The8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014)

THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-14)

SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

* Abstracts Due: January 15, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST)

* Full Papers Due: January 22, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST)

* Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2014

* Conference: June 1-4, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.

ICWSM, now in its eighth year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a competitive acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 

For ICWSM-14, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-14 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference.

SUMMARY SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures and references. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Poster and demo paper format: Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must be 4 pages long, including figures and references. Demo paper submissions to ICWSM must be 2 pages long, including figures and references. All papers must be follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized.

Social science track with only abstracts in the proceedings: We will be continuing the “social science” track at ICWSM-14 following its successful debut in 2013. This option is for researchers in social science who wish to submit full papers without publication in the conference proceedings. While papers in this track will not be published, we expect these submissions to describe the same high-quality and complete work as the main track submissions. Papers accepted to this track will be full presentations integrated with the conference, but they will be published only as abstracts in the conference proceedings.

DISCIPLINES

* Computational approaches to social media research including

   * Natural language processing

   * Text / data mining

   * Machine learning

   * Image / multimedia processing

   * Graphics and visualization

   * Distributed computing

   * Graph theory and graphical models

   * Human-computer interaction

* Social science approaches to social media research including

   * Psychology

   * Sociology and social network analysis

   * Communication

   * Political science

   * Economics

   * Anthropology

   * Media studies and journalism 

* Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies

TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA include

* Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares)

* Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn)

* Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr)

* Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia)

* Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post) 

* Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups

* Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram)

* Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers)

* User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com)

* Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest)

* Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare)

TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)

* Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media

* Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media

* Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media

* Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors

* Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs 

* Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery

* Collaborative filtering

* Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

* Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization

* Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior

* Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification

* Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting

* Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health

* New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques

* Social innovation and effecting change through social media

* Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior

* Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media

* Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

http://icwsm.org/2014/

General Co-Chairs

Eytan Adar, University of Michigan

Paul Resnick, University of Michigan

PROGRAM Co-Chairs

Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research

Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute

Alice Oh, KAIST

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14th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2014)

ICWE 2014 

14th International Conference on Web Engineering

"Engineering the Web for users, developers and the crowd"

Toulouse, France | July 1-4 2014 - http://icwe2014.webengineering.org/

(call for research papers, industrial papers and late breaking results)

ICWE 2014 AT A GLANCE
ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications and in the problems of its associated technologies, as well as the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The 14th edition of ICWE is centered around the theme of “Engineering the Web for users, developers and the crowd”, hereby highlighting the importance of all the different people that, somehow, participate in the development process of interactive Web applications and, ultimately, becomes the actors and the main users of the best practices and results of the research performed in the domain of the Web Engineering. ICWE 2014 is innovating with the introduction of six major research tracks: cross-media and mobile applications, HCI and the Web, modelling and engineering web applications, quality aspects of Web applications, social web applications, and Web applications composition and mashups. In addition to the six research tracks, ICWE 2014 also welcomes contributions as demos and posters, student papers to the PhD Symposium, tutorials and workshops, which will be subject of individual calls for papers. The conference will be held at Toulouse, France Toulouse which is the 3rd university city of France and it hosts one of the oldest in Europe (founded in 1229). Further information on the web site http://icwe2014.webengineering.org/.

SUBMISSIONS TO THE RESEARCH TRACKS
This call is concerned by research and industrial contributions in one of the following categories:
* Full research papers: mature, original research contribution ideally accompanied with some type of formal/empirical validation, evidence of use in practice and/or demonstration of scalability (18 pages)
* Industrial papers: description of commercial solutions that are highly innovative, discuss trends in the market and/or challenge the community to find solutions to new problems (18 pages)
* Late breaking results: description of preliminary results and/or ongoing efforts that present new ideas and concepts. (10 pages)
Obs.:  Accepted contributions will be included into the ICWE 2014 Springer LNCS proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract submission: February 14, 2014 (23h59 Hawaii Time)
* Full paper submission: February 18, 2014 (23h59 Hawaii Time)
* Paper notification: March 28, 2014

ICWE 2014 RESEARCH TRACKS (further details at http://icwe2014.webengineering.org/main-tracks/)

* Cross-media and mobile Web applications
The modern Web use is nomadic and across various devices - often simultaneously - and the Web experience should be enjoyable, of high quality and consistent across all devices, regardless of the purpose, place and time of use. Such mobile, cross-device usage forces Web developers to evolve or re-invent their engineering methods and techniques to these new requirements and user demands. Web applications have to be tailored to deal with the constraints imposed by mobile technology such as small screens, low (and sometimes expensive) bandwidth, limited browser capabilities, different usage situations, cross- and multi-device use. Simultaneously, modern mobile devices offer a rich set of sensors, available through current Web browsers, allowing Web pages access to geo-location, NFC, and other sensor data, as well as tracking user identity across devices. Also, he rise of the app as an alternative for Web sites is a concern to be addressed to ensure a future, open Web.

