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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): First Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

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*** First Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) (currently pending approval for the 2023 edition) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions that cover any topic related to BESC. Special Sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging open problems of relevance in applications on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing. Papers accepted in the Special Sessions will be included in the same conference volume with those accepted in the main track and will be candidates for being invited to the journal special issues that will be organised for BESC 2023. The proposals for organising Special Sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions Chairs by the indicated deadline. A proposal should be submitted in PDF, be no longer than 2 pages in length, and contain the following: (i) Title of the proposed Special Session. (ii) Names, affiliations and contact information of the proposers. (iii) Names and affiliations of the Program Committee of the proposed Special Session. (iv) Description of the proposed Special Session, including the covered topics and the rationale as to why it fits into the themes of BESC. (v) A dissemination plan of the CFP for the proposed Special Session that the proposers will undertake, if their proposal is accepted. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Special Session proposals: 10 April 2023 • Acceptance notification for Special Session proposals: 15 April 2023 • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au) • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com) Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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IS-EUD 2023: Workshop submission deadline extended - 15 March

by Davide Spano

*Update: the workshop submission deadline has been extended to the 15 of March* CfP below *= IS-EUD 2023 = * 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023) 6-8 June 2023, Cagliari, Italy https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/ Complete CfP: https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/cfp.html End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in technology development, to create their own technology to address their specific needs. These technologies might include mobile, web or software systems, IoT solutions, physical computing devices or machine learning systems. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices. *== Topics ==* The conference welcomes contributions that: • describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development • describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor technology artefacts • present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development • develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development *== Contributions ==* Submission website: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/IS-EUD2023 *=== Papers ===* • *Regular papers*, up to 16 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field • *Short papers*, up to 8 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2023, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) • Submission deadline: 1 March 2023 • Notification: 23 March 2023 • Camera-ready: 16 April 2023 *=== Workshop Proposals ===* Workshop proposals are invited (up to 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half-day or one-day long and will be held on June 6, 2023. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 15 March 2023 • Notification: 5 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 30 April 2023 *=== Demonstrations and Work in Progress ===* Demonstrations offer the chance to show EUD-related systems to the community. Submitted contributions should explain the system relevance and describe a plan for the activities during the conference. Work in progress submissions (up to 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Accepted demonstration and work in progress papers will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 30 March 2023 • Notification: 20 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 28 April 2023 *=== Doctoral Consortium ===* The IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Accepted doctoral consortium papers will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 30 March 2023 • Notification: 20 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 28 April 2023 -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Mile for Submission of Workshop Proposals

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*** Last Mile for Submission of Workshop Proposals *** 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 welcomes proposals for workshops to 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 broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. 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. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to interdisciplinary and translational research, continuum computing infrastructures, data science, sustainability, and education. eScience 2023 invites authors of workshop proposals to consider a diverse group of organizers, paper reviewers, and keynote speakers in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, and geographic areas. eScience 2023 accepts two types of workshop proposals: (1) workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and (2) workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings The proceedings of workshops with peer-reviewed papers will be included in the eScience 2023 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, if the following criteria are followed: • The solicitation for papers must be open. • All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. • The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for the expected number of submissions. • The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. • For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2023 to present the paper in person. Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a Program Committee and a paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym. • Workshop description, including its focus and goals (max. 500 words). • Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committee (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, geographic areas, etc.). • Expected number of submissions/accepted papers. • Prior history of this workshop, if any. Workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2023 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals for workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks only should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym • Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) • Names and affiliations of the organizers • Expected number of talks and their length • Tentative list of speakers and talk titles • Prior history of this workshop, if any KEY DATES • Workshop Submissions due: Friday, February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday, March 10, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: Friday, July 21, 2023 • Final list of talks / agenda for no-proceedings workshops: Friday, July 21, 2023 CONTACT INFORMATION Workshop Chairs (contact: workshops(a)escience-conference.org): • Iraklis Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece • Fred Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 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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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Last Mile for Paper Submission

