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ACM RecSys 2014 (Silicon Valley): early registration deadline coming up
by Alfred Kobsa 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

8th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS (RecSys 2014) Oct 6-10, 2014, Foster City (Silicon Valley), CA, USA http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14 ===================================================================== REGISTRATION ===================================================================== Deadlines: EARLY: on or before Sept. 5 (PDT) Late : on or after Sept. 6 (PDT) On-site: on or after Oct. 4 (PDT) http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/registration/ ===================================================================== TECHNICAL PROGRAM ===================================================================== The program includes 35 long research papers (oral presentation), 20 short research papers (poster presentation) and three keynotes. In addition, the technical program features sessions with industry speakers and panelists, 9 demos and 20 posters. Program http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/program/ Poster/Demo Session http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/posters-demos/ Keynotes - Neil Hunt - Netflix - Jeff Dean - Google Inc. - Hector Garcia-Molina - Stanford Univ. http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/keynotes/ ===================================================================== WORKSHOPS AND DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ===================================================================== Nine workshops will be organized in conjunction with RecSys 2014, including the RecSys Challenge. Additionally, a doctoral symposium will be held: - RecSys Challenge 2014: User Engagement as Evaluation - REDD: Recommender Systems Evaluation: Dimensions and Design - RecSysTV: Recommendation Systems for Television and Movies - LSRS: Large Scale Recommender Systems: Research and Best Practice - RecSysAB: Controlled Experimentation in Recommendations, Ranking & Response Prediction - CrowdRec: Crowdsourcing and Human Computation for Recommender Systems - IntRS: Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems - CBRecSys: New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems - RSWeb: Recommender Systems and the Social Web Workshops http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/workshops/ Doctoral Symposium http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/doctoral-symposium/ ===================================================================== TUTORIALS ===================================================================== Four tutorials will be offered on the first day of the conference: - Xavier Amatriain: The Recommender Problem Revisited - Huiji Gao, Jiliang Tang, and Huan Liu: Personalized Location Recommendation on Location-based Social Networks - Iván Cantador and Paolo Cremonesi: Cross-Domain Recommender Systems - Ido Guy and Werner Geyer: Social Recommender Systems http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/tutorials/ ===================================================================== SOCIAL PROGRAM ===================================================================== A reception at the Computer History Museum and a banquet at the conference hotel are being planned. Information about attractions in the neighborhood will be provided.

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*DEADLINE EXTENSION* SoHuman 2014 @SocInfo2014 (3rd Int. Workshop on Social Media in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation)
by Alessandro Bozzon 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call. Please feel free to redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** ******DEADLINE EXTENDED******* *The deadline for submissions has been extended* SoHuman 2014 3rd International Workshop on Social Media in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation at SocialInformatics (SocInfo) 2014, Barcelona http://eipcm.org/sohuman2014/ **************************************************************************** **NEW** *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: September 5th, 2014 *NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE*: September 19th, 2014 *THEME*: Socially-aware Crowdsourcing – The Value of the Human Touch Aims and Scope -------------- This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different research communities at the intersections between computer science and social sciences to explore the challenges and opportunities of novel approaches to collective intelligence, crowdsourcing and human computation that address social aspects as a core element of their design principles, implementations or scientific investigation. This years theme of the workshop highlights the intersections between the perspectives of computer science and the social sciences, such as: How can the experience gained from the design of crowdsourcing applications inform the development of new approaches to collective intelligence and social computing on the web? Can we conceptualise specific classes of human computation as instances of different forms of social collaboration? And vice versa: what lessons from the broader domain of the study of large-scale social systems can inform the design of new kinds of systems for crowdsourcing and human computation? Both crowdsourcing and human computation consider humans as distributed task-solvers, with the latter embedding human users as a part of intelligent computational systems. They both leverage human reasoning to solve complex tasks that are easy for individuals but difficult for purely computational approaches (human computation) or for traditional organisational work arrangements (crowdsourcing). Effective realisations of these paradigms typically require participation