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[CFP] NLDB 2024 - The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems

by Federico Torrielli

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/submissions/ =============== NLDB 2024 The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 25-27 June 2024, University of Turin, Italy. Website: https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/ Submission deadline: 22 March, 2024 About NLDB The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems will be held at the University of Turin, Italy, and will be a face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in various applications of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term "Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked Data and Social Networks. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has itself recently experienced several exciting developments. In research, these developments have been reflected in the emergence of Large Language Modelsand the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and fairness, Large Multimodal Models and the connection of the NLP field with Computer Vision, chatbots and dialogue-based pipelines. Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. Language models developed by the open-source community have become widespread and commonly used. Businesses are now readily adopting these technologies, thanks to the efforts of the open-source community. For example, fine-tuning a language model on a company’s own dataset is now easy and convenient, using modules created by thousands of academic researchers and industry experts. It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its applications in information systems that the 29th edition of the NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers. Call for Papers: NLDB 2024 invites authors to submit papers on unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. This year's edition of NLDB continues with the Industry Track to foster fruitful interaction between the industry and the research community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Large Language Models: training, applications, transfer learning, interpretability of large language models. * Multimodal Models: Integration of text with other modalities like images, video, and audio; multimodal representation learning; applications of multimodal models. * AI Safety and ethics: Safe and ethical use of Generative AI and NLP; avoiding and mitigating biases in NLP models and systems; explainability and transparency in AI. * Natural Language Interfaces and Interaction: design and implementation of Natural Language Interfaces, user studies with human participants on Conversational User Interfaces, chatbots and LLM-based chatbots and their interaction with users. * Social Media and Web Analytics: Opinion mining/sentiment analysis, irony/sarcasm detection; detection of fake reviews and deceptive language; detection of harmful information: fake news and hate speech; sexism and misogyny; detection of mental health disorders; identification of stereotypes and social biases; robust NLP methods for sparse, ill-formed texts; recommendation systems. * Deep Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Deep learning architectures, word embeddings, transparency, interpretability, fairness, debiasing, ethics. * Argumentation Mining and Applications: Automatic detection of argumentation components and relationships; creation of resource (e.g. annotated corpora, treebanks and parsers); Integration of NLP techniques with formal, abstract argumentation structures; Argumentation Mining from legal texts and scientific articles. * Question Answering (QA): Natural language interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, non-factoid QA(how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets, QA over linked data (QALD). * Corpus Analysis: multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-modal corpora; machine translation, text analysis, text classification and clustering; language identification; plagiarism detection; information extraction: named entity, extraction of events, terms and semantic relationships. * Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, and Ontologies: Ontology learning and alignment, ontology population, ontology evaluation, querying ontologies and linked data, semantic tagging and classification, ontology-driven NLP, ontology-driven systems integration. * Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling: Analysis of natural language descriptions, NLP in requirement engineering, terminological ontologies, consistency checking, metadata creation and harvesting. * Natural Language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive computing, embedded, robotic and mobile applications; conversational agents; NLP techniques for Internet of Things (IoT); NLP techniques for ambient intelligence * Big Data and Business Intelligence: Identity detection, semantic data cleaning, summarisation, reporting, and data to text. Important Dates: Full paper submission: 22 March, 2024 Paper notification: 19 April, 2024 Camera-ready deadline: 26 April, 2024 Conference: 25-27 June 2024 Submission Guidelines: Authors should follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ) and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Easychair (submission will open on 1 February, 2024) Papers can be submitted to either the main conference or the industry track. Submissions can be full papers (up to 15 pages including references and appendices), short papers (up to 11 pages including references and appendices) or papers for a poster presentation or system demonstration (6 pages including references). The programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or poster papers. All questions about submissions should be emailed to federico.torrielli(a)unito.it (Web & Publicity Chair) General Chairs: Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin Farid Meziane, University of Derby Amon Rapp, University of Turin Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University

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[CfP] AVI 2024 workshop 'Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens 2024)'

by Tommaso Calo'

Call for Papers – Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens 2024) AVI 2024 Workshop June 3-4 2024 – Arenzano (Genova), Italy More info: https://sites.google.com/view/digi-teens --- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Recently, researchers have been examining the unforeseen issues caused by the excessive use of personal devices and online services, especially as companies increasingly employ "attention-capture" tactics like guilty-pleasure recommendations and automatic content playback. These strategies exploit users' psychological vulnerabilities, aiming to boost advertising revenue, resulting in tangible repercussions on users' perceived agency and often leading to a perceived lack of control over their technology use. These problems gave rise to a new kind of psychological "digital wellbeing," investigated in fields such as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and psychology. Traditional strategies employed by practitioners and researchers involve the creation of Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs), i.e., mobile applications and browser extensions that empower users to monitor their usage patterns and implement interventions, such as timers and lock-out mechanisms, to self-regulate device usage. Yet, researchers and the users themselves are starting to warn that achieving digital wellbeing is a path of personal growth that requires education more than self-monitoring strategies. The objective of this workshop is to establish a venue for the academic and industrial communities to discuss ongoing research and ideas at the intersection of digital wellbeing and education, aiming to promote the development of strategies and tools to "teach" users – particularly children and teenagers – to use technology more meaningfully and consciously. This objective can be achieved in multiple ways, such as by creating novel DSCTs that include educational aspects, serious games, or collaborative platforms to introduce and support digital wellbeing learning at school. This workshop is part of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We invite researchers and practitioners in interdisciplinary domains intersecting HCI, AI, psychology, design, and/or education to engage in dialog on the topics above. A key priority of our workshop will be to invite submissions from an intellectually diverse and global group of participants to further discussions on how appropriate human-centered design can contribute to digital wellbeing education. Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a position paper (2-4 pages) describing and highlighting their contributions to the workshop topics. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - participatory and co-design of digital wellbeing systems; - tools and strategies to teach digital wellbeing at school; - strategies and tools for measuring students’ digital wellbeing; - novel DSCTs that include educational aspects; - gamification strategies for digital wellbeing; - ethical, social, and political factors. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE This half-day workshop will be interactive and informal. It will combine presentations of accepted position papers with discussions and hands-on sessions, aimed at generating ideas for future research directions. The workshop is planned to be in-person, at the conference. Virtual participation will be made possible. AVI workshops are scheduled for either the 3rd or 4th of June, 2024. Please check back the workshop website soon for the exact dates and scheduling information. SUBMISSIONS Submissions of position papers should be of 2-4 pages, in the ACM Primary Article Submission Templates (single column, https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). PDFs of submissions can be emailed to Alberto Monge Roffarello (one of the organizers) at alberto.monge(a)polito.it. They will be reviewed by all organizers based on relevance, originality, and overall quality. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop. Virtual participation will be made possible. All workshop participants will need to register for the workshop. Accepted and presented papers will be made available on CEUR Workshop Proceedings, if possible, while workshop results will be published on our website. Notifications will be mailed to the authors within 15 days of receipt (and no later than the date reported below). IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 31 March 2024 Notification: 19 April 2024 Camera-ready: 05 May 2024 Registration due: 10 May 2024 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alberto Monge Roffarello, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Chiara Ceccarini, Università di Bologna, Italy Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy

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ACM UMAP 2024 - Final Call for Full and Short Papers

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/ =============== ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy July 1-4, 2024 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<https://sigchi.org/> and SIGWEB<https://www.sigweb.org/>. User Modeling Inc.<https://um.org/>, as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library<https://dl.acm.org/>. The theme of UMAP 2024 is “Collaboration and Cooperation for the Greater Good“. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that working together and synergy (such as between academia, industry, influential policy making bodies, committees and communities) can have on solving the world’s biggest problems; the focus is on investigations that capture how user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems may influence user behavior, trustful processes and whether new models are required, for building sustainable and inclusive services and solutions that can address critical challenges of our world. 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 claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Important Dates - Paper Abstract Submission: January 22, 2024 (mandatory) - Paper Submission: January 29, 2024 - Notification: March 28, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: May 9, 2024 - Conference: July 1 – 4, 2024 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 this page. ** 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. ** Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web ** 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** For UMAP 2024 we encourage two kinds of submissions (reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for each contribution), in the ACM new single-column format<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>: * Long papers should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 14 pages (excluding references, which do not count towards the limit). Each accepted long paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. * Short papers typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance to this category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical foundation. The maximum length is 7 pages (excluding references, which do not count towards the limit). Each accepted short paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented either as an oral presentation or at the poster session. 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. In addition, UMAP 2024 will introduce a new “Raise Your Voice” stage during evaluation, offering a small window to authors to optionally discuss the initial decision of their submission, enhancing the transparency and quality of the reviewing process. Additional review criteria and submission link will be available shortly on the conference website: https://www.um.org/umap2024. UMAP has a no dual submission policy, which is why full and short paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduc<https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment>t. Grants and Support To help students and early career researchers attend ACM UMAP 2024, we are able to provide several grants for participants at ACM UMAP 2024. * Category 1: Discounted Registration Rates * Category 2: Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) * Category 3: ACM UMAP 2024 Grants More information can be found in https://www.um.org/umap2024/grants-and-support/. Please refer to the website information, to learn the eligibility and application process for each category. Program Chairs * Panagiotis Germanakos, SAP SE, Germany * Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Contact information: umap2024-program(a)um.org<mailto:umap2024-program@um.org>

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[TEI 2024] Early bird registration deadline: EXTENDED to January 28th, 2024

by Eleonora Mencarini

*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear all, The deadline for early bird registration at TEI 2024 has been extended to January 28th, 2024. To know more about the various registration fees, please visit the dedicated page on our website: https://tei.acm.org/2024/index.php/registration-2/ Best regards, TEI 2024 Publicity & Social Media Chairs, Eleonora Mencarini, Bruno Kessler Foundation Caroline Claisse, Newcastle University

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Last Reminder: abstract submission by 17 January to AVI 2024 - International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

by Maurizio Mancini

ACM in-cooperation Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ====================================== 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/> ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES Long and short papers: - Abstract submission: Wednesday, January 17 2024 - Paper submission: Wednesday, January 24 2024 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 ----------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Thanks to advances in technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an actual international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. AVI 2024 is under the patronage of University of Genoa, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Italy and is held in-cooperation with ACM, SIGCHI, SIGMM, SIGWEB. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2024! Ilaria Torre (AVI 2024 Program Chair) AVI 2024 General Chairs .Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa For information or requests, please contact avi2024(a)easychair.org<mailto: avi2024(a)easychair.org> ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Visual Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction Human-AI Interaction Visual Interfaces for Human-Centered AI Systems Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Creative AI for advanced visual interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Generative AI for the design and development of visual interfaces Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for i-TV Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces for Children Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Usability and (Cyber)Security Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We solicit high-quality original research papers in the area of advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Long and Short papers are publications that address AVI 2024 topics and describe original, unpublished research. Submissions must be anonymized. The maximum length of long papers is 8 pages (with one additional page for references). The maximum length of short papers is 4 pages (with one additional page for references). SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers require online submission. Authors must format submissions according to the ACM SIGCONF template. Please find the templates below: - Latex for Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner… - Word Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, or software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]". Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 Authors are required to send a 250-word abstract by the abstract deadline, one week before final submission, to speed up the paper assignment to reviewers. PROCEEDINGS Since 1994, accepted long and short research papers are included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to AVI 2024 by the early registration deadline for authors and present the paper at the Conference. ----------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Paternò, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France ----------------------------------------------------------------- @avi2024conference (https://www.facebook.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conference (https://www.instagram.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conf (https://twitter.com/avi2024conf) @avi2024conference https://www.linkedin.com/company/avi2024conference/

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[CFP] Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue on Synthetic Images to Support Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems

by Andrea Loddo

Dear colleagues, please find enclosed the call for papers for our Special Issue Kind regards Guest Editors [apologies for multiple postings] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synthetic Images to Support Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/pattern-recognition-letters/about/cal… <https://eu-central-1.protection.sophos.com/?d=sciencedirect.com&u=aHR0cHM6L…> DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUE Today's health systems collect and deliver most medical data in digital format, mainly thanks to the scientific and technological advances that have led to digitization and increased generation and collection of data describing real-world applications or processes. The availability of medical data enables a large number of artificial intelligence applications, and there is growing interest in quantitative analysis of clinical images, such as Positron Emission Tomography, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In addition, machine and deep learning models and data-driven artificial intelligence applications have proven to improve the management and decision-making to improve the discovery of new therapeutic tools, support diagnostic decisions, aid in the rehabilitation process, etc. Despite the potential of data-driven solutions, many problems prevent or delay the development of such solutions. For example, the increasing amount of available data can lead to increased effort to make a diagnosis and is even more challenging due to high inter/intra patient variability, the availability of different imaging techniques, the absence of completely standard acquisition procedures, and the need to consider data from multiple sensors and sources. Additional relevant issues are data access and the representativeness of the captured sample compared to the actual population. Access to real data may be delayed or even prevented for various reasons, such as privacy, security, and intellectual property, or the development of the necessary (quality) acquisition and preparation technology. Sample representativeness is another critical issue involving class imbalance and the representation of rare and extreme events, which is crucial for the performance of artificial intelligence models. For these reasons, researchers have recently explored the use of synthetic data (SD) with three different use cases regarding (i) data augmentation to balance data sets or supplement available data before training a model, (ii) privacy preservation to enable secure and private sharing of sensitive data; and (iii) simulation: to estimate and teach systems in situations that have not been observed in actual reality. The main goals of this special issue are to bring together diverse, new, and impactful research on synthetic data generation for biomedical imaging with a powerful impact on Computer-Aided Diagnosis systems for real-world clinical applications. TOPICS Topics of interest to this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Synthetic Images for Privacy-Preserving Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems - Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Training with Synthetic Images - Synthetic Images for Benchmarking Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems - Medical Image Translation - Text-guided Medical Image Generation - Multimodal Medical Image Generation - Synthetic Images for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Domain Adaptation - Synthetic Images for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Domain Generalisation SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The PRL's submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from July 1st, 2024. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type VSI: SISCAD. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal can be found on the Journal Homepage: Guide for authors - Pattern Recognition Letters - ISSN 0167-8655 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Period: *1-31 July 2024* - Acceptance Deadline: *9 December 2024* GUEST EDITORS Andrea Loddo, University of Cagliari (Italy) Lorenzo Putzu, University of Cagliari (Italy) Cecilia Di Ruberto, University of Cagliari (Italy) Carsten Marr, Helmholtz Center Munich German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg (Germany) Albert Comelli, Ri.MED Foundation (Italy) Alessandro Stefano, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council of Cefalu’ (Italy) ___________ Andrea Loddo PhD | Dept. Of Mathematics and Computer Science | University of Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, Cagliari, Italy Office: +39 070 675 8503 *And after all we're only ordinary men*

