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Deadline extension: "Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities" - IxD&A Journal (focus session)

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ /========================================================= *Deadline extension: September 2, 2020* / ========================================================= Special Issue on *Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4… ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Callum Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia • Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney, Australia • Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia • Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University, South Korea/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *September 3, 2020 *(extended) • Notification to the authors: October 15, 2020 • Camera ready paper: November 10, 2020 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- As digital technologies are advancing, contemporary interactions within cities are beginning to emerge. These interactions are commonly enabled through sensors to implicitly automate manual processes, such as turning on lights or walking up stairs. However, cities were not necessarily built from the ground up to be smart, rather they are gradually becoming smarter over time as technology becomes more extensible and embedded within them. These digital technologies create information layers that exist over the physical space, resulting in the space being filled with dynamically changing information, thus augmenting the space. Augmented reality (AR) is one such technology that has recently seen a lot of development in this area and is only now starting to become more viable as hardware and computer vision algorithms have caught up. Films such as Minority Report (2002), Ghost in the Shell (2016), and Blade Runner (2017) have predicted AR’s future emergence in public spaces and cities. These films featured AR advertising and information holograms in public spaces, enabled by smart contact lenses and holograms. Currently however, AR has been introduced to public spaces in a number of interesting ways. For instance, Pokemon GO became a global phenomenon which resulted in people physically playing the game in urban spaces and caused ripple effects on the physical spaces people were playing in. Recent work has also shown that AR can have more engaging applications, in areas such as community engagement, personalised digital signage, in-situ visualisations, cultural heritage, and remote collaboration. On a consumer level, AR is most common on smartphones, particularly after the release of ARKit and ARCore - improving the functionality. AR smart glasses are also becoming more accessible and bring with them the possibility of more natural integration of virtual content into our daily lives. For instance, the Microsoft Hololens contains an array of sensor technologies giving it a sense of depth which allows it to place objects naturally in physical space. It has been successfully applied by planners to visualise underlying parts of the city in-situ. While AR is becoming more advanced, accessible, and has demonstrated potential, more knowledge is needed around the key benefits it will bring to cities and how it will change our interactions with the urban environment. Additionally, the use of such technologies raises the question of how the virtual and physical spaces can co-exist - creating an augmented space. Therefore, this focus section builds on from our initial workshops with the goal of bringing together researchers to explore the applications of AR and other immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We welcome research focused on engaging experiences using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: Augmenting humans in future cities Digital heritage and preservation Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects Perspectives from literature How immersive technologies and applications can be utilised to enhance existing urban infrastructure/technologies (public displays, media facades, buildings, town squares, etc) Remote collaboration The effect of immersive technologies on culture and behaviour in cities Smart cities with digital twin technologies =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "FS: Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact any of the guest-editors below and mark the subject as: /Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities / • callum [dot] parker [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • soojeong [dot] yoo [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • youngho [at] ce [dot] mokpo [dot] ac [dot] kr • waldemar [dot] jenek [at] hdr [dot] qut [dot] edu [dot] au -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Autumn 2020 'Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19' Guest editors: ASLERD with a focus section on 'Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities' Guest editors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Waldemar Jenek, Youngho Lee • Winter 2020 'Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Traian Rebedea, Matthias Rehm • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. Collazos, Sandra Cano, Freddy Paz, Habib Fardoun -----

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CFP: IoTSMS 2020 (*deadline extended*: Aug 20, 2020), Paris, France

by Marco Guazzone

################################################################################ 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020 (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) ################################################################################ URL: https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2020/ IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Date: *20 August 2020* *(extended)* * Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 * Camera Ready Submission: 1 November 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple micro controller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near feature. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. TOPICS OF INTERESTS * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modeling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility * Green by Internet of Things * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * IoT and sustainable Growth PUBLICATION All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. GENERAL CHAIRS * Abdelhakim Hafid Senhadji, University of Montreal, Canada. * Francisco Falcone, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain. PROGRAM CHAIRS * Attila Kertesz <keratt(a)inf.u-szeged.hu> * Marco Guazzone <marco.guazzone(a)uniupo.it> ORGANIZATION CHAIR * Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, USA. * Yaser Jararweh, Duquesne University, USA. * Imad Saleh, University of Paris 8, France * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA -- Marco Guazzone, PhD Computer Science Institute, DiSIT University of Piemonte Orientale address: Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy phone: +39-0131-360484 web: http://people.unipmn.it/sguazt

