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IxD&A Journal N. 56 and N. 57: Meet the Authors Events

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - founded in 2005* *that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *On-line Events* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 56 *on:* Hybrid Games & Interaction Design */co-guest editors: Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa and Fotis Liarokapis /and/ /*regular papers*/ / *Meet the authors * authors index <https://ixdea.org/56_authors_index/> on the /*12th of October - 15:00 CET*/ /(event coordination by: Liliana Vale Costa & Oscar Mealha)/ to attend the presentations, for free, please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctmws5p40RzL8Ia2nR_OeG7hJ0WummvQA…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-056 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Special issue N. 57 *on:* ‘Competence-based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing, and democracy.’ */co-guest editors: Ilaria Bortolotti, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone /and/ /*regular papers*/ / *Meet the authors * authors index <https://ixdea.org/57_authors_index/> on the /*26th of October - 15:00 CET*/ /(event coordination by: Liliana Vale Costa & Oscar Mealha)/ to attend the presentations, for free, please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKQF_mn24irSMCAKq7grd51oCW-wGJwjs…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-057 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin ->link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook ->link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel ->link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ///// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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

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*** First 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: January 22, 2024, AoE • Full paper submission: January 29, 2024, AoE • Notification: March 8, 2024, AoE • Camera Ready: March 22, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: March 22, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee • Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil • Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland • Rafael Capilla Sevilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 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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AVI 2024 1st Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

by BIANCARDI Beatrice

AVI 2024 1st Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ================================================= 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/> ================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: · Friday, December 1, 2023 (23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops to be held on June 3-4, 2024, in conjunction with the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024). We invite proposals for workshops in all the areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. Workshop proposals must be submitted following the instructions on: https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/calls TUTORIAL PROPOSALS We encourage the proposal of tutorials on new and emerging topics or, conversely, consolidated topics related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and HCI approaches, methodologies, or technologies. The selected tutorials will be held on the last day of the conference and Doctoral Consortium students will be invited to participate in them. Tutorial proposals must be submitted following the instructions on: https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/calls Workshop & Tutorial Chairs · Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid · Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Because of advanced 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. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2024! Cristina Conati, AVI 2024 General Chair Gulatiero Volpe, AVI 2024 General Chair Ilaria Torre, AVI 2024 Program Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.png@01D9F5F2.6A73E050] 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:image002.png@01D9F5F2.6A73E050]<https://www.facebook.com/CESIingenieurs> [cid:image003.png@01D9F5F2.6A73E050]<https://twitter.com/cesi_officiel> [cid:image004.png@01D9F5F2.6A73E050]<https://www.youtube.com/user/groupecesi1/> [cid:image005.png@01D9F5F2.6A73E050]<https://www.linkedin.com/school/cesi-officiel/> [cid:image006.png@01D9F5F2.6A73E050]<https://www.instagram.com/cesi_officiel/> cesi.fr<https://www.cesi.fr/>