of a large number of distributed users over the Internet, a careful design of task structures, participation incentives and mechanisms for coordinating and aggregating results of individual participants into collective solutions. Though rarely explicitly addressed as such, social media and related technologies often provide the enabling methods and technologies for the realisation of such models. Examples include crowdsourcing marketplaces (e.g. Amazon mTurk), crowdsourcing service providers (e.g. Microtask, CrowdFlower) or games with a purpose. While centralised platforms are also at the core of "traditional" approaches to collective intelligence (e.g. Wikipedia), attention is increasingly turning to the possibilities of harnessing existing social platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) that already gather huge numbers of users into webs of social relationships. For instance, such relationships allow the development of new kinds of task routing mechanisms (e.g. identifying the best or most trusted participants for a specific task), while social incentives can reflect community-like phenomena (e.g. the reputation economy). This is already leading to experiments such as expert-based crowdsourcing or solutions for task-injection across distributed social platforms. It is also partially reflected in growing research on inferring social influence, attention or trust from online social exchanges with the aim of providing mechanisms for more effective information exchanges or collective problem solving. Socially-aware human computation and crowdsourcing systems call for new work division and execution mechanisms, where the traditional individual "tayloristic" model evolves into a collaborativ labour environment featuring different kinds of communication and collaboration between the users going beyond private exchanges between the task-owner and the task-solver. This begs the question of how such more open, participatory models of collective action can inform the development of new kinds of crowdsourcing and human computation systems and approaches: * Can we conceptualise specific classes of human computation as instances of different forms of social collaboration? * How can we design crowdsourcing and human computation systems where the involvement of a large number of diverse human users as providers, aggregators or "processors" of information leads to outcomes that benefit the entire collective rather than only individual contributors or commissioners of task assignments? * How can the theory of collective action inform the design of such collaborative approaches to socially-aware crowdsourcing and human computation? * What are the different sources of value of the "human touch" that can be brought to bear through such new approaches? Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Social media in collective intelligence systems * Use cases and applications of social media to crowdsourcing and human computation * Social incentive models for crowdsourcing and human computation * Social-network analysis for crowdsourcing and human computation * Applications of social media visualisation to collective intelligence applications * Social coordination in crowdsourcing and human computation * Social search and human computation * Trust models for collective intelligence and crowdsourcing * Semantic modelling in crowdsourcing and human computation * Expert-based crowdsourcing * Influence metering and social trust models * Expertise-inference techniques and their application to task routing * Reputation systems for human computation * Quality assurance in distributed human intelligence tasks * Social sensing in crowdsourcing and human computation * Domain-specific challenges in crowdsourcing and human computation We are especially interested in applications and investigations in a range of domains such as collective action and social deliberation, multimedia search and exploration, enterprise and medical applications, cultural heritage, social data analysis or citizen science. We explicitly encourage contributions that address the importance of domain-specific challenges or use cases as well as contributions that enrich a computer science perspective with a user-centered view and system-level social dynamics. Submission Procedure -------------------- The workshop will accept: * Regular research papers (6-8 pages) * Applications / Demonstrators (4 pages) * Position papers (2-4 pages) Submissions should describe the innovative aspects of the work they present, highlighting pros and cons with respect to related work. Demo proposals should describe clearly what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. Optionally, proposals can include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system). All submissions will be reviewed in a peer-review process by at least two members of the program committee. All submission must be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) All submissions must be done online via the SoHuman 2014 EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sohuman2014 At least one author of each paper will need to register for the conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------- * Abstract submission: August 17, 2014 (recommended) * Paper submission: September 5th, 2014 (Extended) * Notification of acceptance: September 19, 2014 * Camera-ready papers: October 3, 2014 * Workshop date: November 10, 2014 WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------------- Accepted workshop papers will appear in Springer Lecture Note Series in Computer Science as part of the conference proceedings but we also allow accepted papers to be presented without publication in the proceedings, if the authors prefer to do so. In addition, selected workshop papers will be invited for submission of an extended version to a fast-track special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Human