Carissim*
come già anticipato qualche giorno fa, il 12 novembre dalle ore 9,30 alle 13 ci sarà il online il primo WUD del SIGHitaly. L’evento è gratuito e ci si può registrare sul sito: http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/ <http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/>.
Il WUD (World Usability Day), la giornata mondiale sull’usabilità promossa su scala globale dalla User Experience Professional Association (UXPA), si tiene ogni anno il secondo giovedì di Novembre per "disseminare" l'importanza del lato "umano" nella tecnologia.
Ogni anno c'è un tema diverso e il tema di quest’anno è Human-Centered AI (https://worldusabilityday.org/ <https://worldusabilityday.org/>).
La giornata si aprirà con un intervento dell’assessore torinese all'innovazione Marco Pironti, a cui seguirà l’invited talk di apertura di Olivero Stock di FBK. Chiuderà la giornata l’intervento di Francesca Costabile su Teaching HCI for AI, e la mattinata è ricca di brevi, ma interessanti interventi sul tema della Human-Centered AI,di cui trovate il dettaglio sul sito.
Ci fa ovviamente piacere la vostra partecipazione e potete anche diffondere l’invito ai vostri studenti interessati.
Segnaliamo infine che nel pomeriggio del 12 novembre e anche nelle giornate del 10, 11 e 13 novembre potete seguire online i WUD days organizzati dalla Società Italiana di Ergonomia, trovate maggiori informazioni sul sito: http://www.wudtorino.org/ <http://www.wudtorino.org/>
Buona giornata
Cristina, con Maristella e Massimo
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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/>
Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena <https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena>
Skype: cristinagena
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Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
to be published in the journal
Multimedia Tools and Applications
https://www.springer.com/journal/11042
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Overview:
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This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence.
The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models
· HCI design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems
· Multimodal interaction technologies
· Collaborative and social computing and HCI
· Accessibility and inclusive multimedia
Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI
· Humanities and multimedia-based HCI
· Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI
· Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems
· Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI
· Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI
· Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI
· Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI
· Natural language processing and multimedia-based HCI
· Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI
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Guest Editors:
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Dr. Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor)
Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Email: alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>
Dr. Maria De Marsico
Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>
Dr. Cristina Gena
Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy
Email: cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>
Dr. Rosella Gennari
Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Email: gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>
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Important dates/Tentative Schedule:
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Submission deadline: November 30, 2021
Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022
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Submission Guidelines
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Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website<https://springer.com/11042>. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx<https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx> and select “SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process.
Please note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal.
*** Final Call for Papers for the Main Track ***
9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
(ESOCC 2022)
March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=SENJLUlUQUxZCQkJaGNp…
(*** Submission Deadline Extended to November 21st ***)
Scope
Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software
industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are
applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software
services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as
well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a
quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at
enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need
for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the
dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on-
demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still
need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure
development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-
oriented applications in the cloud.
The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the
premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of service-
oriented computing and cloud computing in Europe. The main objectives of this
conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the
areas of service-oriented computing and cloud computing, as well as to explore the
new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.
Topics of interest
ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service-
oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited
to:
- Service and Cloud Computing Models
• Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies
• Governance models
• Architectural models
• Requirements engineering
• Formal Methods
• Model-Driven Engineering
• Quality models
• Security, Privacy & Trust models
• Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models
• Testing models
- Service and Cloud Computing Engineering
• Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection
• Monitoring and Analytics
• Governance and management
• Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions
• Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications
• Cross-layer adaptation
• Edge/Fog computing
• Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management
• Service Level Agreement Management
• Service Evolution/Optimisation
• Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation
• QoS for Services and Clouds
• Semantic Web Services
• Service mining
• Service & Cloud Standards
• FaaS / Serverless computing
- Technologies
• DevOps in the Cloud
• Containerized services
• Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds
• Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management
• Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories
• RESTful Services
• Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms
• Blockchain for Services & Clouds
• Services and Clouds with IoT
• Fog Computing with Service and Cloud
- Business and Social aspects
• Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud
• Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management
• Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities
• Business Process as a Service - BPaaS
• Service and Cloud Business Models
• Service and Cloud Brokerage
• Service and Cloud Marketplaces
• Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing
• Crowdsourcing Business Services
• Social and Crowd-based Cloud
• Energy issues in Cloud Computing
• Sustainability issues
Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases).
