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

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

*** CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - MUM 2023*** *Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline: 9th of October 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=doctoral * * 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. As part of the Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) conference, we conduct a joint seminar for PhD students from the various sub-disciplines related to mobile media, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction. The doctoral consortium (DC) will take place on-site on Sunday, Dec 3, 2023, before the main conference. * The DC will be an opportunity for a small group of PhD students to meet and discuss their work with each other and with a panel of experienced researchers in the field, in an informal and interactive setting. We welcome applications from current PhD students studying in any area of relevance to the MUM community. PhD students at any stage of the PhD can apply. Depending on the stage the DC may provide helpful feedback for narrowing down a topic, discussing methodological and technical aspects of the ongoing research, or on the framing and presentation of the results in a thesis. * Submission Guidelines* * To apply for participation in the DC, we ask you to submit a 2-4 pages long paper in Word or LaTeX (using the ACM Primary Article Template)<https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-…>. The paper should describe the context and motivation of your PhD research, the problem and aims that drive your research and your research objectives, hypothesis, and/or questions. It should further describe and explain your (proposed) research approach and methods, and include a discussion of results you may already have. Please also include the context of your PhD, i.e., the university programme in which you conduct your PhD, the status of your PhD, the expected completion date, and any other relevant information on your PhD situation. * Submissions will not be peer-reviewed. We will select students for participation with a view of prioritising those who would likely benefit most. Accepted students will be asked to prepare a presentation on their PhD research, and a poster which will be included in the MUM 2023 poster track. Submissions must be submitted via e-mail to dc.mum2023(a)hcilab.org<mailto:dc.mum2023@hcilab.org>. For accepted doctoral consortium submissions, the author can select if s/he wants the submission to be included to the conference proceedings. * If you are invited to participate, you must register regularly for the day of the PhD seminar or for the whole conference – or apply to participate free of charge as a student volunteer. Your submission should be 2-4 pages. Please use the template and include the following: * Your name, Advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work. Submissions should NOT be anonymous. * Current year of study and projected completion date (plus information about the regulations of your PhD program regarding length, any part-time study, etc.) Please address the following questions if applicable for you research: * Which problem do you solve? Why is this problem important? What do you want to find out? * Which steps do you plan to take, and how do you evaluate your results? * Which research papers (not more than 3) are related most to your research? How does your work differ? * What have you found out so far? What’s next? * What’s still missing? Where do you need help? Where would you want to collaborate? *Submissions must be submitted via e-mail to dc.mum2023(a)hcilab.org.<mailto:dc.mum2023@hcilab.org>* *Important Dates* Submission: October 9th, 2023 Decision Notification: October 17th, 2023 Camera-ready Deadline: November 9th, 2023 Conference Dates: December 3rd, 2023 *Doctoral Consortium Chairs* Albrecht Schmidt, LMU Munich Jasmin Niess, University of Oslo All questions about submissions should be emailed to: dc.mum2023(a)hcilab.org<mailto:dc.mum2023@hcilab.org>

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IxD&A Journal N. 55 - Meet the Authors Event: videos now available

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal -* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. CireScore 2022 = 2.0 (Q1: Design (/Architecture); Q2: Education, Media Technology and Social Science (SRJ); Q3: Human Computer Interaction) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Videos of the on-line event are now avilable* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 55 * on **Smart Learning Ecosystems: **toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality* *guest edited by //Mihai Dascalu, Patrizia Marti, Francesca Pozzi //and /*Regular papers */ *Meet the authors * authors list <https://ixdea.org/authors-of-issue-55-short-bios/> Videos can be accessed from the IxD&A Journal website -> <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052>https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-055 <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-055> or from the IxD&A Youtube Channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> (play list issue 55: link <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe5rmM-FoE9GEzFBWE4WeXElIo1zq5x0X>) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join IxD&A Linkedin group -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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 <https://ixdea.org/privacy-policy-2/> =========================================================

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IxD&A Journal: Issue N. 56 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. 56 *featuring a special issue **on:* **Hybrid Games and Interaction Design** */guest editors: ///Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa and Fotis Liarokapis/ /+ Regular papers is now available for free downloading https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-056 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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. 56 - ToC*/** ** ///Preface to the special isue on **Hybrid Games and Interaction Design** /Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa and Fotis Liarokapis/ p. 5 – 7 /Ralf Hebecker, Kolja Bopp/ *Live Learning Games: Insights from the application of a collaborative hybrid game environment for staff training*, pp. 8/ –/ 28 /Stéphanie Jean-Daubias/ *JADE: a board game to teach software ergonomics*, pp. 29 – 52 /Richard E. Ferdig, Enrico Gandolfi, Chris Lenart, Robert Clements / *Building an augmented reality system for consumption and production of hybrid gaming and storytelling*, pp. 53 – 68 /Marta Fernández-Ruiz, David Ruiz-Torres, Héctor Puente Bienvenido/ *Environmental Visualization and Exploration in Mobile Augmented Reality Games: Redefining the Spatial Affordances*, pp. 69 – 88 /André Sousa, Eduardo Magalhães, João Jacob/ *Inducing Flow In Board Games Through Augmented Audio*, pp. 89 – 114 /Derya Karadag/ *Gamification of design studio in the context of a user-centered design workshop*, pp. 115 – 129 *Regular papers* /Mark Scholten, Saskia M. Kelders, Julia E. W. C. Van Gemert-Pijnen/ *Similarity in action with an Embodied Conversational Agent; can synchronous speech yield higher levels of rapport? An exploratory eHealth study*/, /pp. 130 – 155 /Roberto Cibin, Tiziano Bonini, Maurizio Teli/ *Participatory Design and Critical Media Studies: a Convivial Conversation*/, /pp. 156 – 173 /Andrés Solano, Juan Sebastian Sinisterra, Juan Sebastian Parra, David Castro, Carlos Peláez/ *Usability Heuristics for Applications in the Context of Resilient Cities*/, /pp. 174 – 200 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *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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Congratulazioni a Rosa Lanzilotti e Maristella Matera

