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Elezione Presidente SIGCHI Italy - Votazioni aperte fino al 25 Ottobre

by Maristella Matera

Carissime/i, sono ora aperte le votazioni per il prossimo Presidente della nostra associazione, ACM SIGCHI Italy. La candidata è Giuliana Vitiello. Riporto nuovamente in allegato la sua lettera di candidatura. Gli iscritti ***ad ACM e a SIGCHI*** possono ora votare accedendo al modulo: https://forms.gle/WyPzaVQPB6RyLiQT6 Vista la necessità di controllare l'appartenenza dei votanti ad ACM e SIGCHI (pena la validità della votazione), il voto non è segreto ma è riservato. I garanti del voto saranno: il presidente uscente (me stessa), il vice-presidente (Massimo Zancanaro), un segretario (Davide Spano). Tutti si impegnano alla riservatezza dell'identità dei votanti e del voto espresso. Le votazioni si chiuderanno martedì 25 Ottobre alle ore 18.00. Un caro saluto, Maristella

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Final Call for Late Breaking Results

by Announce Announcements

*** Final Call for Late Breaking Results *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Virtual Event https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) *** Deadline: November 1st, AoE (firm!) *** IHAW 2022 accepts now submissions for late breaking results. The instructions to authors remain the same, as for the regular submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the same proceedings volume with the regular submissions and will be eligible both for the Best Paper Award and to be selected for the special journal issues that will be prepared after the conference. ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: November 1, 2022 (AoE, firm!) • Notification: November 15, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: November 24, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: November 24, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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WUD-SIGCHItaly 2022: save the date!

by Cristina Gena

Carissim*, il World Usability Day, come sapete, è la giornata mondiale organizzata dalla Usability Professionals Association che 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 *OUR HEALTH* (https://worldusabilityday.org/ <https://worldusabilityday.org/>). Come gli scorsi due anni, abbiamo programmato l’evento del WUD non legato alle singole città, ma a respiro nazionale e sotto il cappello della nostra organizzazione.Organizzano l’evento 2022 *Cristina Gena* (Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino) e *Luigi De Russis* (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica del Politecnico di Torino), co-adiuvati dalla presidentessa SIGCHItaly Maristella Matera e dall’ex presidente Massimo Zancanaro. Giovedì 10 novembre dalle ore 9 si terrà online, e in presenza a Torino, il terzo WUD-SIGCHItaly, seguiranno ulteriori email per dettagli e aggiornamenti. Sul sito (http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/ <http://wud-sigchitaly.di.unito.it/>) sarà possibile registrarsi gratuitamente all’evento. Il programma, in fase di ulteriore definizione, avrà come relatore di apertura il dottor Matteo Cestari, CEO di Omitech srl, startup innovativa di service robotics, attiva nell’utilizzo dei robot all’interno di ospedali e case di cura. Seguiranno interventi di Franca Garzotto, PoliMI Rosella Gennari, UniBZ** Elisa Ficarra, UniMORE Marco Mores, FRATERNITA' E AMICIZIA - Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS Fabio Paternò, CNR Amon Rapp, UniTO Irene Renga, UniTO ... Segnate la data per ora, a giorni pubblicheremo il programma dettagliato! Un caro saluto Cristina Gena e Luigi De Russis

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Open professor position in HCI at KU Leuven Groep T (Belgium)

by Adalberto Simeone

Apologies for cross-posting. KU Leuven has a vacancy for a full-time (junior or senior) professor in the domain of Human-Computer Interaction at Group T Leuven Campus. We are looking for internationally oriented candidates with an excellent applied research record and with educational competence within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The new faculty member will become a member of the research Department of Computer Science, which is internationally renowned for its research in informatics, computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematical engineering, digital humanities, and teacher education (https://wms.cs.kuleuven.be/cs/english/research). The new professor will moreover become a member of the Faculty of Engineering Technology that offers academic yet implementation-oriented engineering programs at seven campuses across Flanders. Main teaching duties will be situated at Group T Leuven Campus (https://www.kuleuven.be/grouptcampus), an international and entrepreneurial engineering campus in Leuven city centre. Website unit<https://iiw.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/emedia> Details are available at: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60146995?hl=en&lang=en We encourage candidates to contact us for more information on the contents of the job: * Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Vandewalle, chair of the Department of Computer Science (Stefan.Vandewalle(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:Stefan.Vandewalle@kuleuven.be> , +32 16 32 76 54) or * Prof. dr. ir. Wim Dewulf, campus chair of Group T Leuven campus (Wim.Dewulf(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:Wim.Dewulf@kuleuven.be> , +32 16 37 28 81) -- Adalberto L. Simeone Associate Professor ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be<https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be/> Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven Follow me on Twitter @Adal_LS<http://twitter.com/Adal_LS> https://www.adalsimeone.me<https://www.adalsimeone.me/>

