I was invited to give a presentation on "Community Learning Analytics" at the ICWL 2013 in Kenting, Taiwan. I developed the concept of community learning analytics recently to distinguish it from learning analytics. While mainstream learning analytics is targeting at formal learning and learning management systems, community learning analytics is trying to understand informal learning at the workplace from a community of practice perspective. From a perspective of European projects this presentation is connecting results from the ROLE project with challenges from the Learning Layers project which started recently. As usual, the slides are available from slideshare.
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Conference Call For Papers, Workshop Proposals, Demo and Participation (ordered by submission deadline)
1. IEEE IC2E 2014 (Mar. 11-14, 2014, Boston, USA)IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering
http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2014/
*Submission deadline: Oct. 6, 2013
2. FGCT 2013 (December 12-14, 2013, London, UK)
The 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies
http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct
*Submission deadline: Oct. 10, 2013
3. ICIEIS 2013 (Nov. 12-14, 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
The Second International Conference on Informatics Engineering & Information Science
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/icieis2013/
*Submission deadline: Oct. 12, 2013
4. IEEE WCNC 2014 (April 6-9, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey)
IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication & Networking Conference
http://wcnc2014.ieee-wcnc.org/
*Submission deadline: Oct. 13, 2013
5. CONIELECOMP 2014 (Feb. 26-28, 2014, Cholula Puebla, México)
The 24th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers
http://ict.udlap.mx/conielecomp/2014/
*Submission deadline: Oct. 14, 2013
6. DC2 2014 (May 13 - 16, 2014, Victoria, Canada)
The 1st International Workshop on Device Centric Cloud
http://cpslab.skku.edu/dc2.php
*Submission deadline: Oct. 15, 2013
7. CCIT 2014 (April 9-12, 2014, Daejeon, Korea)
The 5th FTRA International Conference on Creative Converged IT
http://www.ftrai.org/ccit2014
*Submission deadline: Oct. 15, 2013
8. DIPECC 2013 (Oct. 23-25, 2013, Dubai, UAE)
International Conference on Digital Information Processing, E-Business and Cloud Computing
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/dipecc2013/
*Submission deadline: Oct. 15, 2013
9. FGCT 2013 (Dec. 12-14, 2013, London, UK)
Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies
http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct/index.php
*Submission deadline: Oct. 20, 2013
10. IEEE MobileCloud 2014 (April 8-11, 2014, Oxford, UK)
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing, Services and Engineering
http://www.mobile-cloud.net/
*Submission deadline: Oct. 22, 2013
11. BigSecurity 2014 (April 27-May 2, 2014, Toronto, Canada)
The Second International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data
http://www.nsp.org.au/confs/bigsecurity2014/
*Submission deadline: December 15, 2013
12. ParLearning 2014 (May 23, 2014, Phoenix, AZ, USA)
The 3rd International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics
https://edas.info/web/parlearning2014/
*Submission deadline: December 30, 2013
13. ICGCTI 2014 (March 18-20, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
The Second International Conference on Green Computing, Technology and Innovation
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icgcti2014/
*Submission deadline: Feb. 18, 2014
14. CITS 2014 (July 7-9, 2014, Jeju, Korea)
2014 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems
http://atc.udg.edu/CITS2014/
*Submission deadline: TBA
Journal Special Issues CFP (orderd by submission deadline)
1. NeurocomputingSpecial Issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques for New Product Development
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/call-for-papers/computational-intelligence-techniques/
*Manuscript Due: November 1, 2013
2. IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing
Special Issue on Cloud Security
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tcc
*Manuscript Due: December 15, 2013
3. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
Special Issue on: "Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Big Data"
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=ijbdi
*Manuscript Due: March 31, 2014
4. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
Special Issue on: "High Performance Data Intensive Computing: Methodology and Practice"
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=ijbdi
*Manuscript Due: July 1, 2014
Friday, 4 October 2013
This week the Learning Layers Developer Camp took place the first time at RWTH Aachen University. It was very sucessful in my eyes. We had four groups of students working on mobile apps for informal learning. I am sure my colleages will blog about this event in the official Learning Layers Blog. It was my pleasure to give a keynote to the students, introducing the project and some more technical aspects of Learning Layers. I was asked to upload the slides which are collected from many partners in Learning Layers by my colleages István and Petru. As usual the slides are available on slideshare.
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video (ACM TVX 2014)
TVX 2014
ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video
25th – 27th June 2014 Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK
IMPORTANT DATES:
-- November 15, 2013: Courses and Workshop proposals
-- February 3, 2014: Full and Short Paper submissions
-- March 31, 2014: WIP, Industry, Demo, Doctoral Consortium, Grand Challenge Competition
TVX is the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video. TVX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. In addition to standard research paper presentations the conference includes a wide range of formats for presentation and discussion of research, including Industry Papers, Demos, Works-in-Progress, and also provides the opportunity to participate in the TVX Grand Challenge Competition, the Doctoral Consortium, and to run and attend courses and workshops on specialist topics in TV and online video interaction and user experience.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
-- Content Production: traditional & novel content production for the new media landscape, including cross-platform services and interactive storytelling, and personalisation.