Computation. Workshop Organizers ------------- * Jasminko Novak (European Institute for Participatory Media / Univ. of Appl. Sciences Stralsund) * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) * Piero Fraternali (Politecnico di Milano) * Petros Daras (ITI CERTH) * Otto Chrons (Microtask) * Bonnie Nardi (UC Irvine) * Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo Research) Contact: sohuman2014(a)eipcm.org Program Committee ------------------- Klemens Böhm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology Pietro Michelucci, Strategic Analysis, Inc. Ville Miettinen, Microtask Jasminko Novak, European Institute for Participatory Media Naeem Ramzan, University of West of Scotland Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT / RWTH Aachen Marcello Sarini, University of Milano-Bicocca Mohammad Soleymani, University of Geneva Maja Vukovic, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University

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IEEE Virtual Reality 2015 - Call for Contributions
by Sabine Coquillart 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Apologies for cross postings. Call for Contributions IEEE Virtual Reality 2015 March 23-27, 2015 Arles, Camargue - Provence - France http://ieeevr.org/2015 Important Dates Long & Short Papers abstracts September 5, 2014 Long & Short Papers September 12, 2014 Industrial Presentations October 13, 2014 Lab/Project Presentations October 27, 2014 Panels November 10, 2014 Workshops November 19, 2014 Tutorials November 21, 2014 Posters November 21, 2014 Videos December 26, 2014 Research Demos January 19, 2015 Call for Long & Short Papers IEEE VR 2015 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality, including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces. Each paper should be classifiable as mainly covering research, applications, or systems, using the following guidelines for each: * Research papers should describe results that contribute to advances in state-of-the-art software, hardware, algorithms, interaction, or human factors. * Application papers should explain how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an evaluation of the success of the use of VR/AR/MR in the given application domain. * System papers should indicate how the implementers integrated known techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, along with any lessons learned in the process. Each paper should include an evaluation of the research, including benchmarking that was performed (e.g., latency or frame-rate). Topics include: * Immersive gaming * 3D interaction for VR/AR/MR * Input devices for VR/AR/MR * Haptics, audio, and other non-visual interfaces * VR systems and toolkits * Augmented and mixed reality * Computer graphics techniques for VR/AR/MR * Advanced display technology * Immersive projection technology * Multi-user and distributed VR/AR/MR * Serious games * Tracking and sensing * Modeling and simulation * User studies and evaluation * Perception, presence, and cognition * 3D selection and 3D manipulation * Locomotion and navigation in virtual environments * Applications of VR/AR/MR * Teleoperation and telepresence This year, we will continue the process of having all accepted long papers published in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). To meet TVCG standards, long papers will undergo a two-stage review process (see SUBMISSION DEADLINES below). Authors of long papers that are determined to be acceptable with minor revisions during a first review cycle will be invited to submit a revised version for a second review cycle. Only long papers that are accepted in this second review cycle will appear in the journal issue and be presented at the conference. Short papers can cover preliminary studies, prototype applications, or initial implementations. Short papers will be published separately in the standard conference proceedings. The primary difference between short and long papers is in the size of their contributions and NOT in the importance/impact of their contributions. To assure this, short and long papers will be treated as separate tracks and will be accepted or rejected according to the merit of their contributions. In general, rejected long papers will NOT be considered for acceptance as short papers, unless the reviewers unanimously feel this is the right decision, and rewriting is determined to be doable in the time available. Consequently, authors should carefully consider the category for each submitted paper. Note that an abstract must be uploaded prior to the paper. This facilitates assigning reviewers, as the review process is on a tight schedule. All paper submissions must be in English. Long papers must not exceed ten (10) pages in length, with the caveat that the standard is eight (8) pages. Short papers must not exceed six (6) pages in length. If the reviewers find a paper overly long for the size of its contribution, they may ask for it to be shortened it if it is accepted. Both long and short papers should be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format described at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Track/vr-menu.html . For index terms, please use the descriptors from the ACM Computing Classification System, located at http://www.acm.org/class . For paper and abstract submissions please visit https://precisionconference.com/~vr . IEEE VR uses a double-blind review process, meaning both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Submissions (including citations and optional videos) should not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors, their institutions, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity. In order to fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and relevant previous work by the authors, authors may additionally upload previous papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of