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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 3rd Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 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 ================================================ ================================================ THEME ================================================ 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. ================================================ DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ 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. ================================================ PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS ================================================ 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. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ Submissions: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Doctoral consortium: July 12th ================================================ SUBMISSIONS: HOW TO ================================================ DC papers must be sent via mail to dc.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it with 'DC submission' in the e-mail subject. ================================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================================ 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 ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= 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

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IxD&A Journal N. 47: meet the authors and download the articles

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 47 *on:* Tools, Pedagogical and Ludic Strategies, Co-Design supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education */guest editors: Oscar Mealha and Traian Rebedea / *Meet the authors * on the /*19th of April - 16:00 CET*/ to attend the presentation please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI_nSCMwLeb6vzSH4P6-7BLyPV6CX2R3m…> Articles are now available for free downloading -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=ToC_4…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IxD&A Journal, issue N. 47 - ToC* /** Preface **// by Oscar Mealha and ///Traian Rebedea/ p. 5 ****Roberto Araya** A collective brain to adapt teaching to quarantined first and second graders. **pp. 7 - 26** **Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Fandi Bi, Kathrin Land, Emanuel Trunzer** Transitions in Teaching Mechanical Engineering during COVID-19 crisis, **pp. 27 - 47** **Majid Rouhani, Veronica Farshchian, Monica Divitini** Teaching Programming in Secondary Schools: Stepping and Stumbling Stones, **pp. 48 - 68** **Eva Mårell-Olsson** Using gamification as an online teaching strategy to develop students’ 21st century skills, **pp. 69 - 93** **Rubén Buitrago, Jesús Salinas, Oscar Boude ** Designing and Representing Learning Itineraries: A Systematic Review of the Literature, **pp. 94 - 122** **/ /Stavros A. Nikou//** Web-based videoconferencing for teaching online: Continuance intention to use in the post-COVID-19 period, **pp. 123 - 143** **Janika Leoste, Mati Heidmets, Tobias Ley, Jelena Stepanova ** Classroom Innovation Becoming Sustainable: A Study of Technological Innovation Adoption by Estonian Primary School Teachers, **pp. 144 - 166 ///Carlo Giovannella, Marcello Passarelli, Alaa S.A. Alkhafaji, Adriana Peña Pérez Negrón/**/** A comparative study on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on three different national university learning ecosystems as bases to derive a Model for the Attitude to get Engaged in Technological Innovation (MAETI), **/**/pp. 167 - 190 // ///Catarina Lelis//** Smart Brands and Identities: building friendly bridges between Design and Smartness, **pp. 191 - 214/ // ///Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Roman Novotný. Tomáš Štefek, Aldo de Moor, Jiřina Bělehradová Svitáková, Eliška Bartošová. Petr Škyřík, Barbora Buchtová, Eva Víchová//** Designing an incubator for social innovations in libraries: Learnings from the Research through Design approach, **pp. 215 - 236 /// ////Antonio Amado Lorenzo and Vicente López-Chao//** Analogue and Digital Access to Achitectural Information, **pp. 237 - 255 //// ////////Wrya Sabir Abdullah and Nahedh Taha Al-Qemaqchi//** The Impact of University Campus Spatial Organisation on Pedestrian Speed: A Comparison between the Old and New Campuses of Sulaimani University, **pp. 256 - 273 ////*REGULAR PAPER* //// /////Nuno M. Guimarães//** Complexity, Design and Culture: convergence for digital experiences, **pp. 274 - 305 /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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CfP Reminder: The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on Transferable UX on June 8, 2021

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, As a reminder, there is still time to participate in our workshop. The deadline for contributions is extended until Friday, April 23 and the submissions are really lightweight (2-4 pages position paper). We hope that it could be of interest to many of you. The details are below. The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on “Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services”<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html> aims to bring together practitioners and scholars working on conceptualization, maintenance, and preservation of transferable UX artifacts within their organizations. In this workshop, we aim on synthesizing the challenges and highlighting opportunities of transferring UX insights while developing multiple products and services. We ask: “How can we depart from a paradigm of designing a single product and turn to the holistic UX design approach at work?” Instead of focusing on a product, we call UX researchers, designers, experts and practitioners, to center on an ecology of artifacts, e.g. a portfolio. This, in turn, may help to improve existing work environments and to develop novel integrated work environments, where many actors need to effectively coordinate their actions using a myriad of tools. That change, ultimately, may lead not only to improved quality of work and create pleasurable experiences for the end-users, but also establish a ground for successful company-wide collaboration when it comes to preserving and transferring UX insights and rules. We call for participants from diverse backgrounds to contribute to a critical discussion at the intersection of design, enterprise architecture, product/portfolio management, and agile software development to create a UX research agenda for designing integrated digital work environments, unpacking development, users, and change perspectives to aid establishing long-living UX practices that extend across projects and overtime. More details: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021.html HOW TO APPLY? To apply, please submit a position paper (2-4 pages, template<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/ecscw-2021_word/>) explaining your interests and experience in transferable UX in relation to the workshop theme<https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2021/ws-theme.html> in PDF format by April 23, 2021 by emailing it to transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:transferable-ux@ifi.uzh.ch> . To promote broader participation from UX design practitioners (e.g., UX researchers, UX designers, Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, Enterprise Architects, Human Factors Specialists), and design leaders, we offer the option of submitting alternative material in the form of a design portfolio, a case study, a poster of a relevant project, or the like. KEY DATES Submission deadline: April 23, 2021, 23:59 AoE Notification: April 30, 2021 Workshop: June 8, 2021 ATTENDANCE The workshop organizers will arrange a virtual program for up to 20 participants. Participation in the workshop will be free of charge for the EUSSET members<https://www.eusset.eu/membership/>. The membership cost is 50 EUR for academics/practitioners and 35 EUR for students. Registration details: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/registration/ ORGANIZERS Anton Fedosov, University of Zurich, Switzerland Daniel Boos, SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland Susanne Schmidt-Rauch, evux AG, Switzerland Jarno Ojala, Vincit Oyj, Finland Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France If you have any questions, please drop us an email at transferable-ux(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:transferable-ux@ifi.uzh.ch> Best regards, Dr. Anton Fedosov People and Computing Lab University of Zurich

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Call for Papers for WHAT21 workshop at INTERACT

by Lammers, H.A.

