Call for Papers for a Special Section on Advances in Social Computing

In the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
http://toit.acm.org/

Submission deadline: February 15, 2016

Social computing is computing applied to understanding, modelling, and facilitating social interaction between people and organizations. It promises improved decision making, richer collaborations, and enhanced problem solving capabilities through a better understanding of human behavior and social interaction in interpersonal, organizational, and societal settings. Social computing is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing from areas such as computational social science, information processing, social informatics, distributed computing, and multiagent systems, among others.

Despite the explosion of interest in social computing, its models and methods fall substantially short of capturing and supporting the richness, subtlety, and variety of social interactions. To address this gap, we seek high-quality submissions that focus on social interaction for an ACM TOIT special section on social computing.… read more. “Call: Advances in Social Computing for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)”

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on Physiology in Personalized Systems
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)

• Submission deadline for extended abstracts: 20 September
• Submission deadline for full papers (for accepted abstracts): 15 December 2015

Special Issue web site: http://www.cp.jku.at/people/tkalcic/umuai_physiology.html

GUEST EDITORS:

Marko Tkalčič, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (marko.tkalcic@jku.at)
Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom (s.fairclough@ljmu.ac.uk)
Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (conati@cs.ubc.ca )
Aleksander Väljamäe, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden (aleksander.valjamae@liu.se)

SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Personalization techniques, in general, build upon user models. These models are application-specific and account both for long-term user characteristics (traits, such as preferences, attitudes, personality, which are stable over longer time periods) and short-term user characteristics (e.g. affective/cognitive states, which change more rapidly). Long-term characteristics can be acquired with existing acquisition techniques using either one-time intrusive questionnaires or slowly and unobtrusively via various modalities, e.g.… read more. “Call: Physiology in Personalized Systems – Special issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)”

Call for Papers: CMIS Workshop
3rd International Workshop on Collaboration Meets Interactive Surfaces (CMIS): Walls, Tables, Mobiles, and Wearables

Workshop co-located with ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) 2015
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
November 15-18, 2015

http://sites.google.com/site/collaborationsurfaces/

Deadline extension for Submission of workshop papers: September 30, 2015

The vast screen real estate, which is provided in large-scale interaction environments presents novel ways to visualize and interact with data-rich models. In parallel to this technological revolution, interactive surfaces and devices have also become widespread in different sizes and devices ranging from large-scale walls, touch surfaces to wearable computing devices. Indeed, the ITS and HCI communities have witnessed, in recent years, an increased usage of interactive large-scale walls, touch displays, tabletops, mobiles (e.g. tablets and smart phones), and wearable devices (e.g. watches, glasses).

The opportunities for innovation exist, but the ITS and HCI communities have not yet thoroughly addressed the problem of bringing effective collaboration activities using multiple interactive surfaces and devices, especially in complex work domains.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Collaboration Meets Interactive Surfaces (CMIS): Walls, Tables, Mobiles, and Wearables (at ITS 2015)”

NURSE ANN DROID WILL SEE YOU NOW: Will AI care providers empower and assist independence or exploit and intensify isolation?

Tuesday 15th September 2015, 2:30pm

Free; registration required (see below)

Council Room, One Great George Street,
1 Great George Street,
Westminster, SW1P 3AA (just off Parliament Square)

Followed by a drinks reception

Technological and demographic change are among several drivers which are helping to shape our ever increasing globalised and developing world. We are living in unprecedented times. The increase in computational power and the explosion of devices which connect to the internet, forming the ubiquitous ‘Internet of Things’, offer extraordinary opportunities for data generation, collection and monitoring. The idea of embedding sensors and actuators in machines and other physical objects to bring them into a connected world without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction is steadily evolving.

There are now 11 million people aged 65 or over in the UK with 3 million people aged 80 or over.… read more. “Call: Nurse Ann Droid Will See You Now: Will AI care providers empower and assist independence or exploit and intensify isolation?”