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

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*** Last Call for Workshop 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: October 13, 2023 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 2024, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference, related to the CAiSE topics, covering new emerging topics and targeting innovative papers in special focus areas. Prospective workshop organisers should specify whether they plan an event with a presentation-oriented track, a discussion-oriented track, or both. Presentation-oriented track This track focuses on accepted papers with presentations followed by Q&A sessions, akin to conferences. The proceedings of these workshops are intended to be published in a joint volume in the Springer LNBIP series. Submissions must  conform to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should  not exceed 12 pages. According to the Springer standards, the overall acceptance rate cannot exceed 45%-50%. Discussion-oriented track This track emphasizes discussions facilitated by paper presentations revolving around novel ideas and early-stage research. Since the main criterion for paper acceptance in such workshops is relevance and potential for raising discussion, they are not expected to have their proceedings in the Springer LNBIP volume. The edition of a joint proceedings volume next to the LNBIP one for the discussion-oriented track is underway. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Details on this aspect will be provided separately. Proposal submission Workshop proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at the following address:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024  Please select the Author role and the CAiSE 2024 Workshops track. Prior contact with the workshop chairs (caise2024-workshops(a)easychair.org) is encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshop, eliciting high-quality submissions, organizing the reviewing process of their workshop’s papers according to the principles and guidelines of CAiSE, and collecting camera-ready copies of accepted papers (verifying that they comply with the formatting rules). Organizers (including co-organizers) are expected to attend their entire workshop. Detailed instructions for workshop proposers The proposal (up to 1000 words) should cover the following points: • Workshop title, duration (1 day or 2 days), preferred date (3-4 June 2024) • Workshop type (presentation-oriented or discussion-oriented, or both). • Information on the organizers (PC chairs, other organizers who will be present at the workshop or are otherwise involved, including the person responsible for web presence and communication). Please include names, addresses, and affiliations, indicating the main responsible person. The submission should include a one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer, describing relevant qualifications and experience. Please specify at least one PC chair. PC chairs will not be allowed to submit papers to the workshop, but other organizers (who will have no oversight over the review process) are encouraged to do so. • Purpose: What are the main goals of the workshop? Please list the workshop topics. How does the focus of the workshop differ from the main conference? How does the focus of the workshop differ from other potential CAiSE events? (Proponents are advised to look at the workshops and working conferences held at CAiSE 2022 and CAiSE 2023 and differentiate your scope from theirs.) • Organization of the workshop: Specify the type of contributions, distribution into sessions, type of sessions, etc. Mention if you plan to have any keynote speaker (please note that the conference organization will not cover fees, travel expenses, accommodation and registration costs of keynote speakers). Include any special requirements regarding infrastructure and room layout. • Tentative list of PC members. • An estimate of the number of papers to be accepted, and the number of attendees. If applicable, short information on previous editions of the workshop series (this should include submission, acceptance, and attendance information). Short information on your plans for advertising your workshop and making it highly visible. Services provided by CAiSE • EasyChair installation for the management of the workshop submissions (each organizer will be made chair of their own workshop). • Publication of papers in an LNBIP volume for presentation-oriented tracks, and in a CEUR-WS.org online volume for discussion-oriented tracks. • One free workshop-only registration if more than 10 people are registered for the workshop. Organizers willing to attend the whole event (main conference) will have to register for the conference at their own expense. • Local organizational infrastructure and administrative support (registration, badges, refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.). In particular, all venue issues (rooms, meals and catering, social dinner, etc.) as well as the management of the registrations and the financing/administrative issues will be handled by the CAiSE Organization Board and are not under the responsibility of the workshop organizers. • Advertisement of the workshop on the CAiSE 2024 homepage and mailings. Please note that the workshop may be canceled if the number of registrations is less than 10. Also, in the case of workshops with topics that are similar, two or more workshops may be suggested to merge together. Key Dates • Submission of workshops proposals (via Easychair): October 13th, 2023 (AoE) • Workshop notifications: November 3rd, 2023 • Workshop paper submission (tentative, recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): March 6th, 2024 (AoE) • Workshop paper decision (recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): April 3rd, 2024 • Camera-ready due (recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): April 22nd, 2024 • Author registration for workshops papers: April 22nd, 2024 • Workshops: June 3rd-4th, 2024 Contact For more information and inquiries, please feel free and welcome to contact the Workshop Chairs at the following address: caise2024-workshops(a)easychair.org

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ACM IUI 2024 - Last Call for Papers (Abstracts are due tomorrow)