Please distribute. Attached the call for Papers for WHAT21 workshop at INTERACT 2021 Website: www.hciv.de/what21 <http://www.hciv.de/what21> Important dates: Submission Deadline (extended abstracts): May 16, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: June 7, 2021 Camera-ready Submission: June 21, 2021 Workshop at INTERACT 2021 August 30, 2021 -- Prof. Dr. Peter Dannenmann Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften Hochschule RheinMain Postadresse: Postfach 3251 | 65022 Wiesbaden Besucheradresse: Am Brückweg 26 | 65428 Rüsselsheim | Gebäude A2 1.OG Raum A119 +49 6142 898 4494 www.hs-rm.de <http://www.hs-rm.de/>

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[CFP] MRB-EICS 2021 - Management of Risks and Benefits when Engineering Interactive Digital Systems

by Davide Spano

Apologize for cross- posting --- Management of Risks and Benefits when Engineering Interactive Digital Systems --- IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 workshop at EICS 2021 Traditionally, most UX designers, computer scientists and software engineers have not had to consider risks to the public from using their systems. However, the current evolution of digital systems in terms of the increasing number of users, their growing complexity and the pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence techniques allow common HCI designers and engineers to build systems that create risks for the individual, groups of people, or even to the entire society. In this workshop, we aim at collecting the views and the current practice in the management of the risks and benefits in the engineering of interactive digital systems. Such a view will draw the way for new research, methods, and tools to incorporate the risk analysis into the current engineering and design practices. ## Important Dates - April 30, 2021 – Paper submission deadline - May 7, 2021 – Paper notification deadline - May 14, 2021 – Camera-ready deadline - Between June 7 and June 11, 2021 – Workshop day ## Topics and Scope The workshop will focus on the following topics, which are not properly covered by the current research, methods and tools for engineering digital systems: -Exploring the risks in digital system interaction and their implications. In particular, we would like to identify the risks drivers and to build a categorization of the risks they produce. - Factors that impact the risk-benefit analysis and the information required. In this category, we would like to list the available scientific theories, the techniques for building a shared knowledge on such factors (e.g., databases, models and tools). - Accounting the risks put by the application of Artificial Intelligence algorithms in digital interactive systems. They include (but not limited to): transparency, interactive control, controllability and automation, explainability, biases in algorithms and data, decision support design, accountability, fairness and digital sobriety. - Techniques and interfaces for helping and/or nudging people on perceiving and understanding the risks in interacting with digital systems. ## Target Audience Different communities and disciplines are involved in developing such a topic, both in the research and in the development practice. Besides the UI engineering community, we expect relevant contributions by designers, safety and privacy experts, sociologists, psychologists, ethicists, etc. The workshop’s ultimate goal is to set-up a shared view on the risks related to the interaction, their severity, and their likelihood. ## Goals and Expected Outcome The workshop will last one day. We will start with a brief introduction of the elicited topics and a sequence of presentations of the different position papers in the first half. The second half will contain group activities for reaching a global consensus among the participants, which will result in the draft of a joint position paper, authored by all participants, which will depict the challenges and the opportunities raised in the discussion and the group’s view on future research in future risk and benefits management for interactive system engineering. The finalised version of such paper will be submitted for publication in an HCI journal. ## Submissions We solicit the submission of a two-page abstract describing the view and identifying the risks in one or more workshop topics. We also encourage to propose further applications of risk management in engineering interactive digital systems. The abstract may include the description of a major challenge or opportunity set by risk management and/or the analysis of related work in the literature. The abstracts will serve as the basis for the discussion during the workshop. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair and formatted according to LNCS guidelines ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). We plan to publish revised papers electronically (e.g CEUR-WS) after the workshop. Submit a paper through EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mrbeics2021) ## Organizers José Creissac Campos – University of Minho & HASLab/INESC TEC (Portugal) T.C. Nicholas Graham – School of Computing, Queen’s University of Canada (Canada) Jan Van Den Bergh – Hasselt University – EDM – IBBT (Belgium) Lucio Davide Spano – Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari (Italy) -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | 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>

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ITAC - Special Session on Information Technology against COVID19 @GoodIT

by Marcos Baez

[Apologies for cross-posting] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITAC - Information Technology against COVID19 at GoodIT 2021 - ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good September 9-11, 2021 - Rome, Italy https://itac.polimi.it -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: The emergency resulting from the COVID 19 pandemic has led to a radical change in our lives. At home, at school, at work, in free time and beyond: people have been asked to change their habits, adopting a lifestyle that can protect the collective well-being. The persistence of the emergency situation and the lockdown is putting a strain on the population; among the main problems, we cite social distancing for the most vulnerable individuals, distance learning for children, health pressure for doctors and patients, forced closures for traders, the uncontrolled spread of fake news that confuse the population, the tourism stop that hinders culture, etc. The ongoing change requires the adoption of innovative solutions to tackle emerging problems and technology offers great opportunities for social good. The whole society can make use of technological tools to the health, physical, mental and psychological well-being safeguard of individuals. The goal of this session is to assess the state of tools and methods to support the population and institutions during the management of the COVID19 emergency, creating new opportunities for the future. TOPICS: Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: - IT for education in a COVID-19 era - Decision support systems and algorithms for COVID-19 data analysis - IT for remotely delivered solutions for Cultural Heritage - Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications in a COVID-19 Era - Health and social care toward protection from contamination - Privacy and trust issues and solutions in a COVID-19 Era - IT solutions for safe and healthy environments - IT solutions addressing the Isolation - IT solutions empowering initiatives by local communities in a COVID-19 Era - Ethical computing in a COVID-19 Era - IT solutions to disseminate reliable and high-quality information in a COVID-19 Era We welcome both theoretical and empirical studies, as well as contributions from industry / organizations dealing with the special session topic. SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted via the HotCRP submission website: https://goodit2021.hotcrp.com All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process. The identity of referees will not be revealed to authors, but authors can keep their names on the submitted papers, on figures, bibliography, etc. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: May 1, 2021 Notification deadline: June 22, 2021 Camera-ready deadline: July 10, 2021 Conference: September 9-11, 2021 CHAIRS: - Andrea Masciadri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Marcos Baez, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France Further information at https://itac.polimi.it We will be grateful to you for advertising this special session, for contributing and for inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their work. We hope to meet you in Rome in September.

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INTERACT 2021 - 10 days left to submit a contribution

by Paolo Buono

-- apologies for cross-posting -- Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the INTERACT 2021 conference by submitting a contribution to the following tracks by 16 April: - Short Papers - Posters - Interactive Demos - Courses - Doctoral Consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels Further information is available on the conference website (https://interact2021.org) and in the CfP reported below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 by *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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org