explanation; these materials will only been seen by the primary reviewer. All papers must be submitted electronically. Authors may also submit videos to aid the program committee in reviewing their submissions. Videos must be submitted according to the instructions at the conference website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be made independently, as described in the « Call for Videos »). When submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of identifying information. If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version will be requested. Paper submissions must not have been previously published. A paper is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A paper identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part) to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for another conference or journal during the entire VR review process, from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed to authors. SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR LONG AND SHORT PAPERS: Each deadline is midnight GMT on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. Long & Short Paper abstracts due (REQUIRED): September 5, 2014 Long & Short Paper submissions due: September 12, 2014 Notification of results of first review cycle: November 4, 2014 Revised paper submission due for second review cycle (REQUIRED FOR LONG PAPERS): December 5, 2014 ** The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. ** Paper abstracts and complete papers must be submitted through the online submission system. For more information, please contact the Program Chairs: programchairs [at] ieeevr.org J. Edward Swan II, Mississippi State University Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota Tobias Höllerer, University of California, Santa Barbara Anatole Lécuyer, Inria

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IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group
by Wong, Pak C 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) Reception at IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/overview-amp-topics/visualization-pioneer… IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) established the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG, http://www.vgtc.org/vpg.html) in 2013. VPG will host its second member exclusive reception on Monday, Nov 10, co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 conference in Paris. (The reception location will be announced later.) To become a member of the VPG, one simply needs to have at least 20 years of contributions to some aspect of visualization and visual analytics. The membership fee is $US 50.00 (40 EURO) per year. In order to simplify and expedite the membership payment process, VPG highly encourages its members to pay the membership fee when they register for the VIS conference online. Additionally, there will be a VPG promotional table set up at the IEEE VIS conference lobby on Monday to accept membership applications. We look forward to meeting all the members at the VPG reception. Please mark it on your calendar: Time: 6pm Date: Monday, November 10, 2014 Location: TBD

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IEEE VIS 2014: Six Panels, Ten Tutorials, Three Paper Venues
by G.Elisabeta Marai 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org ****************************************************************************** Early-bird registration deadline: Sept 5th 2014 http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/registration/conference-registration ****************************************************************************** Paris, France 2014 9-14 November 2014 This edition of IEEE VIS will feature: * six exciting panels, from "2D vs 3D" to "Challenges in Financial Visualization": http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/overview-amp-topics/accepted-panels * ten insightful tutorials, from "Visualization with Python" to "Best Practice of Visual Design": http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/overview-amp-topics/accepted-tutorials * three complementary paper venues; program and video previews are now online: http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/overview-amp-topics/accepted-papers All events are accessible through a single registration: http://ieeevis.org/year/2014/info/registration/conference-registration Contact: visreg(a)ieee.org ******************************************************************************* -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Robotics Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University http://visualizlab.org/people/marai

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2nd CFP SoHuman 2014 @SocInfo2014 (3rd Int. Workshop on Social Media in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation)
by Alessandro Bozzon 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call. Please feel free to redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 2nd C A L L F O R P A P E R S SoHuman 2014 3rd International Workshop on Social Media in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation at SocialInformatics (SocInfo) 2014, Barcelona http://eipcm.org/sohuman2014/ **************************************************************************** *THEME*: Socially-aware Crowdsourcing – The Value of the Human Touch *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: August 24th, 2014 *NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE*: September 19th, 2014 Aims and Scope -------------- This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different research communities at the intersections between computer science and social sciences to explore the challenges and opportunities of novel approaches to collective intelligence, crowdsourcing and human computation that address social aspects as a core element of their design principles, implementations