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CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI
CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS
The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
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11–13 July 2021
https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/
Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World
In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI
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THEME
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The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue.
So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape.
To reach its aims, the conference
1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology
2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens.
Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI.
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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: SPECIFICATIONS
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The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting in which PhD students can present and receive feedback on their work. Students at different stages of their research will be able to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims to provide students with useful guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community.
The topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as CHItaly’s. The main scope of the consortium is to enable PhD students to interact with their peers, as well as with more senior researchers, on a wide range of Human-Computer Interaction related topics, and related to the conference theme.
The consortium is open to PhD students worldwide at any stage in their research. Students at an initial stage should be able to challenge their ideas and current research directions. Students at a more mature stage should be able to present their thesis and get advice on ways to further improve and better communicate their contributions and findings. Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to proposing a thesis.
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PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS
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Submitted papers must be in English and single-author, but the name of the supervisor could be mentioned within the paper. Papers must be 5-page long using the 1-column CEUR template available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt.
Papers must:
identify a significant problem in the field of research
outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions
describe the contribution of the student by presenting the proposed approach and the results achieved so far
Accepted papers will be collected and published in CEUR-WS proceedings.
Each author of an accepted paper will present orally his/her contribution the first day of the conference.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submissions: April 23th
Notifications to contributors: May 14th
Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th
Doctoral consortium: July 12th
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SUBMISSIONS: HOW TO
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DC papers must be sent via mail to dc.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it with 'DC submission' in the e-mail subject.
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FURTHER INFORMATION
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If you have any question, please write an email to the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy, email: daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it
Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Italy, email: fabio.paterno(a)isti.cnr.it
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CHITALY 2021 TRACKS
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This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for doctoral consortium papers:
long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html
workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html
interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html
*** Apologies for cross postings ***
PATCH Workshop @UMAP 2021 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
(PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online and in Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
https://patch2021.di.unito.it/
Abstract and Topics
Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 will be
again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH)
research and personalization research. For those using any kind of
technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance
the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing
together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects
of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art of
mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance
the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a
multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research
directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical
cultural heritage collections and in CH sites
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Ambient Cultural Heritage
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Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites
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Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management
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Creativity and collaboration support in CH
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Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants
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Recommendation strategies for CH
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Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH
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NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH
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(User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections
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Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation
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Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem
(including CH)
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Long term personalization in CH
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IoT and Cultural Heritage
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Human-Robots adaptation in museums
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3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage
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Context-aware information presentation in CH
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Interactive user interfaces for CH applications
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Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications
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Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences
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Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives
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Community mapping for CH information sharing
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Conversational agents for CH
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Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH
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Remote access to CH
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Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Motivation
Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for
personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this
topic. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and
learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites
are typically rich in objects and information; much more than the visitor
can absorb during the limited time of a visit. As discussed by Falk (2009),
visitors to CH sites differ and their visit experience involves a
combination of the physical, the personal, and the socio-cultural context
and identity-related aspects. Hence, they may benefit from individualized
support that takes into account contextual and personal attributes.
However, personalization brings two main challenges:
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Firstly, can we support CH exploration for first-time and anonymous
visitors, taking into account that many people access cultural sites only
once, or they interact with digital services anonymously?
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Secondly, when it is possible to track users along time, can we provide
an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH
visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from
previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web?
Further, an interesting problem to explore is whether this kind of support
can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH
experiences. This is true, not only in “traditional” CH sites, but also in
urban environments, which reflect the varied history of mankind and offer
places and objects representing shared values for the population, to be
preserved and valued.
Submissions
Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references;
Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 pages excluding references.
Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be
returned without review.
Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included
in the submissions.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM
publications. The templates and instructions are available here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission
system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH":
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021.
An international panel of experts will review all submissions.
Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it
introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.
There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all
the workshop papers will be published.
Important dates:
March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
Workshop organizers
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it
Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena(a)unito.it
Tsvi (Tsvika) Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel,
tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il
Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it
George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, raptisg(a)upnet.gr
Alan Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com
Program Committee
Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece
Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy
Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy
George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece
Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK
Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy
Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy
Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy
Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel
Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece
Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel
Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel
Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel
Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy
Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy
Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy
Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy
George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece
Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy
Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy
Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece
Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece
Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel
Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy
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CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI
The Hybrid International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html
In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI
LAST CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS
Deadline (strict): Feb 28th 2021
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THEME
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The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it<https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/>) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue.
So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape.
To reach its aims, the conference
1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology
2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens.
Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI.
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RESEARCH PAPERS AND TOPICS
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The research track of the conference will be hybrid, blending digital and physical frontiers. Contributions to the research track are in the form of either long or short research papers.
Long papers present original and substantially new research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and at the frontiers of HCI. They clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures or technical aspects are presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results are communicated according to scholarly standards, and implications of the contributions/findings for HCI have to be explicitly discussed.
Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance for HCI rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, or research studies. Examples of contributions might include but are not limited to: early-stage frontier research, techniques, technologies or prototypes with or without an in-depth evaluation; a self-contained innovative qualitative study for HCI; the design of novel systems, services or demos for hands-on interaction.
Both types of papers are archival publications of original research in the field of HCI, and related to the conference theme and topics.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones, divided into traditional topics for HCI and frontier topics, at the intersection with other fields, for the advancement of HCI.
Traditional HCI: Theories, Methods, Studies
• HCI theories
• HCI design and evaluation methods
• HCI studies
• Interaction processes and models
• Collaborative and social computing and HCI
• Affective computing and HCI
• Accessibility and inclusive HCI
Arts, Humanities, Education, Society and HCI
• Design & arts and HCI
• Humanities and HCI
• Cultures, culture production and HCI
• Education and HCI
• Technology enhanced learning and HCI
• Learning analytics and HCI
• Values, ethics and HCI
• Society and HCI
Physical, Digital or Hybrid HCI
• Game and gamification-based solutions and HCI
• Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and HCI
• Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and HCI
• Internet of Things (IoT) and HCI
• Physical computing, making or digital fabrication and HCI
• Cyber-physical systems, embedded systems and HCI
• Tangible design, industrial design or product design and HCI
• Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing and HCI
• Human-robot interaction and HCI
• Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and HCI
Artificial Intelligence and HCI
• AI theories, technologies or tools and HCI
• Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and HCI
• Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and HCI
• Formal methods and HCI
• Data analysis, modelling or visualisation and HCI
• Business processes and HCI including process analysis, modelling and visualisation
• Natural language processing and HCI
• Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and HCI
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FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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For specifications please refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html
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PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS
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Accepted manuscripts will be invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), published in the ACM Digital Library, which is Scopus indexed.
Therefore, authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version in a suitable ACM format for proceedings before the conference. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon submission of the revised manuscript and registration of at least one presenter within the recommended deadlines.
