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VIDEO: Music Licensing: Innovations for Modern Times @techpolicyinst @NYUEngelberg
by Joly MacFie 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

Later today, Jun 22 2016, the inaugural meeting of the Open Music Initiative <http://www.open-music.org/> takes place in NYC. The OMI is a collaboration between the Berklee school and the MIT Media Lab and others to "to promote and advance the development of open source standards and innovation related to music," However, when I got in touch and offered to livestream the meeting, I was told "the meeting is closed to the public so live streaming won't be permitted". It seems old habits die hard. By total contrast, the Engelberg/TPI conference last Friday, archived below, was an exemplar of the kind of open multistakeholder forum that we've come to expect in modern policy and standards development. Kudos. joly posted: "On June 17 2016 the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy and the Technology Policy Institute, hosted a conference Music Licensing: Innovations for Modern Times at NYU Law School in NYC. Described as "A conversation among academics, industry rep" [image: music_policy] <http://www.nyuengelberg.org/s/ICPSENGL167-Music-Licensing-Poster-RELEASE.pdf>On *June 17 2016* the *Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy <http://www.nyuengelberg.org/>* and the *Technology Policy Institute <https://techpolicyinstitute.org/>*, hosted a conference *Music Licensing: Innovations for Modern Times <http://static1.squarespace.com/static/528679bee4b0fb796a381814/t/5762b0f8d2…>*at NYU Law School in NYC. Described as "A conversation among academics, industry representatives, and policy experts on how the music licensing ecosystem can compensate the right people more transparently, fairly, and efficiently," the event comprised three panels. Video is below (uncaptioned). Roundtable 1: How do we structure a modern digital music distribution music-licensing ecosystem to be more competitive and work efficiently and fairly for all stakeholders? *Moderator*: *Larry Miller*, Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Music Business Program, NYU Steinhardt; Panelists: *Michael Katz*, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership and Professor, Economics Department and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; *David Levin*, Vice President, Digital Licensing, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI); *Steven Marks*, Chief, Digital Business & General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America; *Katherine Oyama*, Senior Policy Counsel, Google, Inc.; *Daniel Rubinfeld*, *Robert L. Bridges*, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics Emeritus, UC Berkeley; Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; *Christopher Sprigman*, Professor, NYU School of Law. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YMFijJ1FEY?rel=0> *View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/7YMFijJ1FEY *Skip intro*: https://youtu.be/7YMFijJ1FEY?t=541 Roundtable 2: Deep Dive into Digital Databases *Moderator*: *Christopher Sprigman*, Professor, NYU School of Law. *Panelists*: *Jacqueline Charlesworth*, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights, United States Copyright Office; *Mark Eisenberg*, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, SoundExchange, Inc.; *Andrea Finkelstein*, EVP Global Business Affairs Operations, Sony Music Entertainment; *James Griffin*, Managing Director, OneHouse; *Casey Rae*, Director of Music Licensing, Sirius XM; *Lawrence White*, *Robert Kavesh*, Professor of Economics and Deputy Chair, Economic Department, NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgGyoZf6QKs?rel=0> *View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/SgGyoZf6QKs *Skip intro*: https://youtu.be/SgGyoZf6QKs?t=154 Roundtable 3: What Changes to the Current System Are Feasible that Would Facilitate a Transition to a More Competitive Market? *Moderator*: *Thomas Lenard*, President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute. *Panelists*: *Dale Collins*, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; *Lee Knife*, Executive Director, Digital Media Association; *Richard Masio*, Director of Music Licensing, Pandora; *Brad Prendergast*, Senior Counsel, Licensing & Enforcement, SoundExchange, Inc.; *Tim Quirk*, Founder/CEO, Freeform Development; *David Wolfert*, Songwriter and Producer; Co-Founder, Council of Music Creators and Music Answers; Songwriting Faculty, NYU Steinhardt. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV4V5eJOiUc?rel=0> *View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/FV4V5eJOiUc *Skip intro*: https://youtu.be/FV4V5eJOiUc?t=90 Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8565#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8565#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8565 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for Nominations: GLOBAL mobileGOVERNMENT AWARDS at the WSmGov 2016
by Prof. I Kushchu 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