by Maria Francesca Costabile

Cari Tutti, è con molto piacere che faccio le mie congratulazioni a due nuovi professori ordinari in università italiane: Rosa Lanzilotti, che da qualche giorno ha preso servizio all'Università di Bari; Maristella Matera, che ha avuto oggi la chiamata dal suo Dipartimento del Politecnico di Milano, dovrà probabilmente aspettare settembre per la presa di servizio. Sono due colleghe, e amiche per tanti di noi, di cui conosciamo bene il valore e l'impegno, non solo nella nostra comunità ma nell'università italiana e a livello internazionale. Avere due ulteriori professoresse di HCI ci riempie di gioia e di orgoglio. Certamente continueranno a trainare tanti altri giovani. Davvero una bella notizia prima delle vacanze di agosto. Cari saluti, M. Francesca -- ------------------------------------------------ Prof. Maria Francesca Costabile Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Via Orabona 4 70125 Bari - Italy tel +39-080-5443300 fax +39-080-5443300 email maria.costabile(a)uniba.it www http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/costabile.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Mobile World Congress -MWC Las Vegas 2023

by elena.johnson＠usaeventsinfo.tech

Hi, We have a complete information Attendees List of Mobile World Congress -MWC Las Vegas If yes, I would be happy to send over our data model and pricing structure. Regards, Elena Johnson

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PhD position on Human-Centered AI for Knowledge Work at the Politecnico di Milano

by Salvatore Andolina

Con preghiera di diffusione ---------------------------------------- ***Sorry for cross-posting*** Dear colleagues, The Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, is offering a fully funded three-year PhD position on the topic of "Human-Centered AI for Knowledge Work" (supervisor: Prof. S. Andolina). We're seeking motivated and skilled candidates with a keen interest in large language models and human-centered AI research. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge topics in HCI and AI within a lively multidisciplinary team (https://hintlab.polimi.it/), conduct independent research under experienced guidance, contribute to high-quality publications, and participate in international conferences. Additional benefits include access to advanced training, mobility periods, and a flexible, results-oriented work schedule. The application deadline is 14:00 (Italian time) on September 5. To apply, please visit: https://www.dottorato.polimi.it/?id=501&L=1 <https://www.dottorato.polimi.it/?id=501&L=1> (id: 3689-2860) For any questions or additional information, don't hesitate to reach out to me directly at salvatore.andolina(a)polimi.it<mailto:salvatore.andolina@polimi.it> Kind regards, Salvatore -- Salvatore Andolina Assistant Professor (RTDb) Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Politecnico di Milano Via Ponzio 34/5 - 20133 Milano, Italy https://andolina.faculty.polimi.it/

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Call for Late Breaking Results

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Call for Late Breaking Results *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ (*** Submission Deadline: 31 August, 2023 AoE ***) The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites now submissions for Late Breaking Results. The submitted papers should be of original, high-quality research addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers in the LBR category: 31 August 2023 AoE • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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[IEEE VL/HCC 2023] Registration is now open!

by Rebecca Krosnick

VL/HCC 2023: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2023 The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2023 symposium is scheduled to take place October 2-6 in Washington, DC, USA. VL/HCC 2023 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). We have an exciting program of accepted papers, just recently released: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-research-papers Registration is now open! https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2023/registration - Please register by August 21st for the early bird fee - In addition to the main conference, you may also register to attend the graduate consortium <https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-graduate-consortium> and two exciting tutorials: 3D livecoding in the browser with Nodysseus <https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-tutorials#3D-livecod…> and Graphical Modelling of Users’ Interpretations of Visual Displays <https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-tutorials#Graphical-…> - More details on our website about the conference venue <https://conf.researchr.org/venue/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-venue> and lodging <https://conf.researchr.org/attending/vlhcc-2023/accommodation> - More details to come about keynote speakers

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NEW DEADLINE: Applications for the IJCB 2023 Doctoral Consortium,

by Maria De Marsico

Dear Colleagues, The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023) invites applications for the 2023 edition of the IJCB Doctoral Consortium (DC). Multiple *** travel grants *** are available to support attendance at the DC. The application deadline has been extended to *** August 10, 2023 ***. For more information, visit: https://ijcb2023.ieee-biometrics.org/call-for-doctoral-consortium-participa… With kind regards, IEEE IJCB 2023 Organizers The Doctoral Consortium Chairs Tempestt Neal Maria De Marsico -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Full Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Chair of IAPR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312

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[ACM MUM 2023] Call for Workshops and Tutorials | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6 2023

