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IxD&A Journal N. 55: Meet the Authors Event

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A* *https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal - founded in 2005* *that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *On-line Event* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 55 *on:* Smart Learning Ecosystems: toward the polyphonic construction of a new normality */co-guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Patrizia Marti, Francesca Pozzi /and/ /*regular papers*/ / *Meet the authors * authors index <https://ixdea.org/55_authors_index/> on the /*10th of July - 15:30 CET*/ /(event coordination by: Liliana Vale Costa & Oscar Mealha)/ to attend the presentations, for free, please fill the reservation form -> link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxjQSENXkiJ_Z9Dnk3_Enl40TcSTv7O-T…> Articles are available for free downloading at -> https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-055 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin ->link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook ->link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel ->link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge to the authors / If you wish to help us in improving the quality of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C… ///// /////========================================================= IxD&A Privacy Policy <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=9&a=1> =========================================================

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[EICS 2024] First round CfP for the 16th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

by Carmen Santoro

Call for Papers for the First Submission Round of EICS 2024: The 16th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, June 24-28, 2024 - Cagliari, Italy https://eics.acm.org/2024/ Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACM EICS 2024 for Full Papers and Technical Notes: July 28, 2023 EICS 2024 is the sixteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment and maintenance. EICS has the the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering and computational interaction. EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming. Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Modeling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive systems * Model-based development of interactive software * Requirements engineering for interactive systems * Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing) * Software architectures for interactive systems * Formal methods within interactive systems engineering * Certification issues of methods, tools, and processes to create interactive systems * Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages and APIs for interactive systems * Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions * Integrating engineering issues in the design process of interactive systems * Engineering design tools * Engineering evaluation tools * Supporting design in interactive development processes * Computational-Interaction Systems and Techniques * Interactive data-driven systems * Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, AI, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities...) * Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems…) * Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities,…) * Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., health, home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, civil protection, law enforcement, emergency services and calamity management...) * Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …) * Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g. recommending, adaptive, intelligent) * Building Human-centred AI systems (integrating explainable AI, intelligible design, human-in-the-loop, adaptive and context-aware, interactive agents…) A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations. Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns. There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose. Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions The PACM-EICS deadline for the First Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes submissions is 28 July 2023. Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2024 Carmen Santoro and Anke Dittmar -- Questa email è stata esaminata alla ricerca di virus dal software antivirus AVG. www.avg.com

