September 2023 - Hcitaly

[ACM IUI 2024] Call for Workshops and Tutorials

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * ACM IUI 2024 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials In conjunction with the 29th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2024) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/ Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel, julia(a)braude.ac.il<mailto:sheidin.julia@gmail.com> Axel Soto, CONICET and Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, axel.soto(a)cs.uns.edu.ar<mailto:axel.soto@cs.uns.edu.ar> Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck, Austria, eva.zangerle(a)uibk.ac.at<mailto:eva.zangerle@uibk.ac.at> wt2024(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:wt2024@iui.acm.org> Call for Proposals We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials 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. Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference. Tutorials are designed to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces, and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Note: We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas (wt2024(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:wt2024@iui.acm.org>), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshop and tutorial formats and activities, including but not limited to: * "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. * Interactive formats to explore a certain topic during the workshop (e.g., through breakout rooms); such workshops may have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the outcome of the interactive discussions. * "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. * "Project centric" workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large-scale (e.g. NSF, EU, etc. funded) project. * "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. * Tutorials on a specific topic relevant to IUI; for example, methods and approaches in HCI and/or AI, specific techniques or algorithms to develop intelligent user interfaces, etc. We invite submissions of proposals for full-day and half-day workshops or tutorials. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop and tutorial chairs. Workshops with few submissions may be canceled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. The organizers of accepted workshops and tutorials 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 and tutorial organizers will maintain their own website with information about the workshop or tutorial and the ACM IUI 2024 website will refer to this website. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process. A workshop and tutorials summary will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2024, and we will separately publish a joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through CEUR or similar). Proposal Format Workshop or tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template<https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submi…>, or the LaTeX template<https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip>. The proposals should be organized as follows: * Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or “(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate. * Description of workshop or tutorial topic: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2024 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop or tutorial is of particular interest. * Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops or tutorials and the number of participants. * Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organizer(s). 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. Also please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials 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 or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop or tutorial. * Workshop or Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to tutorial participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc. * Workshop format: virtual, in-person, or hybrid. * Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorials: What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop or tutorials? Please list here any planned publications or other outputs arising from workshops. * Length: Full-day or half-day. Important Dates • Discuss your topic with the workshop and tutorials chairs: Oct 9, 2023 • Workshop Proposals due: Oct 16, 2023 • Workshop Proposals Decisions Sent: Nov 6, 2023

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ACM IUI 2024 - Third Call for Papers