by Amal Walied Abdelazeem Yassien

***CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS – MUM 2023*** Deadline for Workshops and Tutorials: August 22nd, 2023 (AoE) **Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM DL** * 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=workshops* * MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | Vienna, Austria, December 3-6, 2023 * The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2023) welcomes proposals for workshops. A MUM Workshop is a forum for attendees with shared interests to present, discuss, and develop new ideas around a specific theme or domain related to Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics. All workshops will take place on Sunday, the first day of the conference (Seminar rooms with equipment will be provided), on the 3rd of December. Because workshops are meant to encourage ideas exchange, we encourage proposals that go beyond being a mini-conference and that engage participants in hands-on activities and in discussion. We also encourage organisers to open the workshops to conference attendees without a workshop paper, but who would be interested in participating. All tutorials will take place on the Sunday before the conference, on the 3rd of December and you can choose between three formats: 90min, half-day, or full-day. If you are interested in submitting a proposal and wish to discuss your ideas prior to the submission deadline, the workshop chairs welcome any inquiries. You can contact us at workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:workshoptutorial2023@mum-conf.org>. *Important Dates* WORKSHOP AND TUTORIALS SUBMISSION: 22nd of August 2023, AoE WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL NOTIFICATION: 17th of September 2023, AoE *Recommended Timeline for Internal Workshops* WORKSHOP SUBMISSION: 28th of October 2023, AoE WORKSHOP NOTIFICATION: 11th of November 2023, AoE ** Submission Guidelines ** *WORKSHOPS* * Workshop proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references) * It should describe your goals for the workshop, how you plan to run the workshop, and any anticipated long-term outcomes that will impact the field. Additionally, include information on how you will publish your call and reach out to potential participants. * Workshop proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed by experts in the field. * Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair. Please select Workshops and Tutorials track in EasyChair. * Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. *TUTORIALS* * Tutorial proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references), and include the following details: * Title * Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how they are relevant to the MUM community * Description of the tutorial activities * Short biography of the organisers * Proposed tutorial length (90min, half-day, full-day) * Room and material requirements * Maximum number of participants * Tutorial proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the tutorial. * Submissions will be juried by the tutorial chairs. Submissions must be submitted via EasyChair, please select Workshops and Tutorials track. Accepted tutorial proposals will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. *BEFORE THE CONFERENCE* *Organisers of the accepted workshops are responsible for the following tasks during the time leading up to the conference* * Announce/disseminate their Workshop: Organisers of an accepted workshop must set up and maintain their own website in which they provide further and updated information about their workshop. The workshop page will be linked to from the official MUM workshop site. * Solicit Submissions from Potential Participants: While some organizers may choose alternate formats, a position paper is generally 2-4 pages long and outlines the submitter’s view on the workshop theme and the reasons for the submitter’s interest in the topic. Proceedings of the workshop's submissions will be in charge of the workshop organizers. Commonly, the workshop's proceedings are included on each workshop's webpage. * Select Participants: Choose participants on the basis of position papers submitted and your goals for the workshop. * Workshop organizers and participants have to register for the conference. * Provide a Participant List: A list of confirmed participants should be sent to the Workshop & Tutorials Chairs (workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org). * Develop a final agenda of workshop activities. * Develop a plan for any follow-up activities. Link to submission system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mum20230 * Workshop Chairs * Philipp Wintersberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Thomas Kosch, HU Berlin All questions about submissions should be emailed to: workshoptutorial2023(a)mum-conf.org<mailto:workshoptutorial2023@mum-conf.org>

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Call for Submissions and Travel Scholarships: IJCB 2023 Doctoral Consortium

