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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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I: Equity Talks #1: On Being Global

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, Porto all’attenzione di tutti una iniziativa promossa dal SIGCHI Executive Committee: una serie di panel che affronteranno questioni diverse relative alla comunità del SIGCHI. Trovate sotto maggiori dettagli sugli argomenti che saranno affrontati e le informazioni per partecipare. Il primo panel si svolgerà questo lunedì, 8 Marzo. Luigi De Russis sarà uno dei panelists! Cari saluti, Maristella From: "Kumar, Neha" <neha.kumar(a)GATECH.EDU<mailto:neha.kumar@GATECH.EDU>> Subject: SIGCHI Equity Talks, starting March 8th! Date: 1 March 2021 at 23:09:37 CET To: SIGCHI-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG<mailto:SIGCHI-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> Reply-To: "Kumar, Neha" <neha.kumar(a)GATECH.EDU<mailto:neha.kumar@GATECH.EDU>> Dear SIGCHI members, In coming weeks, we'll be hosting a series of Equity Talks. You can find the details in our living blog post<https://nehakumar.medium.com/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477>. You are all invited to join in, ask questions, to listen, and to share. These are roundtable sessions that will be recorded, captioned, summarized, and uploaded onto SIGCHI's YouTube channel. We trust that they will help in better understanding our community, leading to more equitable futures for SIGCHI overall. The upcoming three (of more) sessions are as follows: ET#1: Being Global (Zoom<https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/91783833909?pwd=c09YdlFrRk4vcjNGeEZoRmRDR05ZQT09>/Sli.do<https://app.sli.do/event/bpnebm84>) March 8th at 11.30am EST | 4.30pm GMT | 10pm IST March 9th at 1.30am JST ET#2: Making SIGCHI Accessible March 18th at 12pm EDT | 4pm GMT | 9.30pm IST March 19th at 1am JST ET#3: Reviewing & Mentorship March 31st at 4.30pm EDT | 8.30pm GMT April 1st at 2am IST | 5.30am JST Check our blog post<https://nehakumar.medium.com/equity-talks-sigchi-7b38b8e3477> for more information/updates! Those of you who would call in if not for inconvenient times, please accept our apologies in advance. Looking forward! Neha Kumar & Shaowen Bardzell (VPs at Large) Adriana S. Vivacqua & Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (ACs for Equity) Stacy Branham & Soraia Prietch (ACs for Accessibility) Theresa Tanenbaum (VP Publications) On behalf of the SIGCHI Executive Committee

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The online ECSCW 2021 workshop on “Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services” on June 8, 2021

by Anton Fedosov

Dear colleagues, We are happy to open the call for papers in our workshop on transferable UX at the upcoming ECSCW’21. We hope that you can consider participating. 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 9, 2021 by emailing it to transferable-ux(a)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, or the like. KEY DATES Submission deadline: April 9, 2021, AoE Notification: April 30, 2021 Workshop: June 8, 2021 ATTENDANCE The workshop organizers will arrange a virtual program for up to twenty participants. Participation in the workshop will be free of charge for conference attendees. 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 Best regards, Anton Fedosov, Ph.D. People and Computing Lab (ZPAC) antonf(a)ifi.uzh.ch<mailto:antonf@ifi.uzh.ch> antonfedosov.com<https://antonfedosov.com/> University of Zurich Department of Informatics Binzmühlestrasse 14 CH-8050 Zürich Switzerland

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Call for papers: VR-ISLAND WORKSHOP, CHitaly 2021

by Giulia Staggini

To whom it may concern: I am Giulia Staggini, an Italian PhD student at the University of Genoa and, together with my colleague Rita Cersosimo, I outlined a Workshop "VR-Island" that has been selected for CHitaly 2021, a computer-human interaction conference. Our Workshop is about the application of immersive reality input (both AR and VR) to language teaching with a special focus on special educational needs, students with dyslexia, students in special contexts (e.g: migrants, prisoners, people with chronic deseases...). Interdisciplinary papers with various approaches and perspectives are welcome. If you're interested in participating, I invite you to submit your abstract. You can find any detail, clicking here: https://easychair.org/cfp/VRISLAND1-VirtualRealitySpecialLanguageNeeds?remi… If you need more info, please contact me. Thank you in advance for your attention. Best regards, Giulia Staggini