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 will host a number of workshops which will be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. eScience 2023 will host the following workshops: ● 1st Workshop on cItizeN Science engagemenT based on Ict soLutions (INSTIL 2023) http://www.instil-science.eu ● 3rd Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR 2023) https://error-workshop.org ● 3rd Workshop on Reproducible Workflows, Data Management, and Security (ReWorDS 2023) https://sites.google.com/vols.utk.edu/rewords23/home ● 4th Global Research Platform (4GRP) Workshop https://www.theglobalresearchplatform.net ● IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI4Health 2023) https://www.ai4health.icar.cnr.it ● Research Software Engineers in eScience: Sustainable RSE Ecosystems within eScience (RSE-eScience-2023) https://us-rse.org/rse-escience-2023/ KEY DATES ● Workshop papers submission deadline: Defined per workshop ● Notification of acceptance: Defined per workshop ● IEEE proceedings camera ready: July 21, 2023 ● Workshop days: October 9-10, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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First CFP: Special issue n. 60 on "Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer be updated since last 5 March 2023 onwards. //Note: *also the paper management system of the journal has migrated to* *https://ojs.ixdea.org/* <https://ojs.ixdea.org/> The old OJS istance has been discontinued since the 1st of July 2023 and cannot longer used to submit papers to IxD&A Journal. /========================================================= Special Issue on *Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children * Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/technologies-tools-and-techniques-for-online-design-based…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2007 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Naska Goagoses, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany • Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Namibia University of Technology, Namibia • Erkki Rötkönen, University of Turku, Finland • Tariq Zaman, ASSET, University of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *October 30th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: December 20th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: January 31st, 2024 • Publication of the special issue: May 2024 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- In this special issue, we are calling for contributions dealing with distributed online co-design with children and its wider field of design-based learning. We are looking for both theoretical and methodological reflections on the position of participatory design and co-design and empirical cases that advance design practices with children in online environments. A significant contribution of the volume will focus on facilitation tools and techniques connected to the contemporary challenges of distributed online design in formal settings (i.e. K-12) or informal settings with children. Effective techniques and tools for co-located environments (Antle et al., 2020, Zaman et al.,2022), which foster the genuine participation of children (Kinnula & Iivari, 2021), have been established over the years within the child-computer interaction community. However, technologies, tools, and techniques for distributed online co-design with children are only beginning to emerge, with much room for new developments and the need for adaptations. Co-design with children in online and hybrid environments, encountered constraints in the utilization of existing technologies and tools, and challenges when applying longstanding design facilitation techniques (Itenge et al., 2021; Rötkönen et al., 2021; Rötkönen et al., 2022, Winschiers-Theophilus et al., 2022,). Within online environments, new technological affordances and methods need to be explored, and established facilitation strategies and co-design methods need to be amended (Bertran et al., 2022; McVeigh-Schultz & Isbister, 2021; Walsh et al., 2015; Warren et al., 2022). The move to online environments offers a variety of challenges but also new opportunities (Fails et al. 2022), including the collaborative participation of children that are geographically distributed (Winschiers-Theophilus et al., 2022). Given the challenges, yet also the novel opportunities, a larger collection of theoretical and empirical work about online co-design with children and design-based learning is required. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- We invite researchers drawing upon design-based research approaches to share their theoretical, methodological, or practical perspectives. We welcome submissions that report on qualitative or quantitative studies, systematic reviews or scoping reviews, as well as theoretical and reflective pieces. The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue includes, but is not limited to: ● Geographically distributed participants ● Ethical considerations and implications ● Special educational needs ● Inclusion, diversity, and heterogeneity ● Social-emotional learning ● Intergenerational engagement and communication ● Facilitation tools and techniques ● Supportive technologies and platforms ● Formal and informal educational contexts ● Design-based learning in K-12 =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-30 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://ojs.ixdea.org/> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Online Design-Based Activities with Children") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /SI: Online Design-Based Activities with Children/ • naska [dot] goagoses [at] uni-oldenburg [dot] de • hwinschiers [at] nust [dot] na • rotkonenerkki [at] utu [dot] fi • tariqzaman [at] uts [dot] edu [dot] my -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • ‘Smart Learning Ecosystems as engines of the twin transitions’ Guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Oscar Mealha, Sirje Virkus • ‘AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age’ Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, Anders Mørch, Alessandro Pagano • ‘Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration’ Guest editors: Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer • ‘STEAM teaching and learning: advances beyond the state of the art’ Guest editors: Hector Cardona-Reyes, Carlos Alberto Lara-Álvarez, Miguel Angel Ortiz Esparza, Klinge Orlando Villalba-Condori ----------------------------------------------------------

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Call for Poster Submission

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Last Call for Poster Submission *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ (*** Submission Deadline: July 14, 2023, AoE ***) eScience 2023 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Its objective is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, algorithms, and tools, with a strong focus on practical solutions and open challenges. The conference welcomes conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures, including HPC, Cloud, and IoT. The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is “open eScience”. This year, the conference is promoting four additional key topics: • Computational Science for sustainable development • FAIR • Research Infrastructures for eScience • Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) The conference is soliciting contributions for Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations. Submitted poster papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 . All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission. AWARDS eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference. • Best Poster Award • Best Student Poster Award • Outstanding Early Career Contribution – this award is associated with poster submissions and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers and junior scientists). KEY DATES • Poster Submissions due: July 14, 2023 (AoE) • Poster Acceptance Notification: July 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: August 14, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: August 14, 2023 ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee Email contact: Technical-Program(a)eScience-conference.org

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CUI '23 Workshop CFP : "Is CUI Design Ready Yet? A Workshop on Community Practices and Gaps in CUI Design & Resource Development"

by Christine Murad

Are you passionate about design practices, methods, and tools for CUI design? Join us at CUI 2023 for our workshop: "Is CUI Design Ready Yet? A Workshop on Community Practices and Gaps in CUI Design & Resource Development" As CUIs become more prevalent in both academic research and the commercial market, it becomes more essential to design usable and adoptable CUIs. While research has been growing on the methods for designing CUIs for commercial use, there has been little discussion on overall community practice of developing design resources to aid in practical CUI design. The aim of this workshop therefore is to bring the CUI community together to discuss the current practices for developing tools and resources for practical CUI design, the adoption (or non-adoption) of these tools and resources, and how these resources are utilized in the training and education of new CUI designers entering the field. This workshop will bring together all parts of the CUI community to have meaningful discussions on how CUI design resources are currently developed, and how we can improve these resources and tools to aid in their adoption in practical CUI design, and CUI academic & industry design training. If you are interested in participating, we ask that you submit either a position paper by July 7th, 2023, or a statement of interest can be submitted at any time (there is no formal deadline for statements of interest). Please visit https://speech-interaction.org/cui2023_design_workshop/ for more information // ORGANIZERS // Christine Murad, University of Toronto Cosmin Munteanu, University of Waterloo Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin Leigh Clark, Bold Insight UK Martin Porcheron, Bold Insight UK Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham Heloisa Candello, IBM Research Raina Langevin, University of Washington /// KEY DATES /// Position Paper Deadline: July 7th, 2023 (11:59 PM AOE, email to Christine Murad) [Statements of Interest have no formal deadline] Acceptance Notifications: On a Rolling Basis Camera Ready for Position Papers: July 12th, 2023, (11:59 PM AOE) Workshop date: July 19th, 2023 (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM) We hope to see you there! Best Regards, Christine Murad ———————————— PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science University of Toronto http://cs.toronto.edu/~cmurad