by Maria De Marsico

Dear Colleague, We hope this email finds you well. We are excited to announce the Call for Submissions for the Doctoral Consortium <https://ijcb2023.ieee-biometrics.org/call-for-doctoral-consortium-participa…> at the upcoming International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2023. Please share the attached call for submissions with your students. The submission deadline is July 26, 2023. In the first part of the message, we report the availability of travel scholarships for eligible graduate and undergraduate students to attend the IJCB 2023 Doctoral Consortium. In the second part, you find again the call for Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium. We are excited to announce the availability of a limited number of travel scholarships for eligible graduate and undergraduate students to attend the IJCB 2023 Doctoral Consortium. Selected Ph.D. students will receive scholarships of at least $2,500, while undergraduate and master’s students will be awarded scholarships of at least $400. Scholarships awarded to Ph.D. students are intended to help cover expenses such as round-trip flights (limited to U.S. flag carriers or flights ticketed through an US-carrier (e.g., codeshare flights on international airlines)), accommodation at the conference venue (Grand Hotel Union, Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the conference’s duration, and the IJCB registration fee. Undergraduate and master’s students are also strongly encouraged to apply for these scholarships to cover their conference registration fees, as early exposure to such opportunities can be highly beneficial. Scholarships will be granted to undergraduate and master’s students who demonstrate significant potential to benefit from attending the consortium. Priority will be given to women, students from underrepresented groups, and persons with disabilities, in line with the IEEE Biometrics Council commitment to diversity and inclusion. Students wishing to apply must complete the application form here (https://tinyurl.com/IJCB23DCScholarship) by August 15, 2023. Additionally, applicants’ faculty advisors must email a letter of support to tjneal(a)usf.edu by August 15, 2023. The advisor’s letter must explicitly state their willingness to support any costs not covered by the travel scholarship, such as meals, additional flight or lodging expenses exceeding the scholarship amount, incidentals, transportation to and from the airport, and so on. Advisor letters must also provide a statement regarding the availability (or lack thereof) of travel funds for the applicant from other sources. *Eligibility:* A limited number of travel scholarships are available to support undergraduate or graduate students from any US university, regardless of their citizenship or visa status, as well as US citizens studying outside of the US. However, certain individuals are not eligible, including speakers (unless they are students), postdocs, and those supported through a federal grant or scholarship (e.g., NSF’s CyberCorps Scholarship for Service or Graduate Research Fellowship Program). Although students with alternative sources of funding, such as through their advisor’s research funds, are eligible, priority will be given to students with limited or no other means to support conference travel. Ph.D. students that have already received an invitation to attend the IJCB 2023 Doctoral Consortium will be prioritized, although this is not a requirement. We strongly encourage students that wish to participate in the consortium to take advantage of these scholarships. We especially encourage faculty advisors to support and promote this opportunity among their students from underrepresented groups that are eligible to apply. To further support underrepresented students, we also encourage advisors to explore the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliances. These alliances serve as invaluable resources, offering comprehensive programs designed to address underrepresentation in the computing disciplines. By collaborating with academic institutions, K-12 schools, government agencies, industry leaders, professional societies, and other organizations, these alliances work towards achieving a transformation in computing education. You can find a list of these alliances at https://bpcnet.org/alliances/. Notable resources to aid your BPC efforts are listed below: - National Society of Black Engineers (https://www.nsbe.org/) - Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) ( https://cahsi.utep.edu/) - Institute for Mentorship for African Americans in Computer Science (IAAMCS) (http://iaamcs.org/) - Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) (https://cra.org/cra-wp/) - American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) ( https://www.aises.org/) *Call for submissions* The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB’23) Doctoral Consortium provides a valuable platform for Ph.D. students to engage with the global research community in Biometrics, allowing them to present their research and discuss their career objectives. This consortium offers an opportunity for doctoral students to establish connections and collaborations with experienced researchers in the field, while gaining insights into potential career paths in both academia andindustry. The IJCB’23 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place during the conference as a parallel event to special sessions on the first day of the conference. Attendance to the consortium is strictly by invitation. An informal introduction by senior researchers acting as mentors will open the DC. Afterwards, student participants will briefly present their research during a spotlight oral session. This will be followed by a mentoring session, providing students with an opportunity for constructive feedback and more focused discussions with senior researchers. Additionally, each student will be assigned a mentor from the committee, with whom they can interact to explore specific areas of interest throughout the event. An informal lunch with senior researchers will also be organized, enabling students to engage in interactive conversations. DC participants will also have the opportunity to participate in a poster session during the main conference (specific details to be determined). *Eligibility* We invite eligible students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium, with the expectation that successful applicants will actively participate in the entire program in-person. Eligible students are those pursuing a Ph.D. who have made progress in their dissertation, with some results already published or nearing publication. We value diversity and equality in terms of research topics, participating institutions, and individuals involved. We particularly encourage women and individuals from underrepresented groups to apply. Although having a paper appearing in IJCB’23 is not a prerequisite for participation, it is highly encouraged for applicants to have a paper associated with the conference, whose topics could be summarized during the DC. *Submission* To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, please submit: 1. A research statement summarizing the thesis research topic, the working plan, and the progress to date (max 2 pages). 2. A CV (max 1 page). The CV should highlight any publications and conference presentations that are related to the thesis topic. 3. A supporting letter from the thesis advisor that endorses the student’s application to this Doctoral Consortium and briefly describes the progress or status of the student’s thesis work. All materials should be prepared in a single PDF file and submitted through the Doctoral Consortium Track of the IJCB 2023 CMT instance: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCB2023/ *Review and Selection Process* Applications will be evaluated on: 1. Quality of the application and thesis topic. 2. Anticipated benefits (current/potential contributions to science) of the student’s research. 3. Student’s contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, methodology, etc. 4. Endorsement by the thesis advisor. There will be no papers published from the Doctoral Consortium in the proceedings of IJCB. *Financial Support* The students selected to participate in the Doctoral Consortium may be considered for financial support. However, the availability and extent of financial support are subject to the availability of funds and are not guaranteed. Applicants should be prepared to attend IJCB’23 without financial support in the event that funds are not available. It is important to note that the lunch session with senior mentors will be fully covered by the conference anyway, and no expenses associated with lunch will be incurred by the Doctoral Consortium participants or mentors. *Important Dates* • Submission deadline: July 26, 2023 • Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2023 • Doctoral consortium date: TBD We look forward to welcoming the field’s most talented students to the IJCB 2023 Doctoral Consortium. Please feel free to reply to this email with any questions. Best, Tempestt Neal and Maria De Marsico IJCB’23 Doctoral Consortium Chairs -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Full Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Chair of IAPR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312

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CHITALY 2023 - Registration is now open

by amon rapp

CHITALY 2023 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ==================================================== Registration is now open for both the virtual and the physical event. Information about the registration costs are available here: https://chitaly2023.it/registration/ Early registration deadline is August 31, 2023. As of September 1, late/on-site registration rates apply. ==================================================== All the students participating at the doctoral consortium will be awarded by a free registration supported by ACM SIGCHI. More details will be given by email. In addition to the free registrations for the DC, ACM SIGCHI has sponsored 10 free registrations for students attending the conference, who will be selected according to the form below: https://forms.gle/4i4mV2m6bAgZzFoK8 Please, note: students cannot apply if they are registering to the conference as the main author of a submission which will appear in the Conference Proceedings, published in the ACM Digital Library. In that case, they will have to proceed with regular registration. ==================================================== The registration form is accessible at the following link: https://prenotazioni.consultaumbria.com/cmsweb/Login.asp?IDcommessa=26-2023…

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BehavRec Workshop @RecSys 2023: Call for papers