by Wanling Cai

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

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024): First Call for Papers

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*** First Call for 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: November 24, 2023 AoE ***) The CAiSE’24 organization calls for full papers with a special emphasis on the theme of Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing various industries, and its significance in Information Systems cannot be overstated. AI-powered systems have the potential to streamline operations, enhance decision-making processes, and drive innovation across organizations. From data analysis to automated processes, AI is reshaping the way we leverage information in the digital age. The relevance of AI in IS extends beyond internal operations. AI-powered predictive analytics enables organizations to forecast trends, anticipate customer needs, and optimize resource allocation. This empowers businesses to adapt swiftly to changing market dynamics, gain a competitive edge, and make proactive decisions. AI algorithms can also detect anomalies and patterns that indicate potential security breaches, contributing to robust cybersecurity measures in information systems. However, while acknowledging the benefits, it is essential to consider the ethical implications of AI in information systems. Ensuring data privacy, addressing bias in algorithms, and maintaining transparency are vital aspects that need to be carefully managed and regulated to foster trust and accountability. In addition to offering an exciting scientific program, CAiSE’24 will feature a best paper award, a journal special issue, and a PhD-thesis award: • Best Paper Award‚ prize EUR 1000 (sponsored by Springer) • A small selection of best papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions for consideration in a special issue of Elsevier Information Systems journal dedicated to this conference. • PhD-Thesis Award • Best PhD thesis of a past CAiSE Doctoral Consortium author (co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer) Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must conform to Springer‚ LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. See the guidelines here: https://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html . The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be listed at the end of the abstract. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two program committee members and, if positively evaluated, by one additional program board member. The selected papers will be discussed among the paper reviewers online and during the program board meeting. As the review process is not blind, please indicate your name and affiliation on your submission. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE’24 and published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) conference proceedings. We invite three types of original and scientific papers. The type of submission must be indicated in the submission system. Each contribution should explicitly address the engineering or the operation of information systems, clearly identify the information systems problem addressed, the expected impact of the contribution to information system engineering or operation, and the research method used. We strongly advise authors to clearly emphasize these aspects in their paper, including the abstract. Technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS Engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and its potential‚ as well as demonstrate the benefits of the contribution through a rigorous evaluation. Empirical papers evaluate existing problem situations including problems encountered in practice, or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, experience reports, simulations, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Exploratory papers describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools, new kinds of activities, or new IS challenges. They must precisely describe the situation and demonstrate why current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must also rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness in addressing the identified situation. The topics of contribution include but are not limited to: • Novel Approaches to IS Engineering ◦ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ◦ Robotic Process Automation (RPA) ◦ Big Data, Data Science and Analytics ◦ Blockchain applications in IS ◦ Simulation and Digital Twins  ◦ IS for collaboration and social computing  ◦ Virtual reality / Augmented Reality ◦ Context-aware, autonomous and adaptive IS • Models, Methods and Techniques in IS Engineering ◦ Ontologies and Ontology Engineering ◦ Conceptual modeling, languages and design ◦ Requirements engineering ◦ Process modeling, analysis and improvement ◦ Process automation, mining and monitoring ◦ Models and methods for evolution and reuse ◦ Domain and method engineering ◦ Product lines, variability and configuration management ◦ Compliance and alignment handling ◦ Active and interactive models ◦ Quality of IS models for analysis and design ◦ Visualization techniques in IS ◦ Decision models and business intelligence ◦ Knowledge graphs ◦ Human-centered techniques • Architectures and Platforms for IS Engineering ◦ Distributed, mobile and open architecture ◦ Big Data architectures ◦ Cloud- and edge-based IS engineering ◦ Service oriented and multi-agent IS engineering ◦ Multi-platform IS engineering ◦ Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) ◦ Workflow and Process Aware Information Systems (PAIS) ◦ Handling of real time data streams ◦ Content management and semantic Web ◦ Crowdsourcing platforms ◦ Conversational agents (chatbots) ◦ Microservices design and deployment • Domain-specific and Multi-aspect IS Engineering ◦ IT governance ◦ eGovernment ◦ Autonomous and smart systems (smart city management, smart vehicles, etc.) ◦ IS for healthcare ◦ Educational Systems and Learning Analytics ◦ Value and supply chain management ◦ Industry 4.0 ◦ Sustainability and social responsibility management ◦ Privacy, security, trust, and safety management ◦ IS in the post-COVID world Submit your paper using the Easy Chair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 24th November 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: 1st December 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 4th March 2024 • Camera-ready Papers: 5th April 2024 • Author registration: 5th April 2024 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Haris Mouratidis, University of Essex, UK • Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands • Flavia Maria Santoro, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Other Committee Members https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/committees/