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://iui.acm.org/2024/call_for_papers.html * ACM IUI 2024: 29th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Greenville, South Carolina, USA March 18-21, 2024 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques and systems. In addition to traditional IUI themes, we add this year a new theme of Large Language Models (LLMS) for the people. As LLMs become more powerful and more accessible, end users can interact with them in various ways and a wide variety of new applications become feasible. This raises new research questions regarding the interaction between users and generative AI models, including the design of new interactions and intelligent systems, when to trust systems powered with LLMs, fairness in LLMs, studying the effect of such models on people’s work and aligning user expectations with model capabilities. As always, contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. We strongly believe that diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. ** Topics ** IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Usable Large Language Models and Generative AI * End-user interaction with LLMs and Multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image generation) * LLMs in the workplace * Trustworthy LLMs * Bias in LLMs * The effects of LLMs use on creative tasks * Personalized user interaction with LLMs * Prompt Engineering * User control and steering of LLMs (e.g. RLHF) - Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems * Explainable AI methods * Democratization of AI * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User modelling for intelligent interfaces * User-adaptive interaction and personalization * IUI for crowd computing and human computation - Computational innovation * Interactive machine learning * Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging * Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems * Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning * Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI - Innovative User Interfaces * Affective interfaces * Intelligent aesthetic interfaces * Intelligent collaborative interfaces * Intelligent AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent visualization and visual analytics * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Intelligent tangible interfaces - Intelligent Multimodal Systems * Embodied agents * Multimodal AI assistants * Intelligent multimodal interfaces - Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces * User experiments and studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analysis * Mixed-methods evaluations - Applications IUI * Education and learning-related technologies * Healthcare and wellbeing * Automotive * Assistive technologies * Entertainment * Workplace happiness * Social media * Information retrieval * Internet of things (IoT) * Smart cities * Generative AI ** Papers ** We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. This year, there is no page limit on the papers (however, we strongly encourage authors to not exceed 10,000 words) and no formal distinction between long and short papers will be made. However, we expect the paper length to be commensurate with the scientific values and contribution of the work. Authors of papers that exceed 12,000 words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work. 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) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2024" that will appear in 2025. All accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation as part of the main conference program. Additionally, all authors of accepted papers are invited to present a poster of their work during the poster session. ** Highlights of this year ** We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work; aspects pertaining to current societal issues; diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic. Reflection of practical and societal impact * We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well as its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those implications in their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be applied and deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the real world. * We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in terms of diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic and its societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by making some things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020). Further, given the incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related technologies, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully consider how an emerging intelligent user interface technology might impact the world before this technology is deployed. Because it is often difficult to anticipate the cumulative or indirect impacts of an invention, we provide a few concrete suggestions to consider throughout the research process and for reflecting on one’s work at the end. * Our purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely societal consequences of their work are consistent with their intentions and values. For colleagues who are not yet experienced with incorporating societal impacts into their IUI research but who are willing to give it a try, we prepared some simple ideas to consider. ** Submission instructions ** Important dates * Abstract submission- Oct 2th, 2023 * Full Submission - Oct 9th, 2023 * Initial decisions released - Dec 14th, 2023 * Rebuttal period (by invitation only)- Dec 14th-20th, 2023 * Notifications sent - Jan 5h, 2024 * Camera Ready submission - Jan 25th, 2024 Platform * All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the abstract and paper deadline. * In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2024" and "IUI 2024 Papers", respectively, and press "Go". Anonymization * ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials) must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: * Authors’ names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. * Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. * Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). * Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk rejected without review. * Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences. Accessibility * Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. * If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. * Please refer to the Accessibility page for further details and guidelines. Submission format and length * We will adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. * Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. * Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution. We encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000 words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work. Supplemental materials * Submitting supplemental material (e.g. questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data sheets) is optional but encouraged. * If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Additional Policies * As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Program Chairs * Dorota Glowacka, University of Helsinki * Denis Parra, PUC Chile * Ofra Amir, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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[Save the date] UI Engineering Live Talks - Davide Spano - Sept 28, 15:30 CET