by amon rapp

*** Apologies for cross postings *** *BehavRec Workshop @RecSys 2023 - Call For Papers - *** DEADLINE July, 18 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Behavior Change and Persuasive Recommender Systems co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’23) Singapore, 18th-22nd September 2023 Web: https://behavrec.wordpress.com/ Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=behavrec23 For any information: amon.rapp(a)unito.it ========= ABSTRACT ========= For solving a variety of personal and societal problems, changing human behavior is crucial. Persuasive and behavior change recommender systems are intentionally designed to provide users with suggestions on how to modify their behavior, habits, beliefs and opinions. Research in this area has advanced over the years attracting interest from both practitioners and researchers also due to the increasing availability of personal data, like medical records, physiological parameters, and psychological states, which may enable novel forms of tailored suggestions that can be delivered anywhere at any time, leveraging multiple technologies (e.g., natural language processing) and different devices (e.g., ambient, wearable and mobile devices). The BehavRec workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing open problems and innovative research approaches in this area. Some questions that motivate the workshop are: What kind of data should be used to design “persuasive” recommendations? How should they be delivered? What kind of strategies should be implemented to design timely and contextualized persuasive recommendations? What kind of theories should we rely on to design effective persuasive recommendations? How to support the user’s motivation and help them sustain the desired behavior in the long term? What contextual factors may affect the effectiveness of behavior change recommender systems and should be considered in design? This workshop will deepen the discussion of novel approaches and applications of recommender systems that might want to persuade users into taking beneficial actions in domains as diverse as health and wellness, safety and security, food and environmental sustainability, education and politics. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ∑ RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS – Persuasive and Behavior change recommender systems – Health recommender systems – Food recommender systems – Recommender systems for education – Persuasive conversational recommender systems ∑ USER INTERFACES FOR PERSUASIVE AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS – Visual interfaces – Context-aware interfaces – Ubiquitous, wearable and mobile interfaces – Conversational interfaces ∑ NEW APPROACHES TO DESIGNING AND DELIVERING PERSUASIVE RECOMMENDATIONS – Controllability, transparency, and explainability – Persuasive recommendation (e.g., argumentation-aware recommendation) – Cultural differences (e.g., culture-aware recommendation) – Context-aware recommendation – How to balance the cost and benefit of behavior change recommender systems – Challenges and limitations of implementing behavior change recommender systems ∑ ETHICS, PRIVACY AND THEORIES – Theories of behavior change and persuasion – How to develop ethical and privacy-sensitive behavior change recommender systems – Frameworks and models for developing personalized persuasive technology – Objective and subjective approaches to behavior change recommendations ∑ EVALUATION – Empirical studies and evaluations of recommender systems for behavior change – Evaluation methods and metrics (e.g., evaluation questionnaire design) – Case studies and examples of behavior change recommender systems – Success and failure stories with regard to behavior change recommender systems – Long-term evaluation and evidence of long-term effects of behavior change recommender systems. ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We accept four kinds of submissions: (A) Regular papers (5-12 pages + references - single-column CEURART style) (B) Position papers, Ongoing projects and Demos (5-8 pages + references - single-column CEURART style); (C) Journal papers (already published - 2 pages including abstract, highlights, and a pointer to the complete paper single-column CEURART style); (D) Manifestations of interest (max 2 pages including a bio of the participant and a brief statement about why they are interest in the workshop) Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=behavrec23 All submitted papers will be evaluated by two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance, and technical quality. Note that the references do not count toward page limits. Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e. authors’ names should be included in the submissions. We aim to publish all accepted papers, except from the (C-D) submission type in CEUR WS Proceedings, as a joint volume. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. The templates and format instructions are available here: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Early submission are strongly encouraged. We adopt a rolling review system: early submissions will be immediately reviewed and the notification will be sent out approximately two weeks after the submission. * Paper submission final deadline: July 18, 2023 (GMT) * Paper notification: August 18, 2023 (GMT) * Camera-ready version deadline: September 10, 2023 ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Amon Rapp University of Torino, Torino, Italy Federica Cena University of Torino, Torino, Italy Christoph Trattner University of Bergen, Norway Rita Orji Dalhousie University, Canada Julita Vassileva University of Saskatchewan, Canada Alain Starke University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Final Call for Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Final Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ (*** Submission Deadline: 29 July, 2023 AoE ***) The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 29 July 2023 AoE (*** extended ***) • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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[Save the date] UI Engineering Live Talks - Jürgen Ziegler - July 20, 15:30 CET

by Davide Spano

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the second 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. Jürgen Ziegler will introduce us to the issues of designing and engineering conversational recommender systems. The talk will be given on the *20th of July, 15:30 CET*. Title: Design and engineering issues in conversational recommender systems Speaker: Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/VnVRr9ef8wk?feature=share Abstract: Conversational interaction techniques have gained significant traction in recent years, mainly due to the advances in language technologies. In line with these developments, conversational recommender systems (CRS) have also been gaining increasing attention. In contrast to conventional recommender techniques they afford a higher level of flexibility and user control and are especially helpful in cold-start situations. The talk will elaborate several relevant design and engineering issues for CRS, starting with the question how written interaction with a CRS can be made more efficient and flexible by making use of GUI-elements and by integrating it closely with search and filtering techniques. CRS can elicit user preferences and provide recommendations, but they can also explain them. I will present some insights from a study investigating explanatory needs of users in a CRS. Finally, I will introduce the novel concept of meta-intents which represent high-level dialog-related user preferences that can be instrumental in designing and adapting user-system conversations more effectively. -- [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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[CFP] FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION - SELECTED PAPERS AWARD - AIRCAD2023 @ ICIAP2023