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[ACM IUI 2024] Call for Workshops and Tutorials

by Wanling Cai

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

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ACM IUI 2024 - Third Call for Papers

by Wanling Cai

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

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

by Davide Spano

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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

by Announce

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

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ACM curriculum CS2023 Review di HCI

by Giuliana VITIELLO

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

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

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

by Giuseppe Caggianese

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

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

by Carlo Giovannella

======================================================== /Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 *established in 2005 SCOPUS and ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science, Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal implements also video presentations of the published contributions. CiteScore 2022: 2.0 (Q1: Design (/Architecture); Q2: Media Technology, Education; Q3: Human Computer Interaction) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Issue N. 57 *featuring a special issue **on:* **Competence-based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing, and democracy.** */guest editors: ///Ilaria Bortolotti, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone/ /+ Regular papers is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-057 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold/Diamond Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 57 - ToC*/** ** ///Preface to the special isue on *Competence-based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing, and democracy.* by /Ilaria Bortolotti, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone/ p. 5 – 7 /Carlo Giovannella/ “Learning by being”: integrated thinking and competencies to mark the difference from AIs, pp. 8 – 26 /Stefano Cacciamani and Nobuko Fujita/ Promoting Life Competences in the Knowledge Society: The Contribution of Knowledge Building Model for Educational Systems, pp. 27 – 46 /Marcelo F. Maina, Lourdes Guàrdia, Federica Mancini, Carolina García/ Development of a Model for Transversal Competence Assessment in K-12: an Internal Validation Study for the Digital Competence, pp. 47 – 64 /Betty Tärning, Eva-Maria Ternblad, Agneta Gulz, Magnus Haake/ A tale about facts and opinions: The impact of a drama intervention on middle-school students´ information literacy, pp. 65 – 81 /Giuseppe Ritella, Fedela Feldia Loperfido/ Harnessing digital community mapping for the development of primary and secondary students’ civic competences: a case study, pp. 82 – 96 / //David S. Bowers and Marian Petre/ Developing a Competence Assessment which References a Student Portfolio to a Professional Skills Framework, pp. 97 – 114 /Antonio Palacios-Rodríguez, Francisco D. Guillén-Gámez, Julio Cabero-Almenara, Juan Jesús Gutiérrez-Castillo/ Teacher Digital Competence in the stages of Compulsory Education according to DigCompEdu: The impact of demographic predictors on its development, pp. 115 – 132 /Alejandra Celis Vargas, Rikke Magnussen, Ingrid Mulder, Birger Larsen/ Towards a framework for Open Data literacy in education: A systematic mapping review of Open Data skills and learning approaches, pp. 133 – 151 /Kai Pata and Külli Kori/ Cross Academia and Public Citizen Engagement for Developing Active Citizenship Competences, pp. 152 – 166 *Regular paper* /Agneta Gulz and Magnus Haake/ Lessons from a preschool intervention study carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic, pp. 167 – 187, abstract, download -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

by Tommaso Turchi

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

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AVI 2024 Announcement: 3-7 June 2024, Genoa, Italy

by Ilaria Torre

International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ================================================= 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it<https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/> ================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: Friday, December 1, 2024 Long and short papers: Abstract submission: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Paper submission: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Posters and Demos: Paper submission: Thursday, February 29, 2024 Doctoral Consortium: Paper submission: Wednesday, March 27, 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. Because of advanced 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. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2024! Cristina Conati, AVI 2024 General Chair Gulatiero Volpe, AVI 2024 General Chair Ilaria Torre, AVI 2024 Program Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools 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. Accepted long and short research papers will be included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. 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). 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. **POSTER PAPERS** The AVI 2024 Poster Track allows researchers and practitioners to present their work in progress and obtain precious feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. **DEMO PAPERS** The demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive visual interfaces. We are looking for implementations of novel and exciting concepts or systems related to the main topics of AVI. Demo papers must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. **WORKSHOP PROPOSALS** We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held on June 3 or June 4, 2024, at the AVI2024 venue. **TUTORIALS** We encourage the proposal of tutorials on specific topics related to AVI and general HCI approaches, methodologies, or technologies. **DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM** The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work and receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress. Students will be offered the opportunity to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims at providing students with guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other students participating in the sessions. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- Ilaria Torre Associate Professor, University of Genoa, IT Department of Computer Science, Bio-engineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering Head of the MSc in Digital Humanities - Interactive systems and digital media, Polytechnic School Office +39 010 3532818 Email ilaria.torre(a)unige.it<mailto:ilaria.torre@unige.it>