by Davide Spano

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the third episode of the UI-Engineering live talks, which are bimonthly seminars organised by the IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 and given by members or invited experts. This month, prof. Davide Spano will discuss techniques for supporting end users and novice programmers in creating XR environments, particularly for defining their interactive behaviour. The talk will be given on * September 28, 15:30 CET * Title: Easing XR Development for Novices and End Users Speaker: Davide Spano Link: https://youtube.com/live/mXDPX8CSEGQ?feature=share Abstract: This talk discusses a rule-based approach for enabling end-users and novice developers to define interactive behaviours in immersive eXtended Reality (XR) experiences. We start with a cultural and environmental preservation case study, introducing an authoring environment for first-person cinematographic video games based on 360-degree videos. Then, we extend the technique to the end-user configuration of Virtual Reality (VR) environments. The solution relies on template environments created by expert developers and an extensible library supporting their configuration by end-users through rules in a constrained natural language. Finally, we show how novice developers can benefit from the same rule-based representation, inspecting development examples defined through different XR toolkits. Our Unity Editor plugin can identify and describe interactions as rules, suggest similar interactions, and copy-paste interactions from examples, even if they use different toolkits. We conclude by discussing open questions and further extension of this research. -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 Website <https://www.unica.it/unica/page/it/luciod_spano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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Last CFP: Special issue n. 60 on "Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer be updated since last 5 March 2023 onwards. //Note: *also the paper management system of the journal has migrated to* *https://ojs.ixdea.org/* <https://ojs.ixdea.org/> The old OJS istance has been discontinued since the 1st of July 2023 and cannot longer used to submit papers to IxD&A Journal. /========================================================= Special Issue on *Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children * Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/technologies-tools-and-techniques-for-online-design-based…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2007 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: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Naska Goagoses, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany • Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Namibia University of Technology, Namibia • Erkki Rötkönen, University of Turku, Finland • Tariq Zaman, ASSET, University of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *October 30th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: December 20th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: January 31st, 2024 • Publication of the special issue: May 2024 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- In this special issue, we are calling for contributions dealing with distributed online co-design with children and its wider field of design-based learning. We are looking for both theoretical and methodological reflections on the position of participatory design and co-design and empirical cases that advance design practices with children in online environments. A significant contribution of the volume will focus on facilitation tools and techniques connected to the contemporary challenges of distributed online design in formal settings (i.e. K-12) or informal settings with children. Effective techniques and tools for co-located environments (Antle et al., 2020, Zaman et al.,2022), which foster the genuine participation of children (Kinnula & Iivari, 2021), have been established over the years within the child-computer interaction community. However, technologies, tools, and techniques for distributed online co-design with children are only beginning to emerge, with much room for new developments and the need for adaptations. Co-design with children in online and hybrid environments, encountered constraints in the utilization of existing technologies and tools, and challenges when applying longstanding design facilitation techniques (Itenge et al., 2021; Rötkönen et al., 2021; Rötkönen et al., 2022, Winschiers-Theophilus et al., 2022,). Within online environments, new technological affordances and methods need to be explored, and established facilitation strategies and co-design methods need to be amended (Bertran et al., 2022; McVeigh-Schultz & Isbister, 2021; Walsh et al., 2015; Warren et al., 2022). The move to online environments offers a variety of challenges but also new opportunities (Fails et al. 2022), including the collaborative participation of children that are geographically distributed (Winschiers-Theophilus et al., 2022). Given the challenges, yet also the novel opportunities, a larger collection of theoretical and empirical work about online co-design with children and design-based learning is required. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We invite researchers drawing upon design-based research approaches to share their theoretical, methodological, or practical perspectives. We welcome submissions that report on qualitative or quantitative studies, systematic reviews or scoping reviews, as well as theoretical and reflective pieces. The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue includes, but is not limited to: ● Geographically distributed participants ● Ethical considerations and implications ● Special educational needs ● Inclusion, diversity, and heterogeneity ● Social-emotional learning ● Intergenerational engagement and communication ● Facilitation tools and techniques ● Supportive technologies and platforms ● Formal and informal educational contexts ● Design-based learning in K-12 =========================================== /*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 8-30 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://ojs.ixdea.org/> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Online Design-Based Activities with Children") 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 the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /SI: Online Design-Based Activities with Children/ • naska [dot] goagoses [at] uni-oldenburg [dot] de • hwinschiers [at] nust [dot] na • rotkonenerkki [at] utu [dot] fi • tariqzaman [at] uts [dot] edu [dot] my -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • ‘Smart Learning Ecosystems as engines of the twin transitions’ Guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Oscar Mealha, Sirje Virkus • ‘AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age’ Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, Anders Mørch, Alessandro Pagano • ‘Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration’ Guest editors: Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer • ‘STEAM teaching and learning: advances beyond the state of the art’ Guest editors: Hector Cardona-Reyes, Carlos Alberto Lara-Álvarez, Miguel Angel Ortiz Esparza, Klinge Orlando Villalba-Condori ----------------------------------------------------------

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28th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2024): First Call for Papers

by Announce

*** First Call for Papers *** 28th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2024) June 19-21, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/iceccs2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: December 8, 2023 AoE ***) Recent years have witnessed a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data, leveraging emerging artificial intelligence (AI), large language models, and machine learning techniques. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, data heterogeneity, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, robustness, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines’ problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. LIST OF TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and tools. Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: Requirements, modeling and formal methods • Requirements analysis and specification • Model-driven development • Model checking • SAT/SMT solvers for software analysis and testing AI, Complex intelligent models and complex systems • Big data management • Data-drive and AI-backed systems • Machine learning for Software Engineering • AI4SE and SE4AI • Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems Security, reliability and dependability • Safety-critical and fault-tolerant architectures • Formal methods • Security and privacy of complex systems • Privacy-preserving AI • Fairness Software engineering • Verification and validation • Reverse engineering and refactoring • Software architecture • Human Machine Interaction • Agile methods Realistic complex systems • Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks • Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) • Autonomous systems and self-healing systems • Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by the program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in the industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by the program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings have been published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of the IEEE Computer Society. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE CPS format. Full papers should not exceed 9 pages + 1 page for bibliography, and short papers should not exceed 5 pages + 1 page for bibliography, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE CPS guidelines. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html . We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS 2024 portal, hosted by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2024 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submissions Due: 08 December, 2023 AoE • Full Paper Submissions Due: 15 December, 2023 AoE • Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 March, 2024 • Camera-ready Due: 15 April, 2024 • Author Registration Due: 15 April, 2024 • Conference Dates: 19-21 June 2024 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland Xiaohong Li, Tianjin University, China Shaoying Liu, Hiroshima University, Japan Mauro Pezze, University in Lugano, Switzerland Roy Sterritt, Ulster University, United Kingdom Jing Sun (Chair), University of Auckland, New Zealand General Co-Chairs • Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT, France • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia • Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