by Andrea Loddo

Dear colleagues, *>>>>> We are pleased to announce that the deadline for paper submission to the second AIRCAD workshop has been extended to 15/07/2023. <<<<<* *We are also glad to announce that 5 selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (AIRCAD 2023)".* Among such papers, the best paper will be awarded the full waiver. Please find enclosed the call for papers with the new important dates and the selected papers' award details. Please spread the voice! Kind regards [apologies for multiple postings] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - AIRCAD2023 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis AIRCAD2023 held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP2023, Udine, Italy, 11-15th Sep 2023 https://sites.google.com/view/aircad2023 AIMS AND SCOPE Nowadays, healthcare systems collect and provide most medical data in digital form. The availability of medical data enables a large number of artificial intelligence applications, and there is a growing interest in the quantitative analysis of clinical images using techniques such as Positron Emission Tomography, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, mainly applied to texture analysis and radiomics. In particular, thanks to machine and deep learning, researchers can generate insights to improve the discovery of new therapeutic tools, support diagnostic decisions, aid in the rehabilitation process, etc. However, the increasing amount of available data may lead to a more significant effort to make a diagnosis. Moreover, this task is even more challenging due to the high inter/intra patient variability, the availability of various imaging techniques, and the need to consider data from multiple sensors and sources, which brought to the well-known domain shift issue. To address the problems described, radiologists and pathologists today use tools to assist them in analyzing biomedical images. They are known as Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems, and they allow to mitigate or eliminate the difficulties due to inter- and intra-observer variability, represented by various assessments of the same region, under the same assumptions, by the same physician at different times, and various assessments of the same region by several physicians, thanks to appropriate algorithms. Further relevant issues are data access, which may be delayed or even prevented for various reasons, such as privacy, security, and intellectual property, and the representativeness of the captured sample compared to the real population. For these reasons, researchers have recently explored the use of synthetic data, both for training the models and to estimate and teach systems in situations that have not been observed in actual reality. This workshop aims to provide an overview of recent advances in the field of biomedical image processing using machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and radiomics features, placing particular attention on contributions dealing with practical applications, for example, the potential alternative solution against domain shift, or exploiting synthetic images to teach actual CAD systems. In particular, the ultimate goal is to analyze how these techniques can be employed in the typical medical image processing workflow, from image acquisition to classification, including retrieval, disease detection, prediction, and classification. TOPICS The workshop calls for submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: - Biomedical Image Processing - Machine and Deep Learning techniques for image analysis (i.e., segmentation of cells, tissues, organs, lesions; classification of cells, diseases, tumors, etc.) - Image Registration Techniques - Image Preprocessing Techniques - Image-based 3D reconstruction - Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis Systems (CADs) - Biomedical Image Analysis - Radiomics and Artificial intelligence for personalized medicine - Machine and Deep Learning as tools to support medical diagnoses and decisions - Image retrieval (e.g., context-based retrieval, lesion similarity) - CAD architectures - Advanced architecture for biomedical image remote processing, elaboration, and transmission - 3D Vision, Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality applications for remote surgery - Image processing techniques for privacy-preserving AI in medicine. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Accepted papers will be included in the ICIAP 2023 proceedings, which will be published by Springer as Lecture Notes in the Computer Science series (LNCS). When preparing your contribution, please follow the guidelines provided by Springer. The maximum number of pages is 12 pages including references. Each contribution will be reviewed based on originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance, and technical content. The submission will be handled electronically via a unique Conference's CMT Website for all the workshops belonging to the ICIAP Medical Imaging Hub: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICIAPMIH2023/ During the submission, you must select the correct Track, which is Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (AIRCAD). Once accepted, the presence of at least one author at the event and the oral presentation of the paper are expected. There are two registration modalities: - Workshops/Tutorials pass, which covers only tutorials and workshops (2 days) - Conference pass, which includes the main conference, workshops/tutorials, and social events (5 days). For more details about the registration, see the ICIAP main conference website. SELECTED PAPERS AWARD After the workshop, 5 manuscripts will be selected considering their quality and the overall ratings provided by the Technical Program Committee. The authors of such selected manuscript will be invited to submit an extended version to the Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (AIRCAD 2023)" edited by the Journal of Imaging (MDPI), which will be available soon. Among such papers, the one with the highest rating will be recognized with the BEST PAPER AWARD with waived publishing charges. The other manuscript will still get a discount (about 50%) on the open-access publication fee. IMPORTANT DATES - *Paper Submission: July 15, 2023* - Notifications to Authors: July 30, 2023 - Camera Ready Papers Due: August 15, 2023 - Workshop Event: September 11, 2023 ORGANIZERS Albert Comelli, Ri.MED Foundation, acomelli(a)fondazionerimed.com Cecilia Di Ruberto, University of Cagliari, dirubert(a)unica.it Andrea Loddo, University of Cagliari, andrea.loddo(a)unica.it Lorenzo Putzu, University of Cagliari, lorenzo.putzu(a)unica.it Alessandro Stefano, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council of Cefalu’, alessandro.stefano(a)ibfm.cnr.it TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi, NVIDIA (Germany) Stefano Barone, University of Palermo (Italy) Viviana Benfante, University of Palermo, Ri.MED Foundation and CNR (Italy) Monica Bianchini, University of Siena (Italy) Roberto Cannella, University of Palermo (Italy) Renato Cuocolo, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) Giuseppe Cutaia, University of Palermo (Italy) Navdeep Dahiya, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Mario D'Acunto, National Research Council (Italy) Angelo Genovese, University of Milano (Italy) Marco Grangetto, University of Torino (Italy) Jon Ander Gómez Adrián, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) Riccardo Laudicella, University of Messina (Italy) Salvatore Livatino, University of Hertfordshire (UK) Carsten Marr, Helmholtz Zentrum München (Germany) Mario Molinara, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy) Davide Moroni, National Research Council (Italy) Paolo Napoletano, University of Milan, Bicocca (Italy) Antonio Parziale, University of Salerno (Italy) Giovanni Pasini, Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy) Luca Pireddu, CRS4 (Italy) Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan (Italy) Mubashara Rehman, University of Udine (Italy) Giorgio Russo, IBFM-CNR (Italy) Giuseppe Salvaggio, University of Palermo (Italy) Mattia Savardi, University of Brescia (Italy) Alberto Signoroni, University of Brescia (Italy) Alberto Signoroni, University of Brescia (Italy) Arnaldo Stanzione, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) Nicola Strisciuglio, University of Twente (Netherlands) Enzo Tartaglione, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (France) Francesco Tortorella, University of Salerno (Italy) Lorenzo Ugga, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) Federica Vernuccio, University of Padova (Italy) ___________ Andrea Loddo PhD | Dept. Of Mathematics and Computer Science | University of Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, Cagliari, Italy Office: +39 070 675 8503 *And after all we're only ordinary men*