or scientific investigation. This years theme of the workshop highlights the intersections between the perspectives of computer science and the social sciences, such as: How can the experience gained from the design of crowdsourcing applications inform the development of new approaches to collective intelligence and social computing on the web? Can we conceptualise specific classes of human computation as instances of different forms of social collaboration? And vice versa: what lessons from the broader domain of the study of large-scale social systems can inform the design of new kinds of systems for crowdsourcing and human computation? Both crowdsourcing and human computation consider humans as distributed task-solvers, with the latter embedding human users as a part of intelligent computational systems. They both leverage human reasoning to solve complex tasks that are easy for individuals but difficult for purely computational approaches (human computation) or for traditional organisational work arrangements (crowdsourcing). Effective realisations of these paradigms typically require participation of a large number of distributed users over the Internet, a careful design of task structures, participation incentives and mechanisms for coordinating and aggregating results of individual participants into collective solutions. Though rarely explicitly addressed as such, social media and related technologies often provide the enabling methods and technologies for the realisation of such models. Examples include crowdsourcing marketplaces (e.g. Amazon mTurk), crowdsourcing service providers (e.g. Microtask, CrowdFlower) or games with a purpose. While centralised platforms are also at the core of "traditional" approaches to collective intelligence (e.g. Wikipedia), attention is increasingly turning to the possibilities of harnessing existing social platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) that already gather huge numbers of users into webs of social relationships. For instance, such relationships allow the development of new kinds of task routing mechanisms (e.g. identifying the best or most trusted participants for a specific task), while social incentives can reflect community-like phenomena (e.g. the reputation economy). This is already leading to experiments such as expert-based crowdsourcing or solutions for task-injection across distributed social platforms. It is also partially reflected in growing research on inferring social influence, attention or trust from online social exchanges with the aim of providing mechanisms for more effective information exchanges or collective problem solving. Socially-aware human computation and crowdsourcing systems call for new work division and execution mechanisms, where the traditional individual "tayloristic" model evolves into a collaborativ labour environment featuring different kinds of communication and collaboration between the users going beyond private exchanges between the task-owner and the task-solver. This begs the question of how such more open, participatory models of collective action can inform the development of new kinds of crowdsourcing and human computation systems and approaches: * Can we conceptualise specific classes of human computation as instances of different forms of social collaboration? * How can we design crowdsourcing and human computation systems where the involvement of a large number of diverse human users as providers, aggregators or "processors" of information leads to outcomes that benefit the entire collective rather than only individual contributors or commissioners of task assignments? * How can the theory of collective action inform the design of such collaborative approaches to socially-aware crowdsourcing and human computation? * What are the different sources of value of the "human touch" that can be brought to bear through such new approaches? Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Social media in collective intelligence systems * Use cases and applications of social media to crowdsourcing and human computation * Social incentive models for crowdsourcing and human computation * Social-network analysis for crowdsourcing and human computation * Applications of social media visualisation to collective intelligence applications * Social coordination in crowdsourcing and human computation * Social search and human computation * Trust models for collective intelligence and crowdsourcing * Semantic modelling in crowdsourcing and human computation * Expert-based crowdsourcing * Influence metering and social trust models * Expertise-inference techniques and their application to task routing * Reputation systems for human computation * Quality assurance in distributed human intelligence tasks * Social sensing in crowdsourcing and human computation * Domain-specific challenges in crowdsourcing and human computation We are especially interested in applications and investigations in a range of domains such as collective action and social deliberation, multimedia search and exploration, enterprise and medical applications, cultural heritage, social data analysis or citizen science. We explicitly encourage contributions that address the importance of domain-specific challenges or use cases as well as contributions that enrich a computer science perspective with a user-centered view and system-level social dynamics. Submission Procedure -------------------- The workshop will accept: * Regular research papers (6-8 pages) * Applications / Demonstrators (4 pages) * Position papers (2-4 pages) Submissions should describe the innovative aspects of the work they present, highlighting pros and cons with respect to related work. Demo proposals should describe clearly what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. Optionally, proposals can include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system). All submissions