Call for Nominations: GLOBAL mobileGOVERNMENT AWARDS at the WSmGov 2016 - The World Summit on mGovernment and Global mobileGov Awards 5-7 October 2016 Oludeniz - Turkey www.m4life.org <http://www.m4life.org/> "Designing Future of the eGovernment and the Public Transformation" __________________________________________________________________ The World Summit on mobileGovernment (WSmGov 2016) and The Global mGovernment Awards will be held during 5-7 October 2016. WSmGov is a platform for sharing accumulated experience in mGov practice and designing the future of eGovernment using mobile technologies. - The Summit will feature up to top 10 best mGovernment implementers in the world to share their experiences and lessons learned. - It also hosts the Global mobileGovernment awards - nominations open for existing solutions, apps, and projects of private and public sector organisations. The Organisation is soliciting nominations for the Global mGov Awards. from Industry, Organisations with a mobileGovernment solution from Industry, Public Sector, Third Sector and Academia are all welcome to apply. In the first instance, please visit http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/contact/ <http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/contact/> and fill in the interest form and state on the message section that you intend to apply for the Global mGov awards. You will then be sent instructions to participate with your proposal. All proposals will be evaluated by themGov Awards Committee top three selected projects/apps will be rewarded. More information on exhibiting, sponsoring and Global mGov Awards are available at the conference web site - www.m4life.org <http://www.m4life.org/> Looking forward to your proposals. Best wishes Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov, UK http://mgovernment.net/ <http://www.mgovernment.org/> ik(a)mgovernment.net <mailto:ik@mgovernment.net> +44 7740143135 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org <http://www.m4life.org/>

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Reminder: Automating the Everyday, 8-9 December, QUT - CFP closing soon
by Jean Burgess 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

Dear colleagues A reminder that the due date for the submission of abstracts for Automating the Everyday is at the end of next week. We’ve already got some really interesting submissions, keep ‘em coming! Also a reminder that December is glorious, summery summer in Brisbane. Cheers Jean Shareable URL for the CFP: https://goo.gl/Rh8Czd Symposium email: autoeveryday(a)gmail.com AUTOMATING THE EVERYDAY A symposium hosted by the QUT Digital Media Research Centre 8-9 December 2016 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Call for Papers Along with related concepts and trends like artificial intelligence (AI), the algorithmic turn, and big data, automation is central to contemporary discourses of and debates about digital transformation. The entanglement of digital media technologies with material culture, the workplace, and the domestic sphere means our everyday lives are coming into contact with automation as well. But what do we mean when we say ‘automation’ - does it encompass algorithms, sensor networks, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacture, and interoperability? What histories and pre-histories of automation and everyday life might we need to take account of? How are past robotic imaginaries shaping the present—in science and technology and in science fiction alike? Does the current preoccupation with automation signal the endurance of these earlier imaginaries, does it mark a moment of disruption, or does it simply coincide with an industrial pivot on behalf of Silicon Valley toward these areas of innovation, and an accompanying wave of hype? When does the appearance of automation work to elide or obscure various forms of manual, affective and immaterial labour? In this two-day symposium, we invite theoretical and empirical papers that engage with these and other questions, particularly as they intersect with the experience and politics of digital media technologies with everyday life, work and consumption. Themes and topics that might be covered include: * Automation and the home (e.g., the Internet of Things) * Automation and work (e.g., mechanisation vs automation, microtasking, microsurveillance, and time management) * Automation and locative media, wayfinding and transport * Automation and AI in service and consumption, (Siri, customer service chatbots, ‘automated’ checkout, drone deliveries) * Sex, romance and robotics * Automated content curation and communication in digital and social media * Health, fitness and assisted living Submission process and key dates Please submit paper proposals to autoeveryday(a)gmail.com <mailto:autoeveryday@gmail.com> by 30 June 2016. Proposals should include an abstract of 250–400 words along with a brief bio of no more than 100 words. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 15 July 2016. Draft papers (3000–4000 words) of accepted presentations are to be submitted by 18 November 2016 for sharing and discussion among among symposium participants. Following the symposium, presenters will be invited to submit full-length papers to be considered for publication as part of a themed collection. We are approaching major international communication, cultural and media studies journals with a proposal for a special issue on the symposium theme. Organisers Prof. Jean Burgess<http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/burgesje> Dr Peta Mitchell <http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/mitchepr/> Dr Tim Highfield <http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/highfiel> Professor Jean Burgess http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/burgesje Ph: +617 3138 8253 | Email: je.burgess(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:je.burgess@qut.edu.au> | Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeanburgess Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=dfpq_bkAAAAJ&hl=en Centre Director | QUT Digital Media Research Centre Creative Industries Faculty | Queensland University of Technology Z1-515 | Musk Ave | Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Website: www.qut.edu.au/research/dmrc<http://www.qut.edu.au/research/dmrc> | Twitter: @qutdmrc | Centre email: dmrc(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:dmrc@qut.edu.au>

