CFP: ComposableWeb 2010

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

STEERING COMMITTEE
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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
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- 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

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

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
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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
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To be finalized

CFP: UX Magazine Issue 9.4 on Communication

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

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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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