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PhD Positions in VR/AR/XR available at the KU Leuven, Belgium (DL: 20 July)

by Adalberto Simeone

*Apologies for cross-posting* Deadline: 20/07/2020 We are looking to hire up to two new PhD researchers in the ARIA team (https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be) at the Department of Computer Science of the KU Leuven, in Belgium. The project focuses on the topic of “Cross-Reality Interaction”, i.e. how people in different immersive realities (e.g., VR, AR) or not immersed at all, can interact together. For more information, see the description at: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55693016?hl=en&lang=en Knowledge of Dutch is *not* required to apply. Feel free to contact me to informally discuss this position and other opportunities (such as postdoctoral research through the Marie Curie scheme). -- Adalberto L. Simeone Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter @Adal_LS<http://twitter.com/Adal_LS> https://www.adalsimeone.me

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Webinar "Progetto WADcher: monitoraggio, accessibilità, servizi digitali" (16/07/2020, ore 12:00)

by parvaneh parvin

Cari, L’Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale, in collaborazione con il CNR, organizza un webinar dedicato a WADcher, un progetto europeo relativo al monitoraggio dell’accessibilità dei siti web e degli strumenti informatici. Il webinar ha l'obiettivo di illustrare lo stato di avanzamento del progetto WADcher (Web Accessibility Decision support tool for the assessment of compliance to standards and guideline), finanziato nell’ambito del framework europeo Horizon 2020. Il progetto si propone di fornire uno strumento integrato che consenta di individuare i punti di miglioramento dei siti web. Verrà anche presentato MAUVE++, uno strumento di validazione collegato a WADCHER, sviluppato dal laboratorio Human Interfaces in Information Systems del CNR-ISTI. L’evento è anche occasione per un confronto a più voci sui differenti paradigmi volti a migliorare la qualità dei servizi digitali per i cittadini, con particolare riguardo all’accessibilità. Con l’occasione invitiamo gli interessati a compilare un breve questionario (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBgdVqCoHtnyeV3dktVcQm1HyEPk2VbRf…) utile per capire le pratiche correnti su questi temi. Vi ricordiamo che l'orario per lo svolgimento del webinar è 16 Luglio 2020, dalle 12:00 alle 13:30 Cordiali saluti, -- Parvaneh Parvin, PhD Research Staff HIIS Lab - ISTI CNR parvaneh.parvin(a)isti.cnr.it

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Deadline approaching: ETIS 2020: European Tangible Interaction Studio

by Patrizia Marti

*Apologize for unintended cross-mailing* *ETIS 2020 - **Fourth European Tangible Interaction Studio* | 16-20 November, 2020 | Siena, Italy http://www.congressi.unisi.it/etis2020/ *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS* Tanja Döring - University of Bremen Stéphanie Fleck - University of Lorraine Marianna Obrist - University of Sussex Domenico Prattichizzo – University of Siena *CALL FOR PAPER* *S* University students, researchers and practitioners are invited to* propose a talk or a workshop about their research in the field of Tangible Interaction* including for example mixed/augmented reality, organic user interfaces, physical computing, wearables. Topics of interest of ETIS 2020 include the exploration of Tangible Interaction in various fields of application including, but not limiting to: - Food - Education - Cultural Heritage - Industry 4.0 - Health Short papers (2-4 pages including references) for oral presentation and workshop proposals have to be submitted to Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=etis2020>. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM paper template and should not be anonymized. - Microsoft Word template <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…> - LaTeX template <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…> *We welcome submissions in the form of theoretical foundations and frameworks of Tangible User Interface (TUI); design guidelines and methods; prototypes, tools and toolkits for TUI; design cases, and TUI applications in different domains*. Submitted papers will be reviewed by ETIS Scientific Committee and selected by relevance with the proposed topics, quality of research, and potential to provoke discussions during the meeting. Selected papers shall be published on CEUR <http://ceur-ws.org/>, the free open-access publication service for scientific conferences and workshops. The *Best Paper Award* is sponsored by the MDPI Journal Future Internet <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet> with a 350 CHF honorarium and the publication of an extended version of the paper in a special issue that will be edited after the event. The winner will be selected by the ETIS scientific committee based on the paper’s novelty and quality of the research. The awarded winner will be announced during the ETIS closing session. *Important dates* The deadline for submission has been extended. The new important dates are as follows: Paper submission deadline: *July 20, 2020* Notification of acceptance: *September 21, 2020* Registration deadline: *October 5, 2020* ETIS workshop: *November 16 - 20, 2020* *Conference Venue* The conference will take place at the Santa Chiara Lab <https://santachiaralab.unisi.it/> of the University of Siena. Address: Santa Chiara Lab, University of Siena Via Valdimontone 1 - 53100 Siena (Italy) *For more information* For updated information about the event, program and invited speakers, submission procedures, and registration please visit the web site: *http://www.congressi.unisi.it/etis2020/ <http://www.congressi.unisi.it/etis2020/>* For more information, please contact the organizers: etis.unisi(a)gmail.com