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ACM curriculum CS2023 Review di HCI

by Giuliana VITIELLO

Gentili Membri di SIGCHI-Italy, Come illustrato durante il Town Hall meeting tenutosi in occasione della conferenza CHItaly2023 a Torino il 20 settembre, lo scorso giugno l'Extended Board del nostro capitolo (composto da me e dai colleghi Maristella Matera, Massimo Zancanaro, Luigi De Russis, Davide Spano, Rosa Lanzilotti, Anna Spagnolli, Alessio Malizia) ha inviato dei commenti alla versione beta del documento sulle linee guida curriculari ACM di Computer Science, relativamente alla disciplina della Human Computer Interaction. Il collega Amruth Kumar, che ha raccolto i diversi commenti alla versione beta, mi ha informata che ora è disponibile la versione gamma al link https://csed.acm.org/cs2023-gamma/ ma che nel frattempo il committee continua a valutare i feedback ricevuti sulla precedente versione. Chi fosse interessato, può scrivermi per prendere visione del documento (versione beta) commentato da noi e prendere parte alla discussione. Abbiamo tempo fino al 31 ottobre per inviare ulteriori commenti (questa volta alla versione gamma), a nome del capitolo italiano di SIGCHI. Chi riuscisse a dedicare un po' di tempo a questa attività, sarebbe il benvenuto. Colgo l'occasione per congratularmi con i General Chairs Cristina Gena e Luigi De Russis e con tutti i membri del Comitato Organizzatore per l'eccellente lavoro svolto col programma scientifico di CHItaly2023. Tutto sullo sfondo dell'incantevole città di Torino. Come sempre, è stato un piacere incontrare tanti di voi di persona e constatare che la nostra comunità sta crescendo e si sta arricchendo di tanti giovani ricercatori pieni di entusiasmo verso la disciplina dell'HCI, in tutte le sue declinazioni. Un caro saluto a tutti, Giuliana --- Prof. Giuliana Vitiello, PhD Director HCI-UsE Lab Department of Computer Science University of Salerno Italy phone +39 089 963317 cell +39 3666758965 https:// <https://docenti.unisa.it/003730/home> docenti.unisa.it/giuliana.vitiello