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CFP: CUI 2023 Workshop on Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults

by Sayan Sarcar

Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults A workshop to held at the ACM SIGCHI CUI 2023 conference (Conversational User Interfaces) Call for Submissions and for Participation This multidisciplinary workshop aims to tackle the significant gaps in theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and exploration of new paradigms within the research and design of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) for Older Adults (OAs). We also aim to build research capacity by bringing together researchers and practitioners across several disciplines and industries who are actively working or having an interest toward understanding older adults’ use of and need for CUIs. We invite researchers from various fields to present their work on and collectively engage in synthesizing and collating findings from different disciplines, and to discuss barriers and approaches to designing CUIs that are usable, adoptable, personally, and culturally relevant to OAs. Given the nascent phase of this community, and our goal of encouraging a grassroots approach to defining this space, we welcome position papers, short research papers, or short expressions of interest relevant to the broad space of designing CUIs for OAs. There is no format for the expression of interest - those wishing to participate in the workshop without a submitted paper should simply contact the organizers via email indicating through a short paragraph their prior experience and/or interest as relevant to the workshop, alongside their professional website or scholar page. For those interested in submitting a formal paper, we welcome short papers describing e.g. a research study, a novel system, a new theoretical contribution, or position papers that highlight new or ongoing challenges in the field. Submitted papers will be lightly reviewed by the organizing committee within 10 days of submission (there is no formal deadline). Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website. We recommend papers to be no more than 4 pages long, following the CHI Extended Abstract format). Submissions, expressions of interest, and any other queries related to the workshop should be sent to: cui-oa2023(a)cs.toronto.edu Submissions will be reviewed according to the fit with the workshop topic and potential to contribute to the workshop goals. Alternate submission arrangements may be possible (such as the showcasing of papers previously accepted at other conferences). Workshop URL: http://speech-interaction.org/CUI-OA2023 -- Best Regards, Workshop Organizing Team

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PhD fellowship available at the Human Interfaces in Information Systems Laboratory, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy

by Fabio Paternò

We are looking for candidates for one three-year PhD scholarship that will be carried out at the at the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) Laboratory at CNR-ISTI (http://hiis.isti.cnr.it/), Pisa, Italy. The fellowship is associated with the PhD school at the Computer Science department of the University of Pisa (https://dottorato.di.unipi.it/) in the Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction area. The specific PhD topic will be defined taking into account the background and the interests of the candidate. The HIIS Laboratory is a creative and multi-disciplinary interactive technologies research laboratory, with deep and extensive research collaborations, at the national and international levels, industrial partners, and a supportive and inclusive working environment. Pisa is a lively small town located in Tuscany, near the coast, with an international airport, characterised by the presence of a rich research ecosystem (three Universities and many research centres) very active in the ICT area. We are therefore looking for deserving candidates. It is useful to have some programming knowledge, interest and passion for the considered topics, and to carry out research activities. The application procedure will be soon available. The deadline will be at the end of July. Applicants must have earned a master degree by the end of October 2023. For further information any interested potential candidate can contact fabio.paterno at isti.cnr.it

