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Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
to be published in the journal
Multimedia Tools and Applications
https://www.springer.com/journal/11042
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Overview:
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This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence.
The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models
· HCI design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems
· Multimodal interaction technologies
· Collaborative and social computing and HCI
· Accessibility and inclusive multimedia
Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI
· Humanities and multimedia-based HCI
· Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI
· Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems
· Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI
· Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI
· Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI
· Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI
· Natural language processing and multimedia-based HCI
· Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI
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Guest Editors:
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Dr. Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor)
Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Email: alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>
Dr. Maria De Marsico
Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>
Dr. Cristina Gena
Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy
Email: cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>
Dr. Rosella Gennari
Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Email: gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>
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Important dates/Tentative Schedule:
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Submission deadline: November 30, 2021
Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022
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Submission Guidelines
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Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website<https://springer.com/11042>. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx<https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx> and select “SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process.
Please note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal.
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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>
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INTERACT 2021 - Aug 30th - Sep 3rd, 2021, Bari, Italy
https://interact2021.org
Registration link: https://www.interact2021.org/registration.php
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INTERACT 2021 is the 18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP
Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held
every two years.
The theme of INTERACT 2021 is “Sense, Feel, Design”, highlighting new
challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more
widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side,
devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an
enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be
further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the
traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of
touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into
account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 is the
right venue to debate such new challenges. Another new topic of this
edition is Human-AI Interaction, focusing on the design of
human-centered intelligent systems.
INTERACT 2021 is an hybrid conference. People are participating either
in-person or online.
The interactive program is available at:
https://www.interact2021.org/final-program.php
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For further information, please, visit the web site:
https://interact2021.org
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Paolo Buono
Associate Professor
IVU Lab, Department of Computer Science
University of Bari, Italy
http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/buono.htm
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Apologies for Cross-Posting
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MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous
Multimedia
December 5-8, 2021
Leuven, Belgium
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# Important Dates (AoE)
> September 15 | Submission (Workshop and tutorial)
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Call for Workshops
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The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM
2021) welcomes proposals for workshops. A MUM Workshop is a forum for
attendees with shared interests to present, discuss, and develop new
ideas around a specific theme or domain related to Mobile and Ubiquitous
Multimedia. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in
the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and
to develop emerging topics.
All workshops will take place on the Sunday before the conference, on
the 5th of December. Because workshops are meant to encourage ideas
exchange, we encourage proposals that go beyond being a mini-conference
and that engage participants in hands-on activities and in discussion.
We also encourage organisers to open the workshops to conference
attendees without a workshop paper, but who would be interested in
participating.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal and wish to discuss your
ideas prior to the submission deadline, the workshop chairs welcome any
inquiries. You can contact us at workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org.
# Submission and Templates
Workshop proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article
Template.
Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references), detailing
your goals for the workshop, how you plan to run the workshop, and any
planned outcomes. Workshop proposal submissions contain an abstract that
is less than 150 words long that clearly states the purpose of the
workshop. Submissions will by juried by the Workshop chairs. Submissions
must be submitted via e-mail. Accepted workshop proposals will be
included in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press and
included in the ACM Digital Library.
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Call for Tutorials
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The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM
2021) welcomes proposals for tutorials. We invite academic and industry
leaders in all topics related to Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia to
submit a proposal following the guidelines below. We encourage proposals
that include practical activities inside and outside the classroom.
All tutorials will take place on the Sunday before the conference, on
the 5th of December and you can choose between three formats: 90min,
half-day, or full-day. If you are interested in submitting a proposal
and wish to discuss your ideas prior to the submission deadline, the
workshop chairs welcome any inquiries. You can contact us at
workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org.
Tutorial proposal submissions should be in the ACM Primary Article
Template. Submissions should be 6 pages or less (excluding references),
and include the following details:
* Title
* Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how they are relevant to the
MUM community
* Description of the tutorial activities
* Short biography of the organisers
* Proposed tutorial length (90min, half-day, full-day)
* Room and material requirements
* Maximum number of participants
Tutorial proposal submissions contain an abstract that is less than 150
words long that clearly states the purpose of the tutorial. Submissions
will be juried by the tutorial chairs. Submissions must be submitted via
email to the tutorial chairs (workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org).
Accepted tutorial proposals will be included in the conference
proceedings published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital
Library.
# Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
Bruno Dumas, University of Namur
Adriana Wilde, University of Southampton
> https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/
# More information:
Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-workshops/
Twitter: @MUMconf
E-mail: workshoptutorial2021(a)mum-conf.org
— Apologies for cross-posting —
Special Issue "Explainable User Models"
A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti> (ISSN 2414-4088).