will be reviewed in a peer-review process by at least two members of the program committee. All submission must be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) All submissions must be done online via the SoHuman 2014 EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sohuman2014 At least one author of each paper will need to register for the conference and attend the workshop to present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------- * Abstract submission: August 17, 2014 (recommended) * Paper submission: August 24, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: September 19, 2014 * Camera-ready papers: October 3, 2014 * Workshop date: November 10, 2014 WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------------- Accepted workshop papers will appear in Springer Lecture Note Series in Computer Science as part of the conference proceedings but we also allow accepted papers to be presented without publication in the proceedings, if the authors prefer to do so. In addition, selected workshop papers will be invited for submission of an extended version to a fast-track special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Human Computation. Workshop Organizers ------------- * Jasminko Novak (European Institute for Participatory Media / Univ. of Appl. Sciences Stralsund) * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) * Piero Fraternali (Politecnico di Milano) * Petros Daras (ITI CERTH) * Otto Chrons (Microtask) * Bonnie Nardi (UC Irvine) * Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo Research) Contact: sohuman2014(a)eipcm.org Program Committee ------------------- Klemens Böhm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology Pietro Michelucci, Strategic Analysis, Inc. Ville Miettinen, Microtask Jasminko Novak, European Institute for Participatory Media Naeem Ramzan, University of West of Scotland Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT / RWTH Aachen Marcello Sarini, University of Milano-Bicocca Mohammad Soleymani, University of Geneva Maja Vukovic, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University

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Funded PhD Studentship - City Sensing and Data Services
by Dykes, Jason 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

City Sensing and Data Services - EPSRC PhD studentship, Dundee, Scotland http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/programmes/postgraduate/phdmphil/studentships… Applications are invited for a fully funded EPSRC PhD studentship in Interaction Design/Human–Computer Interaction within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. The successful applicant will join a growing interdisciplinary research group with backgrounds in Design, HCI, Computing, Service Design and Art, with a strong international research track record, and will have the opportunity to undertake collaborative research with FutureEverything (futureeverything.org) PROJECT DESCRIPTION Cities are becoming more intelligent with the proliferation of data services and sensor networks. The University of Dundee and FutureEverything are part of an initiative to develop and evaluate a city sensing and data ecosystem in a UK city. This places emphasis on the central place of citizens and local innovation, and of decentralised, open urban infrastructures, in the design and development of future cities. This PhD project will explore city sensing and data services, through participation in the design, implementation and evaluation of novel services, systems and interfaces. The research will be outward facing and engage citizens, city officials, SMEs and large companies. The research project will encompass a number of potential research themes such as: • Services, systems and interfaces which alter the relationship between the city and its citizens. • Enabling citizens and city officials to visualise and tell stories using data. • Supporting the development of innovative applications using data, by businesses, artists and designers. • Analysis and visualisation of various data to enable decision making by city officials and citizens. • Engagement mechanisms such as art and gamification, festivals, bottom up defining of challenges. • Service Localisation and Local Ownership of Data. There will be opportunities for the doctoral researcher to select and develop use cases, communities and challenges. The research will involve some requirement of travel for field trials in Manchester and other cities and publication of work arising from that. CRITERIA AND ELIGIBILITY Applicants should have a first class degree or good 2:1 and/or a masters or equivalent experience in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Product Design or Service Design. They shall have expertise in fieldwork techniques and evaluation methods from Design and/or HCI to inform the design of novel interfaces. The ability to develop functional digital prototypes is essential. The award is open to eligible UK/EU nationals and will cover fees and a stipend of approximately £13,863 per annum for 42 months. Full information on eligibility criteria for this scholarship can be found on the RCUK web site: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/TermsConditionsT… Following interview the successful applicant will also need to apply and meet the University of Dundee’s entry requirements for PhD study. APPLICATION AND FURTHER DETAILS Application deadline 12th September 2014. PhD expected to commence from November 2014. Applicants should submit a CV and a two-page statement describing their interest in pursuing a PhD and their experience as it relates to the topic to: Fiona Fyffe, Postgraduate Administrator, DJCAD. f.j.fyffe(a)dundee.ac.uk. Informal enquiries to Dr Drew Hemment d.hemment(a)dundee.ac.uk. Further details and information are available on the University of Dundee website: http://uod.ac.uk/djcad-studentships.