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*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org *** Recipient of the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2023: Professor Enrique S. Quintana Ortí *** *** The Best Paper Award will be sponsored by Springer with €2,000 *** SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. The main audience of Euro-Par are researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par aims to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. VENUE AND ORGANIZATION Euro-Par 2023 will be held as a primarily in-person event (although remote presentation and participation will be supported, if needed). The venue place is the 5* St. Raphael Resort, in Limassol, Cyprus. Euro-Par 2023 is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. The General Chair is George A. Papadopoulos and the Program Chairs are Marios D. Dikaiakos and Rizos Sakellariou. The Organizing Committee is listed on the web site: https://2023.euro-par.org/conference/committees/ . SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Euro-Par 2023 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. • Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references and any appendices) • Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… • The submission process will be single-blind • Papers that don’t meet these requirements might be rejected without a review • Contributions submitted elsewhere or currently under review will not be considered • All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate; papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review • Paper submissions are made through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: March 3, 2023 (AoE) • Author Notification: April 30, 2023 • Camera-Ready Papers: June 2, 2023 • Author Registration: June 2, 2023 ARTEFACTS Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an artefact that will be evaluated separately. Accepted Artefacts will be considered for the Euro-Par 2023 Artefact Special Issue in the Journal of Open Source Software (https://joss.theoj.org). TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following list of tracks. More information on the tracks can be found on the conference web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/submission-of-papers/call-for-papers/ Track 1. Programming, Compilers and Performance Chairs: • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Track 2. Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows Chairs: • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy • Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Track 3. Architectures and Accelerators Chairs: • Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain • Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Track 4. Data Analytics, AI, and Computational Science Chairs: • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Track 5. Theory and Algorithms Chairs: • Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece Track 6. Multidisciplinary, Domain-specific and Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing Chairs: • Francisco F. Rivera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

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Call for papers - VL/HCC 2023 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