Important Dates & Facts:
Abstract/title submission: ideally until November 5, 2021
Manuscripts due by: February 20, 2022
Notification to authors: March 15, 2022
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Explainable_User_Models
Special Issue Information
This special issue addresses research on Explainable User Models. As AI systems’ actions and decisions will significantly affect their users, it is important to be able to understand how an AI system represents its users. It is a well-known hurdle that many AI algorithms behave largely as black boxes. One key aim of explainability is, therefore, to make the inner workings of AI systems more accessible and transparent.
Such explanations can be helpful in the case when the system uses information about the user to develop a working representation of the user, and then uses this representation to adjust or inform system behavior. E.g., an educational system could detect whether students have a more internal or external locus of control, a music recommender system could adapt the music it is playing to the current mood of a user, or an aviation system could detect the visual memory capacity of its pilots. However, when adapting to such user models it is crucial that these models are accurately detected. Furthermore, for such explanations to be useful, they need to be able to explain or justify their representations of users in a human-understandable way. This creates a necessity for techniques that will create models for the automatic generation of satisfactory explanations intelligible for human users interacting with the system.
The scope of the special issue includes but is not limited to:
Detection and Modelling
• Novel ways of Modeling User Preferences
• Types of information to model (Knowledge, Personality, Cognitive differences, etc.)
• Distinguishing between stationary versus transient user models (e.g., Personality vs Mood)
• Context modeling (e.g., at work versus at home, lean in versus lean out activities)
• User models from heterogeneous sources (e.g., behavior, ratings, and reviews)
• Enrichment and Crowdsourcing for Explainable User Models
Ethics
• Detection of sensitive or rarely reported attributes (e.g., gender, race, sexial orientation)
• Implicit user modeling versus explicit user modeling (e.g., questionnaires versus inference from behavior)
• User modeling for self actualization (e.g., user modeling to improve dietary or news consumption habits)
Human understandability
• Metrics and methodologies for evaluating fitness for the purpose of explanations
• Balancing completeness and understandability for complex user models
• Explanations to mitigate human biases (e.g., confirmation bias, anchoring)
• Effect of user model explanation on subsequent user interaction (e.g., simulations, and novel evaluation methodologies)
Effectiveness
• Analysis or comparison of context of use of explanation (e.g., risk, time pressure, error tolerance)
• Analysis of context of use of system (e.g., decision support, prediction)
• Analysis or comparison of effect of explaining in specific domains (e.g., education, health, recruitment, security)
Adaptive presentation of the explanations
• For different types of user
• Interactive explanations
• Investigation of which presentational aspects are beneficial to tailor in the explanation (e.g., level of detail, terminology, modality text or graphics, level of interaction)
Prof. Dr. Nava Tintarev
Ms. Oana Inel
Guest Editors
We are happy to announce the call for papers:
*we apologize for cross postings*
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Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
to be published in the journal
Multimedia Tools and Applications
https://www.springer.com/journal/11042
=========================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------
Overview:
-----------------------------------------------------------
This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its frontiers. Therefore it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence.
The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11 to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models
· HCI design and evaluation methods for multimedia and multimodal systems
· Multimodal interaction technologies
· Collaborative and social computing and HCI
· Accessibility and inclusive multimedia
Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI
· Humanities and multimedia-based HCI
· Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI
· Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems
· Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI
· Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based HCI
· Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI
Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI
· Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal systems
· Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and multimedia-based HCI
· Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based HCI
· Natural language processing and multimedia-based HCI
· Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and multimedia-based HCI
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Guest Editors:
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Dr. Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor)
Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Email: alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>
Dr. Maria De Marsico
Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Email: demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>
Dr. Cristina Gena
Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy
Email: cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>
Dr. Rosella Gennari
Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Email: gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>
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Important dates/Tentative Schedule:
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Submission deadline: November 30, 2021
Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022
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Submission Guidelines
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Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website<https://springer.com/11042>. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx<https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx> and select “SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process.
Please note that the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. Authors must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text. The extended versions of CHItaly papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal.
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The paper submission deadline for the 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-papers/) has been extended to August 13, but you still need to submit the abstract by the 6th. You will then be able to update your submission until the 13th AOE.
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MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
December 5-8, 2021
Leuven, Belgium
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# Important Dates
> August 6 | Abstract Submission (Long and Short papers)
> August 13 | Paper Submission (Long and Short papers)
> September 28 | Notification
> October 10 | Camera Ready
> December 5-8 | Conference
MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences.
This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to travel to Belgium. We are currently considering which solution to use to be as inclusive as possible to those who will prefer to present and participate remotely. We will monitor the unfolding of the events in the short term and update the conference modality accordingly.
We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications
* Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges
* Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services
* Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field
* Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services
* Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems
* Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
* Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising
* Privacy and security related issues to multimedia systems
* Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems
* Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems
* User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems
* Papers should be grounded in existing literature and knowledge, and should be written for an * interdisciplinary audience. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair at the latest by August 6th, 2021 * AoE. An application for inclusion of the conference proceeding in the ACM International Conference * Proceeding Series is currently being processed.