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for workshop proposals

by Axel Soto

ACM IUI 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, TX, USA April 13 - 17, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). This year we are particularly interested in workshops that have an interactive aspect. Preference will be given to workshops with interactive and hands-on sessions where participants can team up or work together towards the common goal of the workshop. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. == PROPOSAL FORMAT == Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshops2021(a)iui.acm.org), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the Interim ACM templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Please submit your proposal via the PCS 2.0 submission system (https://new.precisionconference.com). The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to the IUI audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from (sigconf): http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2021. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by January 3 2021 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2021 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshops and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2021 workshop chairs. == IMPORTANT DATES == Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP Workshop date: Proposals Due: September 15, 2020 Decisions sent: October 07, 2020 Submissions due: December 23, 2020 Reporting of status: January 03, 2021 Final go/no-go decisions: January 05, 2021 Notification to authors: January 31, 2021 Camera-ready for workshop summary [ACM Companion] February 10, 2021 Camera-ready for accepted papers February 28, 2021

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for papers [corrected dates]

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Apr 13, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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IxD&A Journal N. 43 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *N. 43* /special issue /on "*Smart Learning Ecosystems - Design as cornerstone of smart educational processes and places*" (guest editors: /Carlo Giovannella, Stefania Manca/) is now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=T…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 43 - ToC* /** Preface **Carlo Giovannella and Stefania Manca** **pp. 5 - 7** **Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Ingrid Mulder, Nicola Morelli, Janice Pedersen* Hacking the hackathon format to empower citizens in outsmarting “smart” cities, *pp. 8 - 2*9*//** **Lars Schlenker, Carmen Neuburg *Third Teacher goes Raumwerkstatt - participatory planning processes to redesign physical learning spaces*, pp. 30 - 41//** **//Alessandro Luigini, Monica Parricchi, Alessandro Basso, Demis Basso *Immersive and participatory serious games for heritage education, applied to the cultural heritage of South Tyrol*, pp. 42 - 67//** ** Margarida M. Marques, Lúcia Pombo *Teacher readiness to adopt game-based mobile learning with augmented reality*///, pp. 68 - 85/**** Diana Saplacan, Jo Herstad, Zada Pajalic ** **/**Use of Multiple Digital Learning Environments: A study About Fragmented Information Awareness**/, pp. 86 - 109** **Nicolae Nistor, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu *Joining Informal Learning in Online Knowledge Communities and Formal Learning in Higher Education: Instructional Design and Evaluation of a Blended-Learning Seminar with Learning Analytics Support*, pp. 110 - 127//** **/ ========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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Deadline approaching: "Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities" - IxD&A Journal (focus session)