by Rebecca Krosnick

VL/HCC 2023 : IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2023 The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2023 symposium is scheduled to take place October 2-6 in Washington, DC, USA. VL/HCC 2023 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). **Call for Research Papers** SCOPE AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies for modeling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art. Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate those technologies and languages. This includes technologies intended for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or scientific domains). Empirical papers that validate current proposed solutions with rigorous scientific means (i.e., empirical studies, controlled experiments, rigorous case studies, etc.) are also welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visual languages: Novel visual languages, Design, evaluation, and theory of visual languages and applications, Development of systems for manipulating and interacting with diagrammatic representations - Human aspects and psychology of software development and language design, such as supporting inclusion and diversity in programming - End-user development: End-user development, adaptation and programming, Creation and evaluation of technologies and infrastructures for end-user development - Crowdsourcing design and development work - Representations: Novel representations and user interfaces for expressing computation, Software, algorithm and data visualization - Modeling: Model-driven development, Domain-specific languages, including modeling languages, Visual modeling of human behavior and socio-technical systems - Thinking more deeply about code: Computational thinking and Computer Science education, Debugging and program understanding, Explainable ML/AI If you are not sure if your paper is a good fit for VL/HCC, feel free to email the PC Co-chairs (see “Contact” below). We welcome those new to the VL/HCC community to submit! SPECIAL EMPHASIS FOR 2023: Low-Code / No-Code Development This year’s special topic is “Low-Code / No-Code Development”. This development paradigm enables the creation and deployment of fully functional applications using visual abstractions and interfaces and requiring little or no procedural code. This way, users are empowered to create software applications for constrained domains, even if they lack a programming background. This year, we especially welcome papers at VL/HCC that design, build, or evaluate any aspects of low-code and no-code solutions. PAPER SUBMISSIONS We invite two kinds of papers: - full-length research papers, up to 8 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements - short research papers, up to 4 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements Papers must be submitted using the IEEE two-column conference paper format. Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper format (which was updated in 2019), and to select the “US letter” template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2023). To facilitate the assigning of papers to reviewers, we require paper abstracts to be submitted via EasyChair at least 1 week prior to the paper submission deadline (see Important Dates below). The abstract must be kept up to date such that it matches exactly the abstract in the submitted paper. The abstract must be no longer than 250 words. All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete, self-contained, archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are more extensive than those from short papers. Note that some full paper submissions may be accepted as short papers if reviewers deem contributions to be comparable in size to a short paper. Work-in-progress, which has not yet yielded an archival contribution, should be submitted to the Posters/Showpieces category. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee in a double-blind review process. Authors will then receive the reviews for their submissions and will be able to answer them in a rebuttal phase. Only after this step the PC will make a final decision about the acceptance of the submissions. Submissions and reviews for the technical program are managed with EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for VL/HCC 2023 and present the paper at the conference. There will be a virtual presentation option in case of travel restrictions. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference. The proceedings of IEEE VL/HCC are published in digital form by the IEEE Computer Science Society and archived in the IEEE Digital Library with an official ISBN number. Accepted papers will be available to conference attendees via the IEEE Open Preview program in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING We follow a double-blind reviewing process. Both authors and reviewers are expected to make every effort to honor the double-blind reviewing process. In case of questions, please contact the Program Chairs. Authors should ensure that the submission can be evaluated without it being obvious who wrote the paper. This means leaving author names off the paper and using terms like “previous research” rather than “our previous research” when describing background. However, do not hide previous work – papers must still reference all relevant research using full (non-anonymized) citations, including the author’s own prior work, so that reviewers can evaluate novelty. Please reference your own prior work in the third-person just like you would do for any other related work (e.g., avoid “As described in our previous work [10], … ” and instead write something like “As described by [10], …”). It is also important that authors specify all conflicts of interest with potential reviewers during the submission phase. Reviewers should not undertake any investigation that might lead to the revealing of authors’ identity. If identities are inadvertently revealed, please contact the Program Chairs. The Program Chairs will check all submissions for obvious signs of lack of anonymity and may ask authors to make changes and resubmit the paper within three days of the submission deadline. Only changes to resolve anonymity issues will be permitted. EVALUATION AND JUSTIFICATION Papers are expected to support their claims with appropriate evidence. For example, a paper that claims to improve programmer productivity is expected to demonstrate improved productivity; a paper that claims to be easier to use should demonstrate increased ease of use. However, not all claims necessarily need to be supported with empirical evidence or studies with people. For example, a paper that claims to make something feasible that was clearly infeasible might substantiate its claim through the existence of a functioning prototype. Moreover, there are many alternatives to empirical evidence that may be appropriate for justifying claims, including analytical methods, formal arguments or case studies. Given this criterion, we encourage potential authors to think carefully about what claims their submission makes and what evidence would adequately support these claims. In addition, we expect short papers to have less comprehensive evaluation than long papers. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstracts only: April 21, 2023 - Submission deadline: April 28, 2023 - Rebuttal phase: June 5 - 9, 2023 - Notification: June 23, 2023 - Camera-ready: July 14, 2023 CONTACT PC Co-Chairs: - Philip Guo (University of California San Diego, United States) - Esther Guerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) - Contact email: vlhcc2023(a)googlegroups.com