# Keynotes
Professors Yvonne Rogers (Director of UCLIC) and Antonio Krueger will give this year's keynotes. More info coming soon on the website of the conference.
# Submission and Templates
The correct template for submissions is the ACM Primary Article Template in single-column format (in PDF format). Submissions should be prepared using either the single column Word Submission Template or the single column LaTeX template (using the “manuscript, review, anonymous” style available in the template). Submissions can be of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution with 16 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as long papers in past editions and 7 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as short papers in past editions.
Successful submissions of around 16 pages typically represent significant empirical, theoretical or methodological advances in the field.
Successful submissions of around 7 pages offer more focused contributions; they are not intended to be work in progress reports but, instead, they offer complete, rigorously developed work, with a solid contribution to the field. Short papers have a smaller scope or more focused contribution than long papers.
Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission. Papers must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers, chosen from the pool of members of the Program Committee listed below. This pool of reviewers features both experts from the previous edition, as well as new researchers to address new emerging research areas and underrepresented communities. Papers will be assigned through a bidding process.
Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of maximum 5 minutes to support their submission. To ensure videos can be viewed by all reviewers, authors should preferably use the H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. To accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50mb per file), the bit rate of videos can be lowered.
# Reviewing process
There will be a single round of reviews with three potential outcomes: desk-rejects (papers that are significantly out of scope, not written in English, etc.), rejection, and conditional acceptance. No rebuttal phase is planned. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will find in the reviews a list of revisions and requested changes they need to satisfy to have their paper be officially accepted into the program. At least one author from each accepted paper must register to the conference.
# Organisers:
Adalberto L. Simeone, KU Leuven, Belgium, General Chair
Raf Ramakers, Hasselt University, Belgium, Program Chair
Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy, Program Chair
> https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/
# More information:
Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-papers/
Twitter: @MUMconf
E-mail: mailto:general2021@mum-conf.org or mailto:papers2021@mum-conf.org
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Adalberto L. Simeone
Assistant Professor
ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients
https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be
Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven
Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/Adal_LShttps://www.adalsimeone.me/
*** First Call for Papers and Special Sessions ***
2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive
Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022)
May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus
http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/
(Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library;
Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer)
IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a
leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances,
the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future
challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the
past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad
international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones
with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and
learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing
operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours,
knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams.
Conference Topics
Basic Methodologies
Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving
Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive
Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data
Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive
Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive
Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data.
Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams
Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature
Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised
Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects.
Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online
Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine
Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing.
Applications of EAIS
Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge
Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing.
Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and
Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition
Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities
Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and
Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor
Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and
Machine Learning Approaches.
Special Sessions
Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of
evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to
submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers
interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal
proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino
(gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos
Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), by specifying:
- Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio
- Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional)
- Special Session title
- Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page)
- A list of main topics of the Special Session
- A list of potential/expected contributors
Submissions
Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength.
Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022).
The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions
for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An
Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer).
Important Dates
• Special Session submission: October 1, 2021
• Special Session acceptance: October 10, 2021
• Paper submission: January 10, 2022
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022
• Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022
• Authors registration: March 20, 2022
• Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022
Social Media
FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867…
Organization
Honorary Chairs
• Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA
• Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
General Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK
Program Committee Chairs
• Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy
• José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme
ERCIM offers fellowships for PhD holders from all over the world. The next round is open!
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2021.
Topics cover most disciplines in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics.
Fellowships are of 12-month duration spent in one ERCIM member institute.
Detailed description of the programme, application guide and application form :
http://fellowship.ercim.eu/
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Conditions
Applicants must:
* have obtained a PhD degree during the last 8 years (prior to the application year deadline)
or be in the last year of the thesis work with an outstanding academic record. Nevertheless, before
starting the grant, a proof of the PhD degree will be requested.
* complete, submit the application form and send via the online system:
* a detailed curriculum vitae
* a list of publications
* two scientific papers in English
* contact details of two referees
* start the fellowship no later than 1 May 2022.
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MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
December 5-8, 2021
Leuven, Belgium
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# Important Dates
> August 6 | Submission (Long and Short papers)
> September 28 | Notification
> October 10 | Camera Ready
> December 5-8 | Conference
MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of innovation and excellence in research established by previous MUM conferences.
This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to travel to Belgium. We are currently considering which solution to use to be as inclusive as possible to those who will prefer to present and participate remotely. We will monitor the unfolding of the events in the short term and update the conference modality accordingly.