After the conference, authors of accepted top-quality papers will be invited, through an open call, to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues in highly ranked international journals.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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February 28, 2021 - Submission deadline
April 16, 2021 - Notification to authors
May 3, 2021 - Camera ready version
July 11th-13th, 2021 - Conference
(Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET)
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LONG PAPER CHAIRS
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Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>)
Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>)
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SHORT PAPER CHAIRS
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Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>)
Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>)
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CHITALY 2021 TRACKS
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This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for long and short research papers:
• workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html
• interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html
• doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html
• industry event, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/industry_event.html
/Gentilissimi, //
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//a distanza di un'anno dall'inizio della pandemia e della prima
indagine realizzata per "scattare" con il vostro aiuto un'istantanea
della didattica che, come sapete, alcuni hanno definito d'emergenza, vi
saremmo grati se - in quanto docenti universitari - poteste ancora una
volta mettere a disposizione una piccola porzione del vostro tempo per
esprimere le vostre opinioni sullo stato attuale della didattica
integrata, nonché se lo credete, far circolare il link tra colleghi di
altri Atenei. //
//Sarebbe importate per poter monitorare la trasformazione in atto. //
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//L'indagine è coordinata dall'ASLERD (Association for Smart Learning
Ecosystems and regional Development) e per l'Italia, oltre a chi vi
scrive, coinvolge colleghi dell'Istituto di Tecnologie Didattiche del
CNR di Genova. //
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//Il questionario è anonimo e gli esiti dell'indagine (che coinvolge
anche un campione di studenti) saranno restituiti pubblicamente, come
già fatto in passato. Tempo di riempimento previsto tra i 15 e i 25
minuti. //
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//Link al questionario: //
//https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgi6SpVVDy6Cwko47kCri4c5NAOgqJGdQZxGNfRHtIbrhw_Q/viewform////
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//Grazie anticipate per il vostro contributo e coinvolgimento empatico
Carlo Giovanella
/
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Vi saremmo altresì grati se poteste coinvolgere anche i vostri STUDENTI,
facendo pervenire loro il seguente invito
Grazie
//Gentilissimi, //
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//vi saremmo grati se - in quanto studenti universitari - poteste
mettere a disposizione una piccola porzione del vostro tempo per
esprimere le vostre opinioni sullo stato attuale della didattica
integrata, nonché se lo credete, far circolare il link tra colleghi di
altri corsi di laurea, facoltà e Atenei. //
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//L'indagine è coordinata dall'ASLERD (Association for Smart Learning
Ecosystems and regional Development) //
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//Il questionario è anonimo e gli esiti dell'indagine saranno restituiti
pubblicamente.Tempo di riempimento previsto tra i 15 e i 25 minuti. //
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//Link al questionario: //
//https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-Kl0jfhzOFcxlmgEjkP8eP23a7xTQo3p7UUY8SoWYSu8xZA/viewform
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//Grazie anticipate per il vostro contributo e coinvolgimento empatico.//
/
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ACM UMAP 2021: Second Call for Doctoral Consortium
Important Dates
• Paper Submission: March 9, 2021
• Notification to authors: March 31, 2021
• Camera ready submission: April 11, 2021
• ACM UMAP 2021 conference: June 21-25, 2021
• ACM UMAP 2021 DC Session: TBD, 2021
Note: The submissions times are 11:59 PM AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)
ACM UMAP 2021 is the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. It includes a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice.
Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see below described submission information for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium.
How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium
To apply for the ACM UMAP 2021 doctoral consortium, students should submit a paper presenting their doctoral research organized under the following headings:
• Research Problem. The problem being addressed and a motivation outlining the relevance of the problem;
• Related Work. Work already performed by other researchers related to this problem. This should situate your work, showing your knowledge of the relevant previous work and how your work will make a new contribution;
• Research Questions and Proposed Approach. The main questions the PhD project aims to answer, contributions it aims to achieve, and the thesis methodology;
• Progress to Date and Future Work. The progress made to date (including a clear description of the approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2021 key areas.
Each DC submission should cover: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation, application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, each submission may cover: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design.
Each DC paper submission should be accompanied by a cover page that states: the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. The DC will be most useful to students who have completed enough of their thesis work to have a solid foundation with a clear topic and literature review but the student should be early enough in their studies to still benefit from guidance and advice.
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 by selecting the “UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium” track.
Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission.
Submissions should be a single pdf document consisting of 1 cover page and the paper (up to 7 pages long + references) in the new ACM single-column style.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications.
The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow .
Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):
• LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…
• Overleaf (use\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-…
• MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…
NB: Accepted papers will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance.
ACM UMAP Proceedings
The accepted ACM UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference and present the paper for the paper to be included in the proceedings.
Financial Support
ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Authors of submissions to the DC will have higher priority for UMAP grant applications.
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy
• Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen, Germany
email: umap2021-dc AT um.org<http://um.org/>
Carissimi,
Con grande piacere annuncio che Fabio Paternò è uno dei recipients dei SIGCHI Awards di quest'anno: è entrato nella SIGCHI Academy.
Congratulazioni a Fabio per questo prestigioso e meritato riconoscimento, che rispecchia in pieno il suo contributo all’HCI.
Cari saluti,
Maristella
Da: ACM SIGCHI Members List <SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Per conto di Gloria Mark
Inviato: martedì 16 febbraio 2021 21:43
A: SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Oggetto: SIGCHI 2021 award winners
SIGCHI is very pleased to announce its 2021 Award Recipients. You can find more details about the awardees here: https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2021-sigchi-awards/
SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award:
Scott Hudson – Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.)
SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award:
John T. Richards– IBM (U.S.)
SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award:
Wendy A. Kellogg – IBM (retired) (U.S.)
Philippe Palanque – Université Toulouse (France)
SIGCHI Social Impact Award:
Cecilia Baranauskas – State University of Campinas (Brazil)
Andy Dearden – Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
Juan E. Gilbert – University of Florida (U.S.)
SIGCHI Academy:
Maneesh Agrawala – Stanford University (U.S.)
Ann Blandford – University College London (UK)
Jeffrey Heer – University of Washington (U.S.)
Jonathan Lazar – University of Maryland (U.S.)
Fabio Paternò – CNR-ISTI (Italy)
Rosalind W. Picard – MIT Media Lab (U.S.)
Fernanda Viégas – Google (U.S.)
Allison Woodruff – Google (U.S.)
SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Josh Andres – RMIT University (Australia)
Arunesh Mathur – Princeton University (U.S.)
Qian Yang – Cornell University (U.S.)
Congratulations to all!
Gloria Mark
SIGCHI Awards chair
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*6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional
Development - SLERD Reload**
**Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the
pandemic.*
*June 24-25, 2021*
/*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/
slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/>
Contacts:
1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/ -
mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro
2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com
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Deadline for paper submission: *March 15, 2021
*call for papers <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/>
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*
*SLERD 2021* is organized by /University Politehnica of Bucharest /in
collaboration with /ASLERD/ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLERD>/./
*
Please Note: The intention of the organizing committee is to hold SLERD
2021 as a blended conference with the possibility to alternatively
attend it physically or virtually.