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Last reminder: Special issue on "Hybrid Games and Interaction Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> February 20, 2023 (new hard deadline)* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Hybrid Games and Interaction Design* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) 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 <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call56> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Fotis Liarokapis, University of Technology, Cyprus • Micael Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Ana Patrícia Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *February**20*, *2023* *(extended)* • Notification to the authors: March 30, 2023 • Camera ready paper: April 15, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: first half of May, 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Board games gained significant momentum throughout the past two decades, with some of the best creations earning millions of dollars in funding platforms during 2021, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, digital games have surpassed all other media, from film to music, in investments and returns. Board and digital games are two forms of play which use the same base of design – the game design – so it was without surprise that a new hybrid approach, that mixed both media, would appear. Over the past five years, we have seen games with Augmented Reality, board games using smartphones as assisting tools, tablets being used as boards, or even games using real food–edible games. This combination of digital and physical components and strategies in games contributes to a new experience of play which enhances not only the player’s immersion and interaction, but also the contents, presentation, atmosphere, and control of the game. There are some questions emerging in this discussion, namely about the complementary relationship between physical and digital games: What are the borderlines between real and virtual dimensions in hybrid games? How can hybrid games provide a more participatory gaming experience while players become engaged with digital and physical components at the same time? Which model of interaction design of hybrid games best favors player experience, communication, and engagement? In this special issue, we want not only to present the current state-of-the-art of the hybrid games, as the possibilities beyond current days, making use of speculative approaches to design, as design fiction, but we want to dig deeper through the lenses of interaction design, in order to understand the new needs in the realm of technologies. Furthermore, we want to understand the full impacts and effects of this move on human interaction with game artifacts and consequently find out what should we expect from the discipline of interaction design while using ludic approaches in the next decade. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Gamification of the Learning Process' includes, but is not limited to: • Hybrid digital/physical games • Methods of hybrid game design • Design Fiction and Hybrid Interaction Design • Interaction design relation with game design • Play Hybridism • Hybrid systems; • Hybrid design models; • Hybrid game mechanics and patterns; • Hybrid storytelling models; • Hybrid Game interaction models; • Cognition and game design; • Aesthetics of Hybrid Digital/Physical Games; • Board games and Digital Games; • Hybrid-games design; • Hybrid game User Experience; • Players’ physical/digital behavior modelling; • NPC behavior and Physical Characters =========================================== /*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 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Hybrid Games and Interaction Design") 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: /Hybrid Games and Interaction Design/ • nzagalo [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------** * *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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N. 59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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[CFP] IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023 - Special Session “Extended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse - 1st Call for Papers

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the special session on “Extended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” (https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17) hosted by the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) that will be held on October 25-27, 2023 in Milan. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this special session. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://metroxraine.org/. We look forward to meeting you, virtually or in your presence, at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese, Ugo Erra and Luigi Gallo. ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) https://metroxraine.org/ October 25-27, 2023 - Milan, Italy. ==================================================================================== SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries between digital and physical worlds to realize the metaverse. According to tech companies and venture capitalists, the metaverse will be a super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the metaverse, virtual worlds will allow avatars to carry out all human endeavours, including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the metaverse will evolve how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, health services, cultural heritage, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world. The metaverse development will require new software architecture that will enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive, dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions. This special session aims to focus on exploring how the realization of the metaverse can transform certain application domains such us: (i) healthcare, in which the metaverse solutions can, for instance, improve the communication between patients and physicians; (ii) cultural heritage, with potentially more effective solutions for tourism guidance, site maintenance, and heritage object conservation; and (iii) industry, where to enable data-driven decision making, smart maintenance, and overall asset optimisation. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 TOPICS ---------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Hardware/Software Architectures for metaverse - Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for metaverse - Interoperability for metaverse - Tools to help creators to build the metaverse - Operations and Maintenance in metaverse - Data security and privacy mechanisms for metaverse - Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for metaverse - Fraud-Detection in metaverse - Cyber Security for metaverse - Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in metaverse - Blockchain/AI technologies in metaverse - Emerging Technologies and Applications for metaverse - New models to evaluate the impact of the metaverse - Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in metaverse - Human-Computer Interaction for metaverse - Human factors issues related to metaverse - Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2023. Final Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023. Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2023 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2023 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 - 2 pages) that clearly indicates the originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The Abstract should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the nature of the problem, a description of the contribution, the results achieved and their applicability. As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit a Graphical Abstract. For further information, please see here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper. The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf sample project can be found at: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online submission and review system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30746. To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the special session to which the paper is directed. The special session organizers and other external reviewers will review all submissions. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication; more information will be provided soon. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy giuseppe.caggianese@.cnr.it Ugo Erra University of Basilicata ugo.erra(a)unibas.it Luigi Gallo National Research Council of Italy luigi.gallo(a)cnr.it For any questions related to the special session, please feel free to contact us via email. Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Research Scientist National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it

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IxD&A Journal N. 53 - Meet the Authors Event: videos now available

