Call for Submissions to HRI Pioneers 2018 Workshop
05 March 2018, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Website: http://www.hripioneers.info
Twitter: @HRIPioneers

A submission link is live now! https://new. precisionconference.com

IMPORTANT DATES

Nov 3 2017 (11:59 PM PT): Submission Deadline
Dec 22 2017: Notification of acceptance
Jan 12 2018: Final version due

ABSTRACT

The 13th annual Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop will be held in Chicago, USA on Monday, March 5, 2018 in conjunction with the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Pioneers seeks to foster creativity and collaboration surrounding key challenges in human-robot interaction and empower students early in their academic careers. Each year, the workshop brings together a cohort of the world’s top student researchers and provides the opportunity for students to present and discuss their work with distinguished student peers and senior scholars in the field.

Pioneers is a premier forum for graduate students in HRI, thus we invite students at any stage of their academic career to consider applying. To facilitate attendance, we expect to provide financial support to accepted students to help mitigate the costs of the workshop and main conference. Read more on Call: HRI Pioneers 2018 Workshop…

Call For Papers:
2nd Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring And Personalizing Interfaces (HUMANIZE)
March 11, 2018, Tokyo (Japan)
https://humanize2018.wordpress.com

In conjunction with IUI 2018
http://iui.acm.org/2018/

Submission Deadline: 17th December

MOTIVATION AND GOALS

The HUMANIZE workshop aims to explore the interface between data-driven and theory-driven approaches for constructing intelligent/personalized user interfaces. Data-driven approaches for personalized user interfaces can rely on building models from observed and measured user interaction behavior that can predict future behavior from historic behavior. Theory-driven approaches rely on understanding of how certain psychological traits (e.g. personality, cognitive styles, interests) affect the experience/needs of the intended users.

The combination of these two approaches, model-driven and data-driven, provides an interesting research direction. Understanding what traits of a user influence how an interface can be best personalized to match their needs and experience can be captured in a formal user model. Through data mining of interaction data these formal models can be fit to the data and as a result interfaces can be personalized in an informed, grounded way.

Advances in combining formal user models with data mining can be and have been made in grossly two ways that complement each other. On the one hand this can be done by identifying formal user models that can be used to base personalization on (such as cognitive style). On the other hand this can be done by finding ways to infer these user models from data. These two ways complement each other can be combined in a theory-informed personalization.

The HUMANIZE workshop combines practical data mining methods and theoretical knowledge for personalization, providing a venue where researchers from different fields come together to share their thoughts and experiences. In addition, the workshop will allow for an exploration of future opportunities in hopes of identifying possible links between the algorithmic side of behavioral analysis and the theoretical understanding of users for personalization.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

An non-exhaustive list of topics for this workshop is:

• Identification of psychological traits that can be used as a formal user model for personalization (e.g., personality, level of domain knowledge, need for cognition, cognitive styles)
• Data mining methods to infer user profiles in terms of identified formal user models (e.g., how to infer someone’s personality from their social media)
• How (user) interfaces can be tailored to better match certain user psychological traits (e.g., altering the number of search results for users with a higher need for cognition, ordering of interface elements, using visual versus textual representations)
• Of particular relevance are user studies that combine one or more of the above points

Read more on Call: 2nd Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring And Personalizing Interfaces (HUMANIZE)…

CALL FOR PAPERS

COMPSAC 2018: The 42nd IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computers, Software & Applications
Tokyo, Japan
July 23-27, 2018
www.compsac.org

Paper due date: 15 January 2018

COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging challenges, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The theme of COMPSAC 2018 is Staying Smarter in a Smartening World.

Computer technologies are producing profound changes in society. Emerging developments in areas such as Deep Learning, supported by increasingly powerful and increasingly miniaturized hardware, are beginning to be deployed in architectures, systems, and applications that are redefining the relationships between humans and technology. As this happens, humans are relinquishing their roles as masters of technology to partnerships wherein autonomous, computer-driven devices become our assistants.

What are the technologies enabling these changes? How far can these partnerships go? What will be our future as we deploy more and more “‘things” on the Internet of Things – to create smart cities, smart vehicles, smart hospitals, smart homes, smart clothes, etc.? Will humans simply become IoT devices in these scenarios and if so, what will be the social, cultural, and economic challenges arising from these developments? What are the technical challenges to making this all happen – for example, in terms of technologies such as Big Data, Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing, mobile computing, and pervasive computing in general? What will be the role of the ‘user’ as the 21st Century moves along?

COMPSAC 2018 is organized as a tightly integrated union of symposia, each of which will focus on technical aspects related to the “smart” theme of the conference. The technical program will include keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, fast abstracts, a doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and workshops and tutorials on emerging and important topics related to the conference theme. A highlight of the conference will be plenary and specialized panels that will address the technical challenges facing technologists who are developing and deploying these smart systems and applications. Panels will also address cultural and societal challenges for a society whose members must continue to learn to live, work, and play in the environments the technologies produce. Read more on Call: COMPSAC 2018 – IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computers, Software & Applications…