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[ACM IUI 2024] Call for Workshops and Tutorials

by Wanling Cai

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

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[ACM MUM 2023] Call for Student Volunteers | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

*** CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS - MUM 2023*** *Application Deadline: 15th of September 2023* * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://mum-conf.org/2023/index.php?web=svs* * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * We are thrilled to announce the upcoming 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2023) to be held from December 3rd to 6th in the enchanting city of Vienna, Austria. We would like to invite passionate and dedicated students to join us as volunteers. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to gain valuable hands -on experience, expand your network, and contribute to the success of an international conference. *Responsibilities of Student Volunteers* * Assisting with registration and check-in processes * Guiding attendees and providing information about the conference venue and schedule * Assisting speakers and presenters during sessions * Supporting the organizing committee with various administrative tasks * Helping with the setup and management of conference equipment and facilities * Assisting with social events and networking activities * Social media support *Benefits of Volunteering* * Free registration - Access to all conference sessions and workshops during your volunteer shifts * A goodie bag, t-shirt and a certificate of appreciation for your valuable contribution * Networking opportunities with renowned researchers and industry professionals * Recognition on the conference website and in the official program * An opportunity to showcase your organizational and communication skills *Requirements* * Must be a currently enrolled student * Strong communication and interpersonal skills * Reliable and responsible with a professional attitude If you are enthusiastic about MUM 2023 and would like to be a part of the conference, we encourage you to apply as a student volunteer. To submit your application here<https://forms.gle/2q7A7DRPkkk5fpcVA> (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesAxVcvUUKRi-7cFqCS7CiXEUI2V7HZ4p…). The deadline for applications is Sept 15th, 2023. Selected volunteers will be notified by email no later than Sept 29th, 2023. We look forward to receiving your applications and welcoming you to Vienna for a memorable conference experience! *Student Volunteers Chair* Ambika Shahu,TU Wien All questions about the student volunteer program should be emailed to: sv2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:sv2023@mum-conf.org>

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Next Hard Deadline: Special issue on "AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer updated from 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= *NEXT HARD DEADLINE**-> September 15th 2023* Special Issue on *AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/ai-for-humans-and-humans-for-ai-towards-cultures-of-parti…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Renate Andersen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Vita Santa Barletta, University of Bari, Italy • Anders Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway • Alessandro Pagano, University of Bari, Italy =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Extended deadline: *September 15th, 2023 (hard deadline)* • Notification to the authors: November 10th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: November 30th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: December 2023/January 2024 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue is intended to explore the assumption (and to provide at least partial evidence) that the most successful Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems out there today are dependent on teams of humans, just as humans depend on these systems to gain access to information, provide insights and perform tasks beyond their own capabilities. An assumption that implies a confrontation between AI, Human-Centered AI and HCD and a reflection on the role of HCD in the AI age. The issue, thus, is not intended to be focalized on the design of user interfaces of systems containing embedded AI features, per se; rather, it is expected to be grounded in research activities involving a broad spectrum of academic disciplines – from computer science to social science – that will critically analyze the interplay between AI, Human-Centered AI and HCD, in order to investigate the impact on individuals, social groups, and society as a whole. In particular this special issue wish to explore the relationship between AI, aimed at replacing human beings, and Intelligence Augmentation (IA), focused on empowering human beings in their daily life and work. Balancing between these two perspectives means changing the research paradigm from traditional human-computer interaction, to designing the collaboration between humans and computers. This will foster creativity, meaningful work, intersubjectivity, and learning, and eventually improve the quality of life of individuals. However, a variety of issues and ethical problems need to be addressed in this new age – e.g., privacy intrusions, massive unemployment, knowledge and competence loss, lack of control, autonomous weapons, new research methods, etc. The guest editors encourage researchers to submit articles that will consider these aspects. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but not limited to: * AI and Human control: privacy and ethical issues * AI support in everyday work * Collaborative human-centered design * End-User Development for AI-based systems * Empirical evaluation of AI-based systems * Explainable AI through meta design * Human-centred AI * Learning analytics for teachers participation and learning effectiveness * Research methods in Human-Centered AI and Design =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: AI for Humans and Humans for AI") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on AI for Humans and Humans for AI/ • renatea [at] oslomet [dot] no • vita [dot] barletta [at] uniba [dot] it • anders [dot] morch [at] iped [dot] uio [dot] no • alessandro [dot] pagano [at] uniba [dot] it