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egocenterd twitter analysis
by Barry Wellman 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Dr Boerket, et al. This might be useful. Anatoliy Gruzd, Barry Wellman and Yuri Takhteyev. 2011. "Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community." American Behavioral Scientist 55, 10: 1294-1318; doi:10.1177/0002764211409378 Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________

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Cybersecurity in a Digital Age Workshop
by Richard Denny Taylor 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Colleagues, Perhaps this Workshop may be of interest to some of you. Richard Legal and Policy Dimensions of Cybersecurity A by-invitation experts' workshop to be held at George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs September 28-29, 2016 The security of information networks and databases is now a critical element of national security and economic competitiveness. Rapid growth in e-commerce, banking, and communication systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) has increased efficiency and driven economic growth, but by necessity these systems preclude consumers' control over how and where their data are collected, archived and processed. Recent high-profile breaches of security at banks and retailers, coupled with secret and not-so-secret efforts by foreign governments and rogue actors to attack critical information infrastructures, have heightened these concerns. Legal and policy responses to the cybersecurity challenge are just as important as technological ones. To focus much-needed attention on this field of study, the IIP invites authors to submit abstracts addressing the policy and legal aspects of information security, privacy, data protection, cybersecurity-related legislation, and critical cyber-infrastructure protection. Authors of the selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a 2 day by-invitation-only experts workshop held at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs on September 28-29 (Wed.-Thu.), 2016. Each paper will be assigned a respondent recruited from the local academic/policy/advocacy communities and will be allotted a full hour for presentation, response and discussion. A reception and formal dinner provide room for social interaction. This workshop is twelfth in a series of workshops organized by the IIP since 2011, in support of its Journal of Information Policy, published by the IIP in partnership with the Penn State University Press (http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JIP.html) Presenters at the workshop will be invited to submit their completed papers for peer review to the Journal, with the successful papers presented in special issues dedicated to each workshop. The JIP has previously conducted workshops on a variety of topics including the future of broadband policy, digital diversity, new ICTs and democracy, media policy and advocacy, campaign funding and media, intellectual property, and more. For programs of previous workshops see: http://comm.psu.edu/research/centers/iip/conferences-and-worskhops. Possible topics for the workshop include the following: . Critical infrastructure protection, including information and energy networks . Cybersecurity policies and governance in nation states . Cybersecurity policies and governance in transnational organizations . Threats and vulnerabilities to cybersecurity and the policies they invoke . Information policy and cybersecurity in the age of IoT . Data breaches and the law - regulation, enforcement, protection, and damages . Cybersecurity and U.S. courts . Cybersecurity and privacy legislation-federal and state efforts to balance cyber security and civil liberties . The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and consumer online data protection enforcement-efforts, failures, future models . The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and web-based data regulation . Consumer data protection - an international legal and diplomatic conundrum The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) . Cybersecurity models . Cybersecurity management . Cybersecurity concerns and democracy . Strategic planning and security strategy . History of cybersecurity policy and governance . Security education, training and awareness . The future of cybersecurity: uncertainties and scenarios This workshop is made possible with financial contributions from the Penn State Colleges of Communications, Information Sciences and Technology, and Law, and the Office of the Provost, and with organization assistance from the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip(a)psu.edu <mailto:pennstateiip@psu.edu> by July 15, 2016. Please write IIP_CYBERSECURITY: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Presenters will be notified by August 15, 2016 regarding acceptance. Accepted papers will need to be submitted by September 19, 2016.