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Last CFP: Special issue n. 59 on "Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engines of Twin Transitions" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer be updated since last 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems as engines of the twin transitions *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/smart-learning-ecosystems-as-engines-of-twins-transitions/> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. CiteScore 2022: 2.0 (Q1: Design (/Architecture); Q2: Media Technology, Education; Q3: Human Computer Interaction) * *---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, Estonia =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *October 15th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: December 15th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: January 15th, 2024 • Publication of the special issue: March 2024 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The development of Smart Learning Ecosystems is of strategic relevance for all the territorial ambits on which they insist, either because they can act as a bulwark against degradation in the most critical areas, or because they can contribute to increasing the well-being of students and their communities of reference; moreover, they can also act as a driver for sustainable development of the territories. The achievement of an adequate level of smartness in the learning ecosystems is, however, a process that needs a long-term vision, multidisciplinary competencies, an attitude to understand people and contexts and to mediate points of view, a dynamic approach to resilience to keep on track and achieve, step-by-step, the foreseen goals: in short, an attitude to design and implement sustainable projects and processes aimed at achieving a people-centered smart environments and education. Climate change, pandemics, wars (more or less uncovered), and the energy and food crises triggered by them, all point towards the need to change our lifestyles and make them fully sustainable. The SDGs [1] and the cultural and technological transitions they foster – such as the green transition – therefore become new challenges with which smart learning ecosystems and communities must measure themselves to support the education of competent and responsible future citizens. Citizens whose future behaviour implies the entrenchment of a sense of membership [2] and the development of meta-design competencies [3]-, i.e., the competence of knowing how to explore and manage, the ambiguity and uncertainty that changes will bring. Within such an evolving scenario, we also have to face the amplifying power of digital technologies, which – as discussed in the UNESCO document “The futures of education for participation in 2050” [4] – could contribute, through educational processes, to the development of a fairer and more equitable society and, at the same time, to more careful use of resources; but, on the other hand, if not adequately utilized, they could also lead to deepening the existing gaps. Thus, we have to face a parallel digital transition that raises many questions about its impact on humans and the environment, including its energy sustainability. The digital transition – which complements the other cultural transitions induced by SDGs (giving rise to multiple twin transitions) – thus, left us with complex questions about when, how, and why to use digital technologies in and for learning, that can be approached through multiple perspectives and angles. How can they contribute sustainably, to transform education, support cultural transitions, reduce inequalities, and at the same time, empower individuals according to their needs, expectations, and talents? 1. https://en.unesco.org/sustainabledevelopmentgoals 2. Haste H., Chopra V., “The futures of education for participation in 2050: educating for managing uncertainly and ambiguity”, 2020, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374441 3. Giovannella C. “Is complexity tameable? Toward a design for the experience in a complex world” IxD&A Journal, N. 15, 2012, pp. 18-30, https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-015-002 4. Futures of Education. A new Social Contract for Education. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379707 ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- General topics of interest acting as background and frame for the twin transitions can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place- centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. All can be related to studies that develop on a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world, namely nurtured by the pertinence of smart learning ecosystems as engines of the twin transitions, like the green and digital one. *Places for smart education* * future of institutional learning * interplay between formal and informal learning * new educational models and settings * continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space in the learning process * role of games and gamification case studies in smart education * dual education and other alternate scheme approaches * monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) *People in place- centered design for smart education* * general frameworks and methodological advancement * competence based learning, evaluation and certification * design, data and other relevant literacies * literacies, skills and competences of future citizens * communities and co-design in smart learning ecosystems sharing & participatory practices * open access to any resources and disparity * cultural influences *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* * AI for smart learning ecosystems: Ethical aspects, tools and H-AI interaction * knowledge graphsx and applications * text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis * intelligent tutoring systems * real/virtual communities and social network analysis * interoperability and application of open/smart data and services * safety & security in education * IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies * adaptability to educational contexts and citizens * role of VR in education =========================================== /*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 8-30 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engines of Twins Transitions") 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 the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engines of Twins Transitions/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • sirje [dot] virkus [at] tlu [dot] ee ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: STAG 2023 - Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics - Extended Deadline

by Giuseppe Caggianese

*** Deadline extended: STAG 2023 - Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics *** It is still possible to submit your contribution to STAG 2023. The submission deadlines have been extended to September 17th (Abstract submission) and September 24th (Papers/Posters submission), 2023. You can read the detailed CFP below. STAG is an annual international conference organized by the Italian Chapter of the Eurographics Association. The University of Basilicata and Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti di Matera will host STAG 2023 on November 16-17 ( https://www.stag-conference.org/2023/index.html). The aim of STAG is to disseminate knowledge and pioneering concepts pertaining to the theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics. By bringing together researchers and professionals from both national and international scientific communities, the event facilitates the exchange of the latest advancements in the field. The conference actively encourages the submission of innovative proposals that address practical challenges through novel approaches, intelligent solutions that enhance existing techniques and algorithms for real-world applications, as well as system and workflow papers that showcase their tangible impact on practical implementations. We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics: - 2D/3D Computer Vision - Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning for Visual Computing - Acquisition and Reconstruction - Animation - eXtended Reality - Computational Fabrication and Digital Manufacturing - Computational Geometry - Computer Graphics applications in industry, biomedicine, cultural heritage, entertainment, physics, design, robotics, digital twin, smart cities, etc. - Geometry processing - Human-Computer Interaction - Imaging and image processing - Pattern Recognition - Rendering - Shape modeling, synthesis and analysis - Topological Data Analysis for Visual Computing - Visualization and Perception - Volumetric modeling - 3D Web graphics *** Submission *** Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers, as well as dataset papers and software papers. Accepted papers will be included in the STAG proceedings, published in the Eurographics Digital Library. The authors of the selected top-quality papers presented at the conference will receive invitations to submit extended versions of their work to a Special Issue in prestigious academic journals, including Computers & Graphics (Elsevier), Computer Graphics & Applications (IEEE), or Graphical Models (Elsevier). Please check the conference website for more information: https://www.stag-conference.org *** DEADLINE EXTENDED *** - Abstract submission: September 10, 2023 - September 17, 2023 - Papers submission: September 17, 2023 - September 24, 2023 - Notification: October 13, 2023 - Camera Ready: October 20, 2023 - Conference: November 16-17, 2023 *** Contact *** If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at stag2023(a)unibas.it