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

by Announce

*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: October 13, 2023 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 2024, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference, related to the CAiSE topics, covering new emerging topics and targeting innovative papers in special focus areas. Prospective workshop organisers should specify whether they plan an event with a presentation-oriented track, a discussion-oriented track, or both. Presentation-oriented track This track focuses on accepted papers with presentations followed by Q&A sessions, akin to conferences. The proceedings of these workshops are intended to be published in a joint volume in the Springer LNBIP series. Submissions must  conform to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should  not exceed 12 pages. According to the Springer standards, the overall acceptance rate cannot exceed 45%-50%. Discussion-oriented track This track emphasizes discussions facilitated by paper presentations revolving around novel ideas and early-stage research. Since the main criterion for paper acceptance in such workshops is relevance and potential for raising discussion, they are not expected to have their proceedings in the Springer LNBIP volume. The edition of a joint proceedings volume next to the LNBIP one for the discussion-oriented track is underway. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Details on this aspect will be provided separately. Proposal submission Workshop proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at the following address:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024  Please select the Author role and the CAiSE 2024 Workshops track. Prior contact with the workshop chairs (caise2024-workshops(a)easychair.org) is encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshop, eliciting high-quality submissions, organizing the reviewing process of their workshop’s papers according to the principles and guidelines of CAiSE, and collecting camera-ready copies of accepted papers (verifying that they comply with the formatting rules). Organizers (including co-organizers) are expected to attend their entire workshop. Detailed instructions for workshop proposers The proposal (up to 1000 words) should cover the following points: • Workshop title, duration (1 day or 2 days), preferred date (3-4 June 2024) • Workshop type (presentation-oriented or discussion-oriented, or both). • Information on the organizers (PC chairs, other organizers who will be present at the workshop or are otherwise involved, including the person responsible for web presence and communication). Please include names, addresses, and affiliations, indicating the main responsible person. The submission should include a one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer, describing relevant qualifications and experience. Please specify at least one PC chair. PC chairs will not be allowed to submit papers to the workshop, but other organizers (who will have no oversight over the review process) are encouraged to do so. • Purpose: What are the main goals of the workshop? Please list the workshop topics. How does the focus of the workshop differ from the main conference? How does the focus of the workshop differ from other potential CAiSE events? (Proponents are advised to look at the workshops and working conferences held at CAiSE 2022 and CAiSE 2023 and differentiate your scope from theirs.) • Organization of the workshop: Specify the type of contributions, distribution into sessions, type of sessions, etc. Mention if you plan to have any keynote speaker (please note that the conference organization will not cover fees, travel expenses, accommodation and registration costs of keynote speakers). Include any special requirements regarding infrastructure and room layout. • Tentative list of PC members. • An estimate of the number of papers to be accepted, and the number of attendees. If applicable, short information on previous editions of the workshop series (this should include submission, acceptance, and attendance information). Short information on your plans for advertising your workshop and making it highly visible. Services provided by CAiSE • EasyChair installation for the management of the workshop submissions (each organizer will be made chair of their own workshop). • Publication of papers in an LNBIP volume for presentation-oriented tracks, and in a CEUR-WS.org online volume for discussion-oriented tracks. • One free workshop-only registration if more than 10 people are registered for the workshop. Organizers willing to attend the whole event (main conference) will have to register for the conference at their own expense. • Local organizational infrastructure and administrative support (registration, badges, refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.). In particular, all venue issues (rooms, meals and catering, social dinner, etc.) as well as the management of the registrations and the financing/administrative issues will be handled by the CAiSE Organization Board and are not under the responsibility of the workshop organizers. • Advertisement of the workshop on the CAiSE 2024 homepage and mailings. Please note that the workshop may be canceled if the number of registrations is less than 10. Also, in the case of workshops with topics that are similar, two or more workshops may be suggested to merge together. Key Dates • Submission of workshops proposals (via Easychair): October 13th, 2023 • Workshop notifications: November 3rd, 2023 • Workshop paper submission (tentative, recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): March 6th, 2024 • Workshop paper decision (recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): April 3rd, 2024 • Camera-ready due (recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): April 22nd, 2024 • Workshops: June 3rd-4th, 2024 Contact For more information and inquiries, please feel free and welcome to contact the Workshop Chairs at the following address: caise2024-workshops(a)easychair.org