If the pandemic is not attenuated, as expected by June 2021, SLERD will
take place in a fully blown virtual conference format such as the
previous 2020 SLERD
*SLERD 2021*will feature:
**
*keynotes* <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/keynotes/> by***• Inger
Birkeland *(University of South-Eastern Norway) – June
24**Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating
ecologies of place***• Danielle McNamara *(Arizona State University) –
June 24**/Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from
a Multidimensional Perspective/***• Sébastien Turbot *(eko6 and WISE
research fellow) – June 25**Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living
Lab Approach
the *Student Scientific Video Contest*
**
call for contributions
<http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/>
with the award of the “BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS” (prizes: 500,00
€, 300,00 €, 300,00€ and free participation to the conference)
an Open Debate – June 25 – on *Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engine of
the “new normality”* and as Satellite Event
<http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/satellite-event/> – June 23 – the round
table on *“Social inclusion at school: new perspectives for a smart
learning ecosystem”*
*orgnized by the PLEIADE partnership
*SLERD 2021* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and
practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning
the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how
to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning
ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the
education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation
and territorial development.
/*Short Intro*/
In 2020 the pandemic has affected the learning processes all over the
world and learning ecosystems have reacted showing different degrees of
resilience and promptness with emergence of similarities, differences
and inequalities. Among the similarities, a tendency of the individuals
to remain in a comfort zone and a general unpreparedness to operate in a
full virtual space. Suddenly the two dimensions that characterizes the
smart learning ecosystems - physical and virtual - started to be
perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity
of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its
transformation. Many factors concur - processual, social, individual -
to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and
their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness
about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is
likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Some
scholars refer to an age characterized by a so-called “new normality”.
What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart
learning ecosystems” are already changing? How such changes may be
related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world” as
a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) ? How will they contribute to the reduction of
inequalities?/
Smart /referred to /learning ecosystems,/ in ASLERD and SLERD contexts,
does not simply means “technology enhanced”. The smartness is a more
complex multilayered construct related to the wellbeing of the players
operating in the ecosystems and is affected by the improvement of any
relevant aspects of the learning processes and ecosystem functioning,
especially if connected with territorial development and social innovation.
Technologies are mediators. Hopefully they should be included but they
are not a “sine qua non”.
The achievement of the learning ecosystems’ smartness is a process that
need a long term vision, multidisciplinary competences, an attitude to
understand people and contexts and to mediate point of views, a dynamic
resilience to keep on track to achieve, step by step, the foreseen goals.
/*
*//*Topics of interests*/
can be grouped under three big themes:
/*• places for smart education
*/ *
• future of institutional learning
• interplay between formal and informal learning
• new educational models and settings
• continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes
in learning
• role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education
• dual education and other alternate scheme approaches
• monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution,
city, region)
*
/*• people in place centered design for smart education*/
*
• general frameworks and methodological advances
• design, data and other relevant literacies
• smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences
• communities and co-design in smart learning
• sharing & participatory practices
• open access to any resource and disparity
• cultural influences
*
/*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/
*
• intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces
• semantic web technologies and applications
• text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• real/virtual communities and social network analysis
• interoperability and application of open/smart data and services
• safety & security in education
• IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies
• adaptability to educational contexts and citizens
• role of VR in education
*
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/*Important dates:*/
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• Deadline for papers submission: *March**15, 2021*
• Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021
• Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021
• Conference: June 24-25, 2021
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/*Proceedings:*/
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*Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer*
in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies*
<https://www.springer.com/series/8767> that will be indexed by SCOPUS,
EI-Compendex and Springerlink.
(Note that proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart
Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used
publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))
*Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a
*special issue of IxD&A Journal
<http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102>*
(ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and
Emerging Sources of Web of Science
SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 pages).
Papers should be written according to the */Spinger Instruction for
Authors/* of the series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/:
https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen…
Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2021
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Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning
Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration
<http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…>
See ASLERD website for
Request of membership, membership fees and legal
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congratulazioni
Carlo
Il 17/02/21 08:35, Maristella Matera ha scritto:
>
> Carissimi,
>
> Con grande piacere annuncio che Fabio Paternò è uno dei recipients dei
> SIGCHI Awards di quest'anno: è entrato nella SIGCHI Academy.
>
> Congratulazioni a Fabio per questo prestigioso e meritato
> riconoscimento, che rispecchia in pieno il suo contributo all’HCI.
>
> Cari saluti,
>
> Maristella
>
> *Da:*ACM SIGCHI Members List <SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> *Per
> conto di *Gloria Mark
> *Inviato:* martedì 16 febbraio 2021 21:43
> *A:* SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
> *Oggetto:* SIGCHI 2021 award winners
>
> SIGCHI is very pleased to announce its 2021 Award Recipients. You can
> find more details about the awardees here:
> https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2021-sigchi-awards/
> <https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2021-sigchi-awards/>
>
>
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> SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award:
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> Scott Hudson – Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.)
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> SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award:
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> John T. Richards– IBM (U.S.)
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> SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award:
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> Wendy A. Kellogg – IBM (retired) (U.S.)
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> Philippe Palanque – Université Toulouse (France)
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> SIGCHI Social Impact Award:
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> Cecilia Baranauskas – State University of Campinas (Brazil)
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> Andy Dearden – Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
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> Juan E. Gilbert – University of Florida (U.S.)
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> SIGCHI Academy:
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> Maneesh Agrawala – Stanford University (U.S.)
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> Ann Blandford – University College London (UK)
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> Jeffrey Heer – University of Washington (U.S.)
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> Jonathan Lazar – University of Maryland (U.S.)
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> Fabio Paternò – CNR-ISTI (Italy)
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> Rosalind W. Picard – MIT Media Lab (U.S.)
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> Fernanda Viégas – Google (U.S.)
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> Allison Woodruff – Google (U.S.)
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> SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award:
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> Josh Andres – RMIT University (Australia)
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> Arunesh Mathur – Princeton University (U.S.)
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> Qian Yang – Cornell University (U.S.)
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> Congratulations to all!
