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CfP: EuroITV 2011 - 9th European Interactive TV Conference - Lisbon, Portugal

Editor — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:00:22 +0100

Deadine: 7 January 2011
Call for Papers: EuroITV 2011 - 9th European Interactive TV Conference - Lisbon, Portugal: June 29th to July 1st 2011

EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. The 9th EuroITV conference will take place in the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal, on June 29th to July 1st 2011. The EuroITV 2011 hosts are Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and Lisbon Internet and Networks Institute.

CONFERENCE THEME
The special theme is "Ubiquitous TV", with a focus on the redefinition of the concept of television itself, as it now refers not to a specific device, but rather a specific kind of content present almost everywhere, from the traditional TV set, to the PC, passing through the mobile phone or the screens in taxis and throughout the city, freeing television from the TV set and bringing it out of the home. Ubiquitous TV’s key aspects will be considered, such as mobility, interactivity, personalization, empowerment (control, participation and UGC), and the social network mediation of communication practices.

CONFERENCE TRACKS
This year’s conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and separate track chairs, coordinated by three overall program chairs. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work.

Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction
Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies
Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies
Track 4: Interactive Content & Arts

Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed. The main proceedings will be published by ACM, and be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorials and Workshop Proposals - deadline: November 12th, 2010
Full Paper Submissions - deadline: January 7th, 2011
Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos - deadline: February 11th, 2011

More information about other sessions, eg for business oriented work, will follow soon.

CfP: ECCE2010 - Workshop proposals, Delft, The Netherlands

Editor — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:24 +0000

Deadine: 18 January 2010
The workshop category aims to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners with similar interests to exchange new ideas and practical experience in their specific areas of cognitive ergonomics. By presenting, discussing, and reporting innovative research or ideas, workshop participants will explore these research areas with the aim of developing and enhancing the relationship between cognitive sciences and technical information processing system developments.

IMPORTANT DATES
18 Jan 2010 Submission of Workshop proposal
1 Feb 2010 Notification of Acceptance Workshop proposal
24 August 2010 Workshop

SCOPE
The roles of cognitive ergonomics in the development of IT artefacts and complex systems have become more and more important and widespread. So far, theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of cognitive ergonomics have been studied in various domains that make intensive use of IT. Recent trends of cognitive ergonomics indicate that human interaction with IT-based systems is increasingly complex and thus needs more sophisticated social, cognitive and affective support, and that diverse user groups should be considered from system requirements analysis and initial design stages, paying attention to personalization, care and complexity.

The ECCE 2010 theme is: caring technology for the future. Computer technology is increasingly being used in a care context, for example in healthcare centers, in the home, at work, but also in crisis situations. In these contexts, caring technology is being developed to improve individuals’ mental and physical health or quality of live, to enhance persons’ resilience in critical situations and to support recover of undesirable states. The conference will explore new type of cognitive ergonomics issues in this area. Through this conference, it is envisaged that participants will report on inventions, or innovative ideas and concepts to study and develop caring technology. Besides this focus, we also welcome workshop proposals in all other areas of cognitive ergonomics.

TOPICS
We invite the workshop to focus on innovate concepts, fundamentals (concepts, theories, models, and principles), empirical studies, application and case studies, methodologies, surveys, systematic reviews, and critical appraisals which are relevant to the following topics (but not limited to):

- Human decision making and problem solving
- Knowledge structure and mental model
- Human learning behaviour
- Human error and reliability
- Situation awareness
- Collaborative work
- Creativity
- Affective /emotional aspects of human interaction with IT artefacts
- Design methods, tools, and methodologies for supporting cognitive tasks
- Cognitive task analysis and modelling
- Human-centred automation
- Task /function allocation
- Decision aiding, information presentation and visualization
- Innovative user interface concepts (including augmented and virtual reality, multimodal user interfaces, and wearable computing)
- Intelligent agent design
- Training systems design
- Joint cognitive systems design
- Supporting diverse user groups (the disabled, the elderly, children, personality traits, cognitive styles, gender, culture etc.)
- Evaluation of cognitive performance, social interaction, usability, etc.
- Methods and tools for studying cognitive tasks

Examples of application or industrial domains include: eHealth services, medical systems, process control, aviation traffic control, advanced manufacturing systems, intelligent vehicles, railroad systems, ubiquitous computing, smart home, mobile devices, digital TV, web applications, electronic commerce, game and entertainment, e-learning, business information systems.