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GaLePro Workshop Promotion

by Mariana Reimão Queiroga Valério De Carvalho

Hello, Hope this email finds you well. Can you please help promote our Workshop? Many thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Mariana Reimão Carvalho ************************************************************************** 1st workshop on the Gamification of the Learning Processes (GaLePro) https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/tracks/workshops/galepro To be held in the 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021 ************************************************************************** ================================= SCOPE ================================== Thanks to recent technological developments in several fields, the learning process can now be augmented in many different ways, achieving goals such as teaching personalization, efficient communication processes, better content management, among others. While these developments are relevant in any form of learning, they are much more so in Blended or Distance Learning. In these forms of learning, in which Student are often physically apart from the Professor, maintaining adequate levels of engagement and motivation in Students is a major challenge. The use of technologies that are interactive, appealing, and provide a sense of reward for learning tasks are thus paramount. This is the main motivation for this workshop. Specifically, it focuses on the use of technologies, approaches or methodologies that fall under the Gamification umbrella. Gamification can be briefly defined as the use of game elements in an otherwise nongame environment. In education, game elements the use of gamification can include simple aspects such as a change in language or assignments, to the implementation of competitions, rewards, leaderboards, or the use of actual games to implement and test the learned concepts. Using these approaches, gamification has been shown to improve student engagement, motivation and overall satisfaction with the learning process. This workshop thus aims to be a multi-disciplinary forum for practitioners from several fields including Education, ICT, Artificial Intelligence or Psychology to discuss novel approaches, methodologies or technologies in which game concepts are used with the purpose of improving the learning process. ================================= TOPICS ================================== The topics of GaLePro include, among others: - Gamification in the classroom - Gamification in distance learning - Use of digital/physical games in the grading process - Innovative game elements - Serious games - Gamification in STEAM - Collaborative tools in education - Storytelling in teaching/learning - Gamification and student motivation - Psychology and Human factors - Gamification design principles - Gamification frameworks - Practical use cases of gamification in education - Legal aspects of using gamification in education ================================= VENUE ================================== The 1st workshop on the Gamification of the Learning Processes (GaLePro) will take place in the context of the 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL). MIS4TEL will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on October 6th-8th, 2021, in parallel with the PAAMS'21 International Conference. =============================== SUBMISSION ================================ Papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing) Template. Contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages), including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL conference management system. To submit a paper follow de instructions at https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission and then select the appropriate workshop in the submission system. Accepted papers will be included in MIS4TEL 2020 Proceedings, published by Springer. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by AISC Springer Verlag. ============================= IMPORTANT DATES ============================= Deadline for paper submission: 30th April, 2021 Notification of acceptance: 7th June, 2021 Camera-Ready papers: 28th June, 2021 Conference: 6th-8th October, 2021 ============================== ORGANIZATION ============================== Davide Carneiro CIICESI/ESTG.IPP dcarneiro(a)estg.ipp.pt Mariana Reimão Carvalho CIICESI/ESTG.IPP mrc(a)estg.ipp.pt Rui Silva CETRAD/UTAD ruisilva(a)utad.pt

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International EMPATHY workshop: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems

by Andrea Mattioli

INTERACT 2021 Workshop EMPATHY: Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems https://empathy-ws.github.io/2021/ August 31st, 2021 Bari, Italy OVERVIEW In the last decade, the spreading of low-cost technologies integrating sensors and actuators has favored the development of the so-called smart objects. This trend has been further fostered by the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects the physical world with Internet via ubiquitous sensors and actuators. The opportunities offered by the IoT are amplified by the use of new approaches that, based on novel interaction paradigms, involve directly non-technical users in configuring the joint behavior of their smart objects, among them and with online services. Existing solutions to define the behavior of such “IoT ecosystems” range from systems that leave the users complete control for establishing the joint behavior of smart objects, to solutions that automatically define smart objects behavior exploiting intelligent techniques. In this continuum, different technologies, frameworks, and approaches present different levels of user control and automation. In this perspective it is also important to consider the emerging role played by social and humanoid robots, which are integrated sets of sensors and actuators with human-like behaviours. DATES June 15th: Paper submission deadline June 20th: Paper acceptance notice June 24th: Camera-ready submission August 31st: Workshop SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS This workshop aims to serve as a venue for discussing ongoing research and sharing ideas for researchers and practitioners working on solutions to personalize the behavior of IoT ecosystems. We aim to encourage participation in order to have stimulating discussion from various perspectives. Topics include, but are not limited, to: - End-User Development (EUD) for IoT; - Interaction Paradigms for IoT; - Usability of IoT Systems; - Interface Design for IoT; - Intelligent Interface for IoT Systems; - Accessibility for IoT Systems; - Virtual and Augmented Reality for EUD in IoT settings; - Conversational User Interfaces for EUD; - Usable Privacy and Security in IoT systems; - Personalisation and Recommendations for IoT. PARTICIPATION This will be a one-day workshop, oriented towards discussions, hands-on sessions, and presentations. We invite submissions of two types: short papers (3-4 pages) and position papers (1-2 pages). Participants are asked to submit their paper describing their recent or future work in one of the areas indicated in the topics of interest. All submissions must be in the CHI Extended Abstracts format. Papers should be submitted in PDF to easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empathy2021). All papers will be reviewed by the organizers and by the program committee based on relevance and significance in order to provide constructive comments to the submitters. Reviewing will be single blind (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must register and attend the workshop. Final versions of the accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, which is indexed by Scopus. ORGANIZERS - Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano - Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI - Fabiana Vernero, University of Torino - Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 2nd Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by chitaly2021

================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 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 ================================================ ================================================ THEME ================================================ 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. ================================================ DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: SPECIFICATIONS ================================================ 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. ================================================ PAPER FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS ================================================ 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. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ Submissions: April 23th Notifications to contributors: May 14th Camera-ready/final version deadline: May 24th Doctoral consortium: July 12th ================================================ SUBMISSIONS: HOW TO ================================================ DC papers must be sent via mail to dc.chitaly2021(a)unibz.it with 'DC submission' in the e-mail subject. ================================================ FURTHER INFORMATION ================================================ 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 ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= 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

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for participation

by Axel Soto

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Participation *** * Virtually hosted by Texas A&M University * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: registration2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Registration deadline April 9, 2021 ## Registration link https://iui.acm.org/2021/registration.html ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning.

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Call for Papers: HCSE-Workshop at INTERACT 2021 (submit by April 30)

by Stefan Sauer

Broken Weblink to workshop homepage fixed! Sorry for the erroneous posting! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering for Changing Contexts of Use* <https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/> *organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design* *August 31, 2021 * *https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/* *at INTERACT 2021 <https://www.interact2021.org/>**- The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction*** *August 30 – September 3, 2021 Bari, Italy* *Call for Papers* *Submissions: **position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme (PDF files, 6-10 pages in <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>Springer LNCS format)* *Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021* *Theme* The context of use plays an important role in Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Typically, user, environment, and platform are considered to make up the core aspects of the context of use. Changing the context of use, for example due to unplanned circumstances like the current pandemic situation, has significant impact on how we use systems, and how we adapt and adopt them even if the systems were not designed for such usages. In HCSE research we have to account for this change, making interactive system development context-aware or design and develop in a way that systems can adapt for novel forms of usage. Recently, we observe developments that strongly change contexts of use. For example, in the area of industrial automation (Industry 4.0) work environments change, new kinds of user assistance evolve, and workers are going to be supported by innovative types of devices and digital assistance tools to accomplish their working tasks. Typical examples are augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications in training or support situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed where and the way how we work, particularly in collaboration with others to keep distance and increase personal safety. In contrast, the trend towards increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use and provide artificial intelligence gives rise to new kinds of interaction, particularly, human-machine interaction (HMI), in areas such as autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration in different domains such as industrial production, logistics, or health. These trends should be accounted for in the way we design and build such interactive systems, possibly coming to evolutionary or even revolutionary solutions. For example, expected or unforeseen changes of usage scenarios and their context of use may be accounted for by flexible and more resilient system solutions and be reflected in the development practices and technical frameworks. Specific kinds of interaction such as HMI, but also social and socio-technical interaction may demand for more prominent and explicit consideration. Quality aspects such as ubiquity, security, and safety may be seen in a different light. Changing contexts of use may even have an impact on the way we think about user motivation and user experience, away from short-term notions like emotions towards long-term traits like users’ values. We want to specifically account for these developments in addition to the general concerns of HCSE. Discussions and interactive working sessions will particularly deal with these concerns. *Objective* In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2. We focus on the study of context of use, its long-term evolutionary trends as well as its short-term design and management in a user-centered design process, from a social and user-centered methodological viewpoint as well as from a technical viewpoint. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface perspectives, aspects, and properties and fuel new ideas and approaches for research and practice. The long-term perspective of this workshop is to foster the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with the changing context of use and its impact on HCI and collaboration that should be taken into account when developing interactive and socio-technical systems. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized at INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>and INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifipwg132workshopinteract19/>. *Target Audience and Expected Outcomes* This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human-computer interaction froma user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on user interface properties while designing and building interactive systems and study associated methods, processes and approaches. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate the role of the context of use in HCI and its impact on thesystem design and use. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. However, we are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way how humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools for managing context of use at design and run-time. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Workshop Format* This full-day workshop is organized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case studies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshop in a hybrid setting, allowing attendees to participate both physically and remotely in the workshop. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2021 organizers. *Submission Instructions* In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages in Springer LNCS <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>forma <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>t <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report practical experiences related to research results on user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on context-of-use aspects and the impact on software properties. Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information. Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Papers are submitted through the EasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2021>. Submitted position papers will be reviewed by an international program committee comprising the organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2021 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021 Acceptance notification: June 11th, 2021 Final version of position paper: June 28, 2021 Workshop date: August 31, 2021 *Organizers * Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany (sauer[at]uni-paderborn.de) Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (r.bernhaupt[at]tue.nl) Carmelo Ardito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy (carmelo.ardito[at]poliba.it) *Venue* The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 18th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 30 – September 3, 2021, in Bari, Italy. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2021.org/ <https://www.interact2021.org/>). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: HCSE-Workshop at INTERACT 2021 (submit by April 30)