>
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> Gloria Mark
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> SIGCHI Awards chair
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[Apologizes for cross-posting]
The Tech Notes track focuses on exclusively strong technical engineering
contributions. EICS Tech Notes are 6-page papers (excluding the reference
list) that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work,
including (but not limited to):
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Infrastructures and architectures
(high-level toolkits, frameworks, networking infrastructures, the big
systems picture)
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Technical realizations of specific interaction techniques
(e.g., sensing & recognition, computer vision implementations, rendering
pipelines)
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Engineering of physical interactive systems
(e.g., toolkits for physical computing or fabrication, hacking or
modding of machinery for interactive purposes)
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Computational constructs
(e.g., optimization methods, mathematical modelling of HCI systems,
model-driven UI design)
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Specification and verification
(e.g. language representations for HCI, formal approaches, optimization
methods, semantic models, testing / checking interactive systems)
Tech notes can be submitted through the Precision Conference System:
<https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi>
https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: 12/03/2021
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Notifications: 16/04/2021
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Camera-Ready: 30/04/2021
Content
Tech Notes is a venue created to elaborate on the technical aspects of
research work, which would typically only be a short part of a longer
article. The presented research can be related to previous publications,
however, the tech note should present additional technical details and
reflections that are not covered in the original publication(s). Authors
are encouraged to refer to previously published research papers and
elaborate on technical components or discuss specific technical
implications of their previous work. Tech Notes will be judged on their
technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. The focus
lies specifically on elucidating technical details of complex interactive
systems. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system. They do
not include formal evaluations or user studies.
Format
Tech Notes are published as a 6-page paper in the standard ACM SIGCHI format
<https://sigchi.org/templates> (excluding references). In line with recent
policies by ACM regarding publishing software and data artifacts in the ACM
Digital Library (https://www.acm.org/publications/artifacts), authors are
strongly encouraged to provide supplemental material. This could include
additional diagrams detailing the technical contribution, (online) demos,
links to source code repositories, videos, or example applications. We
suggest, wherever applicable the paper to be accompanied by a (max)
one-minute video presenting the technical contribution. The URL of the
video must be mentioned in the paper itself. We also highly encourage
authors to share a public repository of their software.
Tech Notes Chairs
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Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock
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Javed Khan, Eindhoven University of Technology
technotes2021(a)eics.acm.org
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Tech Notes, Full Papers and Late-Breaking
Results?
EICS Tech Notes are not journal articles that describe the full cycle of a
research project (concept, implementation, evaluation, reflection), but are
focused technical engineering research contributions. Tech Notes do not
require a formal evaluation nor an in-depth reflection on related work, but
can focus on very specific implementation details that are novel and
interesting to the EICS community. Thus, the reflection of the related work
should target in clarifying the technical novelty of the Tech Note.
EICS Tech Notes do not describe work-in-progress, as they require a novel
technical contribution to be finalized and completely described within the
space of the Tech Note. They are more similar to a traditional four-page
note than to a work-in-progress extended abstract. Late-Breaking Results
are intended for eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, that can
benefit from discussions with colleagues in the EICS community.
Why should I submit an EICS Tech Note?
EICS Tech Notes aims to be the primary submission venue for impactful
technical engineering work. EICS Tech Notes is a high-quality engineering
venue that is complementary to the main research-oriented track at EICS. It
shows new and exciting technical work of high relevance to the community.
The best Tech Notes will be awarded with the Tech Note Award.
EICS Tech Notes provides a platform to publish and present detailed
technical engineering aspects of HCI research. We specifically encourage
authors of previous papers to elaborate on technical challenges, technical
innovations or frameworks / systems / approaches / toolkits / algorithms
that enable them to conduct novel HCI research.
How are EICS Tech Notes disseminated?
EICS Tech Notes get a presentation slot at the conference and will be
published as 6-page papers in the ACM Digital Library (excluding the
reference list).
How are EICS Tech Notes reviewed?
EICS Tech Notes will be reviewed by an international committee of leading
experts within the technical HCI, engineering and interactive systems
communities. Because there is a difference in scope between tech notes,
full papers, and late-breaking results, reviewers will use specific
criteria to identify high-quality tech notes, including technical novelty,
research impact, and the potential to enable new HCI innovations.
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Prof. Lucio Davide Spano
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università di Cagliari
Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy
Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5
Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID
<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>
Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming ECSCW conference in the summer. There are still opportunities to contribute by submitting a short contribution (2000 words max) to the Posters and Demos track until February 22.
The European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work is an international venue on practice-centered computing and the design of cooperation technologies. It is a series of conferences on computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe that was established in 1989. The 19th edition of ECSCW will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, from 7th to 11th June 2021.
The presentation of posters and demos is a key element of the ECSCW conference. For presenters as well as recipients, the poster & demo session provides a lively environment for getting in touch with late-breaking research, preliminary results, innovative ideas, and early-stage research and design explorations. At a special session during the conference, authors are given the opportunity to showcase their research to interested delegates, as well as to involve them in discussions about their work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback, and sharing work-in-progress relating to CSCW.
Posters provide a great opportunity to present preliminary research results and disseminate novel ideas to conference visitors. Posters also offer the space to discuss potential collaborations and the emergent issues in CSCW in an informal manner with the larger ECSCW community. We particularly invite submissions that introduce speculative or provocative ideas that challenge existing epistemologies and methodologies.
Demos may be submitted in various forms. These may be interactive research prototypes or products, but also low-fi prototypes, such as paper mock-ups etc. In addition, the demo session will provide space for exhibiting innovative materials that have been developed in the context of the deployment of (user-centered) research methods – for example, innovations in storyboards, personas, and other materials that foster creativity in the design process.
How to apply?
Both submission categories (posters and demos) require the submission of a short paper (2000 words maximum excl. references, figures, and a 150-word max. abstract) in the PDF format through the EasyChair platform<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ecscw2021#>. More details about the submission process (incl. templates) can be found at our website https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/posters-demos/ All accepted submissions will be published as short papers in the European Society for Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) digital library http://www.eusset.eu/digital-library
Key dates
Submission deadline: February, 22 2021, 23:59 AoE
Notifications: March 31, 2021
Camera-ready submission: May 11, 2021
Conference: June 7-11, 2021
Attendance
As of now, the conference is planned in Zurich, Switzerland from 7th until 11th of June 2021. The final format of the conference is currently under discussion. Remote participation will be possible.
If you have questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact the Posters and Demo co-chairs: demoposters2021(a)ecscw.eusset.eu
Verena Fuchsberger (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Anton Fedosov (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Dr. Anton Fedosov
People and Computing Lab (ZPAC)
antonf(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:antonf@ifi.uzh.ch>
antonfedosov.com<https://antonfedosov.com/>
University of Zurich
Department of Informatics
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals has been extended to February
10th.
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INTERACT 2021
Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy
https://interact2021.org
<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finteract2…>
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INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP
Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held
every two years.
The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new
challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more
widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side,
devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an
enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further
enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the
traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch,
smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when
designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to
debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI
Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems.
INTERACT workshops provide a one-day or two-day forum for participants to
compare their experiences and explore research issues or topics of special
interest to the HCI community.
Workshop proposal submissions are accepted via PCS by February 10th.
Further information on the workshop proposals and workshop organization can
be found on the INTERACT 2021 website:
https://www.interact2021.org/tracks/workshops.php
Workshops will take place on 30 and 31 August 2021, immediately preceding
the main conference.
INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast
of Southern Italy.
The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its
liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of
trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for
welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure
participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic
will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19
will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference.
Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir and Davide Spano
INTERACT 2021 Workshops co-chairs
workshops[at]interact2021.org
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For further information, please, visit the web site:
https://interact2021.org
Keep updated through our socials:
https://www.facebook.com/Interact2021https://twitter.com/INTERACT2021
Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals has been extended to February
10th.
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INTERACT 2021
Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy
https://interact2021.org
<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finteract2…>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP
Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held
every two years.
The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new
challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more
widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side,
devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an
enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further
enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the
traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch,
smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when
designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the right venue to
debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this edition is Human-AI
Interaction, focusing on the design of human-centered intelligent systems.
INTERACT workshops provide a one-day or two-day forum for participants to
compare their experiences and explore research issues or topics of special
interest to the HCI community.
Workshop proposal submissions are accepted via PCS by February 10th.
Further information on the workshop proposals and workshop organization can
be found on the INTERACT 2021 website:
https://www.interact2021.org/tracks/workshops.php
Workshops will take place on 30 and 31 August 2021, immediately preceding
the main conference.
INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic coast
of Southern Italy.
The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its
liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety of
trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for
welcoming the INTERACT participants. All precautions to ensure
participants’ health safety will be taken. The evolution of the pandemic
will be carefully monitored and those who could not travel due to COVID-19
will be allowed to present and participate online to the conference.
Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir and Davide Spano
INTERACT 2021 Workshops co-chairs
workshops[at]interact2021.org
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For further information, please, visit the web site:
https://interact2021.org
Keep updated through our socials:
https://www.facebook.com/Interact2021https://twitter.com/INTERACT2021
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Prof. Lucio Davide Spano
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università di Cagliari
Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy
Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5
Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID
<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>
Dear Colleagues,
This may be an important opportunity for Phd students, post-doc, or early career researchers who have an interest in CSCW
Antonella
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Fifth International Summer School on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
23-27 August 2021, Como, Italy.
About
The CSCW Summer School provides young researchers (PhD or post-doc) with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of CSCW as a research field and community. The interaction among the participants (both teachers and students) will promote the generation of new ideas and their confrontation with the experiences they have acquired in their field research.
Aims and scope
After the introduction of the acronym CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) in the late 1980’ the themes connected with the understanding of collaborative work practices and the design of artefacts supporting collaboration have become pervasive in many scientific, business and social discourses. The domains in which CSCW can inform sociotechnical design are constantly growing and changing. This asks for a continuous elaboration of the theoretical foundations of the underpinning disciplines through a reflection on the outcomes of the field studies, on the methods applied in the social and technological investigations and on the impact of the technologies on practices they are made part of. The combination of these perspectives should be the patrimony of any researcher who wants to grasp the complex and subtle issues that are involved in the CSCW research area.
Program
The course will present central themes, methods and discussions within CSCW by experienced scholars in conversations with participants. Full program TBA soon (For updates check: www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/<http://www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/>)
Important dates (final dates will be announced later)
• Application deadline: May, 2021
• Notification of acceptance: May, 2021
• Registration deadline: June 2021
Credits: 7,5 ECTS
Location
We plan to hold the summer school onsite at the Villa del Grumello, a nice villa close to Como, Italy. The center of the town can be reached in a ten-minute walk along the border of the lake.
If the current Corona-situation does not permit us to hold the school onsite in Italy, it will be held online. The final decision as to whether the summer school will be held onsite or online, will be made medio Apr- beginning of May, 2021.
Chairs
• Antonella De Angeli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Italy)
• Claus Bossen (Aarhus University – Denmark)
• Nina Boulus-Rødje (Roskilde University – Denmark)
Fees
The registration fee for the course will be around 350€, not including accommodation (For updates check: www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/<http://www.eusset.eu/events/summer-school/>)
Application
Please provide a document that includes one to two pages of CV and one page that includes your PhD topic, your research approach and why you want to participate at the summer school. Deadline May, 2021 (the specific date will be provide in Apr). Please send it to: summerschool(a)eusset.eu<mailto:summerschool@eusset.eu>
Accommodation
A list of recommended accommodation will be provided later, however, participants may choose accommodation as they see fit.
Visa
International applicants might need a visiting student visa to come to Italy. Information about the required documents are available at the “Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs” following this link<http://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/home/en>. A request for a School Invitation Letter should be sent to summerschool(a)eusset.eu<mailto:summerschool@eusset.eu>. The request must contain all the necessary information along with a digitized copy of the identification page of the student passport (with name and photo).
Contact
For any information about the school please contact: summerschool(a)eusset.eu<mailto:summerschool@eusset.eu>
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Antonella De Angeli, PhD
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Dominikanerplatz 3 - piazza Domenicani, 3
39100 - Italy UniBZ
*Apologies for cross-posting/please share*
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CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
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11–13 July 2021
https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/
Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World
In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI
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THEME
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The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue.
So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape.
To reach its aims, the conference
1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology
2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens.
Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI.
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SPECIFICATIONS
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Workshops in CHItaly are events which will open the main conference providing a physical and digital forum for discussion on new and emerging HCI topics, relevant for the theme of CHItaly 2021 (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/).
All workshops will be half-day, and will be held in the morning of July 12th.
Workshop proposals will be reviewed according to quality criteria, which consider the relevance of workshop proposals for CHItaly 2021, their potentials of gathering quality contributions, their review process.
A paper describing each accepted workshop will undergo a quality check (so as to clarify the relevance of the workshop topic for the HCI community, the open challenges, the innovative aspects, the received contributions, etc.) before being accepted and included in the main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements will be defined later).
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STRUCTURE OF THE PROPOSAL
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- Workshop title
- Workshop acronym (if any)
- Workshop edition and, if not on the first one, previous venues, number of attendees and links to the websites
- List of organizers (with short bio) and main contact person
- Motivation and objectives
- List of topics
- Target audience and expected number of attendees
- Papers Review process (if any): the strategy used to collect contributions (such as online conference management systems or submitting by emails to the workshop chairs, etc.), minimum numbers of reviews,... Note that workshop organisers need to organise themselves how to collect and review papers/abstract/etc., and prepare a web page where the workshop will be advertised
- Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …)
- Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of paper, reviewing process, venue (Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …)
- PC tentative list
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IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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February 1, 2021 - Submission deadline
February 15, 2021 - Review notification
Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET.
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IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
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Submission deadline: April 23th
Notifications to contributors: May 14th
Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th
Workshops: July 12th
Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET.
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SUBMISSION: HOW TO
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Proposals should be submitted in PDF form (no specific template is required) at this address: workshops.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it
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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (barbara.barricelli(a)unibs.it)
Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it)
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CHITALY 2021 TRACKS
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This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for workshops:
long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html
interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html
doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html
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ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Demo and LBR Papers
Important Dates
• Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 26, 2021
• Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2021
• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 7, 2021
• Conference: June 21-25, 2021
Note: The submissions times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)
ACM UMAP 2021 – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information.