-- Systems & Infrastructures: system designs and architectures and their evaluation, including delivery, transmission, and synchronization of media.
-- Interaction Technologies & techniques: including gestural and multi-sensory, multi-display systems, and interaction for device ecosystems.
-- Experience Design & Evaluation: TV and online video design and evaluation research, including social and shared experiences.
-- Media Studies: including consumption practices and theoretical and practical ethical, regulatory, and policy issues.
-- Empirical Methods: novel methods for evaluating TV and online video experience, and audience measurement.
-- Data Science for TV & Online Video: advances in techniques collaborative filtering, interactive/synchronous environments, collective intelligence and crowd-sourcing, and location-based and context-aware applications and services.
-- Business Models & Marketing: research and practice around novel business models and marketing strategies for the new media landscape of television and online video. Studies around novel ways of advertisement models and strategies.
-- Innovation & Visions of Future TV & Online Video: research on innovative design strategies, new concepts, and prototype experiences for television and online video, including case studies and media artworks and performances.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Contribution must describe unpublished original work, emphasizing completed or advanced research and a parallel submission to other venues should be clearly indicated to the program committee. Research paper submissions are double-blind and will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. For detailed submission guidelines, including the use of the ACM SIGCHI PCS submission system see: http://tvx2014.com/participation
CONTACT
For up-to-date information and further details visit: http://tvx2014.com/ For questions, please contact us on: info@tvx2014.com
ORGANISATION
General chairs:
-- Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK
-- Peter Wright, Newcastle University, UK
-- Tom Bartindale, Newcastle University, UK (Event Production)
Program chairs:
-- Marianna Obrist, Newcastle/Sussex University, UK
-- Pablo Cesar, CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), NL
-- Santosh Basapur, Institute of Design, IIT, USA
Workshop chairs:
-- Gina Venolia, Microsoft Research, USA
-- Jon Hook, Newcastle University, UK
Courses chairs:
-- Maria da Graca Campos Pimentel, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
-- Daniela Busse, Samsung Research, USA
Work-in-progress chairs:
-- Regina Bernhaupt, ruwido, AT
-- Guy Schofield, Newcastle University, UK
Demo chairs:
-- David A. Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA
-- Dave Green, Newcastle University, USA
Industry Track chairs:
-- Mike Evans, BBC R&D, UK
-- Patrick Huber, SkyTV, DE
Doctoral Consortium chairs:
-- Hendrik Knoche, Aalborg University, DK
-- Nicholas Race, Lancaster University, UK
Grand Challenge Competation chairs:
-- Ian Kegel, BT, UK
-- Robert Strzebkowski, Beuth University, DE
Sponsorship chair:
-- David Geerts, KU Leuven, BE
Media chairs:
-- Andy Garbett, Newcastle University, UK
-- Jochen Huber, MIT Media Lab, USA
Friday, 27 September 2013
Call for Papers
UMAP2014: 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
7-11 July 2014, Aalborg, Denmark
UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc.
UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are enabling significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation: Intelligent tutoring systems and intelligent learning environments; Recommender systems; eCommerce; Advertising; Credit checking; Digital humanities; eGovernment; Cultural heritage; Personalized health; and more.
UMAP2014 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following Key Areas chaired by leading researchers:
UMAP in the social era [area chairs: Kalina Bontcheva & Werner Geyer]
- Modeling individuals, groups and communities
- Social network analysis
- Social recommenders
- Social learning and learning support
- Collaboration support
- Social workforce & social organizations
- Heterogeneous networks
- Folksonomies
- Social navigation
- Crowdsourcing
- Engagement, influence & sustainability
UMAP in the era of big data [area chairs: Bamshad Mobasher & Wolfgang Nejdl]
- Complex decision making
- Web dynamics
- Linked Data
- Adaptive information visualization
UMAP in the era of pervasive computing [area chairs: Keith Cheverst & TBA]
- Ongoing continuous modeling
- Lifewide modelling
- Context-awareness
- Sensor networks
- Handheld and mobile devices
- Physiological signals
- Natural interaction (speech, language, gestures)
Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies [area chairs: Bob Kummerfeld & Owen Conlan]
- Non-standard database representations (networks, graphs)
- Standards, specifications
- Interoperability, semantics
- Evolution, temporal aspects
- Evaluation methodologies and metrics
- Adaptive hypermedia systems
- Adaptive Web-based systems
Human factors and Models [area chairs: Elisabeth Andre & Cristina Conati]
- Behavior change and persuasion
- Affective aspects
- User experience
- UMAP underpinning by Sociology models
- UMAP underpinning by Psychology models
- UMAP and Anthropology theories
- UMAP and Economics models
Personal and Societal issues [area chairs: Kaska Poryasta-Pomsta & Alfred Kobsa]
- User awareness and control
- Privacy, perceived security and trust
- Special needs
- Lifelong learning and support
- Therapy
- Personality
- Cultural variations
UMAP2014 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas and organised in two main tracks - Experience Track and Research Track. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs.