by Stefan Sauer

*International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering for Changing Contexts of Use* <https://sites.google.com/site/hcse-workshop-interact2021/> *organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design* *August 31, 2021 * *https://sites.google.com/site/hcse-workshop-interact2021/* *at INTERACT 2021 <https://www.interact2021.org/>**- The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction*** *August 30 – September 3, 2021 Bari, Italy* *Call for Papers* *Submissions: **position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme (PDF files, 6-10 pages in <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>Springer LNCS format)* *Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021* *Theme* The context of use plays an important role in Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Typically, user, environment, and platform are considered to make up the core aspects of the context of use. Changing the context of use, for example due to unplanned circumstances like the current pandemic situation, has significant impact on how we use systems, and how we adapt and adopt them even if the systems were not designed for such usages. In HCSE research we have to account for this change, making interactive system development context-aware or design and develop in a way that systems can adapt for novel forms of usage. Recently, we observe developments that strongly change contexts of use. For example, in the area of industrial automation (Industry 4.0) work environments change, new kinds of user assistance evolve, and workers are going to be supported by innovative types of devices and digital assistance tools to accomplish their working tasks. Typical examples are augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications in training or support situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed where and the way how we work, particularly in collaboration with others to keep distance and increase personal safety. In contrast, the trend towards increasingly autonomous systems and systems that use and provide artificial intelligence gives rise to new kinds of interaction, particularly, human-machine interaction (HMI), in areas such as autonomous driving or human-robot collaboration in different domains such as industrial production, logistics, or health. These trends should be accounted for in the way we design and build such interactive systems, possibly coming to evolutionary or even revolutionary solutions. For example, expected or unforeseen changes of usage scenarios and their context of use may be accounted for by flexible and more resilient system solutions and be reflected in the development practices and technical frameworks. Specific kinds of interaction such as HMI, but also social and socio-technical interaction may demand for more prominent and explicit consideration. Quality aspects such as ubiquity, security, and safety may be seen in a different light. Changing contexts of use may even have an impact on the way we think about user motivation and user experience, away from short-term notions like emotions towards long-term traits like users’ values. We want to specifically account for these developments in addition to the general concerns of HCSE. Discussions and interactive working sessions will particularly deal with these concerns. *Objective* In this workshop, we aim to broaden the traditional scope of the workshop series of IFIP Working Group 13.2. We focus on the study of context of use, its long-term evolutionary trends as well as its short-term design and management in a user-centered design process, from a social and user-centered methodological viewpoint as well as from a technical viewpoint. Our aim is to cover a large set of user interface perspectives, aspects, and properties and fuel new ideas and approaches for research and practice. The long-term perspective of this workshop is to foster the development of theories, methods, tools and approaches for dealing with the changing context of use and its impact on HCI and collaboration that should be taken into account when developing interactive and socio-technical systems. This workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops organized at INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai, India <http://ifip-tc13.org/wg-13-213-5-workshop-interact17-mumbai/>and INTERACT 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus <https://sites.google.com/view/ifipwg132workshopinteract19/>. *Target Audience and Expected Outcomes* This workshop is open to everyone who is interested in aspects of human-computer interaction froma user-centered perspective. Typical contributions to this workshop focus on user interface properties while designing and building interactive systems and study associated methods, processes and approaches. We expect a high participation of IFIP Working Group 13.2 members. We particularly invite participants to present position papers describing real-life case studies that illustrate the role of the context of use in HCI and its impact on thesystem design and use. Any perspective and related aspects of user interface design are welcome. However, we are especially interested in work that deals with current trends that change the way how humans use, interact and collaborate with technical components in socio-technical systems. We are also interested in methods, theories and tools for managing context of use at design and run-time. Position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Workshop Format* This full-day workshop is organized around presentation of position papers and working activities in small groups. From the set of contributions, a subset of selected case studies will be invited to be presented at the beginning of the workshop and will be used to support the discussion that follows. The morning session will be dedicated to welcoming participants and presenting case studies. Participants will be invited to comment on the case studies and to report similar experiences. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to interactive sessions, where participants will be engaged to work in small groups and propose solutions to the problems of the case studies seen in the morning. Solutions proposed by the participants will be compiled and compared. Based on the lessons learned, participants will be incited to draft an agenda of future work that can be accomplished. We plan to run the workshop in a hybrid setting, allowing attendees to participate both physically and remotely in the workshop. If circumstances require it, we intend to switch to a completely digital format that will be run online. We will continuously adapt to any decision regarding the conference format by the INTERACT 2021 organizers. *Submission Instructions* In order to attend the workshop, participants are invited to submit position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop's theme. These position papers (PDF files, 6-10 pages in Springer LNCS <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>forma <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>t <https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>, including abstract) shall report practical experiences related to research results on user-centered development processes for interactive systems with a particular focus on context-of-use aspects and the impact on software properties. Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information. Authors should also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop. Papers are submitted through the EasyChair website <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcse-interact2021>. Submitted position papers will be reviewed by an international program committee comprising the organizers and selected members of IFIP Working Group 13.2 who are experts in the field. Participants will be invited to attend the workshop based on the result of the reviewing process. Accepted position papers will be made available through the workshop website. Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop. Furthermore, an extended version of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume published in conjunction with the other INTERACT 2021 workshops organized by the IFIP TC13 Working Groups. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021 Acceptance notification: June 11th, 2021 Final version of position paper: June 28, 2021 Workshop date: August 31, 2021 *Organizers * Stefan Sauer, Paderborn University, Germany (sauer[at]uni-paderborn.de) Regina Bernhaupt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (r.bernhaupt[at]tue.nl) Carmelo Ardito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy (carmelo.ardito[at]poliba.it) *Venue* The workshop will be hosted in the frame of the 18th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 30 – September 3, 2021, in Bari, Italy. Look at the main conference web site for further information (https://www.interact2021.org/ <https://www.interact2021.org/>). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Call for WS] MIST4TEL'21 Extended deadline 9th April