* HCI and the Web
Most Web applications are conceived as interactive systems that aim at communicating with users. Users do not only consume information via the Web, but can also play an active role by contributing content (e.g., Web 2.0), get involved in the development process of Web applications (e.g., agile and user-centered design processes) and even conceive their own components by interacting with specialized tools (e.g., end-user development tools). In this context, there are many user roles involved in the socio-technical environment encompassing the development of Web applications. This track is devoted to the studies on user interface software and technologies that improve the relationship between users and Web applications. We welcome research focused on improving usability, accessibility, and user experience with Web applications, as well as user-centered design approaches that describe how Web technology and innovative design solutions can help users to better accomplish their tasks over the Web.

* Modeling and Engineering Web applications
The Modeling and Engineering Web applications track concerns principles, methods, notations, processes, approaches, and tools for supporting the development and evolution of high-quality Web applications in a more effective and efficient way. Model-driven approaches are of particular interest for addressing complexity, scalability, and maintainability of solutions for the development of Web applications, improving communication among participants of the development teams, and supporting the development of innovative tools and process. Furthermore, empirical and comparative studies of applying Web engineering methods and approaches, especially model-driven ones, are of particular interest.

* Quality aspects of Web applications
The development and usage of Web applications in different platforms and devices are continuously increasing. Web applications have become the most predominant form of software delivery today, with users and businesses choosing to rent or use software rather than buy it. The success of such applications depends on their capability to satisfy the customer needs. This has led to increased attention on quality models, processes and methods that facilitate understanding, evaluating, and especially improving the overall quality of products, processes and quality in use.

* Social Web applications
Social aspects are an integral part of todays Web, and the widespread use of the Web to connect, share and tap into collective knowledge provides a wealth of actionable data. The crowd can be deployed in various ways, i.e. the so-called crowdsourcing and human computation applications, and their generated data is valuable for developers, researchers and marketers alike. Successfully tapping into the crowds knowledge, and gathering, analyzing, and visualizing complex, heterogeneous social data, and putting it to good use are major current challenges.

* Web applications composition and mashups
Composition on the Web aims to integrate Web services, Web data sources and Web widgets into other Web services or Web applications. Mashups, and especially mashup tools with their modeling languages and instruments for mashup development, bring significant innovation as they tackle integration across the data, API and user interface layers; they aim at simplicity and ease of use rather than completeness of features and full expressiveness (compared to traditional Web programming languages and tools), but still they allow fairly sophisticated development tasks in a Web browser. Hereby, mashups represent an important and emerging strain of Web applications, with their own set of research challenges and opportunities.
  

ORGANIZATION
General Chair: 
    Marco Winckler, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
    Contact: generalchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Program Chairs:
    Sven Casteleyn,Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
    Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina
    Contact: pcchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Research Track chairs:
    Cross-media and mobile Web applications
    In-young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
    Niels Olof Bouvin, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Contact: mobile.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org
 
    HCI and the Web
    Fabio Paternò,University of Pisa, Italy
    José Antonio Gallud, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
    Contact: hci.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Modeling and Engineering Web applications
    Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Manuel Wimmer, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
    Contact: modeling.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Quality aspects of Web applications    Silvia Abrahão,Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
    Filomena Ferrucci, Università di Salerno, Italy
    Contact: quality.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Social Web applications  
    Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
    Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Contact: socialweb.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

    Web applications composition and mashups
    Cesare Pautasso (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
    Takehiro Tokuda (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
    Contact: mashup.trackchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Demo and Poster Chairs:
    Michael Nebeling, ETH, Switzerland
    Jordi Cabot, INRIA / École des Mines de Nantes, France
    Contact: demochair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Phd Symposium Chairs:
    Martin Gaedke, Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany
    Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Contact: phdchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Tutorial Chairs:
    Luis Olsina, Universidad National de la Pampa, Argentina
    Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
    Contact: tutorialchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

Workshop Chair:
    Santiago Melia, University of Alicante, Spain
    Contact: workshopchair.icwe2014@webengineering.org

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WWW 2014 Call for Papers - Research Track

WWW 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS - RESEARCH TRACK
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference
April 7-11, 2014 / Seoul, Korea
http://www2014.kr

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW 2014 will have 11 areas (or themes) for refereed paper presentations. and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting, new breakthrough work to the relevant area. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2014 will also have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, a developer track, and poster and demo sessions.

The list of areas for this year is as follows:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Content Analysis
Crowd Phenomena
Internet Economics and Monetization
Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Semantic Web
Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart (Mobile) Devices
Web Mining
Web Search

Important Dates:

Research track abstract registration:
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Research track full paper submission:
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Notifications of acceptance:
Saturday, January 4th, 2014

Paper Submission Requirements:

All submitted paper must:

be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;
occupy no more than ten pages, including the abstract and appendices, but excluding references.

It is the authors¡¯ responsibility to ensure that their submission adheres strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2014

General Chair:
Chin-Wan Chung (KAIST)

General Vice Chairs:
Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
In-soo Park (MOTIE/KATS)

PC Co-Chairs for Research Track:
Andrei Broder (Google)
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)

Area Chairs:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Pearl Pu (EPFL)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)

Content Analysis
Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Crowd Phenomena
Panos Ipeirotis (NYU)
Stefano Leonardi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Internet Economics and Monetization
Arpita Ghosh (Cornell University)
Vanja Josifovski (Google)

Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Yongdae Kim (KAIST)

Semantic Web
Ramanathan Guha (Google)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Alessandro Panconesi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
Zhen Xiao (Peking University)
Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)

User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart Devices
Cecilia Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Web Mining
Yukata Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon)

Web Search
Junghoo Cho (UCLA)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo!)

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Postdoctoral positions in Computer Science in Helsinki, Finland

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND
Application deadline Sept 30, 2013, 3:00 p.m. EEST

Topics include: Algorithms, Bioinformatics, Human-Computer
Interaction, Information retrieval, Logic, Machine Learning, Networks,
Statistical Data Analysis, etc. http://www.hiit.fi/postdoc-call-2013

Jobs are available at:
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto Univ and
Univ Helsinki;
Dept Computer Science, Univ Helsinki;
Dept Information and Computer Science, Aalto Univ;
Dept Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto Univ;
Dept Mathematics and Statistics, Univ Helsinki.

Why Helsinki? The collaborating Aalto University and University of
Helsinki form a leading hub of computer science and modelling.
Helsinki region is a safe, pleasant and attractive place to live in,
with well-functioning services such as public transport etc. Finland
has a comprehensive social security and health care system, including
exceptionally good parental leaves, and children's day care services.

Positions are offered in:

Algorithm engineering (String Algorithms group)
Algorithmic bioinformatics (Genome-Scale Algorithmics group)
Automated reasoning and search, especially propositional logic (Computational Logic group)
Computational astrophysics and/or data analysis (Computational Methods and Data Analysis for Astrophysics group)
Computational biology and statistical methods in bioinformatics (Computational Systems Biology group)
Computational creativity and data mining (Discovery group)
Dynamic and large-scale networked systems (Data Communications Software group)
Intelligent multimodal information access (Content-Based Image and Information Retrieval Group)
Machine learning and neuroscience (Statistical Machine Learning group)
Machine learning for structured data (Kernel Machines, Pattern Analysis and Computational Biology group)
Machine learning methods for infectious disease epidemiology (Bayesian Statistics Group)
Probabilistic modeling and machine learning (Complex Systems Computation group)
Statistical machine learning (Statistical Machine Learning group)
Analysing ubiquitous sensor data (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Interactive visualization (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Affective computing and BCI (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Intelligent user interfaces and/or recommender systems (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Information retrieval (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Machine learning and data analysis, especially information retrieval, HCI, text and context data (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Probabilistic modeling and data analysis for bioinformatics (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)

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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.

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Deadline Extension - 1st International Workshop on the Interplay between Conceptual Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction (CMHCI13)

1st International Workshop on the Interplay between Conceptual Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction (CMHCI13) 

in conjunction with 

the 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2013)

November 11 – 13, 2013, Hong Kong

Workshop website: http://idlab.tlu.ee/cmhci/
Submission deadline: June 24, 2013 (Extended)

AIMS and SCOPE
Although there is a growing convergence of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction approaches and values as far as Usability Evaluation is concerned, a remarkable distance still keeps Conceptual Modeling apart from Interaction Design. This workshop aims to build a body of applied knowledge on the increasingly relevant relation between Conceptual Modeling and Interaction Design.

Conceptual modeling techniques are relatively mature but in contrast, interaction design approaches still rely on natural language or impromptu notations to make explicit their inherent conceptual intricacies.

Further, there is considerable dichotomy between data modellers, who are focused on producing accurate models in a format suitable for machine processing, and interaction designers, who are primarily concerned with producing behaviour models in a format suitable for human consumption.
Nevertheless, the design and development process of these models potentially follows a similar process, which this workshop uses as a common ground between Conceptual Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction.

The aim of the workshop is thus to provide a platform for bringing together conceptual modeling and human computer interaction researchers and practitioners in an attempt foster the two way transfer of design and evaluation techniques across conceptual modeling and interaction design.

TOPICS
Contributions, preferably with case studies and empirical work could address, among other, the following issues:

Which conceptual modeling techniques are useful as the basis for interaction design and do such techniques support contemporary or emerging interaction design approaches?
How can existing conceptual modeling techniques be integrated with contemporary or emerging interaction design approaches?
Can interaction design approaches contribute towards better designed conceptual models?
How can interaction design evaluation practices be integrated with contemporary or emerging conceptual modeling approaches?
How can the design of a systems’ conceptual model influence the design of the system’s interaction with its users, and viceversa?
How can the evaluation of user interface prototypes support the improvement or customization of the underlying conceptual models?
SUBMISSION
The workshop is looking for two different types of submissions. In particular, we accept regular full papers (up to 10 pages), and posters (4 pages). All submissions should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS template http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Submission should be submitted through the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmhci13

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity, and quality. Final versions of accepted submissions will be published, together with accepted submissions from other ER 2013 Workshops, as a single volume of Springer LNCS to be distributed at the ER 2013 conference.

Questions can be send to: vtomber[at]tlu.ee and jeljov[at]fon.bg.ac.rs

IMPORTANT DATES
May 24, June 24, 2013 Submission deadline (Extended)
Jun 14, 2013 Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2013 Camera-ready version of accepted submissions
Nov 11 – 13, 2013 Workshop (one day, specific date will be announced)

ORGANIZERS
David Lamas, Tallinn University, Estonia
Vladimir Tomberg, Tallinn University, Estonia
Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Carmelo Ardito, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Michael Derntl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Effi Law, University of Leeds, UK
Tobias Ley, Tallinn University
Cristian Mihaescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Milan Milanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Milan Stankovic, Universite Paris Sorbonne, France
Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

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Open PhD Position at Graz University of Technology (Social Computing), Austria

Open PhD Position at the Institute for Knowledge Technologies at the Technical University of Graz 40 hours/week

Tasks:
The Institute of Knowledge Technologies seeks a motivated doctoral student for an interdisciplinary EU-funded research project "Learning Layers." Within the framework of the project, new recommender concepts (e.g., supporting users in their learning environment) based on Social Semantic Web technologies will be developed together with the project partners and a center of excellence Know-Center GmbH.

Qualifications:

• completed university diploma / master's degree in computer science, software development and business management, telematics or technical mathematics (mandatory)
  

• prior knowledge of Social Semantic Web, recommender systems, machine learning, information retrieval (preferred)
  

• programming experience with XHTML, mySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Java (mandatory)

• experience with HTML5, MATLAB, Python, R, PHP (preferred)

• teamwork and self-reliance (mandatory)

• fluent English (mandatory)

Interest in:

• Social Semantic Systems, Data Mining, User Profiling, Adaptation, Personalization, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning and HCI
  

Working environment:

Founded in 2006, the Institute for Knowledge Technologies is the youngest Institute at the School of Computer Science. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in computer science, psychology and business administration. The IKT works closely with Know-Center, an Austrian
excellence center for knowledge-based systems and applications (www.know-center.at). At our location in
Graz, more than 50 highly-qualified employees and staff work in research and development under the
motto "From Data to Intelligence." As a part of the network of over 100 research facilities around the world,
we have numerous publications in the leading professional media every year.
Within its initiative to increase in the proportion of women, TUG specifically urges qualified women to apply. Among individuals with the same qualifications, women will be given a priority.

We offer:

• Employment level: 40 hours per week, for 36 months, starting immediately.

• Classification: B 1 under the collective agreement for university employees; the monthly minimum wage for this position is currently € 2.532,--gross (14 times a year at 40 h / w), eventually subject to increase on the basis of the rules specified in the collective agreement due to activity-specific prior experience and remuneration components specifically related to the type of work.
  

• Young, creative, dynamic team

• Innovative tasks

• Pleasant working atmosphere

• Opportunities for professional and personal development

Contact:

We look forward to hearing from you. Please email us your application and the relevant attachments at
jobs_iwm@tugraz.at senden

see also: http://kti.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IWM2013003_Dissertationsstelle-eng.pdf     

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Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA 2013)

Call for Papers

Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA)

Sept 30th to Oct 2nd, Karlsruhe, Germany

http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/

https://www.facebook.com/IEEESCA

https://twitter.com/scaconf2013

**** Overview ****

Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges.

SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and its broadly related areas.

**** Scope and Topics of Interest ****

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

    Fundamentals of social computing

    Modelling of social behaviour

    Social network analysis and mining

    Computational models of social simulation

    Web 2.0 and semantic web

    Innovative HCI and touch-screen models

    Modelling of social conventions and social contexts

    Social cognition and social intelligence

    Social media analytics and intelligence

    Broad Data and Social Computing

    Group formation and evolution

    Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts

    Social system design and architectures

    Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology

    Handheld/mobile social computing

    Social Cloud Computing

    Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling

    Service science and service oriented interaction design

    Cultural patterns and representation

    Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process

    Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets

    Connected e-health in social networks

    Social policy and government management

    Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum

    Business social software systems

    Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments

    Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction

    Social computing applications and case studies

**** Important Dates ****

Abstract Submission: May 05th 2013

Paper Submission: May 12th 2013

Author Notification: July 10th 2013

Camera Ready: August 12th 2013

**** Submission Guidelines ****

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for full conference papers, 6 pages for short / work in progress papers, and 2 pages for posters, including all tables and figures in the IEEE CS format. The template files for LaTeX or Word can be downloaded from http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) as a PDF at the SCA2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2013.

**** Publication ****

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (Indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

**** Distinguished Papers ****

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of high quality SCI indexed international journals: TBA

**** Organization ****

General Chair

    Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK

Steering Committee

    Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)

    Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Wesley Chu, University of California, USA

    Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China

    Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK

    Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

    Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

    Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia

    V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA

    Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China

    Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

    John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Program Chairs

    Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy

    Georg Groh, Technical University Munich, Germany

    Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Tutorial Chair

    Jasminko Novak, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund / European Institute for Participatory Media, Germany

Workshop Chairs

    Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA

    Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Publication Chair

    Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chair

    Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK

Local Organization

    Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair)

    Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

**** More Information: Conference Website ****

http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/

https://www.facebook.com/IEEESCA

https://twitter.com/scaconf2013

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Thematic issue on Playful Interactions and Serious Games - JAISE

Call for papers

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments:

Thematic Issue on Playful Interactions and Serious Games 

http://jaise-journal.org/

1. Background
It is with great pleasure that we announce the Thematic Issue on "Playful Interactions and Serious Games" of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE).

Intelligent environments and smart applications require creating engaging interactions with their users, which on one side requires sensing and understanding human behavior, and on the other side carefully engineered application interfaces to keep these interactions sustained and useful over longer periods. Playful interactions and serious games incorporate elements of play for this purpose. As a fundamental human activity, play engages people at every age.

This call is intended to solicit contributions from an international audience on recent developments and experiments that:
• Present innovative and state-of-the-art applications that use playful concepts in ambient intelligence settings,
• Describe game-based solutions to behavior change and pervasive healthcare problems,
• Share experiences, insights, best-practices and lessons-learned,
• Report the results of technical and social evaluations with regards to playful interaction and serious game design,
• Report results of longitudinal studies,
• Discuss and highlight the key challenges and future developments within the domain.

We are keen to encourage the submission of papers from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives that relate to design and deployment of playful solutions in both research and industry. Topics sought include, but are not limited to:
-Playful ambient intelligence applications for kids -Serious games in healthcare and ambient assisted living -Urban games and playful interaction with masses -Games for inducing behavior change -Psychological and sociological aspects of ambient games -Gamification -Hardware and Software for serious games -Sensors and novel interfaces used in playful interactions.


2. Submission and Proceedings
Papers should be of 12 pages or longer and adhere to the guidelines given on the Web page:
http://www.mstracker.com/submit1.php?jc=jaise
When submitting, authors should highlight that the submission is for this particular thematic issue.


3. Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 15th, 2013
First round of reviews: July 15th, 2013
Notification to authors: November 15th, 2013
Camera Ready deadline: January 15th, 2014


4. Editors
Albert Ali Salah (Guest Editor)
Boğaziçi University, Turkey
salah@boun.edu.tr

Ben Schouten (Guest Editor)
Eindhoven University of Technology,
The Netherlands
bschouten@tue.nl

Stefan Göbel (Guest Editor)
University of Darmstadt, Germany
stefan.goebel@kom.tu-darmstadt.de

Bert Arnrich (Guest Editor)
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
barnrich@ife.ee.ethz.ch

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The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM 2013)

The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia

http://www.acmmm13.org

October 21-25, 2013 Barcelona, Spain.

Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. At ACM Multimedia 2013, we will celebrate its twenty-first iteration with an extensive program consisting of technical sessions covering all aspects of the multimedia field in forms of oral and poster presentations, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations and workshops, bringing into focus the principal subjects of investigation, competitions of research teams on challenging problems, and also an interactive art program stimulating artists and computer scientists to meet and discover together the frontiers of artistic communication

UPCOMING DEADLINES

* Abstracts for Papers Due: March 1, 2013

* Full/short Papers Due: March 8, 2013 http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

* Workshop Proposals Due: January 9, 2013 http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/workshops/

* Tutorials Due: January 15, 2013 http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/tutorials/

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ACM MM '13 are recommended to be 10 pages long at maximum, including figures and citations. The final camera-ready length for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow the ACM formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ACM MM '13 must be anonymized.

TOPIC AREAS

* Art, Entertainment, and Culture

* Authoring and Collaboration

* Crowdsourcing

* Media Transport and Delivery

* Mobile & Multi-device

* Multi-media Analysis

* Multimedia HCI

* Music & Audio

* Search, Browsing, and Discovery

* Security and Forensics

* Social Media & Presence

* Systems and Middleware

ORGANISATION

General Chairs

Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Yahoo!, Spain

Nicu Sebe, Univ. of Trento, Italy

Nozha Boujema, INRIA, France

Program Co-Chairs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP & EPFL, CH

David A. Shamma, Yahoo!, US

Marcel Worring, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Roger Zimmermann, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, SG

Author's Advocate

Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands)

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CHI 2013 workshop on Engaging the Human-Computer Interaction Community With Public Policymaking Internationally

Call for Papers

ACM-CHI 2013 Workshop on

"Engaging the Human-Computer Interaction Community With Public Policymaking Internationally"

http://chi2013.acm.org/

THEME
Public policies can come from governments (multi-national, national and regional), international bodies (the UN), and are often influenced by standards organizations (such as ISO and W3C). There is a complex cycle of influence between human-computer interaction and public policies. Public policies in the area of HCI include rules on how HCI research is performed, guidelines on how interfaces are designed (e.g. accessibility), and how research money is awarded in HCI. Goals of the workshop include increasing the number of documented examples of where public policy and HCI influence each other, and identifying areas where there is a need for research on public policy and HCI. Our long-term goal is to author a white paper on the topic of HCI and public policy.

For this workshop, we encourage the participation of people who have interest in the intersection of HCI and public policy. This can include people who perform research that could potentially influence policymakers, have experience interacting with policymakers, or have experience with international standards committees. For more information about the workshop, you can download the draft version of the extended abstract at: http://triton.towson.edu/~jlazar/CHI2013_policy.doc

Please submit a 3 page position paper, describing your interest and/or experience with public policy and HCI, and providing one specific example of where HCI community and policymakers have influenced each other (positively or negatively), that you want to expand upon in the workshop.

Position papers should be submitted to Jonathan Lazar (jlazar@towson.edu) by Jan 4, 2013. Accepted position papers will be posted on a shared workspace before the workshop, for participants to view. The author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and register for CHI2013.


Workshop co-organizers:
- Simone Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil
- Jan Gulliksen, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Jonathan Lazar, Harvard University and Towson University, USA
- Tom McEwan, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Loïc Martínez Normand, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Philippe Palanque, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Raquel Prates‎, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Janice Tsai, Microsoft, USA
- Marco Winckler, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany

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The 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013)

THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the
disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication, and the
social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding
of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing
research that blends social science and computational approaches are
especially encouraged.

***Please note a new option for social science papers below (new for 2013).


UPCOMING DEADLINES
======
Abstracts for Papers, Posters, and Demos Due: February 11, 2013
Full Papers, Posters, and Demos Due: February 15, 2013http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/call-for-papers/
http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/demos/

Workshop Proposals Due: January 9, 2013http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/workshops/

Tutorials Due: January 15, 2013http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/tutorials/


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
======
Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to
be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures
and citations. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for
each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the
program chairs. All papers must be follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Poster paper format: Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must be 4 pages
long, including figures and citations. All papers must be follow AAAI
formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized.

***(New in 2013) Social sciences papers with optional publication: For
researchers in the social sciences who wish to submit full papers
without publication in the conference proceedings, we have available
the option of submitting to a new ‘social sciences’ track at ICWSM-13.
While papers in this track will not published, we expect the
submissions will represent high-quality, completed work. Papers
accepted to this track will be full presentations, integrated with the
conference, but will be published only as abstracts in the conference
proceedings.


DISCIPLINES
=====
Computational linguistics/NLP
Text mining/data mining
Psychology
Sociology (including social network analysis)
Communication
Anthropology
Media studies
Visualization
Political science
Computational social science
HCI
Economics
Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models


TOPICS INCLUDE
=====
Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on
blogs and microblogs
Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and
authority discovery; collaborative filtering
Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion
identification and extraction
Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring
predictability of phenomena based on social media
New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
Social innovation and effecting change through social media


ORGANISATION
=====
General Chair
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research

Program Co-Chairs
Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University
Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute
Paul Resnick, University of Michigan
Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Data Chair
Derek Ruths, McGill University

Demos Co-Chairs
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Microsoft Research
Karrie Karahalios, UIUC

Social Media / Publicity Chair
Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck, University of Michigan

Tutorials Co-Chair
Lee Humphreys, Cornell University
Raquel Recuero, Universidade Católica De Pelotas
Winter Mason, Stevens Institute

Workshops Chair
Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona

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Fully funded PhD student positions at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

The Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group is looking for multiple

   Research Doctoral Students

with a keen interest in at least one the the following areas

   - Large-scale Graph Processing
   - Human Computation / HCI
   - Semantic Web / Linked Data
   - Economics of Computing
   - Social Network Analysis

to work on a number of new and existing research projects (including
ViSTA-TV [1], CrowdLang [2], Signal/Collect [3]).

We offer:

   - motivated colleagues [4] who are passionate about research
   - a work environment that is well equipped with the newest
     hardware and software technology
   - a salary according to the standard university regulations
     ( > 45'000 - 57'000 CHF / year; increases with experience)
   - support for your personal development and career planning
   - an attractive work environment both within the research group
     and beyond (Zurich is repeatedly voted the city with the highest
     standard of living in the world)
   - A highly successful PhD program [5] with graduates at top rated
     institutions world-wide

You will be collaborating in a larger research team consisting of the Dynamic
and Distributed Information Systems Group (DDIS; http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/)
headed by Prof. Abraham Bernstein [6], which is part of the Department of
Informatics [7] of the University of Zurich [8]. The group is active in
International and Swiss National research projects and we are looking for
candidates to help us continue these efforts.

You have:

   - a master's degree in informatics, computer science, information
     systems (or an equivalent university study)
   - expertise in database systems, Semantic Web / Linked Data, HCI,
     social network analysis, or econimics
     (note: only expertise in one of the fields is necessary;
      multiple areas is desirable)
   - good programming skills in several languages
   - an interest in applying computer science research to real-world
     problems
   - excellent command of English
   - German is a plus but not required

If you are interested:

Send your application (including CV, final grades, and - if possible -
thesis copy as a PDF or ZIP archive containing PDFs) via e-mail to:

 Prof. Abraham Bernstein, Ph.D.
 Department of Informatics
 University of Zurich, Switzerland
 http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/people/bernstein/
 Email: ddisjobs "at" lists "dot" ifi "dot" uzh "dot" ch

Applications are reviewed on a continuous basis, but please do not submit
later that January 15, 2013.

The University of Zurich is committed to enhancing the number of women in
scientific positions and, therefore, particularly invites women to apply. Women
who are as qualified for the position in question as male applicants will be
given priority.

This add is available in HTML with active links at: http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/jobs.html


Links:

[1] http://vista-tv.eu/
[2] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/research/CrowdLang.html
[3] http://code.google.com/p/signal-collect/
[4] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/people.html
[5] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/teaching/studiengaenge/phd.html
[6] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/people/bernstein/
[7] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/
[8] http://www.uzh.ch/

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SouthCHI Workshop Serious Gaming und Gamification in Healthcare (WS-GSGHC 2013)

Call for Papers

South CHI 2013

http://southchi.org/

Workshop for Gamification and Serious Games in Healthcare (WS-GSGHC)

Dates 01-03 July 2013

Maribor, Slovenia

The demographic change and the graying society is a global challenge for many countries around the world. Increasing numbers of old and frail people, limited numbers of caregivers and exploding costs in the health care system require new and innovative approaches to support care-givers,  care-recipients, as well as families. It is of uttermost importance that novel approaches do not only address the seniors as passive care-recievers but conceptualize them as active parts of the caring situation, supporting care requirments and actively overtaking responsibility for maintaining own health.
Using Serious Games and gamification proves a suitable tool to help people stay fit and healthy for longer, to support rehabilitation measures and to learn about illnesses, their prevention, their cure or successful strategies to cope with illnesses and maintain a quality of life. Still, games for health are not yet suitable for the mass market. It is not yet clear, how games for health can be made not only useful, but also enjoyable and fun and accepted by people of all genders, ages, education levels and technology experience.
The workshop is intended for researchers, industry and practitioners from various domains working in areas from healthcare to gerontology, who use or want to use serious games and gamification. Primary goal of the workshop is to present state-of-the-art research and to build and intensify a network of researchers and practitioners. Topics that can be discussed during the workshop range from new and innovative approaches for rehabilitation, motivation to prevent illnesses, using games for educating medical professionals, acceptance of games in healthcare and usability of these games.
The workshop is intended as a meeting-point for researchers and practitioners from different backgrounds and disciplines who work in the area of healthcare and apply methods from serious gaming and gamification. The workshop should bring together gerontologists, computer scientists, physicians, as well as psychologists, sociologists and ethicists to discuss the possibilities, limitations and consequences of games and gamification in healthcare.
Submissions:
Should be original and not submitted and/or published in other journals or conferences. There is a peer-review procedure intended, thus workshop committee members, external reviewers as well as potential authors will review the submissions. Papers selected by the Workshop Committee will be presented at the workshop and afterwards published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series.
Format:
Papers should be 8 to 12 pages long including all figures and references.
The format should be according to the LNCS format and submitted to the conference system as a single PDF file. Submissions must be fully anonymous, with no author names, affiliations acknowledgements, or obvious references. The submission should begin with a title, abstract and a list of key words.
Deadlines:
All paper should be submitted no later than January 18th 2013 via the SouthCHI conference website.
Notification will be given no later than February 8th 2013.
Contact:
Philipp Brauner
philipp.brauner@rwth-aachen.de
http://www.comm.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?article_id=657&clang=1
Organizers:
Philipp Brauner is a researcher at the Human-Computer-Interaction Center (HCIC) at RWTH Aachen University and a member of the eHealth Research Group, a DFG-funded Excellence University program of RWTH Aachen University. He has an interdisciplinary academic background in computer science and psychology. Currently he is working with an interdisciplinary team on serious exer-games for elderly. He is a distinguished member of IDEA league's doctoral school in aging and sustainability. Previously, Philipp was a researcher at the Computer Supported Learning Research Group at RWTH Aachen University.

Prof. Dr. Martina Ziefle is Professor for Communication Science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and head of a research group at HumTec (Human Technology), an interdisciplinary project house at RWTH Aachen University, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. HumTec aims at fostering high-level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social sciences and the engineering/natural sciences. Martina received a diploma in psychology from the university of Würzburg and the PhD in psychology from the Unviersité of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Martina Ziefle's research at HumTec addresses human factors in different technology types and using contexts, taking demands of user diversity into account. Her methodological competence regards the experimental and empirical evaluation of human computer interaction. A special research focus is directed to the usability of mobile devices, which are increasingly used in novel contexts, e.g. in the eHealth field. In addition to teaching and directing research on campus, Prof. Ziefle leads various projects funded by industrial and public authorities, dealing with the interaction and communication of humans with technology. Her main research concern is to shape technology innovation in ways that technology development is truly balanced with the human factor.

Dr. Hannah Marston is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Movement and Sport Gerontology, at the German Sport University, Cologne. Currently, Hannah is working on an EU-funded project (iStoppFalls) with six additional consortium partners (Austrian Institute of Technology, Neuroscience Research Australia –Sydney, University of Siegen, Kaasa-Dusseldorf, Philips-Netherlands and Institute of Biomechanics-Valencia). Hannah has several areas of research interests which include: gender, rural ageing, gerontology, age cohorts (baby boomers, oldest old (85+), centenarians etc.) HCI, video games/theory/design/engagement (technology), social networking, rehabilitation and tele-health technologies.
Previously, Hannah was elected by members of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) to represent the emerging scholar and professional organization (ESPO), the student arm of the organization as the Technology Chair. Additionally, while undertaking this role, Hannah also represented the study body on the membership committee. Furthermore, she has been an active member of the student body for the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) and at present, Hannah is working with three colleagues from University of Kentucky, Eindhoven University of Technology and Syracuse University in setting up the student chapter for the International Society of Gerontechnology (ISG). Hannah has actively volunteered to review papers for several conferences (GSA, BSG, CHI, ISG) and is currently a member of the editorial board for the Computer Games Journal.

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