3rd International Workshop on Evidence Based and User Centred Technology Enhanced Learning (ebuTEL'13)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

3rd International Workshop on Evidence Based and User Centred Technology Enhanced Learning (ebuTEL'13)

co-located with the CHItaly 2013 Conference                    

http://ebutel.usal.es

16th September, 2013

Trento, Italy

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:  July 26th, 2013
Acceptance notification:  August 23rd, 2013
Final version submission:  September 9th, 2013
Conference dates:  September 16th, 2013

SCOPE

The design of accessible, usable and pedagogically effective Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) products requires solid empirical evidence and the involvement of real users. This workshop seeks contributions that describe how empirical evidence or the involvement of real users in the design process allow TEL researchers to produce accessible, usable and pedagogically effective TEL products.

The workshop will build on the experience matured within the evidence based TEL workshops (ebTEL), see <http://ebtel.usal.es/>. The ebuTEL workshop welcomes papers that describe TEL work the efficacy of which rests on empirical evidence, as well as contributions that report on TEL solutions designed with and for specific types of users, e.g., users with special needs. ebuTEL also welcomes contributions to TEL from contiguous research areas like smart cities, cognitive systems and robotics, technologies for digital content and languages, inclusion and governance, creativity and learning. Expected participants are TEL researchers and practitioners alike. 

The meeting will be held in Trento (Italy) on September 16th 2013, in parallel with the CHItaly 2013 Conference.

TOPICS AND KEYWORDS
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

-Evidence and user based personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL;

-Evidence and user based games and game learning for TEL;

-Knowledge representation and reasoning for TEL;

-Knowledge management for TEL;

-Semantic web for TEL;

-Web 2.0 and social learning environments for TEL;

-Natural language processing for TEL;

-Effective teaching techniques and strategies for TEL;

-TEL case studies;

-Evaluation guidelines, methodologies and methods for TEL;

-Usability guidelines, methodologies and methods for TEL;

-Accessibility guidelines, methodologies and methods for TEL;

-TEL for users with special needs;

-Sharing and interoperability between TEL systems;

- Smart TEL environments.

EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS
The ebuTEL workshop invites contributions in the area of TEL, both from computer science as well as evidence-based medicine, educational psychology and pedagogy. Researchers from these areas and education stakeholders are all expected contributors or participants. The organising committee will particularly encourage the participation of stakeholders and researchers in the educational or TEL field so as to foster the sharing of best practices in the field, and disseminate the research progress in the educational context.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
We invite the submission of papers (max. 8 pages in Springer format) reporting original research, not previously published, relevant to the workshop's themes.
All submissions will be carefully reviewed by an international program committee. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.

As a reference, the proceedings of the ebTEL editions are available via Springer at <http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-28800-5>.

PRESENTATION AND POST-PROCEEDING PUBLICATION
All the accepted papers will be presented during the workshop. At least one of the authors will be required to register for the workshop and to present the paper therein for being eligible for a publication in the workshop post-proceedings for the Springer in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AISC) series.

After the workshop, the ebuTEL participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for the AISC post-proceeding. 

 STEERING COMMITTEE
- Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)

- Tania Di Mascio - University of l'Aquila (Italy)

- Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
- Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of l'Aquila (Italy)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be extended)
- Mohammad Alrifai - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
- Anthony Baldry - University of Messina (Italy)
- Ulrike Cress - University of Tübingen (Germany)
- Giovanni De Gasperis - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
- Juan Francisco De Paz - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Dina Di Giacomo - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
- Gabriella Dodero - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
- Peter Dolog - Aalborg University (Denmark)
- Erik Duval - Katholike Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
- Wild Fridolin - Open University of the UK (UK)
- Ana Belén Gil - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Oscar Gil - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Eelco Herder - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
- Ralf Klamma - RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
- Ralf Krestel - University of California (Irvine - USA)
- Katherine Maillet - Telecom Ecole de Management (France)
- Wolfgang Nejdl - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
- Stefano Necozione - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
- Emanuele Pianta - FBK-irst (Italy)
- Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania)
- Sara Rodríguez - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Mario Rotta - Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
- Maria Grazia Sindoni - University of Messina (Italy)
- Marcus Specht - Open University of the Netherlands (Netherlands)
- Sara Tonelli - FBK-irst (Italy)
- Carolina Zato - University of Salamanca (Spain)

CONTACTS
Tania Di Mascio and Fernando de la Prieta Pintado
Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L'Aquila

Department of Computers and Automation, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca
ebutel@usal.es

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ebuTEL has been launched under the collaborative frame provided by the TERENCE project (http://www.terenceproject.eu/). The TERENCE project, n. 257410, is funded by the European Commission through the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, Strategic Objective ICT- 2009.4.2: ICT: Technology-enhanced learning.