by Melonio Alessandra

www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> Hybrid Conference 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> ________________________________ Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> [cid:CC8EEEC9-C61F-49D4-B3AB-C88A7D95CEB7@zyxel.com]<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Following the successful initiative from previous years, the International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) intends to host a number of workshops on different TEL-related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, the MIS4TEL 2021 Organizing Committee invites workshop proposals. The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference. Workshop contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages); papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC template. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/11156). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend MIS4TEL 2021 to present the paper in order to have it included in the conference proceedings. [cid:ECA3A5FB-BB61-41AD-B6FE-A4C1930C3AC6@zyxel.com]<http://www.springer.com/> Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process and collecting the camera ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by MIS4TEL conference organizers (under a centralized management). For each accepted workshop, one of its organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop proposal submission deadline: April 9, 2021 * Workshop papers submission deadline: April 30, 2021 (recommended) * Workshop camera-ready papers: June 28, 2021 (mandatory) Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers. The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information: * Workshop title * Workshop organizers' short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information * Workshop description and topics * Relevance of the workshop to the conference * Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable) * Program Committee members (tentative) * Estimated number of submitted papers * Draft CFP Please submit your workshop proposal by email to info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> (Subject: MIS4TEL 2021 Workshop Proposal). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Zuzana Kubincova - Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> [cid:BDF9E2A4-EF03-44F6-8C6E-E7A115985F05@zyxel.com] Unsubscribe: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy Web: smart.inf.unibz.it<http://smart.inf.unibz.it/> ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. 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CfP: CoPDA 2021 "Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI?"

by Barbara Rita Barricelli

--------------- Call for Papers --------------- CoPDA 2021 - 6th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: AI for Humans or Humans for AI? https://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda2021/ July 6, 2021 - Limassol, Cyprus In conjunction with IS-EUD 2021 (http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/) -------- Overview -------- This one-day workshop edition addresses the theme "AI for Humans or Humans for AI?". The workshop will explore the relationship between AI, aimed at replacing human beings, and Intelligence Augmentation (IA), focused on empowering human beings in their daily life and work. Balancing between these two perspectives means changing the research paradigm from traditional Human-Centered Design (HCD), to designing the collaboration between humans and computers. This will foster creativity, meaningful work, intersubjectivity, and learning, and eventually improve the quality of life of individuals. However, a variety of issues and ethical problems need to be addressed in this new age – e.g., privacy intrusions, massive unemployment, knowledge and competence loss, lack of control, autonomous weapons, etc. The workshop organizers encourage researchers to submit position papers that will consider these aspects. In summary, the workshop will aim at discussing the importance of HCD in the AI Age by considering several topics including (but not limited to): - Cooperative problem-solving systems - Collaborative learning - Meaningful human control - Distributed cognition - Tacit knowledge and meaning making - Multi-dimensional aspects of learning - Big data and privacy - Learning analytics - Human-machine teaming systems - Explainability and accountability of AI-based decisions - Evaluation of AI-based systems - End-User Development for AI-based systems ------------------- Topics and Keywords ------------------- The workshop will explore specific questions around the relationship between AI and HCD, such as: - Can we identify success stories and inspirational prototypes of systems where humans and AI components have created unique opportunities that neither one could achieve on their own? - Can we identify failures of AI systems that we can learn from? - How can we orient future development when considering the differences and complementarity between adaptive systems (focus on AI) and adaptable systems (focus on HCD)? - Do the concepts of co-evolution and appropriation of human-machine team-ing/cooperative systems change in the AI age? - How can End-User Development methods and techniques be used in AI-based systems to actively involve all stakeholders in design and development process? - How do we measure the overall benefits of AI decision-making support? - What are examples of collective human-centered design environments? - Do insights derived from AI systems (e.g., from Big Data analysis and Learning Analytics) constitute unique contributions that humans are not able to contribute on their own? - Will the current understanding of advanced technologies help us better under-stand who we are as human beings and what are our unique abilities? Keywords: Cultures of Participation (CoP); Artificial Intelligence (AI); Intelligence Augmentation (IA); Human-Centered Design (HCD); Design Trade-Offs; Quality of Life (QoL). ----------- Submissions ----------- Authors are invited to submit a 5-page (including references) position paper (LNCS format). The papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2021 All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. --------------- Important dates --------------- - Apr 30th: Submission deadline for position papers - May 15th: Notification of acceptance - May 31th: Camera ready - Jul 6th: CoPDA 2021 workshop -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Barbara Rita Barricelli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Daniela Fogli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway) Antonio Piccinno (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy) Stefano Valtolina (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) For any further information, please contact copda2021(a)easychair.org Barbara Rita Barricelli Assistant Professor Department of Information Engineering Università degli Studi di Brescia https://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it -- Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155 <http://www.unibs.it/node/8155>

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[EICS 2021] Last days for submitting to DC (March 31th)

by Davide Spano

Apologize for cross posting. ======= DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 31th ========== The EICS’2021 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and studies in the Human-Computer Interaction Engineering field. DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research goals as well as intermediate results, and to discuss them with leading experts in the field as well as with peers. Students can be in intermediate or advanced stages of their research, but should not have completed their work yet, and should thus still be able to take into account feedback from the DC. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to provide PhD students with the opportunity to: - Receive constructive feedback and advice on their research, - Meet experts with different backgrounds working on topics related to the Human Computer Interaction Engineering field, - Interact with other PhD students and exchange ideas and suggestions among participants, - Discuss concerns about research, supervision, job market, and other career-related issues, - Present their work as a poster at the EICS’2021 conference. A submission consists of a short paper (max 4 pages standard ACM SIGCHI format (2020), references excluded), a free-form CV of the PhD candidate and a draft poster. Submissions must be submitted using the PCS system by the deadline (see the firm deadline below). Papers suitable for (virtual or presence) demonstration at the conference should also submit a supplementary video of the system in action. The submission should not be anonymous and must: - identify a significant problem in the field of research, - clearly formulate the research question, - outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions (main related works) - present clearly (preliminary) ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far, - describe the research methodology that is applied or planned, - make explicit the current status of the doctoral work (e.g. when research started, how long to reach the end, papers already accepted) - outline the expected contributions to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity. Submissions must be made through the PCS system by the deadline (see the Important dates section below). In addition to the DC chairs, additional leading experts will be invited to the DC to discuss the participants' research DC participants will have their registration fee waived. The SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG) program also be of interest to help covering traveling expenses. For more information about this grant and for applying online, please visit: https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/gary-marsden-student-d… . # Important dates Submission deadline: Friday, March 12, 2021 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Notifications: April 16th, 2021 Camera Ready: April, 30th, 2021 # Doctoral Consortium Chairs Regina Bernhaupt (Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands) Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland) dc2021(a)eics.acm.org -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | 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>