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Submissions for one-day workshop are invited. The workshops will be held on 24 Aug 2010, a day before the main body of the ECCE 2010 conference. Workshop proposers should submit a 2 pages paper using the Word Template that is provided on the conference website. The workshop paper should explain the topic of the workshop, how it is set up, the manner in which people can participate and the aim of the workshop (eg writing /editing a book, a research proposal, or a special issue for a journal). The organising committee should have members from at least two different organizations or institutes. International consortia are welcomed and preferred. All proposals must be written in English. In addition, a cover letter should be included with background information about the workshop organisers, and the manner in which workshop participants will be invited.

SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION
Authors of all categories should use the Word template that is provided on the conference website for their papers. Instruction how to make an online submission as well as registration fee can be found on the conference website (ecce2010.tudelft.nl)

ORGANISATION
General Co-Chairs
Mark Neerincx, TNO Human Factors / Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, mark.neerincx@tno.nl
Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, w.p.brinkman@tudelft.nl

Workshop chair
Tjerk de Greef, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, t.e.degreef@tudelft.nl

cfp: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2010

Editor — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:29 +0000

Deadine: 1 April 2010
ECCE 2010 aims to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experience in all areas of cognitive ergonomics. By presenting and discussing innovative research, ECCE 2010 participants will explore knowledge and research areas in cognitive ergonomics with the aim of developing and enhancing the relationship between cognitive sciences and technical information processing system developments. More details will be made available soon on the conference website.

SCOPE
The roles of cognitive ergonomics in the development of IT artefacts and complex systems have become more and more important and widespread. So far, theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of cognitive ergonomics have been studied in various domains that make intensive use of IT. Recent trends of cognitive ergonomics indicate that human interaction with IT-based systems is increasingly complex and thus needs more sophisticated social, cognitive and affective support, and that diverse user groups should be considered from system requirements analysis and initial design stages, paying attention to personalization, care and complexity.

ECCE2010 conference theme is: caring technology for the future. Computer technology is increasingly being used in a care context, for example in healthcare centers, in the home, at work, but also in crisis situations. In these contexts, caring technology is developed to improve individuals’ mental and physical health or quality of live, to enhance persons’ resilience in critical situations and to support recover of undesirable states. The conference will explore new type of cognitive ergonomics issues in this area. Through this conference, it is envisaged that participants will report on inventions, or innovative ideas and concepts to study and develop cognitive ergonomics in future caring technology. Besides this focus, we also welcome the research works in all other areas of cognitive ergonomics.

TOPICS
We invite papers that report on innovate concepts, fundamentals (concepts, theories, models, and principles), empirical studies, application and case studies, methodologies, surveys, systematic reviews, and critical appraisals which are relevant to the following topics (but not limited to):

-Human decision making and problem solving
-Knowledge structure and mental model
-Human learning behaviour
-Human error and reliability
-Situation awareness
-Collaborative work
-Creativity
-Affective/emotional aspects of human interaction with IT artefacts
-Design methods, tools, and methodologies for supporting cognitive tasks
-Cognitive task analysis and modelling
-Human-centred automation
-Task/function allocation
-Decision aiding, information presentation and visualization
-Innovative user interface concepts (including augmented and virtual reality, multimodal user interfaces, and wearable computing)
-Intelligent agent design
-Training systems design
-Joint cognitive systems design
-Supporting diverse user groups (the disabled, the elderly, children, personality traits, cognitive styles, gender, culture etc.)
-Evaluation of cognitive performance, social interaction, usability, etc.
-Methods and tools for studying cognitive tasks

Examples of application or industrial domains include: eHealth services, medical systems, process control, aviation traffic control, advanced manufacturing systems, intelligent vehicles, railroad systems, ubiquitous computing, smart home, mobile devices, digital TV, web applications, electronic commerce, game and entertainment, e-learning, business information systems, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES
18 Jan 2010 Submission of Workshop proposal
1 Feb 2010 Notification of Acceptance Workshop proposal
1 April 2010 Submission of Extended Abstract, Poster & Demonstration papers, and Doctoral Consortium paper and cover letters
15 May 2010 Notification of Acceptance
1 July 2010 Submission of Camera-Ready Papers
24 August 2010 Workshops
25-27 August 2010 ECCE2010 Conference

TYPES OF PARTICIPATION
We invite various types of submissions as described below. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions for all the categories will be published in the conference proceedings. The authors must declare in which category their paper is submitted. However, the authors of some full and/or short papers that would otherwise be rejected for the lack of space may be invited to re-submit their work as a poster paper.