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4… ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Callum Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia • Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney, Australia • Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia • Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University, South Korea/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *July 15, 2020* • Notification to the authors: October 15, 2020 • Camera ready paper: November 10, 2020 • Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- As digital technologies are advancing, contemporary interactions within cities are beginning to emerge. These interactions are commonly enabled through sensors to implicitly automate manual processes, such as turning on lights or walking up stairs. However, cities were not necessarily built from the ground up to be smart, rather they are gradually becoming smarter over time as technology becomes more extensible and embedded within them. These digital technologies create information layers that exist over the physical space, resulting in the space being filled with dynamically changing information, thus augmenting the space. Augmented reality (AR) is one such technology that has recently seen a lot of development in this area and is only now starting to become more viable as hardware and computer vision algorithms have caught up. Films such as Minority Report (2002), Ghost in the Shell (2016), and Blade Runner (2017) have predicted AR’s future emergence in public spaces and cities. These films featured AR advertising and information holograms in public spaces, enabled by smart contact lenses and holograms. Currently however, AR has been introduced to public spaces in a number of interesting ways. For instance, Pokemon GO became a global phenomenon which resulted in people physically playing the game in urban spaces and caused ripple effects on the physical spaces people were playing in. Recent work has also shown that AR can have more engaging applications, in areas such as community engagement, personalised digital signage, in-situ visualisations, cultural heritage, and remote collaboration. On a consumer level, AR is most common on smartphones, particularly after the release of ARKit and ARCore - improving the functionality. AR smart glasses are also becoming more accessible and bring with them the possibility of more natural integration of virtual content into our daily lives. For instance, the Microsoft Hololens contains an array of sensor technologies giving it a sense of depth which allows it to place objects naturally in physical space. It has been successfully applied by planners to visualise underlying parts of the city in-situ. While AR is becoming more advanced, accessible, and has demonstrated potential, more knowledge is needed around the key benefits it will bring to cities and how it will change our interactions with the urban environment. Additionally, the use of such technologies raises the question of how the virtual and physical spaces can co-exist - creating an augmented space. Therefore, this focus section builds on from our initial workshops with the goal of bringing together researchers to explore the applications of AR and other immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We welcome research focused on engaging experiences using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: Augmenting humans in future cities Digital heritage and preservation Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects Perspectives from literature How immersive technologies and applications can be utilised to enhance existing urban infrastructure/technologies (public displays, media facades, buildings, town squares, etc) Remote collaboration The effect of immersive technologies on culture and behaviour in cities Smart cities with digital twin technologies =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: http://ixdea-2018.uniroma2.it/ojs/index.php/ixdea/login <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "FS: Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact any of the guest-editors below and mark the subject as: /Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities / • callum [dot] parker [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • soojeong [dot] yoo [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au • youngho [at] ce [dot] mokpo [dot] ac [dot] kr • waldemar [dot] jenek [at] hdr [dot] qut [dot] edu [dot] au -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Autumn 2020 'Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19' Guest editors: ASLERD with a focus section on 'Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities' Guest editors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Waldemar Jenek, Youngho Lee • Winter 2020 'Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education' Guest editors: Oscar Mealha, Traian Rebedea, Matthias Rehm • Springer 2021 'Collaborative multimedia applications in technology' Guest editors: César A. 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Registration to the Workshop “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus”, July 7th 2020, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET)

by Cristina Gena

Workshop on “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus” July 7th 202o, 2:00 pm (CET) - 6:30 pm (CET) An event of SIGCHItaly (ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter) in collaboration with CINI AIIS Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab) http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/ <http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/> ========================================================== The Workshop will be held online. Participation is free, but registration is required. Interested people must register at the following link: https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8 <https://forms.gle/vjmE9yfjs9r1mxuY8> Details for connecting will be sent to the registered participants. ========================================================== PROGRAM 2:00pm. Welcome and introductory discussion. By M. Francesca Costabile, Maristella Matera, Ben Shneiderman 2:30pm. Panel 1: AI systems that have an impact on human beings. Moderator: Massimo Zancanaro Participants: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Università di Roma) Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari) Alessandra Sciutti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) Myounghoon Jeon (Virginia Tech) Federico Cabitza (Università di Milano Bicocca) Antonio Rizzo (Università di Siena) Alan Dix (Swansea University, Wales, UK) 4:30pm. Panel 2: The HCI competences the AI specialists should have in order to design AI systems that are beneficial to human beings. Moderator: Fabio Paternò Participants: Sharon Oviatt (Monash University, Australia) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) Lucio Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari, Italy) B.L. William Wong (Middlesex University London, UK) Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Salvatore Andolina (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Fabio Pittarello (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) 6:00pm. Wrapping up: Final discussion, conclusions and follow up. By Cristina Gena and Genny Tortora ORGANIZERS M. Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari ALDO MORO Cristina Gena, Università di Torino Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano (SIGCHI Italy Chair) Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Pisa Genny Tortora, Università di Salerno Massimo Zancanaro, Università di Trento and FBK (SIGCHI Italy Vice-Chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza Università di Roma Luca Console, Università di Torino Fulvio Corno, Politecnico di Torino Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza Università di Roma Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze Rino Falcone, CNR-Roma Salvatore Gaglio, Università di Palermo Luciano Gamberini, Università di Padova Antonio Krüeger, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany Patrizia Marti, Università di Siena Roberto Navigli, Sapienza Università di Roma Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma Sharon Oviatt, Monash University, Australia Francesco Ricci, Libera Università di Bolzano-Bozen Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany Oliviero Stock, FBK ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ <http://www.di.unito.it/~cgena/> *****************************************

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