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - a SCOPUS and Web of Science - Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal -* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 that implements also video presentations of the published contributions. SRJ 2021 = 0.353 (Q1: Architecture/Design; Q2: Social Science, Media Technology; Q3: Human Computer Interaction, Education) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Videos of the on-line event are now avilable* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Special issue N. 53 *on:* Gamification of the Learning Process */Davide Carneiro, Pilar Cáceres, Mariana Reimão Carvalho/ *Meet the authors * authors list <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=10&link=5…> Videos can be accessed from the IxD&A Journal website -> <https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052>https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-053 or from the IxD&A Youtube Channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> (play list issue 53: link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zjuip5yjxQ&list=PLe5rmM-FoE9GXnj9U0Sj7ACSg…>) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To keep updated join IxD&A Linkedin group -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Last Call for Special Track Proposals

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*** Last Call for Special Track Proposals *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2023 will host Special Tracks as part of its program. Special Tracks provide a space where ESOCC participants can discuss, e.g., topics relevant to Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing even if not explicitly mentioned in ESOCC’s topics of interest (cf. https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/call-for-papers/), early-stage research ideas and/or results, or demonstrate industry-ready tools and research prototypes. Special Tracks may be driven by research interests, needs from specific application domains, or aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from the area of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Proposals for special tracks should indicate the title of the Special Track, its aims and scope (150-300 words), the Special Track chair(s), and the tentative members of the track’s PC. Please email your proposals as a PDF file to the PC chairs of ESOCC 2023, Florian Rademacher (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) and Jacopo Soldani (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it). Special Tracks will be selected for ESOCC 2023 using a lightweight review process. IMPORTANT DATES • Special Track Proposal Submission: February 26th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: March 5th, 2023 (AoE) ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION Chairs of accepted Special Tracks can devise a Call for Papers for their track, which will be published on ESOCC 2023 website, together with the provided information on the track (title, aims and scope, PC). The Call for Papers for their track will then be disseminated alongside that of ESOCC, and submissions will be handled through the EasyChair of ESOCC, which will include a special track link. Papers accepted for Special Tracks will be included in the main conference proceedings of ESOCC 2023, published by Springer in the LNCS series. The best papers accepted in the Special Tracks will be eligible for consideration to be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. Special Track chairs, presenters, and participants will be required to register through the ESOCC 2023 registration page. In case of any questions related to the Special Tracks, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chairs. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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Last CFP for special issue on "Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children *Call for Papers -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call58> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) 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:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Sumita Sharma, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Eva Durall Gazulla, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Marianne Kinnula, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Nitin Sawhney, Aalto University/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *February 28th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: April 30th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: May 30th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: July 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) research is focused on cultivating, nurturing, and nudging children towards technology use and design. Recently, ethical aspects related to technology have come to the forefront, including the inherent limitations of technology, particularly related to Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML). Further, AI has a known diversity problem where age-inclusion can be sometimes forgotten. While various global and national policy frameworks on Children and AI are being developed, the approaches are child-centered but not child-led, restricting children from affecting their own digital futures. Further still, there is little discussion with children on the limitations, inherent biases, and lack of diversity in current design and development of AI/ML. As AI evolves to mimic human-like cognition, emotions, conversations, and decision-making, its impact on children and their futures should be critically examined for, with, and by children. Therefore, we invite researchers working on the various challenges and opportunities related to Children and AI/ ML to submit their work to this special issue. We welcome research that includes children as equal partners and empowers them to consider present and future challenges as experts of their own lives, with diverse interests, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We also welcome research and design work with (but not limited to) educators, families, children (as testers, co-designers, co-researchers, protagonists), and other stakeholders in a variety of contexts (schools, after-school clubs, out of school contexts, public spaces, rural, urban). ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Suggested topics include theories,models, frameworks, exploratory studies, case / user studies on (but not limited to): • Research on and with Children and AI/ML • AI Literacy for Al • Children’s rights and AI • Ethical AI for children • Participatory Design and Research with intelligent systems • Inclusion, diversity, and empowerment of under-represented children and communities. =========================================== /*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 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Age against the machine") 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: /IxD&A special issue on Age against the machine/ • firstname [dot] lastname [at] oulu [dot] fi for the guest editors from University of Oulu. • firstname [dot] lastname [at] aalto [dot] fi for the guest editor from Aalto University -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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