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Call for papers | MIST4TEL'21 | 6-8 Oct 2021 | Salamanca (Spain)

by Melonio Alessandra

www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> Hybrid Conference 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> ________________________________ Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> [cid:838C96DE-19CE-4F70-A539-FDF4701B03D8]<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> SCOPE Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working is used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and allow to augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material. As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 10th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities (ranging from Artificial Intelligence and agent-based systems to Robotics, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and wearable solutions, among others) and looking for papers discussing how they can be employed to create novel approaches to TEL, innovative TEL solutions and valuable TEL experiences. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL (e.g., engineering, computer science, education, medicine) from this multidisciplinary field. MIS4TEL 2021 will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on October 6th-8th, 2021, in parallel with the PAAMS'21 International Conference<http://www.paams.net/>. TOPICS Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL * AI technologies and tools for TEL * Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems * Knowledge representation, reasoning and management systems for TEL * Natural language systems for TEL * Recommendation, personalisation and adaptation in TEL systems * Social networks for TEL * Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL * Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL * Smart solutions or environments for TEL * Wearable technologies for TEL * Robotics for TEL * Virtual reality environments for TEL * Games for TEL or gamified TEL * Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments * Making and fabrication for TEL Learning analytics for TEL * Big data and data visualisation in TEL * Learning analytics for curriculum design * Learning analytics for personalising the learner experience * Learning analytics for predicting behaviour * Learning analytics for designing learning interventions * Learning analytics for stakeholders Methodologies and experiences for TEL * Methodologies for personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL * Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modelling in TEL * Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL * Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems * Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL * Methodologies for informal learning for TEL * Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium and large companies * Methodologies, tools and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL * Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL * Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers from MIS4TEL will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals. [cid:38148EC3-5410-4C81-AF10-E84EA5738157] <http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2255-2863/index> To Be Updated COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Fernando De la Prieta University of Salamanca Spain TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIR Rosella Gennari Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Marco Temperini Sapienza University, Rome Italy PAPER CO-CHAIR Tania Di Mascio University of L'aquila Italy Pierpaolo Vittorini University of L'aquila Italy GENERAL CHAIR Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca Spain PUBLICITY CHAIR Federica Caruso University of L'aquila Italy Nestor Dario Duque Mendes National University of Colombia Colombia Alessandra Melonio Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza National University of Colombia Colombia WORKSHOP CHAIRS Zuzana Kubincova Comenius University of Bratislava Slovakia Elvira Popescu University of Craiova România TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS CHAIR Cesar Alberto Collazos Universidad del Cauca Colombia INVITED SPEAKERS [cid:DF9CE750-056E-4B8A-BDD8-2B9904813ACD] Yves Demazeau Senior Researcher at CNRS Grenoble (France) FORMAT All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 10 pages (Main track and Workshops), including figures and references: Microsoft Word Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip> Latex Format<ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/templates/ProcSci_TeX.zip> SUBMISSION All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL 2021<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> conference management system. [cid:D1A76C26-D19D-484B-94E7-284ED38C6DD3]<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mis4tel21> PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in MIS4TEL Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series<http://www.springer.com/series/11156>. [cid:4EC0A648-78AB-40CB-8BAF-470828C5B668]<http://www.springer.com/> ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings<http://www.webofknowledge.com/>, EI-Compendex<https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village/content/compendex>, DBLP<http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/>, SCOPUS<http://www.scopus.com/>, Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.de/> and Springerlink<https://link.springer.com/> ** IMPORTANT DATES Submission date Notification date Camera-ready deadline Conference dates 30th April, 2021 7th June, 2021 28th June, 2021 6th-8th October, 2021 www.mis4tel-conference.net<https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/> info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> [cid:E2353C4A-AF8F-4684-87E7-F356DA6FDCBE] Unsubscribe: info(a)mis4tel-conference.net<mailto:info@mis4tel-conference.net> ========================== Alessandra Melonio, Ph.D. Research fellow on a fixed-term contract (RTD) Smart Data Factory - Technology transfer Lab Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Office 112, Dominikanerplatz 3, Bozen, Italy NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29e, A.-Volta-Straße 9, Bozen, Italy Web: smart.inf.unibz.it<http://smart.inf.unibz.it> ========================== Im Sinne der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGV n. 679/2016) informieren wir Sie, dass die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen vertraulich und ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt sind. 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ACM UMAP 2021: Final Call for Demo and LBR Papers

by Oana Inel

— Apologies for cross-posting — ACM UMAP 2021: Final 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, online from Utrecht, the Netherlands 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 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 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. 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

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INTERACT 2021 - prossima scadenza per inviare un contributo: 16 aprile

by Carmelo Ardito

Cari Colleghi e Amici, come sapete la conferenza internazionale INTERACT 2021 si svolgerà a Bari dal 30 agosto al 3 settembre. Noi vorremmo avere la più ampia partecipazione da parte della comunità italiana di HCI a questo importante evento. Alcuni di voi hanno già sottomesso full papers e/o proposte di workshop. INTERACT consente varie altre possibilità di partecipazione. Le prossime scadenze sono tutte il 16 aprile 2021 e si può contribuire sottomettendo: - Short papers - Interactive demos - Courses - Posters - Doctoral consortium - Industrial Experiences - Panels Tutti i dettagli sono sul sito https://interact2021.org Siamo fiduciosi che nei prossimi mesi la campagna vaccinale per il COVID-19 in Italia e nel mondo subirà un'accelerazione e la situazione migliorerà. Avremo molto piacere ad accogliervi in presenza a Bari ma siamo anche organizzati per consentire la partecipazione in modalità mista o online. Confidando nella vostra più ampia partecipazione, vi salutiamo cordialmente. Carmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia [Technical Programme Co-Chairs of INTERACT 2021] -- apologies for cross-posting -- INTERACT 2021 Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy https://interact2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 by *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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please, visit the web site: https://interact2021.org -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Carmelo Ardito, PhD Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione Politecnico di Bari via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy E-Mail: carmelo.ardito(a)poliba.it Personal Home Page: http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/ardito.htm Research Group: SisInf Lab - Information Systems Laboratory http://sisinflab.poliba.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Informativa Privacy - Ai sensi del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad uso esclusivo del destinatario. 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ws on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots@UMAP2021: DEADLINE EXTENDED

by Cristina Gena

DEADLINE EXTENDED ****************************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021, (on-line) Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 21-25, 2021 Website: https://caesar2021.di.unito.it/index.html <https://caesar2020.di.unito.it/index.html> ****************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 2, 2021 (23:59 AoE time) Notification to authors: April 19, 2021 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 07, 2021 ****************************************************************************************** All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. ++Topics++ Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to): - Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - User modeling in social HRI - Adaptation strategies for social HRI - Affective interaction with robots - Machine learning for social robots - Natural Language Interaction with social robots - Emotion detection in social HRI - Social Assistive Robots - Social Robots in Education - Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments - Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems - Social Robots in the real world - User-centered Design in social HRI - Behavior Transparency for Social Robot - Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots ++Submissions++ Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-cAESAR": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021> Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including 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 using the ACM SIG CHI proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (the paper format, not the extended abstract format). An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. ++ Organizing committee ++ Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it <mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena(a)di.unito.it <mailto:cgena@di.unito.it> Antonio Lieto, University of Torino, Italy, lieto(a)di.unito.it <mailto:lieto@di.unito.it> Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, silvia.rossi(a)unina.it <mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it> Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, alessandra.sciutti(a)iit.it <mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it> ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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Deadline extension IxD&A Journal: Special issue on "Collaborative multimedia applications in technology" and Focus section on "Design during and for Pandemics"