- Workshop
This is a new element to the Conference. Submissions for one-day workshop are invited. The workshops will be held on 24 Aug 2010, a day before the main body of the ECCE 2010 conference. Workshop proposers should submit a 2 pages paper using the Word Template that is provided on the conference website. The workshop paper should explain the topic of the workshop, how it is set up, the manner in which people can participate and the aim of the workshop (e.g. writing/editing a book, a research proposal, or a special issue for a journal). The organising committee should have members from at least two different organizations or institutes. International consortia are welcomed and preferred. All proposals must be written in English. In addition, a cover letter should be included with background information about the workshop organisers, and the manner in which workshop participants will be invited.

- Long papers category
Long papers should describe authors’ original, completed research works that contribute to the topics relevant to the conference. Initially authors should submit an extended abstract of 4 pages using the Word Template provided on the conference website. After acceptance of the extended abstract the authors will be invited to submit camera-ready papers of 8 pages maximum.

- Short papers category
Short papers should describe work-in-progress, industrial experiences, and innovative concepts or approaches, which can promote discussions among attendants. Initially authors should submit an extended abstract of 2 pages using the Word Template that is provided on the conference website. After acceptance of the extended abstract, authors will be invited to submit camera-ready papers of 4 pages maximum.

- Poster & Demonstration category
The Poster and Demonstration sessions aim to show work in a setting which facilitates open discussion. Authors who wish to present and demonstrate their work, smaller projects, systems or prototypes in a more interactive and informal setting during ECCE 2010, may choose this category and provide a description. Poster and demonstration papers should not exceed 2 pages in total and authors should use the Word Template for the preparation of their papers, which is provided on the conference website. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

- Doctoral Consortium category
The aim of the ECCE 2010 Doctoral Consortium is to provide an opportunity for PhD students to participate in multi-disciplinary in-depth discussions of their work with fellow students and a panel of experts.

The Consortium is designed for students currently registered for a PhD in Cognitive Ergonomics or a related field. Preference will be given to students who have carried out some initial research but are not so far down the road that they are getting ready to submit their thesis. The format for the doctoral consortium requires each participant to give a 15 minute presentation on their research. This will be followed by questions from other participants, and feedback from a panel of experts.

Application Procedure
1. A letter from your supervisor/Principal Advisor on letter-headed paper, stating:
•that you are registered for PhD studies
•your research topic
•what stage your research is at
•why you and your research would benefit from participation in the ECCE 2010 Doctoral Consortium.

2. A 4 pages long paper, prepared using the Word Template (provided on the conference website) of the conference proceedings, containing the following: a structured abstract, the aims and objectives of your research; the main contribution(s) of the research to the Cognitive Ergonomics field; a description of the methodology adopted for your research, the results obtained so far from your studies, a critical analysis of the results in relation to previous research work in the area, future research plans.

Costs
Applicants who are selected to take part in the doctoral consortium will be asked to pay a very "student friendly" registration fee. Specific details can be found on the website. Please note, however, that participants will be expected to pay for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence.

SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION
Authors of all categories should use the Word template that is provided on the conference website for their papers. Instruction how to make an online submission as well as registration fee can be found on the conference website (ecce2010.tudelft.nl)

Organisation
Mark Neerincx, TNO Human factors/Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

CfP: UX Competency Framework Workshop - London

Editor — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:22 +0000

Deadine: 8 January 2010
UX Competency Framework Workshop, BCS Offices, Southampton St, London
February 25th, 2010

User Experience (UX) is an encompassing term covering a range of disciplines from IT, Ergonomics, Usability, Marketing and Communications. It is most commonly used in the context of the usability of IT systems. Fully addressing UX requires consideration of a product's impact on its users at all stages in its lifecycle, including the marketing, packaging, training, introduction, support and disposal, and has an impact on the scope and management of product development projects. It is therefore difficult to say what a UX professional does, and to define the skills and training required to truly call oneself a UX professional. This workshop will examine such issues as:

- What does industry need from UX professionals?
- What are the skills and training required for UX professionals?
- What are the levels at which UX professionals operate?
- What existing skills frameworks in the contributing disciplines can we call on?
- How do we work with the stakeholders, employers, professional bodies, academics, training bodies to develop, disseminate and assess UX skills?