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 57 is now available for free downloading

by Carlo Giovannella

======================================================== /Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 *established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal implements also video presentations of the published contributions. CiteScore 2022: 2.0 (Q1: Design (/Architecture); Q2: Media Technology, Education; Q3: Human Computer Interaction) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Issue N. 57 *featuring a special issue **on:* **Competence-based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing, and democracy.** */guest editors: ///Ilaria Bortolotti, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone/ /+ Regular papers is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-057 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold/Diamond 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. 57 - ToC*/** ** ///Preface to the special isue on *Competence-based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing, and democracy.* by /Ilaria Bortolotti, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone/ p. 5 – 7 /Carlo Giovannella/ “Learning by being”: integrated thinking and competencies to mark the difference from AIs, pp. 8 – 26 /Stefano Cacciamani and Nobuko Fujita/ Promoting Life Competences in the Knowledge Society: The Contribution of Knowledge Building Model for Educational Systems, pp. 27 – 46 /Marcelo F. Maina, Lourdes Guàrdia, Federica Mancini, Carolina García/ Development of a Model for Transversal Competence Assessment in K-12: an Internal Validation Study for the Digital Competence, pp. 47 – 64 /Betty Tärning, Eva-Maria Ternblad, Agneta Gulz, Magnus Haake/ A tale about facts and opinions: The impact of a drama intervention on middle-school students´ information literacy, pp. 65 – 81 /Giuseppe Ritella, Fedela Feldia Loperfido/ Harnessing digital community mapping for the development of primary and secondary students’ civic competences: a case study, pp. 82 – 96 / //David S. Bowers and Marian Petre/ Developing a Competence Assessment which References a Student Portfolio to a Professional Skills Framework, pp. 97 – 114 /Antonio Palacios-Rodríguez, Francisco D. Guillén-Gámez, Julio Cabero-Almenara, Juan Jesús Gutiérrez-Castillo/ Teacher Digital Competence in the stages of Compulsory Education according to DigCompEdu: The impact of demographic predictors on its development, pp. 115 – 132 /Alejandra Celis Vargas, Rikke Magnussen, Ingrid Mulder, Birger Larsen/ Towards a framework for Open Data literacy in education: A systematic mapping review of Open Data skills and learning approaches, pp. 133 – 151 /Kai Pata and Külli Kori/ Cross Academia and Public Citizen Engagement for Developing Active Citizenship Competences, pp. 152 – 166 *Regular paper* /Agneta Gulz and Magnus Haake/ Lessons from a preschool intervention study carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic, pp. 167 – 187, abstract, download -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Call for Papers] Special Issue on Human AI Conversational Systems in "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing"

by Tommaso Turchi

Dear all, I hope you all had a wonderful summer holiday. I am excited to announce an upcoming Special Issue in "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing" titled "Human AI Conversational Systems: When Humans and Machines Start to Chat", for which I am serving as an editor. I believe that many of you would be ideal contributors to this special issue. About the Special Issue: In the digital era, chatbots and conversational agents like ChatGPT have marked a significant shift in human-computer interactions, offering a more intuitive, human-like approach to obtaining information, utilizing products, and accessing services. This special issue aims to shed light on the present achievements in this domain and to further probe into the prospective avenues through which we might engage with these technologies in the future. Key Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): Designing, implementing, and evaluating chatbot interactions with humans. Natural language processing and multi-modal interaction nuances. Personalization techniques and adaptation strategies for conversational agents. Societal, ethical, and emotional implications of chatbots and their interactions. The application of chatbots in diverse sectors such as Arts, Humanities, and Creative Industries. … Submission Details: Deadline: December 15, 2023 Length: Typically 7,000–8,000 words (excluding references, captions, appendices). Longer or shorter articles have specific conditions as mentioned in the call. Call for Paper: Human AI Conversational Systems: When Humans and Machines Start to Chat<https://www.springer.com/journal/779/updates/24070322> Submission Link: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Submission Guidelines<https://www.springer.com/journal/779/submission-guidelines> Further Information: Springer Nature Information for Journal Article Authors<https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author> For an in-depth understanding of the scope and guidelines, please refer to the attached Call for Papers. I encourage all of you to consider submitting your pioneering work to this special issue. Additionally, please feel free to share this call with your colleagues and research associates who may also be interested. Thank you for your consideration, and I am eagerly looking forward to the many new perspectives that you can bring to this special issue. Warm regards, //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================//

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