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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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