We call on existing practitioners and researchers in this area to submit 4-6 page position papers on one or more of the above topics. Position papers will be presented in short talks in the morning of the event, followed by focused discussions in the afternoon and a UX Job Fair in the early evening.

Papers should be submitted to Tom McEwan, T.McEwan@napier.ac.uk by 8th January 2010. Registration information will follow.

CfP: 18th Int'l Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

Editor — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:00:52 +0100

Deadine: 11 January 2010
UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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 biannual User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc.

TOPICS
The conference spans, but is not restricted to, the following topics:
- Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products, tailoring search results, enhancing learning outcomes, personalizing help, assuming routine tasks, adapting interfaces
- User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and preferences, special needs, affective states, goals and plans, contexts of use, roles, cultural characteristics
- Application domains for UMAP: e-commerce, e-learning, cultural heritage, healthcare, assistive technologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems, targeted advertisement, digital TV
- Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the semantic/social Web), desktop systems, groupware systems, mobile and wearable systems, smart environments, smart objects, virtual environments
- Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model extraction and representation, adaptation methods, architectures for UMAP
- Evaluation of UMAP: requirements specification, formative evaluation, user testing, validation, performance tests
- Practical aspects of UMAP: privacy and security, cost-justifying UMAP, integrating UMAP, valuing user experience

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (due Nov 23 2009)
Workshop proposals (3 pages) should outline the area, goals, scope and format of the workshop, introducing also the members of the organizing team and their backgrounds. Preference will be given to workshops that aim to produce answers to one or more explicitly formulated questions and that involve interactive presentations and constructive work, as opposed to "miniconferences" that comprise mainly paper presentations.

- TUTORIAL PROPOSALS (due Nov 23 2009)
Tutorial proposals (3 pages) should describe the topic of the tutorial and its importance, the intended style of presentation, and the instructor's qualifications. Conference participants can attend tutorials at no extra charge. Tutorial instructors will receive a complementary conference registration.

- RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan 11 2010; full papers Jan 18)
- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) 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) should present original and unpublished highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation.

Both categories will be strictly kept apart in the review process. Only in extremely unusual circumstances can long papers be relegated to the short paper category.

- INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan 11 2010; full papers Jan 18)
The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial implementations or applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technical density should be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short papers (6 pages). Industry Track submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern industrial applications, and will typically include at least one industry author.

- DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan 18 2010)
The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback and advice from the Doctoral Consortium committee. Submissions (3 pages) should include original and unpublished descriptions of the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so far. They should clearly indicate the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the student would especially like to receive advice.

- DEMONSTRATIONS (due May 18 2010)
Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes of UMAP-based systems at the conference. Descriptions of demonstrations (3 pages) should be original and unpublished accounts of such systems. They should be accompanied by a specification of the system requirements, and by a draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.

- POSTERS (due May 18 2010)
Descriptions of posters (3 pages) should be original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, projects, or results. They should be accompanied by a draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made through the EasyChair conference system (workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent directly to the respective co-chairs). They will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity. Reviews for research papers will be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs.

PUBLICATION
Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and electronically through SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted descriptions of posters, demonstrations, workshops and tutorials will be published in the UMAP Adjunct Proceedings. Significantly enhanced versions of research papers can be submitted to User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) after the conference.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
- General Chair
David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Program Co-Chairs
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine
Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
- Industry Track Co-Chairs
Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California
Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland
- Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Demo and Poster Co-Chairs
Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Local Arrangements Chair
Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo

VENUE
UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kona side of the “Big Island” of Hawaii. Additional student housing will be available at the Aston Shores at Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa Colony Villas.

STUDENT SUPPORT
This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to students in the past, and it is expected that there will also be student funds available for UMAP 2010. Authors of accepted technical and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.