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A Social Media Analytics Perspective on Australian Elections
by Gohar F. Khan 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

I thought some of you may like reading this short analytical piece on Turnbull and Shorten <https://gfkhan.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/a-social-media-analytics-perspectiv…>'s social media presence. The preliminary results seems interesting and can potentially be replicated in a large scale study? And could such analysis be used to predict election results? No doubt such questions may have been answered, but I am just trying to explore some fresh ideas. Cheers! -- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. Email: gohar.feroz(a)kmu.ac.kr; Ph: 82-53-580-6371 ---------- Check out my new book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ----------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201 <http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ----------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||

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WG: A Social Media Analytics Perspective on Australian Elections
by Borkert, Maren 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Dear AoIR, Gohar F Khan just send a short analytical piece on the Australian Elections by comparing the Twitter profiles of two candidates with regard to - interactivity (measured by re-tweets, relies, user mentions) - influence and (measured by tweets favorited, re-tweets, user mentions) - popularity (measured by followers, following ratio, listed). **Is there an academic reference that someone can recommend regarding how to define/categorize and measure Twitter activities within an ego-centric network analysis??** >From a methodological point of view I find Khan's suggestion both interesting and difficult as he uses the same item to measure different characteristics. Hope someone can help with this! With best wishes, Maren ______________________ <http://www.entrepreneurship.tu-berlin.de/> Dr. Maren Borkert Technical University Berlin ________________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von Gohar F. Khan <gohar.feroz(a)gmail.com> Gesendet: Montag, 20. Juni 2016 16:19 An: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Betreff: [Air-L] A Social Media Analytics Perspective on Australian Elections I thought some of you may like reading this short analytical piece on Turnbull and Shorten <https://gfkhan.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/a-social-media-analytics-perspectiv…>'s social media presence. The preliminary results seems interesting and can potentially be replicated in a large scale study? And could such analysis be used to predict election results? No doubt such questions may have been answered, but I am just trying to explore some fresh ideas. Cheers! -- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. Email: gohar.feroz(a)kmu.ac.kr; Ph: 82-53-580-6371 ---------- Check out my new book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ----------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201 <http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ----------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>|| _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. Email: gohar.feroz(a)kmu.ac.kr<mailto:gohar.feroz@kmu.ac.kr>; Ph: 82-53-580-6371 ---------- Check out my new book on social media analytics<http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ----------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201<http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ----------- Social Identities: || Blog<http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter<https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre<http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||

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CfP: Ting – Making publics through provocation, conflict and appropriation (PDC2016 Workshop)
by Karin Hansson 20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16