ACM UMAP 2021 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by March 26th, 2021.
Submission formats
For more details, see below!
Demonstrations
• Max. 3 pages + max. 1 additional page for references
• (Required) unpublished page describing how they would present the demo virtually and/or in person
• (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system
• Publication in ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings
• Presentation as a (potentially virtual) demo + poster at the conference
Late-Breaking Results
• Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references
• (NEW: required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on
• Publication in ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings
• Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference
Submission via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021
Demonstrations
Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference.
Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online.
To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub).
Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 3 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2021. Given uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this extra page should also describe if/how the demo can be presented in a virtual setting (e.g. with a video or a live link to the system).
Late-Breaking Results
Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well.
We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues.
Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as (in-person and virtual) posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2021.
Submission and Review Process
Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission.
Papers (demo and LBR) must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.
Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):
• LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column):
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…
• Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-…
• MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…
Note: Accepted papers will require a further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance.
Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2021 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP 2021 Demo and LBR”).
The review process will be single-blind, i.e. authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability.
Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review.
Publication and Presentation
Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2021 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. Due to the uncertainties regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the poster session may be partially or fully virtual.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.
Late-Breaking Results and Demo Chairs
• Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
• Eva Zangerle, Universität Innsbruck, Austria— Apologies for cross-posting —
— Apologies for cross-posting —
ACM UMAP 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium
Important Dates
• Paper Submission: March 9, 2021
• Notification to authors: March 31, 2021
• Camera ready submission: April 11, 2021
• ACM UMAP 2021 conference: June 21-25, 2021
• ACM UMAP 2021 DC Session: TBD, 2021
Note: The submissions times are 11:59 PM AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)
ACM UMAP 2021 is the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. It includes a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice.
Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see below described submission information for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium.
How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium
To apply for the ACM UMAP 2021 doctoral consortium, students should submit a paper presenting their doctoral research organized under the following headings:
• Research Problem. The problem being addressed and a motivation outlining the relevance of the problem;
• Related Work. Work already performed by other researchers related to this problem. This should situate your work, showing your knowledge of the relevant previous work and how your work will make a new contribution;
• Research Questions and Proposed Approach. The main questions the PhD project aims to answer, contributions it aims to achieve, and the thesis methodology;
• Progress to Date and Future Work. The progress made to date (including a clear description of the approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2021 key areas.
Each DC submission should cover: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation, application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, each submission may cover: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design.
Each DC paper submission should be accompanied by a cover page that states: the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. The DC will be most useful to students who have completed enough of their thesis work to have a solid foundation with a clear topic and literature review but the student should be early enough in their studies to still benefit from guidance and advice.
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 by selecting the “UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium” track.
Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission.
Submissions should be a single pdf document consisting of 1 cover page and the paper (up to 7 pages long + references) in the new ACM single-column style.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications.
The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow .
Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):
• LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…
• Overleaf (use\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-…
• MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…
NB: Accepted papers will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance.
ACM UMAP Proceedings
The accepted ACM UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference and present the paper for the paper to be included in the proceedings.
Financial Support
ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Authors of submissions to the DC will have higher priority for UMAP grant applications.
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy
• Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen, Germany
email: umap2021-dc AT um.org<http://um.org>
-- apologies for cross-posting --
INTERACT 2021
Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy
https://interact2021.org
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INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP
Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held
every two years.
The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new
challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more
widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side,
devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an
enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be
further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the
traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of
touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into
account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the
right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this
edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of
human-centered intelligent systems.
Conference proceedings are published in Springer LNCS series and are
available in the Springer Digital Library.
We invite you to submit your original work to INTERACT 2021 in the
following tracks:
Tracks with submission deadline *January 27th, 2021*
- Full Papers
- Workshops
Tracks with submission deadline *April 16th, 2021*
- Short Papers
- Posters
- Interactive Demos
- Courses
- Doctoral Consortium
- Industrial Experiences
- Panels
All contributions are peer reviewed, juried or curated by the members of
the international program committee.
INTERACT 2021 will be held in Bari, a beautiful city on the Adriatic
coast of Southern Italy.
The hotel Villa Romanazzi Carducci will host the conference. With its
liberty-period villa immersed in a nice park characterized by a variety
of trees along various pathways, this hotel provides a great context for
welcoming the INTERACT participants.
All precautions to ensure participants’ health safety will be taken. The
evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who
could not travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and
participate online to the conference.
Paolo Buono (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland, USA and INRIA, France)
[General Co-Chairs]
Carmelo Ardito (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Rosa Lanzilotti (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
[Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021]
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For further information, please, visit the web site:
https://interact2021.org
(Apologies fro cross-postings)
The MobileHCI Conference Series (http://mobilehci.acm.org/2021/) has
shaped research, development and practice in services used on mobile
or within mobile contexts for over two decades now. Our interpretation
of mobility is inclusive and broadly construed. We welcome
contributions related to any aspect of mobile HCI technology, systems,
devices, techniques, experience, application, methods, tools,
theories, and new perspectives.
The conference theme in 2021 is “Mobile Apart, Mobile Together.”
Technological advances allow us to bridge a potential geographical
distance in a digital fashion, thereby bringing us closer together
while being physically apart. These opportunities and interactions are
extremely valuable - not only for families living apart, but in
particular during an extraordinary situation, such as the
Corona-pandemic in 2020, where many started working from and/or on the
go. With advances in multisensory and multimodal interactions, this is
no longer limited to screen-based interaction. MobileHCI 2021 embraces
this expanded horizon, and invites submissions and contributions that
reflect the strength of mobile technologies of bringing people
together while being apart.
Submissions dates
Submissions will be managed through Precision Conference (PCS).
Submission deadline: February 4, 2021 (anywhere on earth)
Reviews sent to authors: March 19, 2021
Revise and Resubmit deadline: April 19, 2021
Conditional acceptance notification: May 17, 2021
Camera ready version: May 31, 2021
Suggested Topics
Systems and Infrastructure. The design, architecture, deployment, and
evaluation of systems and infrastructures that support development of
or interaction with mobile devices and services.
Devices and Techniques. The design, construction, usage, and
evaluation of devices and techniques that create valuable new
capabilities for mobile human-computer interaction.
Applications and Experiences. Descriptions of the design, empirical
study of interactive applications, or analysis of usage trends that
leverage mobile devices and systems.
MobileHCI for social good. Using mobile HCI to address societal
challenges of our times such as health care, mobility, sustainability,
social engagement, and civic engagement.
Methods and Tools. New methods and tools designed for or applied to
studying or building mobile user interfaces, applications, and mobile
users.
Theories and Models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with
clearly motivated relevance to the design or study of mobile
human-computer interaction; taxonomies of design or devices;
well-supported essays on emerging trends and practice in mobile
human-computer interaction.