EXPERIENCE TRACK
Peer reviewed papers showcasing innovative use of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalisation, exploring the benefits and challenges of applying user modeling techniques and adaptation technology in real-life applications and contexts. Papers will be assessed based on the novelty of the application, the potential impact from the utilization of user modeling and adaptation technologies in the specific case, and the usefulness of the presented experience for extending the UMAP research and application.
- Long experience papers (12 pages): Long experience papers should present substantive 'in-use' case for UMAP research. They should place the work within the field, clearly indicate the novelty of the application, and present the impact and significance of the experience to advance the UMAP research and application.
- Short experience papers (6 pages): Short experience papers should present an original and highly promising application of user modeling and adaptation technologies, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and extensive user validation.
RESEARCH TRACK
Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Papers will be assessed based on the originality and significance of the presented contribution to the research field, as well as their technical soundness and overall readability.
- Long research papers (12 pages): Long research papers should present original reports of substantive new research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its significance.
- Short research papers (6 pages): Short research papers should present original and highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation.
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS style guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and not exceed the page length, as specified above. The long and short paper categories will be strictly kept apart in the submission and review process.
Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees, and also published by Springer in both online and printed conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 3rd February 2014 (abstract due 27th January)
Notification to authors: 24th March 2014
Camera ready submission: 14th April 2014
Note the dates apply to both experience and research track papers. The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Program Chairs: Vania Dimitrova and Tsvi Kuflik
General Chairs: Peter Dolog and Geert-Jan Houben
CONFERENCE WEB SITE
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
The idea of organizing developer camps comes from the ROLE project. The main goal is to facilitate community building among the project internal developers as well as with external developers from university and the open source movement. In ROLE we had a couple of developer camps during the project and the most visible outcome was the ROLE SDK which is now available as open source software. In Learning Layers we are starting the process with a developer camp in Aachen. We are using the premises of RWTH Aachen's computer science department and invite students from the university but also other developers to join the core group of Learning Layers developers coming from Graz, Helsinki, Karlsruhe and Aachen.
The developer camp 2013 is organized by ACIS team members István Koren and Petru Nicolaescu. Petru has already experiences organizing the i5 developer days as a research student a couple of years ago. The both created a couple of news items and a poster to make the event most visible within the university and the local developer community. For sure, I support this by giving a number of links here:
- Developer Camp news items on the website of our chair
- Developer Camp news item on the website of the project
- Developer Camp news item on the website of RWTH computer science department
- Registration
Call for Participation - REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
1st Winter School on Multimedia Processing and Applications (WMPA 2014)
Dublin, Ireland, January 6-8, 2014, Co-located with the MMM 2014 Conference
WMPA 2014 school's web page: http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu/
WMPA 2014 aims at offering Masters and PhD students and junior researchers
from all over the world training on the latest technological developments in
the area of multimedia processing (media analysis, media annotation, media
rights management) and of emerging multimedia applications (in the Sensor
Web, audiovisual archives, TV broadcasting, digital preservation and
e-learning domains).
The school will combine delivering in-depth lectures with giving to its
participants the possibility for gaining hands-on experience on the use of
new multimedia processing techniques (e.g. media fragment annotation and
re-use technologies), and on the effectiveness, privacy etc. issues that may
arise. The latest R&D in EU funded projects and latest insights from experts
in the industry domains which stand to benefit from these new technologies
will help students to appreciate the state of the art and future chances for
industry adoption. The school will also support the close interaction
between the students and all participants of the MMM'14 conference; among
other possibilities, all school's students will have the chance to bring a
poster describing their current research work and present it in a joint
winter school – MMM'14 poster session.
School's topics include:
TOPICS
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- Multimedia analysis
- Multimedia annotation
- Semantic multimedia
- Sensor Web
- Digital rights management
- Multimedia preservation
- Audiovisual archive applications
- TV industry applications
- E-learning video applications
SPEAKERS
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- Dr. Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland, Ireland
- Ms. Brid Dooley, RTE Archives, Ireland
- Prof. Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Ms. Bettina Heidkamp-Tchegloff, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
- Prof. Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France
- Dr. Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Dr. Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- Dr. Claudia Niederee, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
- Dr. Lyndon Nixon, STI International, Austria
- Prof. Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
VENUE
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The winter school will take place in Dublin, Ireland, January 6 to 8, 2014.
It will be co-located and closely connected with the 20th anniversary
edition of the International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 2014 (MMM
2014). Both WMPA'14 and MMM'14 will be held at the Guinness Storehouse,
Ireland's most popular tourist attraction, located in the heart of Dublin,
Ireland.
For further information on WMPA'14 please visit:
http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu/
REGISTRATION
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Registration for the WMPA 2014 winter school is now open! Besides
stand-alone WMPA registration, there are very attractive joint WMPA+MMM 2014
registration options, giving you access to a week-long series of events
where the latest advances in multimedia processing and applications will be
presented.
All registrations for the winter school will be handled via the MMM 2014
registration webpage. Please register for WMPA'14 at:
http://mmm2014.org/registration/
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