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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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Extended deadline SLERD 2021 - 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing / ========================================================= *EXTENDED DEADLINE**--> **March 31, 2021 *call for papers <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: 1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/ - mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com *========================================================= SLERD 2021 *will feature:* keynotes *by:* • Inger Birkeland *(University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24* */Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place/* • Danielle McNamara *(Arizona State University) – June 24* */Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective/* • Sébastien Turbot *(eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25* */Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach/* * * the *Student Scientific Video Contest* ** call for contributions <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/> ** with the award of the “*BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS”* (three prizes: 500,00 €, 300,00 €, 300,00 € and free participation to the conference) * * ** two Open Debates <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/open-debate-dibattito-aperto/> – June 25 – on *• Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engine of the “new normality”* ** *• ***Towards Learning Ecosystems Based on Competences: the promise of the micro-credentials** and a Satellite Event <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/satellite-event/> – June 23 – the round table on *“Social inclusion at school: new perspectives for a smart learning ecosystem”* *orgnized by the PLEIADE partnership *SLERD 2021* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. /* *//*Topics of interests*/ can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) * /*• people in place centered design for smart education*/ * • general frameworks and methodological advances • design, data and other relevant literacies • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences * /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * • intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces • semantic web technologies and applications • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education * ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *March**31, 2021 (extended)* • Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021 • Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021 • Conference: June 24-25, 2021 ========================================== /*Proceedings:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- *Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer* in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies* <https://www.springer.com/series/8767> that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. (Note that proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) *Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a *special issue of IxD&A Journal <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102>* (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 pages). Papers should be written according to the */Spinger Instruction for Authors/* of the series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2021 ========================================================= Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…> See ASLERD website for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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[Reminder] Call for Participation - Interactive Experiences at CHItaly

by María Menéndez-Blanco

Dear list members, The submission deadline for the Interactive Experiences at CHItaly is approaching! We welcome prototypes and installations that explore, represent, and challenge the frontier of HCI. Please check further details and the submission options on our website: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html And don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. All the best, Seçil, Jennifer, and Maria **** In the last months, we have been shaping the Interactive Experiences track at CHItaly'21. It is the first time the conference will be hosting this track and we want it to be a venue for exploring, representing, and challenging the frontiers of HCI through prototypes and installations. The call for participation is now open and we thought it could be of interest to some of the members of this list. So, what could be an example of an Interactive Experience? A prototype of a digital platform empowering grassroots, an interactive visualization of a complex issue, an artistic experiment exploring more-than-human interactions, a critical design artifact that challenges predominant narratives of digital futures, and not only. If it sounds interesting, check the details, submission options, and our fantastic committee on our website: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html We are hoping to safely welcome some of you to Bolzano (Italy) in July but, in case it is not possible, online participation will also be available. Submission deadline: 19th March 2021

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[CfP] 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds

by Luca Turchet

*2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds* *(part of Audio Mostly 2021 - Virtual conference)* September 1-3, 2021. < Apologies for cross-posting > < Please distribute > *Call for papers and demos* After the success of the first edition, we are pleased to invite the community to submit to the 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds (IWIS 2021). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and Sound and Music Computing domains. The workshop will run virtually. The aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of presentations from academics and keynotes, poster presentations, demonstrations, as well as tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Wireless acoustic sensor networks - Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks - Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks - Ecoacoustics - Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks - Smart Musical Instruments - Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things - Participatory live music performances - Networked music performances - Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things - Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts - Ubiquitous music - Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds - Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds - Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications - Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds - Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds - Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining - Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases - Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases - Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 8 pages), a poster paper (min 2 pages, max 4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. The event is being run alongside the Audio Mostly Conference ( https://audiomostly.com/) an interdisciplinary conference taking place between 1 and 3 of September. The participants to the workshop will have access to all the sessions of the Audio Mostly conference. The paper templates are available at https://audiomostly.com/2021/call/instructions/ *Important dates* - Papers and demos submission deadline: May 1, 2021 - Author notification: June 15, 2021 - Camera ready due: July 15, 2021 - Workshop dates: September 1-3, 2021 *Publications* All accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference. They will be included in the ACM Digital Library and will be indexed by Scopus, ACM, Web of Science, and DBLP. *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Organizing Committee* - Luca Turchet (University of Trento) - Mathieu Lagrange (University of Nantes) - Chris Chafe (Stanford University) - Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University) - Carlo Fischione (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - Paolo Casari (University of Trento) *Sponsors* - Elk (www.elk.audio) - Orastron (www.orastron.com) *Logistics* Registration: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/registration/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Turchet Assistant Professor Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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Second Call for Papers ExUM@UMAP 2021

by Oana Inel

*** Apologies for cross postings *** ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM@UMAP 2021) June 21-25, 2020 co-located with UMAP 2021 (https://www.um.org/umap2021/) - Online from Utrecht, the Netherlands Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExUM_Workshop Web: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum/ Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?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> ================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Full paper submission: March 26, 2021 * Paper notification: April 19, 2021 * Camera-ready paper: May 7, 2021 ======================== COVID-19 STATUS - UPDATE ======================== The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be a virtual conference. 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 al-gorithms, 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 - Scrutable User Models - Transparent User Profiling and Personal Data Extraction - Explainable Personalization and Adaptation Methodologies - Novel strategies (e.g., conversational recommender systems) for building transparent algorithms - DESIGNING EXPLANATION ALGORITHMS - Explanation algorithms based on item description and item properties - Explanation algorithms based on user-generated content (e.g., reviews) - Explanation algorithms based on collaborative information - Building explanation algorithms for opaque personalization techniques (e.g., neural networks, matrix factorization) - DESIGNING TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER INTERFACES - Transparent User Interfaces - Designing Transparent Interaction methodologies - Novel paradigms (e.g. chatbots) for building transparent models - EVALUATING TRANSPARENCY AND EXPLAINABILITY - Evaluating Transparency in interaction or personalization - Evaluating Explainability of the algorithms - Designing User Studies for evaluating transparency and explainability - Novel metrics and experimental protocols - OPEN ISSUES IN TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER MODELS AND PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS - Ethical issues (Fairness and Biases) in User Models and Personalized Systems - Privacy management of Personal and Social data - 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/my/conference?conf=acmumap2021# (select "Workshop-ExUM") 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-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… 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. ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Cataldo Musto - University of Bari, Italy Nava Tintarev - Maastricht University, The Netherlands Oana 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