Provocations and new Perspectives. Well-argued and well-supported
visions of the future of mobile computing; non-traditional topics that
bear on mobility; underrepresented viewpoints and perspectives that
convincingly bring something new to mobile research and practice.
Situation with Coronavirus/Covid-19
Because of the evolving situation with covid-19 and the difficulties
of running a physical in-person conference, Mobile HCI will be held
virtually.
Revisions
The editorial board members will make decisions for any submitted
papers as either accepted, minor revisions, major revisions, or
rejected. These notifications are sent to authors on March 19 2021. If
the initial decision is "minor revisions", the authors will have a
revision cycle within the current to address these changes, from March
19 until April 19, 2021. After the revised paper is submitted on April
19, the final decisions will be sent to authors on May 10. If the
initial decision is "major revisions", the paper must be submitted in
the following round to guarantee treatment as a revision, meaning that
the same primary and secondary Board Members are assigned to
continuously handle the submission. Submissions requiring "major
revisions" will not submit on the revision deadline on April 19, but
in the next full review cycle for the following MobileHCI 2022. This
is to allow extra time in case the authors need to perform significant
new work, such as conducting a new evaluation, before acceptance is
possible.
Paper Length and Format
Important: This year, MobileHCI will be using the new ACM Master
Article Templates and Publication Workflow!
The complete instructions can be found here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Word
users can submit their initial documents in a simplified single-column
format which is then converted to the final formatting only if the
paper is accepted. LaTeX users should use the latest template on that
same web page (please use the manuscript template
[sample-manuscript.tex]). Note that we will provide instructions on
word/character count in the near future. However, as a guidance, the
final 2-column papers should be between 6 and 10 pages long. For
checking the length of your paper you can either use an older 2-column
template or have a look at the ACM website:
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. At the
very bottom there is a rough estimation of word counts and estimated
page count. Paper length during the submission stage will not be
handled as strictly as for previous MobileHCI conferences, but if your
paper gets accepted we might request that you need to shorten it.
Authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its
contribution. References are not included in the paper length.
Reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a submission
relative to its length, so papers with a length disproportionate to
their contribution will be rejected. Shorter, more focused papers
(akin to Notes or Short Papers in previous years) are encouraged, and
will be reviewed appropriately.
Papers need to be anonymised for blind review. We use a relaxed model
that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body
of the paper. However, you do need to completely remove identifying
information from the title/header/acknowledgements area of the paper,
and also make sure that it does not appear in the document’s
meta-data. Citations to your own previous work do NOT need to be
anonymised, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research
has been taken into account. However, you should refer to your prior
work in third person.
As an ACM conference, MobileHCI papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
Presentation at the Conference
Upon acceptance, you have to present your paper at the conference. At
least one author of each paper must register. The exact talk duration
will be determined when the program is finalised.
Paper Chairs (program2021(a)mobilehci.acm.org)
Anne Roudaut, University of Bristol, UK
Sebastian Boring, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
Kent lyons, Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA
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Anna Spagnolli Ph.D.
Associate professor
Dept of General Psychology &
Human Inspired Technology Research Centre
Università degli Studi di Padova
via Venezia 8, 35121 Padova ITALY
phone: +39 049 8276644
fax: +39 049 8276600
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CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI
CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS
The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
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11–13 July 2021
https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html
Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World
In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI
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THEME
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The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue.
So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape.
To reach its aims, the conference
1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology
2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens.
Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI.
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RESEARCH PAPERS AND TOPICS
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The research track of the conference will be hybrid, blending digital and physical frontiers. Contributions to the research track are in the form of either long or short research papers.
Long papers present original and substantially new research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and at the frontiers of HCI. They clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures or technical aspects are presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results are communicated according to scholarly standards, and implications of the contributions/findings for HCI have to be explicitly discussed.
Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance for HCI rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, or research studies. Examples of contributions might include but are not limited to: early-stage frontier research, techniques, technologies or prototypes with or without an in-depth evaluation; a self-contained innovative qualitative study for HCI; the design of novel systems, services or demos for hands-on interaction.
Both types of papers are archival publications of original research in the field of HCI, and related to the conference theme and topics.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones, divided into traditional topics for HCI and frontier topics, at the intersection with other fields, for the advancement of HCI.
Traditional HCI: Theories, Methods, Studies
* HCI theories
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HCI design and evaluation methods
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HCI studies
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Interaction processes and models
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Collaborative and social computing and HCI
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Affective computing and HCI
* Accessibility and inclusive HCI
Arts, Humanities, Education, Society and HCI
* Design & arts and HCI
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Humanities and HCI
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Cultures, culture production and HCI
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Education and HCI
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Technology enhanced learning and HCI
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Learning analytics and HCI
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Values, ethics and HCI
* Society and HCI
Physical, Digital or Hybrid HCI
* Game and gamification-based solutions and HCI
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Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and HCI
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Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and HCI
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Internet of Things (IoT) and HCI
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Physical computing, making or digital fabrication and HCI
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Cyber-physical systems, embedded systems and HCI
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Tangible design, industrial design or product design and HCI
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Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing and HCI
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Human-robot interaction and HCI
* Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and HCI
Artificial Intelligence and HCI
* AI theories, technologies or tools and HCI
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Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and HCI
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Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and HCI
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Formal methods and HCI
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Data analysis, modelling or visualisation and HCI
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Business processes and HCI including process analysis, modelling and visualisation
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Natural language processing and HCI
* Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and HCI
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PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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All paper manuscripts must be in English. All manuscripts must be anonymous, avoiding to include information (authorship, acknowledgements, name of application or software or project) suggestive of the identity of the authors; it will be added later, to the camera ready versions, in case of acceptance.
All manuscripts are subject to a double-blind review process by members of the Program Committee.
All authors must submit manuscripts for review using the ACM single column submission template. The recommended lengths are:
1. at most 10 pages for long research papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references)
2. at most 6 pages for short papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references).
ACM single-column submission templates are available for Word and LaTeX at <https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html>.
Manuscripts, in PDF format, must be uploaded via Easy Chair. The Easy Chair submission system will be opened in February 2021.
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PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS
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Accepted manuscripts will be invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), published in the ACM Digital Library. Therefore, authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version in a suitable ACM format for proceedings before the conference. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon submission of the revised manuscript and registration of at least one presenter within the recommended deadlines.
After the conference, authors of accepted top-quality papers will be invited, through an open call, to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues in highly ranked international journals.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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February 28, 2021 - Submission deadline
April 16, 2021 - Notification to authors
May 3, 2021 - Camera ready version
July 11th-13th, 2021 - Conference
(Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET)
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LONG PAPER CHAIRS
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Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>)
Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>)
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SHORT PAPER CHAIRS
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Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>)
Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>)
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CHITALY 2021 TRACKS
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This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for long and short research papers:
* workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html
* interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html
* doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html
* industry event, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/industry_event.html
[ Sorry for multiple-posting]
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CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
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11–13 July 2021
https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/
Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World
In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI
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THEME
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The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue.