Extended deadline July 1st Ting: Making publics through provocation, conflict and appropriation A workshop at The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Aarhus 2016, August 15. http://www.performingthecommon.se/ting/ <http://www.performingthecommon.se/ting/> Because of the importance of the role and embodiment of the designer/artist in making publics, this workshop calls attention to self-reflective practices in participatory design, and questions how these self-reflective practices can be embedded in the functionality of new publics and design practices. More specifically, the workshop aims to explore the following questions: How do the designer/artist create and maintain publics? How do we accommodate differences in these agonistic spaces? What is the role of the designer/artist in these contexts? How can we understand the tension between artistic control in speculative design and empowerment in participatory design? We invite researchers, designers, activists, artists, who in their work are exploring utopian, speculative, and critical design projects as well as designing for and with social movements, alternative societies and relational economies. The specific themes and topics we are interested to revisit and discuss in this workshop are: • Agonistic public spaces versus consensual decision-making • Role of the author/designer/creator/artist in speculative and critical design in relation to participatory design • Exclusion and inclusion in the design practice • Norms in speculative participatory design practices • Institutional conditions for the development and growth of speculative and critical design within a participatory design practice Workshop Participation and Key Dates Participants will be selected to participate in the workshop based on their submitted position-papers. The submission should be between 1,000 to 2,000 words long, and include an image or illustration of a design work or design process. Submission should follow the ACM ICPS format (http://pdc2016.org/formatting-guidelines/ <http://pdc2016.org/formatting-guidelines/>). • Position paper deadline: July 1, 2016 • Author Notification: July 13, 2016 Extended papers will be considered for a special issue in Design Issues. Organizers Karin Hansson, Stockholm University Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Digital Media Program Tessy Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University Silvia Lindtner, School of Information, University of Michigan Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University Somya Joshi, Stockholm University For submissions and further information contact: ting(a)performingthecommon.se <mailto:ting@performingthecommon.se>

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irb approach to data like panama papers / wikileaks / etc?
by kalev leetaru 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Hi, for a study I'm doing I was wondering if people on this list might could contact me offline at (kalev.leetaru5(a)gmail.com) with any pointers or personal experiences of how their IRBs are addressing the issue of academic research using data from data breaches. Ie, the Panama Papers, Wikileaks, the Sony emails, Ashley Madison data, and any of the myriad other datasets now floating around. Researchers from several major US institutions I've spoken with thus far have shared IRB approval forms with me that show their particular IRBs accepting the argument that any data, no matter how sensitive, which can be downloaded openly from the web, is accepted as "public domain" and falls under an IRB exemption of existing public data. In particular, the IRB approvals I've seen accepted that any personally identifying information in the datasets, no matter how sensitive, is exempted due to its being public access now. I'm thus extremely curious whether this is a general trend and how other IRBs are treating the use of hacked datasets which are widely accessible online. In an era in which academic researchers can easily access with a few mouseclicks breached medical records to password archives to sexual preferences to financial statements to just about any kind of dataset you can imagine, there are all kinds of questions around whether those datasets should be available for academic research and I'm curious how IRBs are leaning right now. I realize there are a myriad professional ethics guidelines out there put forward by the various professional societies, but from browsing recent journal issues from a cross-section of fields including the social, information, and computer sciences, I've turned up countless papers using breached datasets, and those papers in fields that traditionally use IRBs have all claimed full IRB approval, while I've found in the computer sciences that few of the researchers I've spoken with thus far have either heard of the IRB or believe that their research is subject to IRB. Thus, my main interest is really at the institutional level - how are IRBs and universities handling the issue of their scholars using data from breaches like Wikileaks, Panama Papers, Sony emails, breaches from government agencies, etc? I'm also interested for those of you who are journal editors or who have gone through that process, how do you handle the issue of whether to publish a paper using something like Wikileaks data and, *in particular* how do you handle the issue of hosting portions of the breached data in the replication archive of your journal's website? I know this can be a deeply impassioned area of discourse and for my particular study I'm *solely* focused on how institutions, especially IRBs and also journals, are currently handling the issue of breached data like Wikileaks/Panama Papers/etc in academic publications. Thanks so much in advance! Kalev