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PhD position AI for educational technologies at University of Trento

by Massimo Zancanaro

One fully-funded PhD position granted by Fondazione Bruno Kessler is available for the PhD Programme in "Cognitive Science" at the University of Trento on the topic of Artificial Intelligence for education. The aim of this Ph.D project is to explore innovative, technology-based approaches to facilitate playful education for inclusive, collaborative and student-centered learning environments. The project aims to develop semi-automatic and adaptive educational paths, as well as personalized support systems that benefit both educators and learners. This will involve utilizing various technologies and methods, such as end-user programming or multimodal, competence-based learning, to co-create learning activities that consider specific needs and preferences. The ideal candidate will have a background in Computer Science, Psychology or Cognitive Science, with knowledge of data science, artificial intelligence, and educational theories. Experience in designing interactive digital technologies, conducting experimental and in-the-wild studies, and promoting inclusive, collaborative learning environments would be advantageous and should be gained during the Ph.D training. For more information on the scholarship: https://www.unitn.it/drsc/en/182/topic-specific-scholarships For applying: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1941/announcement-of-selection ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Massimo Zancanaro Professor of Computer Science/Human-Computer Interaction, University of Trento Head of Intelligent Interfaces and Interaction (i3) research unit, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Linkdin: https://it.linkedin.com/in/massimozancanaro Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=oH1ScJkAAAAJ Twitter: @MaxZancanaro Telegram: @MassimoZancanaro -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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First CFP: Special issue n. 59 on "Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engines of Twin Transitions" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website is no longer be updated since last 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Smart Learning Ecosystems as engines of the twin transitions *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/smart-learning-ecosystems-as-engines-of-twins-transitions/> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest • Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, Estonia =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *October 15th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: December 15th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: January 15th, 2024 • Publication of the special issue: March 2024 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- The development of Smart Learning Ecosystems is of strategic relevance for all the territorial ambits on which they insist, either because they can act as a bulwark against degradation in the most critical areas, or because they can contribute to increasing the well-being of students and their communities of reference; moreover, they can also act as a driver for sustainable development of the territories. The achievement of an adequate level of smartness in the learning ecosystems is, however, a process that needs a long-term vision, multidisciplinary competencies, an attitude to understand people and contexts and to mediate points of view, a dynamic approach to resilience to keep on track and achieve, step-by-step, the foreseen goals: in short, an attitude to design and implement sustainable projects and processes aimed at achieving a people-centered smart environments and education. Climate change, pandemics, wars (more or less uncovered), and the energy and food crises triggered by them, all point towards the need to change our lifestyles and make them fully sustainable. The SDGs [1] and the cultural and technological transitions they foster – such as the green transition – therefore become new challenges with which smart learning ecosystems and communities must measure themselves to support the education of competent and responsible future citizens. Citizens whose future behaviour implies the entrenchment of a sense of membership [2] and the development of meta-design competencies [3]-, i.e., the competence of knowing how to explore and manage, the ambiguity and uncertainty that changes will bring. Within such an evolving scenario, we also have to face the amplifying power of digital technologies, which – as discussed in the UNESCO document “The futures of education for participation in 2050” [4] – could contribute, through educational processes, to the development of a fairer and more equitable society and, at the same time, to more careful use of resources; but, on the other hand, if not adequately utilized, they could also lead to deepening the existing gaps. Thus, we have to face a parallel digital transition that raises many questions about its impact on humans and the environment, including its energy sustainability. The digital transition – which complements the other cultural transitions induced by SDGs (giving rise to multiple twin transitions) – thus, left us with complex questions about when, how, and why to use digital technologies in and for learning, that can be approached through multiple perspectives and angles. How can they contribute sustainably, to transform education, support cultural transitions, reduce inequalities, and at the same time, empower individuals according to their needs, expectations, and talents? 1. https://en.unesco.org/sustainabledevelopmentgoals 2. Haste H., Chopra V., “The futures of education for participation in 2050: educating for managing uncertainly and ambiguity”, 2020, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374441 3. Giovannella C. “Is complexity tameable? Toward a design for the experience in a complex world” IxD&A Journal, N. 15, 2012, pp. 18-30, https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-015-002 4. Futures of Education. A new Social Contract for Education. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379707 ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- General topics of interest acting as background and frame for the twin transitions can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place- centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. All can be related to studies that develop on a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world, namely nurtured by the pertinence of smart learning ecosystems as engines of the twin transitions, like the green and digital one. *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 in the learning process * role of games and gamification case studies 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 advancement * competence based learning, evaluation and certification * design, data and other relevant literacies * literacies, skills and competences of future citizens * communities and co-design in smart learning ecosystems sharing & participatory practices * open access to any resources and disparity * cultural influences *Supportive technologies and tools for smart education* * AI for smart learning ecosystems: Ethical aspects, tools and H-AI interaction * knowledge graphsx and applications * text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis * intelligent tutoring systems * 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 =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. 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For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engines of Twins Transitions/ • mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro • oem [at] ua [dot] pt • sirje [dot] virkus [at] tlu [dot] ee -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • ‘Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children’ Guest editors: Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Erkki Rötkönen, Tariq Zaman • ‘Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration’ Guest editors: Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer ----------------------------------------------------------

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