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CAiSE'24: First Call for Journal First Submissions

by Announce

*** First Call for Journal First Submissions *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 31st March, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 is organising journal-first sessions as part of the scientific program. The aim of these sessions is to disseminate recent important research contributions and spark discussions between authors and researchers in the CAiSE community. Authors of selected journal articles on CAiSE-related topics will be invited to present their work at the conference. SCOPE For the journal-first sessions, we solicit submissions related to articles that have been accepted for publication by a reputable journal and that meet the following criteria: • The article relates to the topics of the CAiSE conference and the recent call for papers. • The article is an original submission to the journal and not an extension of an earlier conference or workshop paper. • The article is an original research article; review articles or commentaries will not be considered. • The article was accepted for publication by a journal on or after 1 January 2023, the acceptance must have been publicly announced, the article must be available at the publisher’s website (e.g., as "articles in advance" or published on a journal’s website), and the article must be written in English. • The article has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first tracks of other conferences. FORMAT Accepted submissions will be presented as part of the CAiSE 2024 scientific programme. SUBMISION Submissions must be done electronically via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2024) and include: • Title and author information of the article. • The original abstract and keywords. • DOI of the original publication or, alternatively, a link to the publication at the journal’s website. EVALUATION All submissions will be reviewed by the track chairs with the aim to accept all qualifying submissions subject to ability to accommodate them in the program. If needed, priority will be given to submissions according to their topical fit with the scope of the conference, the importance of the contribution, as well as the standing of the respective journal (including, but not limited to, the journal's impact factor and ranking results). ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION At least one author of each submission accepted for the journal-first track must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the journal article. As the articles of the journal-first track have been published already, they will not be part of the CAiSE 2024 proceedings. The articles will be listed in the conference program and CAiSE 2024 participants will have access to the respective abstracts and a pointer to the original journal article. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: 31st March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 14th April, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 JOURNAL FIRST CHAIRS • Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy • Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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[TEI 2024] Conference program now online + early bird registration closing soon: 21st January 2024

by Eleonora Mencarini

*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, The TEI2024 conference program is finally online! It can be consulted at https://programs.sigchi.org/tei/2024. Furthermore, we kindly remind you that the early bird registration for TEI 2024 is closing on 21st January 2024 (one week from now). For more information about the various registration fees, please visit the dedicated page on our website: https://tei.acm.org/2024/index.php/registration-2/. Best regards, TEI 2024 Publicity & Social Media Chairs, Eleonora Mencarini, Bruno Kessler Foundation Caroline Claisse, Newcastle University

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 58 is now available for free downloading

by mifav＠roma2.infn.it

======================================================== Apologize for unintended cross-mailing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A [ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 | 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) To help us to improve the reader/author experience please take part in the survey -> [ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3uZpR6sZoNqhZm4tluJFpc8U_MiIVQhN… | link ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue N. 58 featuring the first IxD&A "stimulated paper" by Ana Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn on Skunkworks: The design of casual creative environments for social innovation a special issue on: Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne + Regular papers is now available for free downloading [ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-058 | https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-05 ] [ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-058 | 8 ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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… | https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IxD&A Journal, issue N. 58 - ToC Stimulated paper Ana Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn Skunkworks: The design of casual creative environments for social innovation pp. 5 – 31 Special issue on: Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. Preface by Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne p. 33 – 38 Giacomo Nalli, Georgios Dafoulas, Ariadni Tsiakara, Bahareh Langari, Kajal Mistry, Farzad Tahmasebi Aria Hybrid Educational Environments – Using IoT to detect emotion changes during student interactions, pp. 39 – 52 Gökçe Elif Baykal, Olof Torgersson, Peter Ruijten, Eva Eriksson Teaching Design of Technologies for Collaborative Interaction in Physical-Digital Environments, pp. 53 – 71 Muhammad Usman, Aman Usmani, Mojgan Jadidi Re-envisioning Field Surveying as an Immersive Gamification Experience, pp. 72 – 89 Anders Kluge and Marlene Hasle Use of Augmented Reality to Integrate Knowledge, pp. 90 – 109 Brendon Clark and Ylva Fernaeus Playing with the elasticity of hybrid design education, pp. 110 – 131 Dimitrios Papanikolaou Connective Environments: Towards Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Models for Design of Networked, Interactive, Participatory Systems, pp. 132 – 156 Regular papers Ilhan Aslan, Dominik Neu, Daniela Neupert, Stefan Grafberger, Nico Weise, Pascal Pfeil, Maximilian Kuschewski How to Compliment a Human – Designing Affective and Well-being Promoting Conversational Things, pp. 157 – 184 Alessandro Pollini, Marinella Paciello, Giorgia Saleri, Giuseppe Corbelli Interaction Design and Experiment with Conversational Storytelling for Road Safety Culture, pp. 185 – 206 Vanessa Cesário, Mariana Ribeiro, António Coelho Design Recommendations for Improving Immersion in Role-Playing Video Games. A Focus on Storytelling and Localisation, pp. 207 – 225 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> [ https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/ | link ] IxD&A Facebook -> [ https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022 | link ] Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos | link ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A [ http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1 | Privacy Policy ] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Award

by Fabio Paternò

Eligibility for the 2024 Award is for work (book, article, documentary, podcast, website, or other media) published in 2021, 2022 or 2023. It includes a $500 Prize ! The deadline for the 2024 applications is February 15th, 2024. More info at https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/annual-cbi-award-human-computer-interaction-hci-hist ory -- Questa email è stata esaminata alla ricerca di virus dal software antivirus AVG. www.avg.com

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CAiSE'24: First Call for Research Projects Exhibition

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*** First Call for Research Projects Exhibition *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th April, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 features a Research Project Exhibition (RPE@CAiSE'24) where researchers and practitioners can present their ongoing research projects (e.g., H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Systems Engineering. The main objective of this call is to serve as a forum where presenters can disseminate the intermediate results of their projects or get feedback about research project proposals being developed. The exhibition will also provide a warm environment to find potential research partners, foster existing relationships, and discuss research ideas. To participate in the RPE@CAiSE'24, the authors should submit a short paper (5-8 pages) showcasing the project, including the participants, the main objectives of the project and relevant results obtained so far (or expected results in the case of project proposals). Each submission will be peer-reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of CAiSE 2024. If the paper is accepted, the authors will be invited to register for the conference to present their work at the Research Projects Exhibition session at CAiSE 2024. The accepted contributions will be proposed for publication by CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style. In addition, the authors of the most influential project presented at the RPE@CAiSE'24 will receive an award distinguishing their contribution as the "Most Influential Project of the Research Project Exhibition @CAiSE'24". RESEARCH PROJECTS REQUIREMENTS For the Research Projects Exhibition, we solicit submissions of projects related to the topics of CAiSE that meet the following criteria: • Projects funded by the European Union, by national or local funding organisations, or even by individual universities and industries. • Projects focused on fundamental research, applied research or more industry-oriented. • Research projects carried out by an international consortium of partners or by a national research team. • Research statements for future projects concerning the Information Systems Engineering community. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) by selecting the "Research Projects Exhibition". Each submission of a research project should include: • The project's full name, acronym, duration (from-to), participants, funding agency and URL. • Names of presenter(s) and main contributors. • Abstract and keywords. • Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs. • The relevance of the project (or one of its work packages) to the topics of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. • If the project is ongoing: summary of current status and intermediate results. All submissions should be 5 to 8 pages long and be formatted as a 1-column CEUR-ART style (templates available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/). An intention to submit should be performed one week before the deadline, including the full name of the project, the authors' name and the abstract. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. In case of disagreement, a third member of the Program Committee will review the submission. The Program Committee will comprise international researchers with expertise in the field. ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION During the Research Projects Exhibition session, the authors of accepted contributions will present the research project. Details about the format of the session and instructions to prepare the presentation will be given to authors after the acceptance notification. At least one author of each submission accepted for the Research Projects Exhibition must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the research project. IMPORTANT DATES • Intention to Submit: 1st April, 2024 (AoE) • Submission: 8th April, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 22nd April, 2024 • Camera Ready: 13th May, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 RESEARCH PROJECTS EXHIBITION CHAIRS • Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Henderik A. Proper, TU Wien, Austria

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[CfP] [IDC24] Research and Design Challenge Track at IDC 2024

by Dhanush Kumar Ratakonda

Dear all, We need your help spreading this call to all children around the world to help us design *“Inclusive Technologies.”* We are excited to share details of this year’s Research and Design Challenge (R&DC) associated with the *ACM Interaction Design with Children Conference (**IDC 2024* <https://idc.acm.org/2024/>*)* to be held in* Delft, Netherlands, June 17-20 2024*. The Research and Design Challenge track, as part of the ACM Interaction Design with Children conference (IDC 2024 <https://idc.acm.org/2024/>), aims to hear children’s voices and ideas to inspire researchers to propose and submit their design concepts based on children’s submissions. This track has two phases: - In phase 1, children all over the world are invited to submit their initial ideas in response to the theme *“Inclusive Technologies.”* The deadline for this phase is *January** 31st, 2024*. - In phase 2, we invite everyone, including children, researchers, and designers, to submit a design concept (i.e., prototypes, not actual artefacts) with the same theme, “Inclusive Technologies,” that builds on one or more of the ideas submitted by children in Phase 1. The deadline for this phase is *April 3rd, 2024*. If you have children or know colleagues and relatives with children, you can inform and encourage children and young adults in your family and friends about this opportunity. If you are an educator or researcher working with children and know people who work in schools, spread this call to them. The call is available in several languages on the website <https://idc.acm.org/2024/research-and-design-challenge/> in the format of a PDF flyer. - In English <https://idc.acm.org/2024/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Flyer-RDC2024-English.p…> - In Portuguese <https://idc.acm.org/2024/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Flyer-RDC2024-Portugues…> - In German <https://idc.acm.org/2024/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Flyer-RDC2024-German.pdf> - In Spanish <https://idc.acm.org/2024/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Flyer-RDC2024-Spanish.p…> - In Italian <https://idc.acm.org/2024/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Flyer-RDC2024-Italian.p…> *OVERVIEW* This year, the Interaction Design and Children 2024 conference invites children, scholars, designers, and practitioners to participate in this year's Research and Design Challenge (R&DC) under the theme of “Inclusive Technologies”. We invite people from all over the world, of all genders, countries, and needs, to imagine and submit their ideas thinking of the following question – How can we transform existing technologies (educational software, assistive devices, social media platforms, and interactive gaming, robots, computers, and more) to be more inclusive (more balanced, with the same opportunities for all, where everyone is welcome)? *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR PHASE 1* In Phase 1 of the Research & Design Challenge, children all over the world are invited to submit their initial ideas in response to the theme “Inclusive Technologies.” Individuals or teams can make submissions from a classroom, after-school program, club, maker space, or combinations from different schools, clubs, towns, or countries. Each individual or team is invited to fill out a simple form with a brief description of their idea along with drawings, pictures or other forms that best express an initial impression of the idea. The ideas received will form the basis for the second phase of the Research & Design Challenge. We accept submissions in any language. To make non-English design ideas understandable for people around the world, we will use translation tools to convert them into English. Submit children's ideas for Phase 1 here: https://tinyurl.com/IDC2024RDC *IMPORTANT DATES (Midnight in Anywhere on Earth – AoE)* - *January 31, 2024: Children's Submissions due* - February 7, 2024: Research & Design Challenge starts - April 3, 2024: Research & Design Challenge due - April 19, 2024: Challenge Finalists Notification - April 29, 2024: Publication-ready submissions due - June 17-20, 2024: IDC Conference *IDC 2024 Research and Design Chairs* Elmira Yadollahi Isabel Neto Lorraine Underwood Janet Read Best wishes, Best wishes, Dhanush

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[CfP] Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop @ IUI 2024

by Tommaso Turchi

*** Reminder: Submission Deadline Approaching *** ------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS: Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2024 ------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleagues, As we continue into the new year, this is a friendly reminder that the submission deadline for the Adaptive XAI (AXAI) Workshop, in conjunction with ACM IUI 2024, is fast approaching. We encourage you to submit your work and be part of this dynamic event dedicated to advancing the field of explainable AI. == Important Dates == * Submission Deadline: January 16, 2024 (Only 6 days left!) * Notification: February 9, 2024 * Camera Ready: February 23, 2024 * Workshop Date: March 18, 2024 == Submission Guidelines == * Length: 5-10 pages * Format: CEUR-ART 1-column Template * Selected papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a dedicated Special Issue of Springer's "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing" * Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AXAI2024 == Topics Include == We welcome your insights and research on a range of topics, including but not limited to: 1. Transparent AI Decision-Making 2. Human-Centric AI Design 3. Adaptive Explanation Interfaces 4. Cognitive Needs and Situational Awareness 5. Seamless AI-HCI Integration 6. Diversity and Inclusivity in AI Explanations 7. Ethical Considerations in AI Explanations 8. Case Studies and Real-World Applications 9. Future Directions in Adaptive XAI 10. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives == Organizers == * Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa * Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa * Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa * Simone Borsci, University of Twente * Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to the evolving landscape of Adaptive eXplainable AI. For any queries or additional information, please visit our website at https://axai.trx.li or contact Tommaso Turchi (tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it). We look forward to your valuable contributions and to seeing you in Greenville, South Carolina! Best regards, //==============================\\ Tommaso Turchi Department of Computer Science University of Pisa \\==============================//

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: First Call for DC Papers

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*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th March, 2024 AoE ***) The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD students will have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the needs and interests of PhD students. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD students: • receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors, • provide an opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from established researchers and practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community, • develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, • discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways. To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD students (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected completion), and early-stage PhD students (with at least 6 months of work already performed prior to the submission date). WHY SUBMITTING TO THE CAiSE'24 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM? The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD students will receive constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium event. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (https://ceur-ws.org/), which are indexed in DBLP. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award. SUBMISSION PROCESS Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . Each submission should contain (i) a recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor, and (ii) a paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress (see more details in the Paper Submission Guidelines section). Submissions must have a single author, but the name of the PhD advisors should be mentioned in the paper (usually in the Acknowledgments section). Submissions should concern original research. All submitted materials must be in English. Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the academic discussions of the Consortium. Submissions of both early and late-stage PhD students are welcome. Submissions of early-stage PhD students should concentrate on the selection of the research methods to apply, the realization and contextualization of the relevant literature, the expected pitfalls and ways to mitigate them. Submissions of late-stage PhD students should also include preliminary research results and discuss to some extent conclusions and threats. The recommendation letter from the PhD advisor should include an assessment of the current status of the research, an expected date for the completion of the dissertation, a delineation of the anticipated benefits for the student's participation at the Consortium and details of any submissions associated with the research. PAPER CONTENT AND FORMAT The paper must: • clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis, • identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering, • outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions, • describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts, • outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness, • present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students), • conform to the CEURART template using the 1-column layout format (thus, NOT the Springer LNCS format and NOT in multiple column layouts); the most recent template (including Word and LaTeX) can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html, • contain up to 4,000 words (including everything, e.g., references, tables, figures). REVIEW PROCESS Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring Board. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, clarity and the expected benefits to the student from participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes. ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 5-7 June 2024. The presentations and decisions are expected to take place in person, so attendance in the entire Doctoral Consortium is required. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants, attendance to the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the Mentoring Board. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: 8th March 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2024 • Camera-ready Copy: 26th April 2024 • Doctoral Consortium: 5th-7th June 2024 QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’24 Doctoral Consortium chairs at caise2024_dc(a)easychair.org . MENTORING BOARD • Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy • Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland • Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands • Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium • Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland • Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel • Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy • Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece

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CFP: SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2024

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

(Apologies for cross-postings) ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2024 Fourth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 18, 2024 Co-located with the 29th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 (https://iui.acm.org/2024/ <https://iui.acm.org/2024/>) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 Workshop website: http://socialize2024.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2024.di.unito.it/> Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024> For any information: socialize2024(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2024@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 16, 2024 Authors notification: February 9, 2024 Camera-ready: March 1, 2024 Workshop date: March 18, 2024 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together those interested in the development of interactive techniques, including social robots, that may foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants). **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural and social system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture and social aspects on systems; * Information retrieval and filtering techniques for vulnerable and disadvantaged people; * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Inclusive recommender systems; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Social-cultural integration and large language models; * Cultural and social situation awareness; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems; * Social robots in the real world; * Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder); * Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion; * Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups; ********************Submissions******************** Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024>) by January 16, 2024. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2024 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/ <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/> for last year’s workshop proceedings). - Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip> - Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html <https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html> for more details). For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2024(a)easychair.org> <mailto:socialize2024@easychair.org>. ********************Organization******************** Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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CFP: SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2024

by Giuseppe Sansonetti

(Apologies for cross-postings) ************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS************** SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2024 Fourth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 18, 2024 Co-located with the 29th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 (https://iui.acm.org/2024/ <https://iui.acm.org/2024/>) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 Workshop website: http://socialize2024.di.unito.it/ <http://socialize2024.di.unito.it/> Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024> For any information: socialize2024(a)easychair.org <mailto:socialize2024@easychair.org> ******************Important Dates******************* Submission deadline: January 16, 2024 Authors notification: February 9, 2024 Camera-ready: March 1, 2024 Workshop date: March 18, 2024 *********************Overview********************** The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together those interested in the development of interactive techniques, including social robots, that may foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants). **********************Topics*********************** The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to): * Multi-cultural and social system design; * Empirical studies on the impact of culture and social aspects on systems; * Information retrieval and filtering techniques for vulnerable and disadvantaged people; * Cultural and social influence in recommender systems; * Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors; * Inclusive recommender systems; * Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC); * Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media; * Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds; * Social-cultural integration and large language models; * Cultural and social situation awareness; * Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems; * Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups; * Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); * Adaptation strategies for social HRI; * Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social HRI; * Machine learning for social robots; * Social robots as conversational recommender systems; * Social robots in the real world; * Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder); * Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion; * Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups; ********************Submissions******************** Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024>) by January 16, 2024. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2024 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/ <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/> for last year’s workshop proceedings). - Paper template (single column): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip> - Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html <https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html> for more details). For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <socialize2024(a)easychair.org> <mailto:socialize2024@easychair.org>. ********************Organization******************** Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Cristina Gena, University of Torino Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Second Call for Workshop Papers

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*** Second Call for Workshop Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more information for each workshop please visit the workshops' web sites. CAiSE'24 Workshops • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE) https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html • International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/ • 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS) https://hybridaims.com/ • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/ • 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2024) https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/ • Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024) https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 27th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 5th April, 2024 Workshop Chairs • João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil • Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece

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[ACM IUI 2024] Call For Early Registration

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * * Online version: https://iui.acm.org/2024/registration.html ACM IUI 2024 - Call For Early Registration 29th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2024) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/ https://iui.acm.org/2024/index.html ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners will 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. The theme for this year will be Resilience, covering a wide variety of topics, such as COVID-19 recovery, organizational cyber resilience, economic growth and stability, climate change recovery, intelligent user interface resilience, and similar. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. Thanks for your interest in IUI 2024! Please read the information link below carefully regarding costs and deadlines. * Registration information: https://iui.acm.org/2024/registration.html - Early Registration until Feb 4, 2024 - Standard Registration until Mar 1, 2024 - Late Registration until Mar 18, 2024 * Registration Link: https://web.cvent.com/event/9865c85a-e052-4e7e-9947-cf19114283eb/summary Registration for the IUI 2024 full conference includes access to all sessions and workshops. Payment and registration is being handled through a 3rd party provider. If you have questions, please email the registration chair at registration2024(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:registration2024@iui.acm.org>.

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[ACM IUI 2024] Final Call for Posters and Demos

by Wanling Cai

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * Online version: https://iui.acm.org/2024/call_for_posters_demos.html **ACM IUI 2024 - Call for Posters and Demos** 29th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2024) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/ ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners will 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. We welcome contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the-art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contributions from all relevant arenas, academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations, and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. **Posters** Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 7 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person. **Demos** The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person. Authors who submitted a long or short research paper are welcome to also propose a demo of their work to exemplify their work at the conference. **Submission Instructions** Up to 4 (Demo) or 7 (Poster) page paper (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single column format. * We will adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>. * Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template <https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…> , or the LaTeX template <https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-a…> using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs/ccs.cfm A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos.<https://sigchi.org/conferences/author-resources/video-guide/> Please submit your demos and posters at http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi under the IUI 2024 Demos and Posters track. 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 Demos and Poster", respectively, and press "Go". ** Important dates (AoE) ** * Submission - January 9, 2024 * Notification to authors - January 30, 2024 * Camera-ready - February 8, 2024 Poster and demo chairs (posters2024(a)iui.acm.org<mailto:posters2024@iui.acm.org>) * Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska * Hanna Hauptmann, Utrecht University

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024): Second Call for Tutorial Proposals

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*** Second Call for Tutorial Proposals *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 28th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE'24 invites proposals for tutorials on advanced topics in the field of Information Systems Engineering. Tutorials should aim at offering new insights, knowledge, and skills to professionals, educators, researchers, and students seeking to gain a better understanding either about methods of broad interest in the field, or emergent paradigms that are ripe for practical adoption or that require further research to reach maturity. Proposals emphasizing the special theme of the CAISE'24 conference “Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” are encouraged, but proposals on other new or long-standing topics in information systems engineering are also welcome. Tutorials should be focused on principles, concepts, and methods. Commercial or sales-oriented presentations are not allowed and will not be accepted. Tutorials are intended to provide a pedagogic introduction to or overview of a topic of relevance. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there may be a heterogeneous audience, including novice graduate students, experienced practitioners, and specialized researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity in the audience. Tutorials will be 90 minutes long and organized in parallel with the technical sessions of the main conference and participants of the conference will have free access to all of them. Potential proposers are free to contact the tutorial chairs via e-mail to validate their idea prior to the submission. SELECTION CRITERIA The tutorial chairs will review each proposal and select a subset of them based on the following criteria: 1. relevance to the field of IS engineering; 2. anticipated appeal to the conference audience; 3. timeliness and importance for the conference audience; 4. past experience and qualifications of the instructor(s). The tutorial chairs will also consider the complementarity of the proposal w.r.t. the conference program and other tutorial proposals. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Tutorial proposals should be submitted to Easy Chair using the conference submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) and then selecting the “CAiSE 2024 Tutorials” track. The proposal (length up to 1500 words) should cover the following points: • Title • Presenters and affiliation • Goal: The overall goal of the tutorial. • Scope: Intended audience, level (basic or advanced), and prerequisites. • Topic relevance and novelty: Specifically indicate the relevance to the scope of CAiSE, the relevance to practice, the novel aspects that would make this tutorial beneficiary and appealing to CAiSE participants. • Structure of contents: Here you should provide a structured overview of your planned tutorial, organized into numbered sections and subsections. For each subsection, you should sketch its contents in a few sentences or bullet points. • References: Provide references to papers, books, etc. that your tutorial builds on. Please specify previous venues at which similar tutorials have been presented by you and indicate the difference between the proposed tutorial and previous ones. CAiSE usually does not accept tutorials that have been presented in other venues. • Sample Slides: Include at least 5 sample slides of the presentation you plan to give if your tutorial is accepted. Select slides that are typical of your presentation style. These slides have to be submitted in a separate PDF file. Services provided to tutorialists • A 2-page tutorial abstract will be published in the CAiSE LNCS proceedings • Tutorials will benefit from the local organizational infrastructure (registration, badges, refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.). • Advertisement of the tutorial on CAISE 2024 homepage and mailings. • The conference fee will be waived for tutorial presenters (one fee per tutorial). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Tutorial Proposals: 28th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 15th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Abstracts: 5th April, 2024 • Tutorial Presenters Registration Deadline: 8th April, 2024 TUTORIAL CHAIRS • Adela del Rio Ortega, University of Seville, Spain (adeladelrio(a)us.es) • Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands (t.princesales(a)utwente.nl) Other Committee Members https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/committees/

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[AVI 2024] DEADLINE EXTENSION to January 24 (abstract: January 17)

by BIANCARDI Beatrice

[AVI 2024] DEADLINE EXTENSION to January 24 (abstract: January 17) Due to many requests, the submission deadline for Long and Short papers has been extended to January 24 (abstract due by January 17) ACM in-cooperation Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ====================================== 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/> ====================================== [https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/-sgfghAmB-uJM6_s7GUPDsyHy9ka7bw9M2EdcL…] IMPORTANT DATES Long and short papers: - Abstract submission: Wednesday, January 17 (January 10) 2024 - Paper submission: Wednesday, January 24 (January 17) 2024 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 ----------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Thanks to advances in technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an actual international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. AVI 2024 is under the patronage of University of Genoa, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Italy and is held in-cooperation with ACM, SIGCHI, SIGMM, SIGWEB. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2024! Ilaria Torre (AVI 2024 Program Chair) AVI 2024 General Chairs .Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver .Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa For information or requests, please contact avi2024(a)easychair.org<mailto:avi2024@easychair.org> ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Visual Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction Human-AI Interaction Visual Interfaces for Human-Centered AI Systems Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Creative AI for advanced visual interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Generative AI for the design and development of visual interfaces Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for i-TV Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces for Children Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Usability and (Cyber)Security Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS We solicit high-quality original research papers in the area of advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Long and Short papers are publications that address AVI 2024 topics and describe original, unpublished research. Submissions must be anonymized. The maximum length of long papers is 8 pages (with one additional page for references). The maximum length of short papers is 4 pages (with one additional page for references). SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers require online submission. Authors must format submissions according to the ACM SIGCONF template. Please find the templates below: - Latex for Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner… - Word Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Long and short papers must be anonymized, removing information (such as authorship, acknowledgments, name of an application, or software, or project) that can suggest the authors' identity. Citation to authors' previous work should not be anonymous and should be in third person in the text, e.g., "As described by [10]" and not "As described in our previous work [10]". Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 Authors are required to send a 250-word abstract by the abstract deadline, one week before final submission, to speed up the paper assignment to reviewers. PROCEEDINGS Since 1994, accepted long and short research papers are included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register to AVI 2024 by the early registration deadline for authors and present the paper at the Conference. ----------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Paternò, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France ----------------------------------------------------------------- @avi2024conference (https://www.facebook.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conference (https://www.instagram.com/avi2024conference/) @avi2024conf (https://twitter.com/avi2024conf) @avi2024conference https://www.linkedin.com/company/avi2024conference/ [cid:image002.png@01DA4234.43265850] Beatrice BIANCARDI Enseignante-Chercheure LINEACT CESI bbiancardi(a)cesi.fr<mailto:bbiancardi@cesi.fr> https://sites.google.com/view/beatricebiancardi/home Tel : +33 (0)6 71 62 50 45 93 boulevard de La Seine CS 40177 - 92006 Nanterre cedex [cid:image003.png@01DA4234.43265850]<https://www.facebook.com/CESIingenieurs> [cid:image004.png@01DA4234.43265850]<https://twitter.com/cesi_officiel> [cid:image005.png@01DA4234.43265850]<https://www.youtube.com/user/groupecesi1/> [cid:image006.png@01DA4234.43265850]<https://www.linkedin.com/school/cesi-officiel/> [cid:image007.png@01DA4234.43265850]<https://www.instagram.com/cesi_officiel/> cesi.fr<https://www.cesi.fr/>

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CFP: Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users - IR4U2@ECIR 2024

by Noemi Mauro

**** PLEASE, EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS **** *CFP for the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2)* Please join us at IR4U2, co-located with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), which will take place 24th-28th March 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland Information Retrieval (IR) remains an active, fast-paced area of research. Nevertheless, most advancements in this domain have primarily favored what we might term 'conventional' users, such as English-speaking adults. We envision IR4U2 as a forum to spotlight efforts that, while sparse, consider diverse, and often understudied, user groups when designing, developing, assessing, and deploying the IR technologies that directly impact them. Among these groups, we find, for example, older adults, young children and adolescents, individuals afflicted by mental health disorders, users with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), individuals with intellectual disabilities, or those with specific learning needs. We aim to 1. Raise awareness about ongoing efforts focused on IR technologies designed for and used by often understudied user groups; 2. Identify challenges and open issues impacting this area of research; 3. Ignite discussions to identify common frameworks for future research; 4. Outline a general approach to facilitate research endeavors driven by and at the service of specific user groups. 5. Cross-fertilization and community-building by sharing lessons learned gathered from research catering to different audiences by researchers and (industry) practitioners across various disciplines. IR4U2 will be a highly participatory, full-day, in-person workshop. This will involve informal interactions, facilitated group work, and brief presentations of accepted contributions. These contributions will help construct a snapshot of the current works in this area. Topics of interest include: - User modeling to enable IR and recommendation technologies tailored to understudied populations. - Data collection and benchmark development of IR catering to understudied populations. - IR applications targeting understudied populations. - UI/UX for search, recommender, and question-answering systems for understudied populations. - IR-related technology (clustering, classification, text processing, text complexity) and their impact on understudied populations. - Different perspectives of evaluation. - Design of the user interaction with IR systems. - Ethical issues associated with IR technologies for understudied users; e.g., their right to be represented, acknowledged, have access, and be served by existing and to-be-developed systems. This is not an exhaustive list, as we are also interested in contributions discussing challenges inherent to designing IR technology at the service of understudied user groups–from the need for multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder collaborations to how to build datasets. Submissions: Peer-reviewed contributions. These include research papers presenting empirical explorations, user studies, and/or new algorithms related to the open problems listed in topics of interest, as well as position/vision contributions discussing uses cases, challenges, and future research directions. These contributions should be submitted on EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ir4u2) at least 4 pages, but up to 12 (excluding references) formatted in CEURART’s single-column template. Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop and published in workshop proceedings. Editorially-reviewed contributions. To enable potential attendees to articulate their views on the topics of the workshop, share already-published works, bring awareness to ongoing European projects in this area, etc., we ask the submission of a short extended abstract. This type of informal submission (via this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yZcqJiY9tMP03DXrDtJkeX0rY9ZB0AH5Dvs9DdehSO…) will be editorially reviewed by workshop organizers to gauge fit as well as themes of interest for group discussions. Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop, but not published in the proceedings. Important dates All the deadlines are set at 11:59 PM AoE. - Submission: January 29, 2024 - Author notification: February 20, 2024 - Camera-ready: February 26, 2024 - Workshop day: March 24, 2024 At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop. Please feel free to reach out to the ir4u2.research(a)gmail.com with questions. For further information, see Home | Ir4u2 (ir4u2workshop.wixsite.com) <https://ir4u2workshop.wixsite.com/ir4u2>. Organizers: Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy Theo Huibers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Monica Landoni,Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy Emiliana Murgia, Università di Genova, Italy

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Call for Papers: HCSE 2024 Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering (submissions due: February 16 / April 5)

by Stefan Sauer

*(Apologies if you receive multiple e-mails on this subject via different channels!)* *HCSE 2024* *Call for Papers* *10th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering* *8th to 10th of July, 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland*** *http://www.hcse-conference.org* <http://www.hcse-conference.org>** *Submission dates:* *Technical full papers, late breaking results: *Friday, February 16th, 2024 *Demos, posters and Discussion Forum short papers*: Friday, April 5th, 2024 *HCSE*is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design <http://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/working-group-13-2/>. We aim at *bringing together researchers and practitioners* interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes - more info on the topics on: https://hcse-conference.org/ <https://hcse-conference.org/> A novelty of *HCSE 2024* is the *Discussion Forum for PhD students* who want to present and intensively discuss with established researchers their research ideas and get feedback and/or guidance for the continuation of their work in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Altogether, HCSE 2024 welcomes the following types of contributions: * * * Technical full papers (up to 20 pages) * Late-breaking result papers (up to 12 pages) * Demonstration papers (5–8 pages) * Poster papers (5–8 pages, plus poster design draft) * Discussion Forum papers from PhD students (5–8 pages, plus poster design draft) * * Further information on these formats can be obtained from:https://hcse-conference.org/ <https://hcse-conference.org/> All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the *LNCS* series. *Submissions and Reviewing Process* All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their topical relevance, originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality by the members of the international program committee. Technical full papers and late-breaking results short papers will be reviewed *double-blind*; demonstrations, posters and Discussion Forum submissions *single-blind*. Authors must prepare their submission files accordingly! For poster and Discussion Forum submissions, both paper and poster design draft will be assessed for review. It will be possible for the program committee to suggest accepting submissions in other than their original submission categories. *Proceedings* All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by Springer.They must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>series of Springer. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. *Presentations* All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference in technical sessions. It will be possible for authors of accepted technical full papers and late-breaking results papers to give tool demos as well without submitting additional demo papers. * * *Important Dates* *Technical full and late breaking results papers* -Submission: Friday, February 16th, 2024 -Notification to authors: Friday, March 22nd, 2024 -Camera-ready due: Friday, April 19th, 2024 *Demos, posters and Discussion Forum short papers* -Submission: Friday, April 5th, 2024 -Notification to authors: Friday, April 19th, 2024 -Camera-ready due: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 *Conference dates*: July 8th – 10th, 2024 * * *Organizers* *General Conference Chairs:* * Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Bilal Naqvi, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland *Technical Paper Chairs:* * Carmelo Ardito, LUM Giuseppe Degennaro University, Italy * Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany *Demos & Posters Chair:* Bilal Naqvi, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland *Discussion Forum for PhD Students Chair:* Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir, Reykjavik University, Iceland *Local Organizers:* * Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Anna Sigríður Islind, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Grischa Liebel, Reykjavik University, Iceland

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21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024): Fourth Call for Papers

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*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024) June 10-12, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 12th February, 2024 AoE ***) The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners. The guiding theme of this edition is Sustainable Software Reuse. We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software development landscape. Topics include but are not limited to the following. 1 Technical aspects of reuse, including • Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification, etc. • Domain ontologies and Model-Driven Development • Variability management and software product lines • Context-aware and Dynamic Reuse • Reuse in and for Machine Learning • Domain-specific languages (DSLs) • New language abstractions for software reuse • Generative Development • COTS-based development and reuse of open source assets • Retrieval and recommendation of reusable assets • Reuse of non-code artefacts • Architecture-centric reuse approaches • Service-oriented architectures and microservices • Software composition and modularization • Sustainability and software reuse • Economic models of reuse • Benefit and risk analysis, scoping • Legal and managerial aspects of reuse • Reuse adoption and transition to software reuse • Lightweight reuse approaches • Reuse in agile projects • Technical debt and software reuse 2 Software reuse in industry and in emerging domains • Reuse success stories • Reuse failures, and lessons learned • Reuse obstacles and success factors • Return on Investment (ROI) studies • Reuse in hot topic domains (Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Virtualization, Network functions, Quantum Computing, etc.) We welcome research (16 pages) and industry papers (12 pages) following the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024). Submissions will be **double-blindly** reviewed, meaning that authors should: • Omit all authors’ names and affiliations from the title page • Do not include the acknowledgement section, if you have any, in the submitted paper • Refer to your own work in the third person • Use anonymous GitHub, Zenondo, FigShare or equivalent to provide access to artefacts without disclosing your identity Both research and industry papers will be reviewed by members of the same program committee (check the website for details). Proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. An award will be given to the best research and the best industry papers. The authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version (containing at least 30% new material) to a special issue in the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier). More details will follow. IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: February 12, 2024, AoE • Full paper submission: February 19, 2024, AoE • Notification: April 8, 2024, AoE • Camera Ready: April 15, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: April 15, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee • Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil • Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland • Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain • John Favaro, Trust-IT, Italy • William B. Frakes, IEEE TCSE committee on software reuse, USA • Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Oliver Hummel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany • Hafedh Mili, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada • Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Claudia M.L. Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus • Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain

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Postdoctoral Position in Computer Science/Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome

by Maurizio Mancini

**One-Year Postdoctoral Position** Link to the call (Italian and Engish version): https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/sites/default/files/Bando%2020%20AR.pdf **About Us:** The Department of Computer Science is pleased to invite qualified candidates to express their interest in a one-year postdoctoral position in Human-Computer Interaction. Our institution is committed to advancing knowledge and fostering innovative research in Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing, and we are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team. **Position Details:** - **Position Title:** Postdoctoral Researcher - **Duration:** 12 months - **Location:** Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer Science - **Gross Salary:** 2166€/month (26000€/year) **Work within the PRIN 2022 COCOA Project:** The successful candidate will become part of our research team, collaborating on research activities within the PRIN 2022 COCOA project. One of the project's aims is to create a social robot-based interactive system (a "dining companion") to maintain meaningful interaction with human commensals during a meal. Based on the existing literature in Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing, the postdoctoral researcher will develop social interaction models focusing on turn-taking, gaze, gestures, facial expressions, etc. The main goal will be to create and test interaction models in real-life scenarios where the robot can display nonverbal behavior (e.g., simulate gaze contact, perform expressive movements, generate expressive sounds). **Responsibilities:** The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work closely with our research team in HCI and will be expected to: - Conduct independent research - Publish research findings in peer-reviewed journals - Collaborate with faculty and researchers involved in the COCOA Project - Assist in the supervision of graduate students and contribute to departmental activities **Qualifications:** To be considered for the postdoctoral position, candidates should meet the following qualifications: - Having a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering from an internationally recognized institution would be preferable; candidates without a Ph.D. but with an outstanding track record in the same areas will also be considered - Strong research background and publication record in Affective and Social Computing (experience with robot programming is a plus) - Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively - Excellent programming skills - Excellent written and oral communication skills - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities **Gender Balance Commitment:** The Department of Computer Science is dedicated to promoting gender balance in academia and research. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all genders. We believe in fostering an inclusive and diverse research environment where the contributions of all researchers are valued equally. **Application Deadline and Interview Schedule:** Applications must be submitted by January 22nd, 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a remote interview around mid-February 2024. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the position between March and April 2024. **How to Apply:** https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/sites/default/files/Bando%2020%20AR.pdf **Contact Information:** If you have any questions about the position and the application procedure, do not hesitate to contact Prof Maurizio Mancini at m.mancini(a)di.uniroma1.it

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