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *Deadline extension *-> new deadline: *March 31, 2021* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Collaborative multimedia applications in technology* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48 <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48>* * **Guest Editors: **• César A. Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia • Freddy Paz, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Perù • Habib Fardoun, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain & King Abdulaziz University. Saudi Arabia** **The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted Collaborative multimedia applications in technology includes, but is not limited to: Frameworks and Methodologies for Collaboration Collaboration Enabling Technologies Architectures & Design of Collaboration Systems Platforms, Artifacts and Tools for Collaboration Coordination and Cooperation Mechanisms Interfaces for Collaborative Work Intelligent, Autonomous and Multi Agents in Collaboration Cognitive and Psychological Issues in Collaboration Virtual Communities and Communities of Practice Group Characteristics and Social Factors Ontologies and Ethnographic Approaches Human-machine Collaboration and Interaction Awareness in Collaboration Systems Contextual and Situation-based Collaboration Visualization of Collaborative Processes & Applications Privacy-preserving Collaboration Grid and Cloud-based Collaboration Environments** **and Focus Section on* **Design during and for Pandemics *http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call48fs <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call4…>* * **Guest Editors:** • Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, University of Gothenburg, Sweden • Guido Giunti, University of Oulu, Finland and TU Delft, Netherlands Are you working in the research or industry fields related to HCI, Interaction Design, Health Informatics, Health and Wellbeing, Information Processing Sciences, and Industrial Design? Then it is vital to contribute to this focused issue with your experiences on: how the COVID-19 influenced the way you work with users of technology how the pandemic influenced your designs different type of designs you develop to support people during a pandemic e.g. HIV, Ebola, or COVID-19 prevention and management to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2008 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *March 31, 2021* (extended) • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 10, 2021 • Publication of the special issue: end of May, 2021 ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: *https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login* <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102 • Summer 2021 'Educational Location-based Applications' Guest editors: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Heinrich Söbke with a focus section on 'Decoding The Smart City' Guest editors: Elise Hodson, Michel Nader Sayún, Teija Vainio • Autumn 2021 'Speculative and Critical Design: approaches and influences in education' Guest editors: Ingi Helgason, Enrique Encinas, Ivica Mitrovic, Michael Smyth • Winter 2021 'Smart learning Ecosistems and Regional Development 2021' ----------------------------------------------------------

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) - ACM UMAP Workshop

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @ UMAP 2021 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS NEWS: Extended Deadline! Due to several requests, papers are now due by* April 2, 2021.* ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online 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: - Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections and in CH sites - Ambient Cultural Heritage - Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites - Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants - Recommendation strategies for CH - Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH - NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH - (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections - Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation - Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH) - Long term personalization in CH - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Human-Robots adaptation in museums - 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage - Context-aware information presentation in CH - Interactive user interfaces for CH applications - Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications - Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences - Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives - Community mapping for CH information sharing - Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH - Remote access to CH - 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: - 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? - 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: April 2, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time) 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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EXTENDED DEADLINE - ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems

by Giovanni Semeraro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS NEWS: Extended Deadline! Papers now due: April 2, 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM@UMAP 2021) June 21-25, 2020 co-located with UMAP 2021 (http://www.um.org/umap2021) - Online Conference Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExUM_Workshop Web: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 (select "Workshop-ExUM") For any information: cataldo.musto(a)uniba.it <mailto:cataldo.musto@uniba.it> , marco.polignano(a)uniba.it <mailto:marco.polignano@uniba.it> ======================== COVID-19 STATUS - UPDATE ======================== The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be a hybrid conference. We will be happy to welcome all of you who are willing, able and allowed to travel in Utrecht, the Netherlands. We are still figuring out all the details, which we hope to announce bit by bit during the next couple of months. Stay tuned for further updates. ========= ABSTRACT ========= Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies which are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks. As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. It is not by chance that the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) emphasized the users' right to explanation when people face machine learning-based (or more in general - artificial intelligence-based) systems. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model. The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: how can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability? Several research lines are triggered by this question: building scrutable user models and transparent algorithms, analyzing the impact of opaque algorithms on final users, studying the role of explanation strategies, investigating how to provide users with more control in the personalization and adaptation problems. The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges and innovative re-search approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the re-cent methodologies for building user models or for developing personalized and adaptive systems. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interests include but are not limited to: · TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE PERSONALIZATION STRATEGIES o Scrutable User Models o Transparent User Profiling and Personal Data Extraction o Explainable Personalization and Adaptation Methodologies o Novel strategies (e.g., conversational recommender systems) for building transparent algorithms · DESIGNING EXPLANATION ALGORITHMS o Explanation algorithms based on item description and item properties o Explanation algorithms based on user-generated content (e.g., reviews) o Explanation algorithms based on collaborative information o Building explanation algorithms for opaque personalization techniques (e.g., neural networks, matrix factorization) · DESIGNING TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER INTERFACES o Transparent User Interfaces o Designing Transparent Interaction methodologies o Novel paradigms (e.g. chatbots) for building transparent models · EVALUATING TRANSPARENCY AND EXPLAINABILITY o Evaluating Transparency in interaction or personalization o Evaluating Explainability of the algorithms o Designing User Studies for evaluating transparency and explainability o Novel metrics and experimental protocols · OPEN ISSUES IN TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER MODELS AND PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS o Ethical issues (Fairness and Biases) in User Models and Personalized Systems o Privacy management of Personal and Social data o Discussing Recent Regulations (GDPR) and future directions ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to exploit heterogeneous personal data and approach to build transparent and scrutable user models. (A) Regular papers (max. 10 pages + references - single-column ACM format); (B) Demo and Position Papers (max. 5 pages + references - ACM format); Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exum2020 All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Note that the references do not count towards page limits. 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. 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-te mplate/acmart-primary.zip Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-t emplate/pnrfvrrdbfwt MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission _template.docx Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (AoE). All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the particular workshop and present the paper there. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Full paper submission: April 2, 2021 (EXTENDED!) * Paper notification: April 26, 2021 * Camera-ready paper: May 7, 2021 ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Cataldo Musto - University of Bari, Italy Nava Tintarev - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Oanal Inel - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Marco Polignano - University of Bari, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Juergen Ziegler - University of Duisburg Essen ======================= PROGRAM COMMITEE (TBA) ======================= Walter Anelli, Politecnico di Bari Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ludovico Boratto, PEURECAT Robin Burke, University of Colorado Ivan Cantador Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University Cristina Conati, The University of British Columbia Michael Ekstrand, Boise State University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa Eelco Herder, Radboud University Nijmegen Andrea Iovine, Università degli Studi di Bari Kyriaki Kalimeri, I.S.I. Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus Aonghus Lawlor, University College Dublin Benedikt Loepp, University of Duisburg-Essen Fedelucio Narducci, Politecnico di Bari Amon Rapp, University of Turin Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Lucio Davide Spano, University of Cagliari Alain Starke University of Bergen Panagiotis Symeonidis, Free University of Bolzano Markus Zanker Free University of Bozen - Bolzano