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Second Call for Participation: Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) at DL 2014
by Mutschke, Peter 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) Workshop at Digital Libraries 2014 11th September 2014, London, UK Workshop page: http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/kmir2014/ Conference page: http://www.dl2014.org<http://www.dl2014.org/> We are pleased to announce the upcoming halfday workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR), to be held as part of the International Conference on Digital Libraries 2014 - ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) and International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014), London, 8th-12th September 2014 (http://www.dl2014.org<http://www.dl2014.org/>/). Abstract: Knowledge maps are promising tools for visualizing the structure of large-scale information spaces, but still far away from being applicable for searching. The workshop aims at bringing together experts in IR and knowledge mapping in order to discuss the potential of interactive knowledge maps for information seeking purposes. We now have a very good program together for the KMIR workshop. Consult the workshop page (see above) for the preliminary program. If you will attend the workshop, don't forget to register for workshops at die DL2014 registration page. In addition, please notify me (CC to my secretary julia.achenbach(a)gesi.org<mailto:julia.achenbach@gesi.org>) about your attendance. Kind regards, Peter Mutschke -- Acting Head of Department Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Mail: peter.mutschke(a)gesis.org<mailto:peter.mutschke@gesis.org> www.gesis.org<http://www.gesis.org/>

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Lectureship in HCI/InfoVis, University of St Andrews, Scotland - Apply by October 3rd 2014
by Miguel Nacenta 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

=============================== http://bit.ly/sachi_lectureship =============================== We seek a colleague to join SACHI (http://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/) at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. This is a full academic career track position, with research and teaching duties. The School of Computer Science provides a research-supportive environment, excellent facilities, great opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, integration with the larger excellence network of CS research in Scotland (SICSA), and access to the brightest students in the UK and internationally. This year the School was ranked 1st in the UK by the Guardian's University guide. We are interested in top early career researchers in any of the topics below (although we will consider top-researchers in other areas related to HCI and Data Science): - Input and Interaction methods - Information Visualisation or other techniques relevant to Data Science (e.g. machine learning) - Ubiquitous Computing or Systems - Digital Humanities Join one of the top CS departments in the UK, and the third oldest university in the English-speaking world. The University is integrated within the town of St Andrews on the East coast of Scotland: home of golf, and rich in history. The town offers a family-friendly environment at just over an hour from Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, and with easy access to all services and good public transport connections. See more information in the official vacancy announcement: http://bit.ly/sachi_lectureship (the Further Particulars document at the bottom will be particularly useful). For informal inquiries and questions, feel free to also e-mail Prof. Aaron Quigley (aquigley(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) or Miguel Nacenta (mans(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) Miguel Nacenta Lecturer, University of St Andrews mans(a)st-andrews.ac.uk http://nacenta.com @miguelnacenta

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2nd CFP: AWC 2015 - The Third Australasian Web Conference, Sidney, Australia
by Alessandro Bozzon 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 2nd C A L L F O R P A P E R S AWC 2015 The Third Australasian Web Conference 27-30 January 2015, Parramata, Sydney, Australia Conference Website: http://www.uws.edu.au/acsw2015/australasian_computer_science_week_2015/aust… *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: August 26th, 2014 *NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE*: October 8th, 2014 **************************************************************************** Aims and Scope -------------- As we celebrate its 25th anniversary, the World Wide Web continues to play a transformative role in all walks of life. It also provides a platform for exciting and innovative research on a wide range of themes. AWC 2015 aims to bring together researchers and PhD students who work on topics related to the Web in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art, to discuss critical issues and opportunities, and to explore new research directions. Topics of Interest ------------------ AWC 2015 invites submissions dealing with all areas of Web research, including but not limited to the following topics: * Semantic web * Linked Open Data * Crowdsourcing and Human Computation * Web mining * Deep Web * Emerging Web techniques * Information retrieval * Interfaces and Accessibility * Interoperability and heterogeneous systems * Mobile Web * Performance, scalability and availability * Personalisation and recommender systems * Security and Privacy * Social networks and communities * Social Web and analytics * Mashups * Web of Things * Web search * Service Web, Web services, and service-oriented computing * XML and semi-structured data management All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee for inclusion in the AWC 2015 proceedings. Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to AWC 2015, and presentation. AWC is part of the Australasian Computer Science Week. Registration to the Australasian Computer Science Conference enables delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW). The proceedings will be included in the ACM digital library and indexed on Scopus and DBLP. General Chair ------------- * Joseph G. Davis (University of Sydney) Program Chair ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology) Programme Committee ------------- * Helen Ashman, University of South Australia * Ali Babar, University of Adelaide * Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales * Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University * Jia Tina Du, University of South Australia * David Eyers, University of Otago * Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong * David Hawking, Australian National University * Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity * Xiang-Fei Jia, University of Otago * Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China * Jiangang Ma, University of Adelaide * Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne * Hamid Motahari, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Russel Pears, Auckland University of Technology * Yongrui Qin, The University of Adelaide * Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide * Andrew Trotman, Otago University, New Zealand * Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia * Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology * Uwe Roehm, University of Sydney * Weiliang Zhao, University of Wollongong * In-young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea * Wei Chen, Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China * Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong * Luis Olsina, GIDIS_Web, Engineering School, UNLPam, Argentina * Kerry Taylor, CSIRO * Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand Submission Procedure -------------------- We welcome papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web-related research. Its contribution should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms, and authors should make every effort to ensure that its technical content is understandable by a broad audience without taking away from its impact and significance. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee for inclusion in the AWC 2015 proceedings. Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to AWC 2015, and presentation. Papers should be *no more than 10 pages* in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the Australian Computer Society (ACS) (http://www.acs.org.au/) - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) (http://crpit.com/) Australian Computer Science Communications series. Submission to AWC 2015 will only be accepted electronically using EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awc2015) Authors are requested to submit an abstract first, then to upload the full paper using the paper-id assigned by the system. By submitting to the conference authors accept that they are aware of the Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science by the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE) (http://www.core.edu.au/) and the policy listed at CRPIT (http://crpit.com/) In particular, authors are encouraged to review the points on authorship. Best Student Paper -------------------- A prize will be awarded to the best student paper as chosen by the programme committee. The student paper award is given on the conditions that: (1) all other non-student co-authors confirm to the program chair(s) that the nominated author has had a substantial participation into the paper; and (2) the student academic supervisor confirms to the program chair that the contribution reflected in the paper is the result of a major component from progress for a research higher degree Publication -------------------- The proceedings will be included in the ACM digital library and indexed on Scopus and DBLP. Please note that it is ACSW conference policy that at least one author of all accepted papers to the conferences and workshops in the series would both register and present at the event concerned. Failure to do so without a reason acceptable to the organisers of the event will result in the paper being retrospectively withdrawn from both the proceedings and all citation sources.

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