy" activities
Wearable technology and textiles for navigation
Environmental awareness for Disabilities and Visual Impairment.
User requirements capture/user involvement for non visual design

Submission details
-------------------
Submissions of either position papers or demo abstracts covering the topics of the workshop should be submitted by 15 March 2010.

4 page position papers or 2 page demo abstracts should be submitted in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) as camera ready pdf files.

At least one author from each submission is expected to register and attend the workshop.

Accepted authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for inclusion in a special edition of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing to appear in 2010.

Submissions or other queries should be mailed to Charlotte Magnusson (charlotte.magnusson@certec.lth.se) or David McGookin (mcgookdk@dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Organising Committee
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Charlotte Magnusson¬† Lund University
David McGookin University of Glasgow
Margarita Anastassova CEA
Wilko Heuten OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Arantxa Renter Robotiker-Tecnalia
Susanne Boll OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology

This workshop is organized within the HaptiMap project.
http://www.haptimap.org

CFP: SOUPS papers due March 5

2010-02-13T14:53:00.001-08:00

CALL FOR PAPERS -- SOUPS 2010

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

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

TECHNICAL PAPERS

We invite authors to submit original papers describing research or
experience in all areas of usable privacy and security. Topics include,
but are not limited to:

* innovative security or privacy functionality and design,
* new applications of existing models or technology,
* field studies of security or privacy technology,
* usability evaluations of new or existing security or privacy features,
* security testing of new or existing usability features,
* longitudinal studies of deployed security or privacy features,
* the impact of organizational policy or procurement decisions, and
* lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and
security features.

All submissions must relate to both usability and either security or
privacy. Papers on security or privacy applications that do not address
usability or human factors will not be considered.

Papers need to describe the purpose and goals of the work completed
to date, cite related work, show how the work effectively integrates
usability and security or privacy, and clearly indicate the innovative
aspects of the work or lessons learned as well as the contribution of
the work to the field.

Submitted papers must not significantly overlap papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a peer-reviewed
venue or publication. With the exception of publicly available prior
work
that is documented in your related work section, any overlap between
your submitted paper and other work either under submission or
previously published must be documented in a clearly-marked
explanatory note at the front of the paper. State precisely how the two
works differ in their goals, any use of shared experiments or data
sources, and the unique contributions. If the other work is under
submission elsewhere, the program committee may ask to review that
work to evaluate the overlap. Please note that program committees
frequently share information about papers under review and reviewers
usually work on multiple conferences simultaneously. As technical
reports are not peer reviewed they are exempt from this rule. You may
also release pre-prints of your accepted work to the public at the time
of your discretion.

Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the
ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. The technical papers
committee will select an accepted paper to receive the SOUPS 2010
best paper award.

New this year, authors have the option to attach to their paper
supplemental appendices containing study materials (e.g. surveys) that
would not otherwise fit within the body of the paper. These appendices
may be included to assist reviewers who may have questions that fall
outside the stated contribution of your paper, on which your work is to
be evaluated. The body of your paper must still be self contained and
provide sufficient detail to elucidate your study methodology and
results,
as reviewers are neither required nor expected to read supplemental
appendices. Accepted papers will be published online with their
supplemental appendices included.

Papers must use the SOUPS formatting template (available for MS Word
or LaTeX) and be up to 12 pages in length, exclusive of the bibliography
and any supplemental appendices described above. Submissions must
be no more than 20 pages including bibliography and appendices. If
your supplemental materials exceed this page limit, you may upload a
separate external appendix file with these materials. The external
appendix file need not conform to the SOUPS formatting template. In
that case, make sure you mention the external appendix in the body of
your paper and describe its contents. For the body of your paper,
brevity
is appreciated, as evidenced by the fact that many papers in prior years
have been well under this limit. All submissions must be in PDF format
and should not be blinded. In addition, you must cut and paste an
abstract of no more than 300 words onto the submission form.

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

Technical paper submissions will close at 5 PM, US Pacific time, the
evening of Friday, March 5. This is a hard deadline! Authors will
be notified of technical paper acceptance by April 30, and camera
ready final versions of technical papers are due June 12.

Authors are encouraged to review: Common Pitfalls in Writing about
Security and Privacy Human Subjects Experiments, and How to Avoid
Them.
https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2010/howtosoups.pdf

General Chair:
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussion Session Chair:
Heather Lipford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Invited Talks and Panels Chair:
Cynthia Kuo, Nokia Research Center Palo Alto / Carnegie Mellon Silicon
Valley

Local Activities Chair:
Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Research

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

Technical Papers Co-Chairs:
Andrew Patrick, Carleton University
Stuart Schechter, Microsoft Research

Tutorials and Workshops Chair:
Kirstie Hawkey, University of British Columbia

Technical Papers Committee
Ross Anderson, Cambridge
Alessandro Acquisti, CMU Heinz College
Steven Bellovin, Columbia University
Robert Biddle, Carleton University
Jose Brustoloni
Bill Cheswick, AT&T Research
Rachna Dhamija, Usable Security Systems
Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project
Serge Egelman, Brown University
Carl Ellison, Microsoft
Simson L. Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School
Harry Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh
Markus Jakobsson, PARC
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), IIIT Delhi, India
Linda Little, Northumbria University, UK
Andy Ozment, US Office of the Secretary of Defense
Rob Reeder, Microsoft
Karen Renaud, University of Glasgow
Angela Sasse, University College London
Diana Smetters, PARC
Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University
Hao-Chi Wong, Intel
Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM

CFP: M4D 2010 - 2nd Int. Conf. on Mobile Communication Technology for Development

2010-02-12T16:03:00.001-08:00

The 2nd International Conference on M4D:

Mobile Communication Technology for Development

M4D 2010

M4D 2010 is the second international conference in M4D following the
inaugural conference in Karlstad, Sweden in 2008 ( <http://m4d.humanit.org/>
http://m4d.humanit.org/) and M4D in East-Africa 2008 (
<http://m4d.kcl.co.ug/> http://m4d.kcl.co.ug/).

The conference will be located in Kampala, Uganda in early November 2010.

M4D2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those
with interests in the use of Mobile Communication Technology for
Development.

M4D2010 will combine two days of plenary peer-reviewed paper sessions, with
two days of workshops, panel sessions, discussion forums, and demos.

M4D2010 will be one of the most exciting m4d events of 2010!

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 1 July 2010

Acceptance note: 31 August 2010

Final papers due: 30 September 2010

More information will follow shortly.

Gudrun Wicander

Conference Coordinator

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Gudrun.wicander@kau.se

Centre for HumanIT

<http://www.humanit.org/> http://www.humanit.org

Karlstad University, Sweden

<http://www.kau.se/> www.kau.se

ANN: New Demo Options at ISCRAM 2010

2010-02-10T13:25:00.000-08:00

ISCRAM 2010

7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and
Management
http://www.iscram.org/iscram2010

May 2-5
Seattle WA USA

 We are pleased to announce that there will be two options for demos at the conference this year:  1. As in the past, there will be a concurrent demo/lunch session at which authors can show software associated with their papers.  This will be a common space for only that lunch time and is free of charge for presenters.  If you are interested in giving a demo during this lunch session, be sure the demo box is checked on your conftool submission and I will contact you.  2.  This year we are planning a dedicated demo exhibit area that will serve as an opportunity for vendors or others who wish to have an ongoing exhibition for a majority of the conference period.  There will be breakouts and refreshment breaks in the dedicated demo exhibit area, and this will be a great opportunity to mingle and gain exposure for your work. Vendor demos will cost $1,250, and include a registration, a banquet ticket, and demo space with power/internet connection.  Reduced pricing for nonprofits and universities is available.  Please contact demo chair Carrie Garrison-Laney at iscram2010@iscram.org for more information.  Looking forward to a great meeting this year!  Carolyn E Garrison-Laney, Demo Chair

[Fwd: Workshop EUD4Services]

2010-02-09T10:56:00.001-08:00

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop "EUD4Services"
May 25, 2010 -- Rome, Italy -- In conjunction with AVI 2010
www.eud4services.org <http://www.eud4services.org>
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** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement **
** Please pass this CfP to interested colleagues **

EUD4Services:
Workshop on End-User Development of Software Services and
Applications

End-User Development (EUD) has traditionally been focusing on
non-programmers tailoring or even creating software artifacts, often in
organisational context. EUD research covers methods, techniques, and
tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as
non-professional software developers, at some point to create, modify or
extend a software artifact.

Some of the more traditional examples of successful EUD concepts include
spreadsheet and word processing macros and the specification of email
filters by means of rules. Some recent developments have renewed
interest in EUD research and applications. For example, Web 2.0 and the
Semantic Web enable users to be contributors rather than just consumers
of information on the WWW. EUD-style applications can now move beyond
the corporate context and into the consumer domain, where mass
customization and personalization are now possible.

Some "best practice" examples of applying mass customization and
personalization with healthy business models have drawn again attention
to EUD. This trend is now moving from content and personalization to
functionality in the direction of user-generated web services. For
example Facebook users can share and develop applications as well as
content, and Yahoo!Pipes allows users to customize and develop fairly
sophisticated information processing applications using visual pipes and
filters.

This renewed interest is also evidenced by the increasing number of
large-scale projects focusing on these recent trends, for example
SOA4All, MyMobileWeb, FAST, EzWeb, ServFace. However, these come from
technology perspective, and the interactions between these and the
community of EUD researchers are very accidental. The proposed workshop
is trying to remedy this and create a regular forum for discussion and
fruitful cross-fertilisation of ideas between the communities underlying
these two aspects: software services, human-computer interaction,
software engineering, artificial intelligence, computer-supported
cooperative work and innovation management. Contributions from these
types of professionals are welcome to the workshop, which will integrate
dissemination of cutting-edge research results with trend-setting
discussions.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

* Empirical studies of EUD practices, especially those focused on
service development and composition.
* Service Interfaces and Interaction technologies for EUD
* Metaphors for software and service modularisation
* Requirements for EUD in service context
* Service System Architectures for EUD
* EUD as part of software infrastructuring
* EUD for specific types of devices
* EUD in specific fields of application
* EUD for user groups with specific needs
* Education concepts to foster EUD for services
* Business models of EUD for services

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
The workshop will last one day. The first part of the workshop will be
dedicated to presentations of ongoing research contributed by
participants; the second part will provide time for group discussions
and activities on relevant issues raised by the presentations. In order
to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit papers
reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the
workshop's theme.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines used for the
papers of the main conference. They have to be in PDF format and no
longer than 3 pages, with an abstract of up to 200 words.
Abstracts of accepted papers will be included in a paper describing the
workshop, published in the AVI conference proceedings by ACM.
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for a special issue
of a journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: 28th February 2010
Acceptance notification: 15th March 2010

ORGANIZERS
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
Piero Mussio, University of Milan, Italy

For any further information please visit the website:
www.eud4services.org <http://www.eud4services.org>

or contact the scientific secretariat at workshop@eud4services.org
<mailto:workshop@eud4services.org>

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Barbara Rita Barricelli
Ph.D. student
Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione (DICo)
Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Personal Homepage: http://barricelli.dico.unimi.it

CFP: International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces held in Conjunction with AVI 2010

2010-02-09T10:49:00.001-08:00

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces
(PPD10)
http://www.hitlab.utas.edu.au/wiki/PPD10

25 May 2010, Rome, Italy

held in Conjunction with
AVI 2010, the 10th International Working
Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~avi2010/

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Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: Mar 19, 2010
Notification of acceptance: Mar 30, 2010
Camera ready version: Apr 10, 2010
Workshop: May 25, 2010
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Recent developments have seen the wide spread proliferation of both large
shared displays and small display technologies. In parallel we have seen
the emergence of new classes of device which support both touch or multi
touch interaction. Examples of small touch driven devices include PDAs,
iPads, Tablets and iPhones and examples of large interactive surfaces
(multi-touch driven displays) include the MERL Diamondtouch and Microsoft
Surface.
Interactive surfaces offer great potential for face-to-face work and social
interaction and provide natural ways to directly manipulate virtual objects
whereas small devices afford the individual a personal workspace or â€œscratch
spaceâ€� to formulate ideas before bringing them to a wider audience.

Advanced visual interfaces can be built around a combination of both private
and public display systems. Such computer mediated multi-device interaction
between local touch-driven displays and shared public ones presents a number
of novel and challenging research problems.
This workshop will specifically focus on the research challenges in designing
visual interfaces for multiple display ecosystems such as the combination of
small touch driven private input displays eg. (a set of iPhones) coupled
with large public displays such as information kiosks, digital notice
boards, Diamondtouch or Microsoft Surface.

Based on the submissions received, these topics will be refined
into 3 or 4 specific themes for group work and discussion at the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Developing evaluation strategies to cope with the complex nature of
multi-display environments
* Ethnography and user studies of visual interfaces relying on coupled
displays
* Understanding the design space and identifying factors that influence
user interactions in this space
* The impact of social conventions on the design of suitable interaction
techniques for shared and private displays
* Exploring interaction techniques that facilitate multi-display
interfaces
* Novel interaction techniques for both private and public multi-touch
devices as part of multi-display environments
* Techniques for supporting input re-direction and distributing
information between displays
* SDK/APIs and IDEs for the development of coupled display visual
interfaces.

We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners working in
the area of multi-display environments and interactive surfaces coupled
with private displays. Interested attendees should submit a short
position paper of less than 4 pages according to the format detailed
on our website. Based on a international peer review of the position
papers about 10 to 15 participants will be invited to attend the workshop.

Submission Instructions:
Submissions should be prepared according to the ACM proceedings
template format which are linked from our website. The maximum
number of pages allotted for each workshop position paper is 4
pages. All submissions must be emailed by March 19, 2010, 11:59 pm
PST to ppd10@hitlab.utas.edu.au

International Program Committee:
Antonio KrÃ¼ger, Saarland University, Germany
Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Christian Kray, University of Newcastle, UK
Corina Sas, Lancaster University, UK
Daniel Widgor, Microsoft, USA
Dima Aliakseyeu, Philips Research Labs, The Netherlands
FrÃ©dÃ©ric Vernier, Uni. Paris Sud, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Ins. for Information Tech., Finland
Kenton O'Hara, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Kevin McCarthy, CLARITY, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland
Miguel Nacenta, University of Calgary, Canada
Umer Rashid, Human Interface Technology Lab, Australia
Ravin Balakrishnan , University of Toronto, Canada
Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia
Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada
Workshop Organisers
Alan Dix is Professor of Computing at Lancaster University
and has worked for 25 years in many areas of Human-Computer Interaction.

Aaron Quigley is Director of the Human Interface Technology
Laboratory Australia and an Associate Professor at the University
of Tasmania.

Sriram Subramanian is a Senior Lecturer at the University of
Bristol and a visiting staff member at the human-interface
engineering lab at the University of Osaka.

Lucia Terrenghi is an interaction designer and researcher
at Vodafone R&D in Munich.

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Dr. Sriram Subramanian
Senior Lecturer sriram@cs.bris.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science Tel: (44 or 0)117-3315235
University of Bristol FAX: (44 or 0)117-9545208
Woodland Road, BS8 1UB UK
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