Submissions
ESOCC 2022 invites submissions for the main track:
- Regular research papers (15 pages including references)
We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers
must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be
submitted to the EasyChair site at
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=SENJLUlUQUxZCQkJaGNp… by selecting the main track.
All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main
conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the
work at the conference.
A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be
invited to submit extended versions of their articles.
Important Dates
- Paper submission: 21 November 2021
- Notifications: 7 January 2022
- Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022
Organization
General Chair
• Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Programme Co-Chairs
• Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
• George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Carissimi,
è con grande piacere che annuncio l'ingresso di Luigi De Russis nell'Executive Committee di ACM SIGCHI come Adjunct Chair for Community Support: https://sigchi.org/executive-committee/
È un risultato importante per Luigi e anche per la nostra comunità.
Congratulazioni a Luigi!
Cari saluti,
Maristella
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Call for Abstracts
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UD 2022 - Sixth International Conference on Universal Design - Transforming our World through Universal Design for Human Development
http://ud2022.unibs.it
UD2022 will be hosted in Brescia, Italy, September 7-9, 2022, and is co-organized by the universities of Brescia, Trieste, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
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The vision of UD 2022
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The conference will be centered on the connection between Universal Design and 2030 sustainable development goals related to the built environment, sustainable communities, cities and urban environments, knowledge, information and life-long learning, human development, decent work, healthy aging and wellbeing. There will be a special session on Cultural Heritage. The conference brings together international research findings and best practices in Universal Design.
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Themes for UD 2022
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Universal Design and:
1. Higher education and life-long learning
2. Health and healthcare
3. Mobility
4. Information and communication technology; assistive technologies; digital learning; artificial intelligence
5. Arts, culture, aesthetics and design
6. Cultural heritage
7. Inclusive and resilient cities
8. Public and private buildings and spaces
9. Navigation and wayfinding
10. Economic and legal perspectives
11. Ethical and philosophical perspectives
12. Systems, Standards, institutions and policies in the public and private sectors
13. Post COVID pandemic perspectives
14. Vulnerables and low and middle income countries
15. Tourism
16. Workplace and employment
17. Objects, products, services
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Important Dates
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20th November 2021 (Extended): deadline for abstract submission
10th January 2022: abstract acceptance notification
31st March 2022: deadline for full papers
31st May 2022: end of review process for full papers
30th June 2022: deadline for final papers (camera ready)
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Conference web site
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http://ud2022.unibs.it
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Contacts
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Conference official mail: ud2022(a)unibs.it
Alberto Arenghi: alberto.arenghi(a)unibs.it
Giulia Bencini: giulia.bencini(a)unive.it
Ilaria Garofolo: ilaria.garofolo(a)dia.units.it
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Special Issue "Explainable User Models"
A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti> (ISSN 2414-4088).
Important Dates & Facts:
Abstract/title submission: ideally until November 5, 2021
Manuscripts due by: February 20, 2022
Notification to authors: March 15, 2022
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Explainable_User_Models
Benefits of submission:
- Experienced Guest Editor
- Open Access with quick processing time
- High Visibility: Indexed within Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100945706>, ESCI (Web of Science)<https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results>, Inspec<https://inspec-direct-app.theiet.org/>, and many other databases<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/indexing>.
- Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q2 (Computer Science Applications)
Special Issue Information
This special issue addresses research on Explainable User Models. As AI systems’ actions and decisions will significantly affect their users, it is important to be able to understand how an AI system represents its users. It is a well-known hurdle that many AI algorithms behave largely as black boxes. One key aim of explainability is, therefore, to make the inner workings of AI systems more accessible and transparent.