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CHITALY 2023 - Call for participation

by amon

CHITALY 2023 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - EARLY REGISTRATION POSTPONED ==================================================== Registration continues to be open for both the virtual and the physical event! Early registration deadline is now September 7, 2023. As of September 8, late/on-site registration rates apply. Information about the registration costs are available here: https://chitaly2023.it/registration/ The registration form is accessible at the following link: https://prenotazioni.consultaumbria.com/cmsweb/Login.asp?IDcommessa=26-2023…

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CfP: QUARE 2023 The 2nd workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, at RecSys '23

by Alessandro Piscopo

* We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this invitation * We welcome you to attend the 2nd Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, co-located with RecSys 2023 (https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/), September 11, 2023, online. WHAT’S QUARE --------------------------------- We invite academics, industry practitioners, designers, developers, and policymakers in all relevant fields (CS, HCI/UX, social science, law) interested in discussing, getting acquainted with, and shaping the research agenda for the evaluation of explanations for recommender systems to participate in the QUARE workshop. The QUARE workshop will be organised as an interdisciplinary, discussion-centric event that aims to outline a research agenda for generating, evaluating, and operationalising explanations. By engaging and bringing together perspectives and solutions from industry and academia, the workshop will thus facilitate the exchange of various perspectives (technical, social, human factors) regarding the generation, evaluation, and operationalisation of explanations for recommender systems. The goal of the workshop is to shape, co-create, and share with the community a research agenda for evaluating the quality of recommendation explanations. More precisely, we address three main questions: * Generating explanations: How to balance user needs and organisational objectives when explaining recommendations? * Evaluating explanations: How to evaluate the quality of explanations through both subjective and objective measures? * Operationalising explanations: What could be a typical MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for explanations of recommendations? What are the most basic features we may need? You can find more information on the workshop’s website: https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2023 PROGRAMME --------------------- https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2023/schedule https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2023/panelists This workshop edition features three panel sessions, each panel addressing one of the questions mentioned above. Each session will be opened by a series of lightning talks by the panellists, followed by an interactive discussion, where participants will be able to discuss the topic of the session, asking questions to the panellists, sharing their experiences, and presenting their points of view. The workshop will start at 12:30 UTC and have a duration of approximately 5.5 hours. CONTACT --------------- Email us at quare-workshop at googlegroups.com if you would like to get more information about the workshop and details about how to attend. WORKSHOP ORGANISERS --------------------------------------- - Oana Inel (University of Zurich, CH) <inel(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:inel@ifi.uzh.ch>> - Nicolas Mattis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) <n.m.mattis(a)vu.nl<mailto:n.m.mattis@vu.nl>> - Milda Norkute (Thomson Reuters Labs, CH) <Milda.Norkute(a)thomsonreuters.com<mailto:Milda.Norkute@thomsonreuters.com>> - Alessandro Piscopo (BBC, UK) <alessandro.piscopo(a)bbc.co.uk<mailto:alessandro.piscopo@bbc.co.uk>> - Timothée Schmude (University of Vienna, AT) <timothee.schmude(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:timothee.schmude@univie.ac.at>> - Sanne Vrijenhoek (University of Amsterdam, NL) <s.vrijenhoek(a)uva.nl<mailto:s.vrijenhoek@uva.nl>> - Krisztian Balog (Google Research, NO) <krisztianb(a)google.com<mailto:krisztianb@google.com>> On behalf of the Quare organisers, ________________________________ Alessandro Piscopo Lead Data Scientist | Content Discovery [signature_1072824388]

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[ACM MUM 2023 - Deadline Extended] Call for Full and Short Papers | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