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

by Noemi Mauro

*** Apologies for cross postings *** PATCH Workshop @ UMAP 2021 - CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- 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 - Conversational agents for CH - 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: 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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CFP: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics @ ACM GoodIT2021

by Chilean Scholar

Call For Papers: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021) The GoodIT conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCAS, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society. The conference focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. The Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics focuses on new data technologies based on artificial intelligence, data governance, machine learning, natural language processing, and social network analysis to aid experts in analyzing large volumes of social media data in order to detect fake news, misinformation, and disinformation. A number of open challenges need more investigation from the research community, such as recent trends in composing information disorder by combining false and real content, the mechanisms that drive fake content diffusion during pandemics, how to differentiate fake content from personal viewpoints, why people tend to believe fake content and make decisions based on it during pandemics, and what are the different motivations behind the dissemination of fake content. Fact-checking and claim verification are two important strategies that are worth incorporating in the automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. ************ Key Dates ************ Papers Submission Due: May 1, 2021 Authors Notifications: June 22, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: July 10, 2021 GoodIT 2021: September 09-11, 2021 ************ Important Links ************ Special Track Website: https://aitdmp.conceptechint.net Submission Link: https://goodit2021.hotcrp.com/ ************ Submission Guidelines ************ 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 No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. ACM has partnered with Overleaf, a free cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. The ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf platform is available to all ACM authors at: www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Special issues associated with the conference are being organized. ************ Topics ************ Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems in various topics related to rumors, fake news, misinformation, and disinformation during and after pandemics, are invited, with special emphasis on novel techniques and tools for automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. Topics include (but are not limited to): -AI approaches for the detection of online influence and manipulation -AI approaches to identify misinformation and disinformation campaigns -AI approaches for spotting misinformation and disinformation spreaders. -Social media mining for automated detection of misinformation propagation and disinformation circulation -AI approaches for automated identification and verification of claims -AI approaches for intention detection for misinformation and disinformation contents -AI approaches for credibility assessment of Social media sources -AI approaches for fake news curtailment, filtering and prevention. -AI approaches for analysis/detection of distributed and multi-platform misinformation and disinformation disseminations -AI approaches for predicting the Impact of misinformation and disinformation during pandemics -New datasets and evaluation methodologies to aid in automated detection and analysis of misinformation and disinformation content in social media channels **********The Conference Sponsored by********** Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society http://www.sigcas.org/

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Call for Scientific Video Documents - SLERD 2021 - 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *CALL FOR SCIENTIFIC VIDEO * ========================================================= *6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development - SLERD Reload** **Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic.* *June 24-25, 2021* /*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/ slerd2021.uniroma2.it <http://slerd2021.uniroma2.it/> ========================================================= Deadline for video submission: *April 30, 2021 call for scientific video contest <http://slerd2019.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/> * *========================================================= * ** Videos offer a dynamic way to communicate any kind of content and are used especially by young generations to share ideas, connect and discuss. Even in the academic sector, scientific video documents are an emerging way to communicate concepts and research results and might become in the near future an excellent alternative to scientific papers. With this call – which is targeting Ph. D students, graduate students (within 2 years after the graduation), students with research fellowships, master's degree students– we aim to explore this new scientific communication channel. Candidates are invited to submit a scientific video document (max. duration 3 mins.), where they are expected to elaborate on the notion of “smart learning ecosystem” in the context of their research (what's a smart learning ecosystem?) and present their contribution to the field (what are you doing to further develop the notion?). Videos should be creative and lively objects, similar to ‘elevator pitches’. Nonetheless, while answering to the above mentioned questions, you should keep your video a “scientific communication document”, thus following - as far as this is possible in 3 mins - a “scientific format” (for example stating your research questions, mentioning the methods, describing your results). IMPORTANT: If you need support and/or want to learn more about how to produce a scientific video document, we invite you to participate in one short free-of-charge workshop“HOW TO MAKE YOUR RESEARCH VISIBLE”. See thefull text of the call <http://slerd2019.uniroma2.it/scientific-video-contest/>, for more information about the workshop and how to register. A Jury will select a maximum of 6 videos as finalists for presentation at the conference during a dedicated session. Finalists will be invited to participate in the session and their contribution to the discussion will also be taken into consideration by the Jury for the final awarding. A maximum of 3 “BEST SCIENTIFIC VIDEO DOCUMENTS”will be awarded with a certificate issued by ASLERD, as well as with a prize as it follows: * 500 € for the 1st prize· * 300 € for the 2nd prize· * 300 € for the 3rd prize. The 3 best videos will be uploaded on the ASLERD website/YouTube channel. The Jury reserves the possibility to award special mentions. *Important dates:*Video submission: 30thApril, 2021Notification to candidates: 31stMay, 2021Participation by finalists in the live session at the conference and prize awarding: possibly 25thJune, 2021 (to be confirmed).** ========================================================= Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…> See ASLERD website for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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