Such explanations can be helpful in the case when the system uses information about the user to develop a working representation of the user, and then uses this representation to adjust or inform system behavior. E.g., an educational system could detect whether students have a more internal or external locus of control, a music recommender system could adapt the music it is playing to the current mood of a user, or an aviation system could detect the visual memory capacity of its pilots. However, when adapting to such user models it is crucial that these models are accurately detected. Furthermore, for such explanations to be useful, they need to be able to explain or justify their representations of users in a human-understandable way. This creates a necessity for techniques that will create models for the automatic generation of satisfactory explanations intelligible for human users interacting with the system.
The scope of the special issue includes but is not limited to:
Detection and Modelling
• Novel ways of Modeling User Preferences
• Types of information to model (Knowledge, Personality, Cognitive differences, etc.)
• Distinguishing between stationary versus transient user models (e.g., Personality vs Mood)
• Context modeling (e.g., at work versus at home, lean in versus lean out activities)
• User models from heterogeneous sources (e.g., behavior, ratings, and reviews)
• Enrichment and Crowdsourcing for Explainable User Models
Ethics
• Detection of sensitive or rarely reported attributes (e.g., gender, race, sexial orientation)
• Implicit user modeling versus explicit user modeling (e.g., questionnaires versus inference from behavior)
• User modeling for self actualization (e.g., user modeling to improve dietary or news consumption habits)
Human understandability
• Metrics and methodologies for evaluating fitness for the purpose of explanations
• Balancing completeness and understandability for complex user models
• Explanations to mitigate human biases (e.g., confirmation bias, anchoring)
• Effect of user model explanation on subsequent user interaction (e.g., simulations, and novel evaluation methodologies)
Effectiveness
• Analysis or comparison of context of use of explanation (e.g., risk, time pressure, error tolerance)
• Analysis of context of use of system (e.g., decision support, prediction)
• Analysis or comparison of effect of explaining in specific domains (e.g., education, health, recruitment, security)
Adaptive presentation of the explanations
• For different types of user
• Interactive explanations
• Investigation of which presentational aspects are beneficial to tailor in the explanation (e.g., level of detail, terminology, modality text or graphics, level of interaction)
Prof. Dr. Nava Tintarev
Ms. Oana Inel
Guest Editors
Dear list members,
At the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano we have a 3-year fully-funded Ph.D.
grant to work on the project "Performance Management in Skill and
Activity-Based Shop Floors" within the Advanced-Systems Engineering
programme. The project is done in collaboration with a company and aims to
investigate how to integrate environmentally sustainable processes into the
field of industrial automation. Please see the attached file for a more
detailed description of the project.
Applications can be submitted from *22 October to 5 November 2021*, by noon
local time. Further details on the application procedure and selection
process can be found on the following link:
https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/Applicants/PhD-37-Cycle/ASE_scheda-de…
The language of the Ph.D. programme is English, and the university
implements a trilingual model providing prospective students with a
suitable environment to learn German and Italian. For this concrete grant,
knowledge of Italian and/or German is preferred but not required.
If you have any questions you can reach us at maria.menendezblanco(a)unibz.it
and Antonella.DeAngeli(a)unibz.it.
Best regards,
María Menéndez-Blanco
*Project Title: "Performance Management in Skill and Activity-Based Shop
Floors"*
This interdisciplinary action-research project, which draws on
psychological, IT, and engineering knowledge, aims to investigate how to
integrate environmentally sustainable processes into the field of
industrial automation. The case study is the GKN site in Bruneck/Brunico
which is transforming its production process. The company is moving from an
approach in which workers were traditionally assigned to fixed tasks into a
dynamic approach in which workers will be automatically assigned to
different tasks based on industrial needs and their skills. An algorithm
tracks the individual's behaviour through a smartwatch that notifies the
opening of a task through an interface where the user can accept or reject
it. From a psychological perspective this change is dramatic and, as often
documented in the literature, strong resistance factors have also been
shown at GKN, even after the use of economic incentives.