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Call for Participation: IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023) Doctoral Consortium

by Maria De Marsico

IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023) Doctoral Consortium Call for Participants The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB’23) Doctoral Consortium provides a valuable platform for Ph.D. students to engage with the global research community in Biometrics, allowing them to present their research and discuss their career objectives. This consortium offers an opportunity for doctoral students to establish connections and collaborations with experienced researchers in the field, while gaining insights into potential career paths in both academia and industry. The IJCB’23 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place during the conference as a parallel event to special sessions on the first day of the conference. Attendance to the consortium is strictly by invitation. An informal introduction by senior researchers acting as mentors will open the DC. Afterwards, student participants will briefly present their research during a spotlight oral session. This will be followed by a mentoring session, providing students with an opportunity for constructive feedback and more focused discussions with senior researchers. Additionally, each student will be assigned a mentor from the committee, with whom they can interact to explore specific areas of interest throughout the event. An informal lunch with senior researchers will also be organized, enabling students to engage in interactive conversations. DC participants will also have the opportunity to participate in a poster session during the main conference (specific details to be determined). Eligibility We invite eligible students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium, with the expectation that successful applicants will actively participate in the entire program in-person. Eligible students are those pursuing a Ph.D. who have made progress in their dissertation, with some results already published or nearing publication. We value diversity and equality in terms of research topics, participating institutions, and individuals involved. We particularly encourage women and individuals from underrepresented groups to apply. Although having a paper appearing in IJCB’23 is not a prerequisite for participation, it is highly encouraged for applicants to have a paper associated with the conference, whose topics could be summarized during the DC. Submission To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, please submit: 1. A research statement summarizing the thesis research topic, the working plan, and the progress to date (max 2 pages). 2. A CV (max 1 page). The CV should highlight any publications and conference presentations that are related to the thesis topic. 3. A supporting letter from the thesis advisor that endorses the student’s application to this Doctoral Consortium and briefly describes the progress or status of the student’s thesis work. All materials should be prepared in a single PDF file and submitted through the Doctoral Consortium Track of the IJCB 2023 CMT instance: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCB2023/ . Review and Selection Process Applications will be evaluated on: 1. Quality of the application and thesis topic. 2. Anticipated benefits (current/potential contributions to science) of the student’s research. 3. Student’s contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, methodology, etc. 4. Endorsement by the thesis advisor. There will be no papers published from the Doctoral Consortium in the proceedings of IJCB. Financial Support The students selected to participate in the Doctoral Consortium may be considered for financial support. However, the availability and extent of financial support are subject to the availability of funds and are not guaranteed. Applicants should be prepared to attend IJCB’23 without financial support in the event that funds are not available. It is important to note that the lunch session with senior mentors will be fully covered by the conference anyway, and no expenses associated with lunch will be incurred by the Doctoral Consortium participants or mentors. Important Dates • Submission deadline: July 26, 2023 • Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2023 • Doctoral consortium date: TBD -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Full Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Chair of IAPR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312

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IxD&A Journal N. 55: Meet the Authors Event

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 Event* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 55 *on:* Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality */co-guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Patrizia Marti, Francesca Pozzi /and/ /*regular papers*/ / *Meet the authors * authors index <https://ixdea.org/55_authors_index/> on the /*10th of July - 15:30 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/1FAIpQLSfxjQSENXkiJ_Z9Dnk3_Enl40TcSTv7O-T…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-055 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[EICS 2024] First round CfP for the 16th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

by Carmen Santoro

Call for Papers for the First Submission Round of EICS 2024: The 16th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, June 24-28, 2024 - Cagliari, Italy https://eics.acm.org/2024/ Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACM EICS 2024 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: July 28, 2023 EICS 2024 is the sixteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Modeling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems * Model-based development of interactive software * Requirements engineering for interactive systems * Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) * Software architectures for interactive systems * Formal methods within interactive systems engineering * Certification issues of methods, tools, and processes to create interactive systems * Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages and APIs for interactive systems * Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions * Integrating engineering issues in the design process of interactive systems * Engineering design tools * Engineering evaluation tools * Supporting design in interactive development processes * Computational-Interaction Systems and Techniques * Interactive data-driven systems * Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, AI, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities...) * Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems…) * Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities,…) * Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., health, home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, civil protection, law enforcement, emergency services and calamity management...) * Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …) * Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g. recommending, adaptive, intelligent) * Building Human-centred AI systems (integrating explainable AI, intelligible design, human-in-the-loop, adaptive and context-aware, interactive agents…) A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions The PACM-EICS deadline for the First Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes submissions is 28 July 2023. Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2024 Carmen Santoro and Anke Dittmar -- Questa email è stata esaminata alla ricerca di virus dal software antivirus AVG. www.avg.com

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 will host a number of workshops which will be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. eScience 2023 will host the following workshops: ● 1st Workshop on cItizeN Science engagemenT based on Ict soLutions (INSTIL 2023) http://www.instil-science.eu ● 3rd Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR 2023) https://error-workshop.org ● 3rd Workshop on Reproducible Workflows, Data Management, and Security (ReWorDS 2023) https://sites.google.com/vols.utk.edu/rewords23/home ● 4th Global Research Platform (4GRP) Workshop https://www.theglobalresearchplatform.net ● IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI4Health 2023) https://www.ai4health.icar.cnr.it ● Research Software Engineers in eScience: Sustainable RSE Ecosystems within eScience (RSE-eScience-2023) https://us-rse.org/rse-escience-2023/ KEY DATES ● Workshop papers submission deadline: Defined per workshop ● Notification of acceptance: Defined per workshop ● IEEE proceedings camera ready: July 21, 2023 ● Workshop days: October 9-10, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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First 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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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Call for Poster Submission

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Last Call for Poster Submission *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ (*** Submission Deadline: July 14, 2023, AoE ***) eScience 2023 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Its objective is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, algorithms, and tools, with a strong focus on practical solutions and open challenges. The conference welcomes conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures, including HPC, Cloud, and IoT. The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is “open eScience”. This year, the conference is promoting four additional key topics: • Computational Science for sustainable development • FAIR • Research Infrastructures for eScience • Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) The conference is soliciting contributions for Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations. Submitted poster papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 . All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission. AWARDS eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference. • Best Poster Award • Best Student Poster Award • Outstanding Early Career Contribution – this award is associated with poster submissions and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers and junior scientists). KEY DATES • Poster Submissions due: July 14, 2023 (AoE) • Poster Acceptance Notification: July 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: August 14, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: August 14, 2023 ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee Email contact: Technical-Program(a)eScience-conference.org

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CUI '23 Workshop CFP : "Is CUI Design Ready Yet? A Workshop on Community Practices and Gaps in CUI Design & Resource Development"

by Christine Murad

Are you passionate about design practices, methods, and tools for CUI design? Join us at CUI 2023 for our workshop: "Is CUI Design Ready Yet? A Workshop on Community Practices and Gaps in CUI Design & Resource Development" As CUIs become more prevalent in both academic research and the commercial market, it becomes more essential to design usable and adoptable CUIs. While research has been growing on the methods for designing CUIs for commercial use, there has been little discussion on overall community practice of developing design resources to aid in practical CUI design. The aim of this workshop therefore is to bring the CUI community together to discuss the current practices for developing tools and resources for practical CUI design, the adoption (or non-adoption) of these tools and resources, and how these resources are utilized in the training and education of new CUI designers entering the field. This workshop will bring together all parts of the CUI community to have meaningful discussions on how CUI design resources are currently developed, and how we can improve these resources and tools to aid in their adoption in practical CUI design, and CUI academic & industry design training. If you are interested in participating, we ask that you submit either a position paper by July 7th, 2023, or a statement of interest can be submitted at any time (there is no formal deadline for statements of interest). Please visit https://speech-interaction.org/cui2023_design_workshop/ for more information // ORGANIZERS // Christine Murad, University of Toronto Cosmin Munteanu, University of Waterloo Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin Leigh Clark, Bold Insight UK Martin Porcheron, Bold Insight UK Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham Heloisa Candello, IBM Research Raina Langevin, University of Washington /// KEY DATES /// Position Paper Deadline: July 7th, 2023 (11:59 PM AOE, email to Christine Murad) [Statements of Interest have no formal deadline] Acceptance Notifications: On a Rolling Basis Camera Ready for Position Papers: July 12th, 2023, (11:59 PM AOE) Workshop date: July 19th, 2023 (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM) We hope to see you there! Best Regards, Christine Murad ———————————— PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science University of Toronto http://cs.toronto.edu/~cmurad

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CFP: CUI 2023 Workshop on Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults

by Sayan Sarcar

Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults A workshop to held at the ACM SIGCHI CUI 2023 conference (Conversational User Interfaces) Call for Submissions and for Participation This multidisciplinary workshop aims to tackle the significant gaps in theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and exploration of new paradigms within the research and design of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) for Older Adults (OAs). We also aim to build research capacity by bringing together researchers and practitioners across several disciplines and industries who are actively working or having an interest toward understanding older adults’ use of and need for CUIs. We invite researchers from various fields to present their work on and collectively engage in synthesizing and collating findings from different disciplines, and to discuss barriers and approaches to designing CUIs that are usable, adoptable, personally, and culturally relevant to OAs. Given the nascent phase of this community, and our goal of encouraging a grassroots approach to defining this space, we welcome position papers, short research papers, or short expressions of interest relevant to the broad space of designing CUIs for OAs. There is no format for the expression of interest - those wishing to participate in the workshop without a submitted paper should simply contact the organizers via email indicating through a short paragraph their prior experience and/or interest as relevant to the workshop, alongside their professional website or scholar page. For those interested in submitting a formal paper, we welcome short papers describing e.g. a research study, a novel system, a new theoretical contribution, or position papers that highlight new or ongoing challenges in the field. Submitted papers will be lightly reviewed by the organizing committee within 10 days of submission (there is no formal deadline). Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website. We recommend papers to be no more than 4 pages long, following the CHI Extended Abstract format). Submissions, expressions of interest, and any other queries related to the workshop should be sent to: cui-oa2023(a)cs.toronto.edu Submissions will be reviewed according to the fit with the workshop topic and potential to contribute to the workshop goals. Alternate submission arrangements may be possible (such as the showcasing of papers previously accepted at other conferences). Workshop URL: http://speech-interaction.org/CUI-OA2023 -- Best Regards, Workshop Organizing Team

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PhD fellowship available at the Human Interfaces in Information Systems Laboratory, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy

by Fabio Paternò

We are looking for candidates for one three-year PhD scholarship that will be carried out at the at the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) Laboratory at CNR-ISTI (http://hiis.isti.cnr.it/), Pisa, Italy. The fellowship is associated with the PhD school at the Computer Science department of the University of Pisa (https://dottorato.di.unipi.it/) in the Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction area. The specific PhD topic will be defined taking into account the background and the interests of the candidate. The HIIS Laboratory is a creative and multi-disciplinary interactive technologies research laboratory, with deep and extensive research collaborations, at the national and international levels, industrial partners, and a supportive and inclusive working environment. Pisa is a lively small town located in Tuscany, near the coast, with an international airport, characterised by the presence of a rich research ecosystem (three Universities and many research centres) very active in the ICT area. We are therefore looking for deserving candidates. It is useful to have some programming knowledge, interest and passion for the considered topics, and to carry out research activities. The application procedure will be soon available. The deadline will be at the end of July. Applicants must have earned a master degree by the end of October 2023. For further information any interested potential candidate can contact fabio.paterno at isti.cnr.it

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