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CFP workshop "Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI" at CHItaly 2021

by Eleonora Mencarini

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the call for papers for our *workshop on Nature and HCI* at the upcoming *CHItaly'21 conference*. In 2020, when most of the world population has experienced limitations to free mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialization and outdoor life started to be strongly desired and dreamed. Technologies such as smartphones, cameras, sports trackers, electronic tourist guides, head-mounted displays have the potential to enable, enhance or disrupt users' experience of and interaction with nature, broadly intended as an open-air setting that includes cities, peripheries, rural areas, wild natural environments. Thus, the use of technology outdoors offers a wide range of interesting aspects and challenges to be investigated, such as individual wellbeing, knowledge generation, sustainability, and social issues. Resonating with the CHItaly theme "Frontiers of HCI", this workshop aims to bring together researchers exploring the frontiers of i) using technology outdoors, in terms of scope, opportunities, and limitations; ii) spaces that are not only natural or artificial but hybrid and offer opportunities for remote and asynchronous outdoor experiences; iii) interaction design in accounting for human interests over a variety of non-human ecologies. For further information, visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/naturehci/home. TOPICS OF INTEREST Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Technology enabling/enhancing/augmenting the natural experience - Ecotourism - The political ecology of interaction design - Outdoor sports - Citizen science - Socialization outdoors (e.g., parks and public spaces, community gardening) - Education & Serious leisure outdoors - Environmental sustainability - Technology for outdoor safety and safety when using technology outdoors - Natural and cultural heritage (e.g., cultural landscapes) - The indoorisation of natural elements (e.g., indoorisation of outdoor sports, virtual/augmented reality) HOW TO APPLY? Three types of submissions are welcome: - *Position papers* where authors discuss one of the workshop topics and describe how their expertise may be of interest for the workshop discussion (2 pages, references excluded); - *Original research presenting preliminary insights/results*. We welcome work at all development stages: papers can describe applied systems, empirical findings, or theoretically grounded positions (from 4 to 6 pages, references excluded); - *Critical design fiction*, in which authors may explore the future consequences of a prolonged distancing, limited experience of the outdoors, or the different mediating roles technology can have (from 4 to 6 pages, references excluded). KEY DATES *Submission deadline: April 23, 2021, 11.59 pm CET on Easychair: *https:// easychair.org/conferences/?conf=naturehci21 Notification: May 14, 2021 Workshop: July 12, 2021 ATTENDANCE CHItaly and the NatureHCI workshop will be organized in a hybrid manner. *Participants can choose whether to participate remotely or in-person in Bolzano*. The workshop activities and discussions will be organized accordingly. ORGANIZERS Eleonora Mencarini, Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy) Linda Tonolli, University of Trento (Italy) Amon Rapp, University of Torino (Italy) Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University (Denmark) Roberto Cibin, Masaryk University (Czech Republic) Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento (Italy) Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento (Italy) If you have any questions, please drop an email at mencarini(a)fbk.eu. Best regards, Eleonora Mencarini (on behalf of the NatureHCI organizers) Eleonora Mencarini, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher i3 Unit - Digis Centre - FBK0461/314576

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CFP: GHItaly21 - 4-th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction

by Maria De Marsico

GHItaly21 4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction In Conjunction with CHItaly 2021 - The biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction – GHItaly21 is the fourth edition of a series of workshops focused on the multifaceted issues related to the design and development of human-game interfaces. GHItaly21 aims at establishing a common venue for scholars and industry practitioners, where they can exchange ideas on all the topic related to this multidisciplinary field, and possibly create new collaborations. The main goal of the event is to spur discussion on the development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on HCI applied to design and production of video games. The application range of video games has to be intended in its broadest sense: from entertainment and to “serious” applied finalities (health, education, etc). GHItaly21 will be held *online* in conjunction with the 14th Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter, from 11 to 13 of July 2021 in Bolzano. TOPICS The workshop aims at collecting contribution advancing the research applied to *video games*. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): *Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces* *Agency of objects * *Artificial Intelligence applications * *Biometric measures for interaction* *Critical or meaningful play experience * *Distributed and Online systems * *Full-body Interaction* *Game Design & Level Design * *Human Computer Interaction applied to visual interfaces * *Immersive VR systems * *Information Visualization* *Interaction Design Tools* *Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation* *Motion-based Interaction* *Moral choices * *Multimodal Interfaces* *(Multi)Sensory Interfaces* *Procedural rhetoric * *Sensemaking * *Storytelling * *Usability and Accessibility* *Visualization techniques * *Virtual and Augmented Reality* SUBMISSION All paper submissions must be in English, and they must not exceed nine (9) pages in length, including references. The papers must be formatted using the *ACM single-column submission template*. ACM *single-column submission templates* are available for *Word* and *LaTeX*. · *Word template*. Download and use the most recent Submission Template <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…> from the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow#h-2.-the-workf…> . · *LaTeX template*. There are two alternatives: 1. Download the *Master Article Template - LaTeX* folder from the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow#h-2.-the-workf…>. Then choose "sample-sigconf" from the "sample" subfolder. For the one-column format, *comment* "\documentclass[sigconf,authordraft]{acmart}" and *uncomment* " \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart}". 2. Go to Overleaf and use ACM Conference Proceedings "Master" Template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-…>. For the one-column format, *comment* " \documentclass[sigconf,authordraft]{acmart}" and *uncomment* " \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart}". 3. For further specifications concerning the ACM format for manuscripts, please, refer to the ACM website <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>. Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ghitaly21 All the papers will be subject to a double review process by the members of the Programme Committee. The proceedings with the papers accepted to the GHItaly21 workshop will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (*http://ceur-ws.org/ <http://ceur-ws.org/>*), and will be indexed by SCOPUS. Important Dates April 23, 2021 Submission deadline May 14, 2021 Notifications to contributors May 24, 2021 Camera-ready submission July 12, 2021 GHItaly21 workshop July 11-13, 2021 CHItaly 21 conference (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Maria *De Marsico* - Sapienza Università di Roma Laura Anna *Ripamonti* - Università degli Studi di Milano Davide *Gadia* - Università degli Studi di Milano Dario *Maggiorini* - Università degli Studi di Milano Ilaria *Mariani* - Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria De Marsico Associate Professor Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Biometrics Newsletter IEEE Senior member Sapienza University of Rome Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it tel: +39 06 49918312

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