*** CALL FOR PAPERS - MUM 2023 *** *** DEADLINE EXTENDED *** Deadline for Full and Short Papers: 29th of August 2023, AoE * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://mum-conf.org/2023/index.php?web=papers * * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Vienna, Austria, December 3rd – 6th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. * Submission Guidelines and List of Topics * We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Prototypes and systems tackling relevant technical challenges * Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, learning, entertainment, social networking, and advertising * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services * Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services * Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems * Privacy and security-related challenges to multimedia systems * Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems * Interaction and collaboration with human-centered AI systems * Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems * User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems * Interaction design for automotive and other modes of transportation * Fabrication and device prototyping Papers should be grounded in existing literature and knowledge, and should be written for an interdisciplinary audience. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair by August 29th, 2023, AoE at the latest. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide. The correct template for submissions is the ACM Primary Article Template in single-column format (in PDF format). Submissions should be prepared using either the single-column Word Submission Template or the single-column LaTeX template (using the “manuscript, review, anonymous” style available in the template). Submissions can be of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution, with 16 pages (excluding references) in single-column format being valued as long papers in past editions and 7 pages (excluding references) in single-column format being valued as short papers in past editions. * Successful submissions of around 16 pages typically represent significant empirical, theoretical, or methodological advances in the field. * Successful submissions of around 7 pages offer more focused contributions; they are not intended to be work-in-progress reports. Instead, they should offer complete, rigorously developed work with a solid contribution to the field. Short papers have a smaller scope or more focused contribution than long papers. Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission. Papers must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers, chosen from the pool of members of the Program Committee listed below. This pool of reviewers features experts from the previous edition and new researchers to address new emerging research areas and underrepresented communities. Papers will be assigned through a bidding process. Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of a maximum of 6 minutes to support their submission. To ensure all reviewers can view videos, authors should use the H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. The bit rate of videos can be lowered to accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50 MB per file). Link to Submission System: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230 * Important Dates * Submission: August 29th, 2023 (AoE) Notification to authors: October 5th, 2023 Conference dates: December 3th - December 6th, 2023 * Technical Program Chairs * Pascal Knierim, University of Innsbruck Jonna Häkkilä, University of Lapland All questions about submissions should be emailed to: papers2023(a)mum-conf.org

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[ACM MUM 2023] Call for Demos | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

*** CALL FOR DEMOS- MUM 2023*** *Demos Submission Deadline: 9th of October 2023, AoE* * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * *For the online version of this Call, please visit: https://mum-conf.org/2023/index.php?web=demos * * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * * MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences. * The MUM demo track provides an opportunity to present a hands-on demonstration of your work, research, service, prototype, or product addressing one or more of the topics listed below. Traditionally, MUM maintains an open and experimental attitude to demos, welcoming submissions from authors with a variety of backgrounds. We want to see and play with your prototypes, services, devices, systems, and innovative examples of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. We encourage making your demonstration visually or otherwise appealing to attract attention from conference attendees. *List of Topics and Submission Guidelines* Demo topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges * Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications * Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services * Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field * Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services * Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems * Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia * Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising * Privacy and security-related challenges to multimedia systems * Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems * Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems * User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems * Fabrication and device prototyping * Demo submissions should be maximum 3 pages (excluding references).The submission should be prepared as a PDF file, in single-column format, using either Word or LaTeX ACM Primary Article Templates<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-…>. If LaTeX is used, single-column mode should be configured by using "\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}" as document class setting. Submissions will undergo a review process managed by the demonstration chairs. Demos must be submitted via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230>. * This year, authors are required to submit a three minute video with their submission showing a detailed hands-on presentation of their demo as well as an additional document (.pdf or .txt) with the list of hardware they would need to bring to the venue. * Demo submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission elsewhere. Demo submissions should not be anonymized and will undergo a single-blind review process. Final camera-ready versions of accepted submissions must be accompanied by a signed copyright form. Accepted demos will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide. Link to Submission System: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230 *Important Dates* Submission deadline: October 9th, 2023, AoE Notification of review decision: October 17th, 2023 Camera ready deadline: November 9th, 2023 Conference dates: December 3rd – December 6th, 2023 *Demo Chairs* Paweł W. Woźniak, Chalmers University of Technology Yomna Abdelrahman, Bundeswehr University Munich All questions about submissions should be emailed to: demos2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:demos2023@mum-conf.org>

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