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IS-EUD 2023 - Call for Papers

by Carmen Santoro

Call for Papers 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023) 6-8 June 2023, Cagliari, Italy https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/ End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in technology development, to create their own technology to address their specific needs. These technologies might include mobile, web or software systems, IoT solutions, physical computing devices or machine learning systems. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event, that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices. Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: • describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development • describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor technology artefacts • present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development • develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Papers We invite two types of paper submissions: -Regular papers, up to 16 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field -Short papers, up to 8 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2023, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Submission The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Papers must be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format. Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system until the submission deadline (two different tracks, for regular and short papers, will be available for submission in Easychair). Important dates: Regular and Short papers submission: 1 March 2023 Notification: 23 March 2023 Camera-ready: 16 April 2023 Program Chairs Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Simone Stumpf, University of Glasgow, UK

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Chair di SIGCHI Italy: candidature ed elezioni

by Maristella Matera

Carissime/i, A fine Ottobre scade il mio mandato di chair del SIGCHI Italy; è quindi giunto il momento di eleggere chi svolgerà questo ruolo per il prossimo biennio. Procederemo nel seguente modo: * Entro *** Venerdì 14 Ottobre***: chi volesse candidarsi potrà esprimere la propria candidatura inviando a me un breve testo di presentazione e di descrizione della propria visione sul futuro e sugli obiettivi dell'associazione. * 15 Ottobre: le candidature saranno distribuite alla comunità attraverso questa mailing list. * 20-25 Ottobre: i membri con diritto di voto potranno esprimere online la loro preferenza (seguiranno istruzioni). Ricordo che potranno votare coloro che risultano iscritti ad ACM e al SIGCHI. Alla pagina http://sigchitaly.eu/en/members/ è disponibile l'elenco che abbiamo definito in base alle segnalazioni che ci sono pervenute. In caso di variazioni, e cioè mancati rinnovi dell'iscrizione o nuove iscrizioni non ancora segnalate, vi preghiamo di inviare un messaggio a me e a Davide Spano (davide.spano(a)unica.it). Cari saluti a tutti, Maristella Matera

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

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*** First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 Tutorial Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): First Call for Workshops and Minisymposia

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*** First Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: - Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) - Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. - A tentative program committee (10-15 members) - Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops - Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including european project meetings) * organizational aspects - Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) - Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities - Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it - Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines - Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review - Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest - Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2020 conference co-chairs in time - Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference - Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management - Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered - Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper - Registering for the conference - Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2020 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. (Submission address and deadline at the end) MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: - Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) - Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. - Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives - Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), - Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. - Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it - Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation. - Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers. - Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions - Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time - Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions. - Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium. - Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) - Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 - Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 - Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 - Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 - Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS - Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) - Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Preliminary Call for Papers

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*** Preliminary Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Important Dates • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) Conference Topics We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. Detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track will be available shortly in the extended version of the CFP on the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Adaptive, Semantic, Knowledge, and Social Graphs This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, beneficial to society, and accountable for their impacts. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. Submission and Review Process Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) Additional review criteria and submission link will be available shortly on the conference website: https://www.um.org/umap2023/ . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment). Program Chairs • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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1st CFP: Special issue on "Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality* 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=call55 <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call55> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Patrizia Marti, University of Siena, Italy • Francesca Pozzi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *December 15, 2022* • Notification to the authors: January 31, 2023 • Camera ready paper: February 20, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: first half March 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The guest editors are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from all over the world involved in the development of Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education, as engines of social innovation and territorial development. At the core, the adjective “smart” comprises terms like intelligent, purpose oriented, supportive, artful, clever and the like. Thus, smart does not necessarily include the usage of technology (neither does it exclude technology!). After the shock of the pandemic, learning ecosystems – and in particular schools, universities, and territorial learning communities – all over the world – are facing a new phase characterized by the search for and the experimentation of ways to their “new normality“. In such a context, collaboration is emerging as an approach and an attitude of considerable relevance that stays also at the basis of the polyphonic construction of the future of learning ecosystems. Alongside collaboration, on the technological side, it continues to rise the relevance of intelligent systems, generically collected under the label of Artificial Intelligence (AI); concurrently, on the pedagogical side, competences have become the goal of future education, also in the attempt to close the skill gap, which represents one of the greatest dangers for the transition towards smarter productive systems and societies. Competences and AI, by the way, are also topics that intersect and influence each other and rise questions of ethical nature. So, what should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world” as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? This special issue, which is supported by the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD), welcomes papers that report on work aimed to contribute to the discussion about these issues. Submission of substantially extended version of the papers presented at SLERD 2022, are welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interests 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 of which, can also include studies that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world. *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, process in learning role of and case studies of games and gamification 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, skill and competences of future citizens communities and co-design in smart learning ecosystems sharing & participatory practices open access to any resource and disparity cultural influences *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces semantic web technologies and applications text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis AI for smart learning ecosystems: critical aspects and opportunities 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 8-20 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: "SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality") 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: /Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • marti [at] unisi [dot] it • francesca [dot] pozzi [at] itd [dot] cnr [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney ----------------------------------------------------------

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