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Gregorio Convertino

by Fabio Paternò

Care/i, è con tristezza che vi segnalo la morte di Gregorio Convertino , persona italiana molto attiva nel settore HCI, che poi ha fatto molte esperienze all'estero, era UX Research Manager a Google nella Bay area https://www.gregorioconvertino.com/ Fabio

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Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021

by Cristina Gena

++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++ ****************************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021, (on-line) Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 21-25, 2021 Website: https://caesar2021.di.unito.it/index.html <https://caesar2020.di.unito.it/index.html> ****************************************************************************************** The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. ++Topics++ Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to): - Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - User modeling in social HRI - Adaptation strategies for social HRI - Affective interaction with robots - Machine learning for social robots - Natural Language Interaction with social robots - Emotion detection in social HRI - Social Assistive Robots - Social Robots in Education - Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments - Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems - Social Robots in the real world - User-centered Design in social HRI - Behavior Transparency for Social Robot - Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots ++Submissions++ Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-cAESAR": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021> Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG CHI proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (the paper format, not the extended abstract format). An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 26, 2021 (23:59 AoE time) Notification to authors: April 19, 2021 Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 07, 2021 ++ Organizing committee ++ Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, berardina.decarolis(a)uniba.it <mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it> Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena(a)di.unito.it <mailto:cgena@di.unito.it> Antonio Lieto, University of Torino, Italy, lieto(a)di.unito.it <mailto:lieto@di.unito.it> Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, silvia.rossi(a)unina.it <mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it> Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, alessandra.sciutti(a)iit.it <mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it> ***************************************** Cristina Gena, PhD Associate professor - Computer Science Department Head of the Smart HCI Lab@ICxT Innovation Center Università di Torino Via Pessinetto 12, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706827 web: www.di.unito.it/~cgena/ Webex: https://unito.webex.com/meet/cristina.gena Skype: cristinagena *****************************************

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MIXR - 1st International Workshop on Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality

by Maurizio Mancini

[apologies for cross-posting] MIXR - 1st International Workshop on Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality Hosted @CHItaly 2021 (14th Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter) July 12th, 2021 (morning) Website: https://mixr-chitaly2021.github.io XR, or eXtended Reality, is an umbrella term that encompasses the areas of AR, VR, and MR, with strong emphasis on immersiveness, multimodality and presence. XR is a multidisciplinary field incorporating subjects such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, and digital humanities. Within XR, collaborative environments is one of the fastest growing areas, as can be seen by the number of social VR worlds available today. Most of these environments focus on the graphical aspects of the environment, not fully taking advantage of multimodal and multi-party design. Interaction in these environments is largely limited to text chats and, in the case of a few systems, voice interaction. Deeper and more meaningful engagement and interaction in XR can be achieved by leveraging the principles of Social Signal Processing (SSP) and Affective Computing (AC). Due to the simultaneous one-to-one and one-to-many interactions that establish and evolve over time, Multi-party (group) Interaction in XR is a complex process, whose analysis is still an open challenge in SSP/AC. Nowadays, the need for exploring Multi-party Interaction in XR settings is expanding, as people are increasingly meeting remotely through teleconferencing tools for practical reasons (e.g., working and living abroad) or, for example, as a result of the social restrictions related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. MIXR seeks to progress research on Multi-party Interaction in XR by pursuing the following objectives: - to investigate how social science theories and models of Multi-party Interaction can be applied in or possibly adapted to XR scenarios - to develop techniques for collecting multimodal data of Multi-party Interaction - to promote interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration between scholars in Computer Science and Social Sciences on XR, Social Signal Processing, Affective Computing, Multi-party Interaction Topics We invite participants to submit short (6 pages) papers that focus on Multi-party Interaction in XR. Topics of interest include Multi-Party (team/group) Interaction in XR, covering the following research areas: - Emotion recognition and expression - Movement expressivity - Team emergent states and dynamics - Joint activity/collaboration - Immersive CSCW - Education and creativity - Serious games - Multimodality - Interaction fidelity - Theoretical models - System/interface ergonomics - Novel technologies Submissions/Proceedings Short papers (6 pages) can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mixr21# Authors should use the 1 column CEUR-ART style: - The style is available from: Vol-XXX - An Overleaf page is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt - The offline version with the style files is at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip Accepted papers will be published on the free open-access repository CEUR-WS, which is indexed on SCOPUS. Important dates April 23, 2021 - Submission deadline May 14, 2021 - Notifications to contributors May 24, 2021 - Camera-ready/final version deadline July 12, 2021 - Workshops (All deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) Organizing Committee Maurizio Mancini (University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy) Giovanna Varni (LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris, France) David Murphy (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland) Fabio Pellacini (University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy) Laura Maye (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland) Patrick O’Toole (University College Cork (UCC), Ireland)