We welcome submissions of high-quality papers that offer original and unpublished contributions relevant to the field of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality systems and applications
* Architectures, systems, algorithms and other constructions tackling relevant technical challenges
* Case studies, field trials, or user experience evaluations of new applications and services
* Conceptualizations and theorizations of the field
* Context-aware and location-based mobile and ubiquitous services
* Metrics and measures for evaluating and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems
* Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
* Novel applications for mobile and ubiquitous gaming, entertainment, networking, and advertising
* Privacy and security related issues to multimedia systems
* Social implications of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems
* Tools and development environments for building mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous multimedia systems
* User interfaces, interaction design, and interaction techniques for mobile and ubiquitous systems
* Papers should be grounded in existing literature and knowledge, and should be written for an * interdisciplinary audience. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair at the latest by August 6th, 2021 * AoE. An application for inclusion of the conference proceeding in the ACM International Conference * Proceeding Series is currently being processed.
# Keynotes
Professors Yvonne Rogers (Director of UCLIC) and Antonio Krueger will give this year's keynotes. More info coming soon on the website of the conference.
# Submission and Templates
The correct template for submissions is the ACM Primary Article Template in single-column format (in PDF format). Submissions should be prepared using either the single column Word Submission Template or the single column LaTeX template (using the “manuscript, review, anonymous” style available in the template). Submissions can be of variable length. Paper length must be based on the weight of the contribution with 16 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as long papers in past editions and 7 pages (excluding references) in single column format being valued as short papers in past editions.
Successful submissions of around 16 pages typically represent significant empirical, theoretical or methodological advances in the field.
Successful submissions of around 7 pages offer more focused contributions; they are not intended to be work in progress reports but, instead, they offer complete, rigorously developed work, with a solid contribution to the field. Short papers have a smaller scope or more focused contribution than long papers.
Submissions should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission. Papers must be anonymized. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process managed by the Program Chairs. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers, chosen from the pool of members of the Program Committee listed below. This pool of reviewers features both experts from the previous edition, as well as new researchers to address new emerging research areas and underrepresented communities. Papers will be assigned through a bidding process.
Authors are encouraged to submit an optional video of maximum 5 minutes to support their submission. To ensure videos can be viewed by all reviewers, authors should preferably use the H.264 encoding and the MP4 file format. To accommodate the upload limits of EasyChair (max. 50mb per file), the bit rate of videos can be lowered.
# Reviewing process
There will be a single round of reviews with three potential outcomes: desk-rejects (papers that are significantly out of scope, not written in English, etc.), rejection, and conditional acceptance. No rebuttal phase is planned. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will find in the reviews a list of revisions and requested changes they need to satisfy to have their paper be officially accepted into the program. At least one author from each accepted paper must register to the conference.
# Organisers:
Adalberto L. Simeone, KU Leuven, Belgium, General Chair Raf Ramakers, Hasselt University, Belgium, Program Chair Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy, Program Chair
> https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/committee/
# More information:
Website: https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/cfp-papers/
Twitter: @MUMconf
E-mail: mailto:general2021@mum-conf.org or mailto:papers2021@mum-conf.org
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Adalberto L. Simeone
Assistant Professor
ARIA - Artificial Realities and Interactive Ambients
https://aria.cs.kuleuven.be
Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven
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Website: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/
Third Symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
10 - 12 November 2021, Delft, Netherlands (Online)
BHCC 2021 is an event of the Academic Fringe Festival (https://www.academicfringe.org/)
Organized by TU Delft and CHI Nederland
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*Overview*
The goal of this symposium is to analyse both existing human biases in hybrid systems, and methods to manage bias via crowdsourcing and human computation. We will discuss different types of biases, measures and methods to track bias, as well as methodologies to prevent and solve bias.
We welcome the submission of research papers and abstracts which describe original work that has not been submitted or currently under review, has not been previously published nor accepted for publication elsewhere, in any other journal or conference. We welcome the submission of the following types of contributions:
- Full papers should be at most 10 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references),
- Short papers should be at most 5 pages in length (including figures, tables, appendices, and references),
- Abstracts should contain just a title and the abstract, and should detail demos or relevant work or ideas which are under development. They can not contain references.
More details: https://www.bhcc-symposium.com/submission
*Important Dates*
Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
- Full Papers and Short papers due: 26 August 2021
- Abstracts due: 2 September 2021
- Notifications: 22 October 2021
- Conference: 10-12 November 2021
*Submission*
We implement a double-blind review process. Submissions must be anonymous and the submission must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bhcc2021
We are committed to create an equal opportunity environment, without regard to race, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or any other status. For this reason, if you feel that you are in a disadvantaged situation or you require assistance please reach out to us (bhcc2021(a)easychair.org). We’ll be more than happy to help and allow everyone to submit a paper.
We are keen to create a fair working environment for the crowd workers and annotators. For this reason, each submission should clearly state the policies implemented to pursue this aim; each paper should be clear about the amount of work required for an annotator to submit the task, the payment, the time spent by the annotators to finish the task, and all the relevant details aimed at making clear that workers and annotators obtained a fair compensation and treatment for their work.