So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape.
To reach its aims, the conference
1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology
2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens.
Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI.
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SPECIFICATIONS
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Workshops in CHItaly are events which will open the main conference providing a physical and digital forum for discussion on new and emerging HCI topics, relevant for the theme of CHItaly 2021.
All workshops will be half-day, and will be held in the morning of July 12th.
A paper describing each accepted workshop will be included in the main conference Proceedings (submission deadline, format and requirements will be defined later).
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STRUCTURE OF THE PROPOSAL
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- Workshop title
- Workshop acronym (if any)
- Workshop edition and, if not on the first one, previous venues, number of attendees and links to the websites
- List of organizers (with short bio) and main contact person
- Motivation and objectives
- List of topics
- Target audience and expected number of attendees
- Workshop setting (paper presentations, discussions, group works, …)
- Dedicated proceedings (if any): type of paper, reviewing process, venue (Journal special issue, CEUR-WS, …)
- PC tentative list
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IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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February 1, 2021 - Submission deadline
February 15, 2021 - Review notification
Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET.
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IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
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Submission deadline: April 23th
Notifications to contributors: May 14th
Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th
Workshops: July 12th
Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET.
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SUBMISSION: HOW TO
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Proposals should be submitted in PDF form (no specific template is required) at this address: workshops.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it
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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Barbara Rita Barricelli, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (barbara.barricelli(a)unibs.it)
Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy (catia.prandi2(a)unibo.it)
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CHITALY 2021 TRACKS
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This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for workshops:
long and short research papers, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html
interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html
doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html
Dear all,
(Please excuse any cross posting)
The Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory at
University of Trento is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for 2 years on the
topic “Remote music pedagogy in virtual reality”.
The project aims at developing prototypes of virtual reality systems
targeting novel kinds of interactions between music teachers and students
in networked contexts. The project is funded by the European Institute of
Innovation and Technology as well as the European Space Agency.
To apply, please visit:
https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/bando/65337/department-of-information-engine…
Best wishes
Luca
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Luca Turchet
Assistant Professor
Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento
Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy
E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it
Tel: +39 0461 283792
*2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds*
*(part of Audio Mostly 2021)*
September 1-3, 2021. Trento, Italy
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*Call for papers and demos*
After the success of the first edition, we are pleased to invite the
community to submit to the 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of
Sounds (IWIS 2021). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field
positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and Sound and
Music Computing domains. The workshop will be hosted at the Department of
Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and industry to
investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies
by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of
presentations from academics and keynotes, poster presentations,
demonstrations, as well as tutorials.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Wireless acoustic sensor networks
- Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks
- Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks
- Ecoacoustics
- Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks
- Smart Musical Instruments
- Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things
- Participatory live music performances
- Networked music performances
- Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things
- Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts
- Ubiquitous music
- Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds
- Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds
- Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications
- Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds
- Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds
- Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining
- Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases
- Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases
- Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications
We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 8
pages), a poster paper (min 2 pages, max 4 pages), or a demo proposal (max
2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage
the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work.
The event is being run alongside the Audio Mostly Conference (
https://audiomostly.com/) an interdisciplinary conference also hosted at
the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of
University of Trento between 1 and 3 of September. The participants to the
workshop will have access to all the sessions of the Audio Mostly
conference.
The paper templates are available at
https://audiomostly.com/2021/call/instructions/
*Important dates*
- Papers and demos submission deadline: May 1, 2021
- Author notification: June 15, 2021
- Camera ready due: July 15, 2021
- Workshop dates: September 1-3, 2021
*Publications*
All accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings of the Audio Mostly
Conference. They will be included in the ACM Digital Library and will be
indexed by Scopus, ACM, Web of Science, and DBLP.
*Awards*
The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best
Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student
paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a
full-time student.
*Organizing Committee*
- Luca Turchet (University of Trento)
- Mathieu Lagrange (University of Nantes)
- Chris Chafe (Stanford University)
- Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University)
- Carlo Fischione (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Paolo Casari (University of Trento)
*Logistics*
Registration: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/registration/
How to reach the venue: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/info-attendees/
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Luca Turchet
Assistant Professor
Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento
Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy
E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it
Tel: +39 0461 283792
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Call for Papers - ACM UMAP 2021
29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Theme: "Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research"
Hybrid: Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online
June 21-25th (tentative), 2021
Website: https://www.um.org/umap2021/
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Abstracts due: January 17, 2021 (mandatory)
Full paper due: January 24, 2021
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BACKGROUND AND SCOPE:
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ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library.
ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more.
We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation; the conference web site provides a detailed list. Below we present a short (but not proscriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. As the theme for UMAP 2021 is “Re-Evaluating Evaluation” we encourage submissions in all areas that offer a critical analysis of evaluations of personalized systems. We particularly want to acknowledge that some of the research might be influenced by Covid-19 related constraints (e.g., difficulty of running lab studies), and welcome submissions which introduce novel methodologies arising from a need to conduct research in new ways.
CONFERENCE TOPICS:
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We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization and adaptation in any area. The topics listed below are not intended to limit possible contributions.
Final decisions will be made on the basis of suitability for, and fit to, the overall conference (not for specific tracks). Additionally, there is no quota for the maximal number of accepted papers per track. Topics include (but are not limited to):
• Personalized Recommender Systems
• Track chairs: Alejandro Bellogin, Sole Pera, Ludovico Boratto
• Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web
• Track chairs: Maria Bielikova, Panagiotis Germanakos, Ben Steichen
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• Track chairs: Katrien Verbert, Denis Parra
• Personalized Social Web
• Track chairs: Julita Vassileva, Jie Zhang
• Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning
• Track chairs: Ella Haig, Manolis Mavrikis
• Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy
• Track chairs: Christine Bauer, Michael Ekstrand
• Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems
• Track chairs: Jaap Ham, Rita Orji
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
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Papers will be submitted through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021
Long (14 pages + references) and Short (7 pages + references) papers in the new ACM single-column style. Appendices count toward the page limit, we recommend that supplementary material is linked to an external source using an anonymised URL. Original research papers addressing the theory and/or practice of UMAP, and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome.
* Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed.
* Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM SIG publications. The templates and instructions are available here: Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>
Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):
* LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column):
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…
* Overleaf (use\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column):
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-…
* MS Word:
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…
NB: Accepted papers will require a further revision in order to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance.
UMAP uses a double blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person.
All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Student registration fee is allowed for students who present a student paper.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstracts: January 17, 2021 (mandatory)
Full paper: January 24, 2021
Notification: March 8, 2021
Camera-ready: April 11, 2021
Video submission: May 5th, 2021
Conference: June 21-June 25, 2021 (tentative)
Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)
ORGANIZERS
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General chairs
Judith Masthoff, University of Utrecht
Eelco Herder, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Program chairs
Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht
Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska
RELATED EVENTS
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Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo/Late Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements.