GRA: DHS Scientific Leadership Awards for Minority Serving Institutions Granting Bachelor Degrees

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=47313

Funding Opportunity Number:	DHS-09-ST-062-002
Opportunity Category:	Continuation
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jun 25, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
Category of Funding Activity:	Education
Expected Number of Awards:	10
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$3,800,000
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):	97.062 -- Scholars and Fellows
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Eligible Applicants

Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

Additional Information on Eligibility:

Agency Name

Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division

Description

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Scientific Leadership Awards (SLA)support the development of a coordinated program of education in Homeland Security relatedScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (HS-STEM) to preparestudents for careers in research and development of the technology needed to secureour nation. Moreover, DHS S&T strongly supports the development of a workforce thatreflects the population of the United States of America. The DHS Science andTechnology (S&T) Directorate, Office of University Programs solicits applications fromeligible Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) granting bachelor degrees to support earlycareer faculty and to establish homeland security–related scientific leadership programsin areas critical to homeland security.

ANN: Issue 3, Volume 4 of the Journal of Usability Studies

UPA is happy to announce the third issue of volume 4, Journal of Usability

Studies:

http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/

This issue includes an invited essay by Nigel Bevan on the different types
of international usability standards and their potential benefits. In
addition, the issue includes three peer-reviewed articles. The first
demonstrates the efficacy of adding an adjective scale to the standard SUS
questionnaire; the second describes a method for running an empirical
usability test as part of a trade-show; and the third peer review article
examines some effects of culture on usability of MP3 player.

Avi Parush, PhD

Journal of Usability Studies - Editor in Chief

http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/index.html

Department of Psychology, Carleton University

http://www.carleton.ca/psychology/faculty/parush.html

CFP: ACM IUI 2010 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Hong Kong, CHINA; 7-10 February, 2010

We are very pleased to announce the ACM International Conference on

Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI10) –Hong Kong, China; 7-10 February,
2010.

IUI 2010 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community
and serves as the principal international forum for reporting
outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.
IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community.
We're also very interested in contributions from related fields, such
as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc..

We are inviting proposals and research papers in several categories:

*******Important Dates*******

Long & Short Paper submissions: Friday, 25 Sept. 2009, 11:59pm US PDT
Long paper review notification: Monday, 2 November 2009 Rebuttal process starts
Long paper rebuttals due: Monday, 9 November 2009 Rebuttal process ends
Long and Short Paper final notification: Friday, 23 November 2009
Long & Short Paper camera-ready due: Friday, 11 December 2009
Intention to submit workshop proposal: Friday, 17 July 2009
Workshop proposals due: Friday, 31 July 2009

Conference Co-Chairs:
Charles Rich (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China)

Program Co-Chairs:
Marc Cavazza (U. Teesside, UK)
Michelle Zhou (IBM Research, China)

For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://www.iuiconf.org/

Why submit to IUI?

Unlike traditional AI, our focus is not so much to make the computer
smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and
people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, we're more willing to consider
solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge, heuristics, and
emerging technologies such as natural language understanding or
gesture recognition.

The IUI conference gives you a chance to present and to see work in an
intimate, focused, no-nonsense event. It is large enough to be diverse
and lively (we expect around 200 people), but small enough to avoid
the circus-like atmosphere of conferences with thousands of people.
The vast majority of the attendees are actively involved with
conceiving and developing cutting-edge interfaces leading to a high
and fast impact of research results presented at IUI. It brings
together people from academics, industry, and nonprofits. As an ACM
conference, papers appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation
indices. There will also be a journal publication path for selected
papers. It's a single track conference, so you don't have to miss
anything. And it's always in a beautiful place!

IUI topics include, but are not limited to:

Processing of user input
Processing and integration of multimodal input
Natural language and speech processing
Gesture and handwriting processing

Generation of system output
Smart visualization tools
Intelligent generation of multimedia presentations
Generation of situation-specific output (e.g., on mobile
devices, wall-size displays, multi-touch screens, meeting
accessibility criteria)

Ubiquitous computing
Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing
Smart environments

Help intelligent assistants for complex tasks
Support for collaboration in multiuser environments
Intelligent information and knowledge management

Novel, intelligent interaction system
Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces
User-adaptivity in interactive systems
Personalization and recommender systems
Modeling and prediction of user behavior
Planning and plan recognition

IUI design
Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation
Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction
Example-based and demonstration-based interfaces

User studies
User studies concerning intelligent interfaces
Evaluation methods and evaluations of implemented intelligent
user interfaces

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Li CHEN
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Publicity Chair for IUI'10

CFP: ECSCW 09 Workshop "Bridging ?Interaction Clouds?: Exploring collaborative interaction across assemblies of mobile and embedded technology

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

Workshop "Bridging ?Interaction Clouds?: Exploring collaborative interaction across assemblies of mobile and embedded technology"