The project aims to investigate how the green challenge can become a
facilitating factor in the acceptance of work processes that in turn lead
to more sustainable development. New algorithms could, for example, take
into account the reduction of waste or energy consumption within the
company. Highlighting these criteria in the interface could help support
user participation. In summary, the project aims to (a) identify
performance parameters; (b) develop algorithms and models for predicting
human tasks and behaviours and calculating optimal actions; (c) communicate
suitable actions and parameters to the worker; (d) create new communities
of practice as stipulated in the call for funding.
Apologies for multiple posting
ECCE 2022 - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS
33rd annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE)
4-7 October 2022 | Kaiserslautern, Germany
http://www.hciv.de/ecce2022
CALL FOR PAPERS
ECCE 2022 invites contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of Cognitive Ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems as part of a rich conference program including keynote talks, paper presentation as well as a doctoral consortium. The 33rd ECCE conference will target state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to cognitive ergonomics and its role in design processes, information presentation and visualization, human factors and simulation, prototyping, cross / extended reality, user interfaces development, evaluations, and emerging ethical issues.
The special theme of ECCE 2022 is:
“Evaluating the Reality–Virtuality Continuum”.
The Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones:
* Cognitive processes in design
* Cognitively-orientated human factors
* Consequences of VR/AR/MR usage
* Context awareness
* Cross / Extended reality (XR): VR, AR, and MR
* Decision aiding, information presentation and visualization
* Design methods, tools, and methodologies for designing interactive systems
* Ecological approaches to human cognition and human-technology interaction
* Efficient collaborations
* Ethical issues in virtual environments
* Human-computer interaction
* Human error and reliability
* Human factors and simulation
* Human-technology interaction in the Internet of Things era
* Interactive learning
* Intuitive interaction
* Motivation, engagement, goal sharing
* Multisensory perception
* Resilience and diversity
* Scalable evaluation spanning the reality–virtuality continuum
* Situation awareness
* Trust and control in complex virtual systems
* User experience design
* User interfaces
* User research concepts, methods, and empirical studies
Submissions
All submissions fulfilling the submission requirements will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Please visit https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow for all information on formatting and templates to create your manuscript for submission.
All submissions are handled through Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2022[AE1]
Proceedings will appear on ACM Digital Library.
Submission Categories
* Long and Short Papers
* Demonstrations
* Workshops
* Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium
Important Dates and Deadlines
March 15, 2022: Deadline for submissions
June 22, 2022: Deadline for camera-ready version submissions
July 15, 2022: Early registration deadline
October 4, 2022: ECCE 2022 doctoral consortium and workshops
October 5-7, 2022: ECCE 2022 main conference
General chairs
Achim Ebert, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Thomas Lachmann, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
BHCC 2021 - Third symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online)
*Registration*
Registration is now live for BHCC 2021: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/registration
Registration is free and we welcome everyone to participate. Register before 25th October 2021 and be eligible to receive a cool BHCC 2021 welcome package. Only available for the first 50 registrations!
*Program*
An overview of BHCC 2021 Program is available here: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/program
On this page, you can find the details about BHCC Social Events, Interdisciplinary Panel on "Open Science & Good Research Practice", and the full schedule.
*Invited Speakers*
https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/invited-speakers
- Ming Yin, Purdue University
- Saiph Savage, Northeastern University
- Alexandra Olteanu, Microsoft
*Accepted Papers and Abstracts*
View the list of accepted papers and abstracts: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/program/accepted-papers-and-abstracts
*Related Events*
Please check out the workshop at ACM CSCW 2021: Investigating and Mitigating Biases in Crowdsourced Data on 23 October 2021!
https://sites.google.com/view/biases-in-crowdsourced-data