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Hybrid International CHItaly 2021: 1st 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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1st Call for papers PATCH@UMAP 2021

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 and in Utrecht, The Netherlands. https://patch2021.di.unito.it/ Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 will be again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH) research and personalization research. For those using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art of mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - 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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[CHItaly 2021] Last Call for Long and Short Research Papers / 11–13 July 2021 / Bolzano, Italy

by Gennari Rosella

** Apologies for cross-posting/please share ** ================================================ CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI The Hybrid International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI LAST CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS Deadline (strict): Feb 28th 2021 ================================================ THEME ================================================ The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it<https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/>) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. To reach its aims, the conference 1. solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 2. opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. ================================================ RESEARCH PAPERS AND TOPICS ================================================ The research track of the conference will be hybrid, blending digital and physical frontiers. Contributions to the research track are in the form of either long or short research papers. Long papers present original and substantially new research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and at the frontiers of HCI. They clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures or technical aspects are presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results are communicated according to scholarly standards, and implications of the contributions/findings for HCI have to be explicitly discussed. Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance for HCI rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, or research studies. Examples of contributions might include but are not limited to: early-stage frontier research, techniques, technologies or prototypes with or without an in-depth evaluation; a self-contained innovative qualitative study for HCI; the design of novel systems, services or demos for hands-on interaction. Both types of papers are archival publications of original research in the field of HCI, and related to the conference theme and topics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones, divided into traditional topics for HCI and frontier topics, at the intersection with other fields, for the advancement of HCI. Traditional HCI: Theories, Methods, Studies • HCI theories • HCI design and evaluation methods • HCI studies • Interaction processes and models • Collaborative and social computing and HCI • Affective computing and HCI • Accessibility and inclusive HCI Arts, Humanities, Education, Society and HCI • Design & arts and HCI • Humanities and HCI • Cultures, culture production and HCI • Education and HCI • Technology enhanced learning and HCI • Learning analytics and HCI • Values, ethics and HCI • Society and HCI Physical, Digital or Hybrid HCI • Game and gamification-based solutions and HCI • Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and HCI • Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and HCI • Internet of Things (IoT) and HCI • Physical computing, making or digital fabrication and HCI • Cyber-physical systems, embedded systems and HCI • Tangible design, industrial design or product design and HCI • Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing and HCI • Human-robot interaction and HCI • Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and HCI Artificial Intelligence and HCI • AI theories, technologies or tools and HCI • Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and HCI • Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and HCI • Formal methods and HCI • Data analysis, modelling or visualisation and HCI • Business processes and HCI including process analysis, modelling and visualisation • Natural language processing and HCI • Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and HCI ================================================ FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ================================================ For specifications please refer to https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html ================================================ PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS ================================================ Accepted manuscripts will be invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), published in the ACM Digital Library, which is Scopus indexed. Therefore, authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version in a suitable ACM format for proceedings before the conference. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon submission of the revised manuscript and registration of at least one presenter within the recommended deadlines. After the conference, authors of accepted top-quality papers will be invited, through an open call, to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues in highly ranked international journals. ================================================ IMPORTANT DATES ================================================ February 28, 2021 - Submission deadline April 16, 2021 - Notification to authors May 3, 2021 - Camera ready version July 11th-13th, 2021 - Conference (Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET) ================================================ LONG PAPER CHAIRS ================================================ Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it<mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it>) Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico(a)di.uniroma1.it<mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it>) ================================================ SHORT PAPER CHAIRS ================================================ Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unibz.it<mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it>) Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena(a)unito.it<mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it>) ================================================ CHITALY 2021 TRACKS ================================================= This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for long and short research papers: • workshops, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/workshops.html • interactive experience, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html • doctoral consortium, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/dc.html • industry event, https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/industry_event.html

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