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CfPs: Health RecSys Workshop @ ACM RECSYS'16 (Deadline: June, 24th, 2016)
by Christoph Trattner 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Engendering Health with RecSys (HealthRecSys 2016) to be held in Boston, USA co-located with ACM RECSYS 2016 (https://recsys.acm.org/) Website: http://healthrecsys.ur.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** June, 24th, 2016 Paper submission deadline ** July, 15th, 2016 Notification to authors ** July, 29th, 2016, Camera-Ready Version ** September, 15th-19th, 2016 Recsys conference Workshop Organizers: ==================== David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg, Germany) Bernd Ludwig (University of Regensburg, Germany) Alan Said (Recorded Future, Sweden) Hanna Schaefer (TU-Muenchen, Germany) Christoph Trattner (Know-Center, Austria) Program Committee: ==================== Francesco Ricci - University of Bolzano Morgan Harvey - Northumbria University Ge Mouzhi - University of Bolzano Georg Groh - TU Munich Jill Freyne - CSIRO Marko Tkalcic - University of Bolzano Shlomo Berkovsky - CSIRO Neal Lathia - University of Cambridge Cathal Gurrin - Dublin City University Mark Dunlop - University of Strathclyde Andreas Komninos - University of Strathclyde Aiden Doherty - University of Oxford Christoph Palm - OTH Regensburg Eelco Herder - L3S Robert West - Stanford Munmun De Choudhury - Georgia Tech Ingmar Weber - Qatar Computing Research Institute Kjetil Norvag - NTNU Objectives & Topics: ==================== Busy lifestyles, abundant options, lack of knowledge ... there are many reasons why people make poor decisions relating to their health. Yet these poor decisions are leading to epidemics, which represent some of the greatest challenges we face as a society today. Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, account for approx. 60% of total premature deaths worldwide. These diseases share the same four behavioural risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful consumption of alcohol and can be prevented and sometimes even reversed with simple lifestyle changes. Eating more healthily, exercising more appropriately, sleeping and relaxing more, as well as simply being more aware of one's state of health are all things that would lead to improved health. Yet knowing exactly what to change and how, implementing changes and maintaining changes over long time periods are all things people find challenging. These are also problems, for which we believe recommender systems can provide assistance by offering specific, tailored suggestions for behavioural change. In recent years recommender systems for health has become a popular topic within the RecSys community and a selection of empirical contributions and demo systems have been published. Efforts to date, however have been sporadic and lack coordination. We lack shared infrastructure such as datasets, appropriate cross-disciplinary knowledge, even agreed upon goals. It is our aim to use this workshop as a vehicle to: ** Establish the problem as a prominent RecSys topic ** Create a community of researchers who will determine a concrete research agenda for health in RecSys ** Attract scientists from other domains to RecSys: health (e.g. sports, nutrition, medicine), psychology, signal processing, wearables, HCI, etc. ** Create new ideas for collaboration, particularly cross-domain collaborations ** Establish shared infrastructure (datasets and tools) We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: ** Motivation - increasing motivation, understanding motivation, utilising psychological models, gamification ** Algorithms for Health Recommendations ** Interfaces - Explanations/Presentation, Feedback, Usability ** Persuasive Design ** Sensors - e.g. activity tracking, context detection, quantified self, motivation by self assessment ** Mobile devices ** Gamification - e.g. Making exercise or diet fun ** Social Motivation - Inclusion of Social Context, Coactivity and Group Recommenders ** Knowledge representation - Transfer of domain knowledge to digital systems ** Ethics - Gap between recommendations and medical advice ** Ease of use - embedding systems into everyday life Learning about health ** User modelling, behavioural analytics and behavioural change Submissions: ============ We solicit short research papers (up to 4 pages) & short postion papers (up to 2 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthrecsys2016 Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Accepted papers will be published according to the ACM RECSYS 2016 WS publication rules. Location: ========= The workshop will take place at the IBM Research campuses in Boston, MA, USA and will be held in conjunction with the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Further information of this location can be found on the ACM RecSys website: https://recsys.acm.org/. Contact: ======== David Elsweiler - david.elsweiler(a)ur.de Bernd Ludwig - bernd.ludwg(a)ur.de Alan Said - alan(a)alans.se Hanna Schaefer - hanna.schaefer(a)tum.de Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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