To be held at ECSCW 2009, Vienna, Austria 7-8 September.
http://bridgingclouds.blogspot.com/
http://www.ecscw09.org/
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Overview
Portable technology, particularly in the shape of mobile phones and personal digital assistants, has become a ubiquitous force in everyday life. Advances in communication technologies have also meant that we are rapidly moving towards the convergence of mobile and stationary systems: this has allowed people to use mobile technology to engage with systems embedded in the environments they inhabit, offering a greater range of interaction possibilities and patterns that we have labeled ?Interaction Clouds?. By ?Interaction Clouds? we mean the complex patterns of interaction, sharing and exchange that unfold around assemblies of mobile and embedded technologies.
This workshop aims at exploring such issues in greater detail, with a specific focus on the design of a coherent social and collaborative experience for people as the transverse an ?assembly? of technologies. The notion of Interaction Clouds also resonates with the emergence of the internet as a resource free of device and location constraints has brought about the concept of ?cloud computing?, where technology is emerging that allows people to shift between multiple contexts (mobile/embedded), facilitated by a connection to remote computing resources (clouds). This devolving of traditional interaction paradigms brings with it new challenges to support meaningful user social and collaborative experiences, specifically how such hybrid systems can facilitate salient aspects of user experiences such as collaboration and participation.
Topics of Interest
? Studies of social and collaborative activity around interaction clouds
? Design for the support of collaboration and participation across interaction clouds
? New interaction modalities in interaction clouds that support social interaction
? Theoretical issues of how to define and study interaction clouds (merging mobility-oriented and space-oriented frameworks, new conceptual approaches, development of existing frameworks, etc.)
? Explorations of settings where interaction clouds can be meaningfully deployed: e.g. public spaces (museums, urbans areas), workplaces, domestic spaces, etc.

Dates and Deadlines
Submissions are due: June 20th, 2009
Notification of Authors: 6th July, 2009
Workshop at ECSCW 2009: September 7th - 8th, 2009

Submissions
Interested participants are invited to submit position papers in PDF format with a word limit of 5000 words. Papers should be formatted according to the ECSCW template see http://www.ecscw09.org/author.html.
The .pdf files should be sent to: marc.mcloughlin@ul.ie

Workshop outline
The Workshop will run over 1 day. The Workshop call requests the submission of short position papers. However, during the workshop, we will foster debate moving away from traditional presentations, and by facilitating discussions on shared artifacts. We will invite the participants to contribute to the workshop with either posters, or demos/prototypes, or video data documenting an experience, and these materials will be the main subject of the discussion. In the afternoon session, we will lead more focused small-group discussions and brainstorming, and practical design exercises.

Publication & dissemination
Accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Webpage. During the workshop participants will be asked to prepare posters for display during the conference. During the workshop, opportunties for future publications (such as a journal special issue) will be discussed.

Organizers
Marc McLoughlin, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Luigina Ciolfi, Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Mike Fraser, University of Bristol, UK
Eva Hornecker, University of Strathclyde, UK
John Bowers, Interaction Research Studio, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Contact Details
Workshop Webpage: www.bridgingclouds.blogspot.com
Please Contact the workshop chairs at: marc.mcloughlin@ul.ie

CFP: Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2009) at SIGIR in Boston

Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2009)

23 July 2009 in Boston, MA
Co-located with SIGIR 2009
http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2009/

Social applications are the fastest growing segment of the web. They
establish new forums for content creation, allow people to connect to each
other and share information, and permit novel applications at the
intersection of people and

information. However, to date, social media has been primarily popular for
connecting people, not for finding information. While there has been
progress on searching particular kinds of social media, such as blogs,
search in others (e.g., Facebook, Myspace, of flickr) are not as well
understood.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together information retrieval and
social media researchers to consider the following questions: How should we
search in social media? What are the needs of users, and models of those
needs, specific to social media search? What models make the most sense? How
does search interact with existing uses of social media? How can social
media search complement traditional web search? What new search paradigms
for information finding can be facilitated by social media?

The workshop will include invited talks by Abdur Chowdhury (Chief Scientist,
Twitter) and Joseph Konstan (University of Minnesota), as well as
contributed panel presentations, and a demo/poster session.

We solicit submissions on topics at the intersection of information finding
and social media, including, but not limited to:
* Searching blogs, tweets, and other textual social media.
* Searching within social networks, including expert finding.
* Searching Wikipedia discussions and revision histories.
* Searching online discussions, mailing lists, forums, and community
question answering sites.
* The role of human-powered and community question answering.
* Novel models of information finding and new search applications for
social media.
* The role of timeliness, authority, and accuracy in social media
search.
* Interaction between traditional web search and social media search.
* User needs assessments and task analysis for social media search.
* Usability studies of people using social media search tools.
* Interactions between searching and browsing in social media.
* Searching and exploiting folksonomies, tags, and tagged data.
* Spam and adversarial interactions in social media

Ideal papers may include late-breaking and novel research results, position
and vision papers discussing the role of search in social media, and
demonstrations of prototypes or working systems. The workshop notes will
not be formally published but will be distributed at the workshop, and will
be archived at the workshop website and/or Arxiv.

All submissions (research papers, position papers, and demo proposals) are
limited to a maximum of 4 pages. Submissions must be in PDF format and
follow the ACM Conference style guidelines
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The URL for
submissions is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssm2009

Important Dates
* June 16: submissions due
* June 29: notification of acceptance
* July 9: final papers due
* July 23: Workshop (full day)

Organizers
* Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
* Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley
* Ian Soboroff, NIST

Program Committee
Eytan Adar, University of Washington
Ed Chi, Xerox PARC
Abdur Chowdhury, Twitter
Natalie Glance, Google
Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs
Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs
Pranam Kolari, Yahoo! Labs
Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow
Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Labs
Doug Oard, University of Maryland
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow
Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Markus Strohmaier, TU Graz
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo!