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job opening - research manager - Center for Democracy and Technology
by Dhanaraj Thakur 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please see below the job description for an exciting new position at the Center for Democracy Technology <https://cdt.org/>. It's a Washington DC based role with remote working for now. I would appreciate it if you can share the link <https://cdt.org/job/research-manager/> with your colleagues and networks. thanks, Dhanaraj *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |* cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* *E:* dthakur(a)cdt.org <mailto:dthakur@cdt.org> | *P:* +1 202 407 8849 | @thakurdhanaraj ---------------- The Center for Democracy Technology (CDT) is seeking a *Research Manager* to work on issues at the intersection of technology and human rights. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a newly created research team within CDT, informing its policy agenda and contributing to cutting edge tech policy dialogue in the U.S., EU, and around the world. The position offers opportunities for growth, including identifying and leading research projects on new and emerging technology policy issues, and working with CDT’s networks of external academics and partners. The position is based in CDT’s Washington, DC office (with remote work currently in effect due to COVID-19). For twenty-five years, CDT has been a leading nonprofit public interest organization, working at the cutting edge of digital rights policy. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT engages in a variety of strategies to enhance civil liberties and human rights in the digital age, including advocacy, public education, and research. CDT works on legislation, participates in agency rule-makings, engages in litigation, and fosters consensus-building among public interest and private sector stakeholders. Key issue areas include free expression, privacy and data, government surveillance, cybersecurity and standards, open internet, election security, and competition. CDT is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and collaborates closely with its partner organization, CDT Europe, which is based in Brussels. For more information, please visit our website <https://cdt.org>. *Main Responsibilities:* * Design and implement research projects to inform the development of CDT’s policy positions and contribute to U.S. and international dialogue about key issues in technology policy * Manage specific research projects, including coordination across CDT teams and engaging with external stakeholders * Supervise external consultants working on CDT’s research projects * Write concise and compelling analysis in a variety of formats, including blog posts, advocacy material, white papers, and reports * Engage with academic and other research organizations to further CDT’s research agenda * With the Research Director, implement CDT’s research strategy, including identification of short- and long-term research goals * Work with the communications team to craft sharp, compelling messages for media and other audiences based on research outputs * Represent CDT through public speaking, participation in coalition meetings, and media interviews. *Required Qualifications:* * At least 3 to 5 years work experience conducting research on technology policy problems and/or online civil liberties and human rights * An advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g. computer/information science, economics, public policy, communication policy, etc.) * Genuine curiosity with an imaginative approach to research design and implementation * Experience in research design and managing multiple research projects * Expertise with statistical analysis (and relevant software), and/or qualitative data analysis * Excellent writing skills for technical, policy, and lay audiences * An energetic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative working style *Desired Qualifications:* * Knowledge of free expression concerns online such as content moderation, automated content analysis/filtering, algorithmic transparency, or intermediary liability * Expertise in others areas of CDT’s work including privacy, surveillance, open internet issues, and cybersecurity and standards * A critical understanding of how technology, policy, and law may have a disparate impact on individuals and communities based on race, gender, disability, income, immigration status, or other circumstances or characteristics * Excellent public speaking skills and experience that can deliver CDT’s research and policy positions to a wide range of audiences * Good data visualization skills * Experience preparing successful funding proposals for research *Compensation* Salary is competitive with public interest and government pay scales. CDT provides a generous benefits package that includes health care and dental coverage, a retirement plan, paid vacation, sick days, and parental leave. *To Apply* Please send a cover letter and a resume to hr(a)cdt.org <mailto:hr@cdt.org>. --

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WEBCAST TODAY: How Community Networks are helping during COVID-19
by Joly MacFie 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Since this was scheduled almost a month ago, there have been a LOT of registrations! In addition to the simulcasts below it will also go out on https://www.facebook.com/pg/isocasiapacific/ - Questions/ comments/ polls will be at https://sli.do/CNCV19 ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday 8 July 2020, from 07:00-8:00 UTC, the Internet Society Asia Pacific Bureau hosts 'How Community Networks are helping during COVID-19'. The goal of this virtual meeting is to demonstrate the importance of community networks to provide connecti" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/apaccns>On* Wednesday 8 July 2020*, from *07:00-8:00 UTC*, the *Internet Society Asia Pacific Bureau <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/asia-pacific/>* hosts '*How Community Networks are helping during COVID-19 <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/how-community-networks-are-helping-d…>*'. The goal of this virtual meeting is to demonstrate the importance of *community networks <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/>* to provide connectivity, and how they are helping rural communities to prepare and respond to COVID-19. *PANELISTS* *Sarbani Banerjee Belur*, Gram Marg Project (India) *Gustaff H. Iskandar*, Common Room Project (Indonesia) *Rajnesh Singh*, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/apaccns <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/apaccns>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/30DFYT1 <https://bit.ly/30DFYT1>* *TWITTER @ISOCapac #CommunityNetworks <https://bit.ly/2YuocyY> #switchiton #GrowInternet* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12258/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Book announcement: Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age
by Natalia Grincheva 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

*** With apologies for x-posting*** Dear colleagues, I am thrilled to announce my new book * <https://www.routledge.com/Museum-Diplomacy-in-the-Digital-Age/Grincheva/p/b…>**Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age <https://www.routledge.com/Museum-Diplomacy-in-the-Digital-Age/Grincheva/p/b…>* . It explores online museum spaces as sites of contemporary diplomacy across the largest museums in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In the time of the post(pandemic) “digital lockdown” this book offers timely, useful and illuminating insights on how museums can retain their global visibility, engage their local and international audiences and offer meaningful interactive learning experiences. You can read a teaser here <https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/museums-in-cyberspace>. *The book is currently on discount sale at Routledge. *Please, share this link <https://www.routledge.com/Museum-Diplomacy-in-the-Digital-Age/Grincheva/p/b…>with your library to order a hard copy. *Book** reviews are very welcome! *Please request an inspection copy by following the link <https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9780815369998> or email me. With kind regards, Dr Natalia Grincheva 2020 Visiting Research Fellow <https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/people/natalia-grincheva>, Digital Diplomacy Research Group, University of Oxford <https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/784300-natalia-grincheva>Honorary Research Fellow <https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/784300-natalia-grincheva>, Digital Studio, The University of Melbourne Assistant Professor, Department of Media, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for workshop proposals
by Axel Soto 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

ACM IUI 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, TX, USA April 13 - 17, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). This year we are particularly interested in workshops that have an interactive aspect. Preference will be given to workshops with interactive and hands-on sessions where participants can team up or work together towards the common goal of the workshop. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. == PROPOSAL FORMAT == Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshops2021(a)iui.acm.org) and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the Interim ACM templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Please submit your proposal via the PCS 2.0 submission system (https://new.precisionconference.com) The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to the IUI audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from (sigconf): http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2021. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by January 3 2021 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2021 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshops and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2021 workshop chairs. == IMPORTANT DATES == Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP Workshop date: Proposals Due: September 15, 2020 Decisions sent: October 07, 2020 Submissions due: December 23, 2020 Reporting of status: January 03, 2021 Final go/no-go decisions: January 05, 2021 Notification to authors: January 31, 2021 Camera-ready for workshop summary [ACM Companion] February 10, 2021 Camera-ready for accepted papers February 28, 2021

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Last call for HICSS, Digital Methods (7/15 deadline)
by Alexander Halavais 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

Hi, all, Just a quick reminder that the extended deadline for this coming year's HICSS-54 conference is rapidly approaching: July 15. The conference remains scheduled for this January on Kauai, but even if conditions forbid travel at that point, the proceedings for HICSS are well cited (the most cited proceedings in the information sciences, according to Google Scholar). There are a number of interesting minitracks at HICSS on offer by AoIR regulars, but I hope you will consider the track on "Digital Methods" being organized by Shawn Walker, Matthew Weber, and myself: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/digital-and-social-media/#digital-method… Best, Alex -- // Alexander Halavais (he/him) @halavais alex.halavais.net/bio // Associate Prof. of Critical Data Studies - Director of MA in Social Tech // Arizona State University, New College, Social & Behavioral Sciences // "I want to see you not through the Machine," said Kuno. "I want to // speak to you not through the wearisome Machine."

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CFP: Live Streaming Culture collection
by Christopher Persaud 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

Dear all, A reminder as the deadline is approaching, we are soliciting abstracts for a proposed edited volume, "Live Streaming Culture", edited by Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher Persaud. The full CFP is in the body of the email below and also available at the link here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8W7er3wrnNNxS98EoyJwCBZ60sCtnqbAZ1ikqY… The general deadline for abstracts of 300-500 words is July 17. We know these are challenging times and we are willing to work with potential contributors on deadlines. Please feel free to send a quick query with questions to Johanna Brewer ( johanna(a)anykey.org) and Bo Ruberg (bruberg(a)uci.edu) We appreciate you passing along this CFP to anyone who might be interested. Best, Johanna, Bo, Amanda, and Christopher ------------------ Live Streaming Culture Abstract Deadline: July 17, 2020 Contact: Johanna Brewer (johanna(a)anykey.org) and Bo Ruberg (bruberg(a)uci.edu) Editors: Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher Persaud Live streaming is a rapidly growing phenomenon that is having profound effects on the contemporary landscape of digital media, entertainment, and online culture. Across the internet, live streaming takes an array of forms: from gaming-focused sites like Twitch and Mixer, where millions of viewers watch live video gameplay, to social media sites like Facebook and YouTube, where streamers translate their day-to-day lives into broadcasts. As with all technological platforms, live streaming is deeply shaped by (and also itself actively shapes) broader cultural issues. This edited volume will take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cultural issues in live streaming. Examples of topic areas include but are not limited to: identity, community, power, access, aesthetics, gender, sexuality, race, disability, discrimination, harassment, politics, and activism. While important fundamental work on live streaming has been done by game studies scholars like T. L. Taylor, Mia Consolvo, and Will Partin (among many others), this collection will expand that research to a broader network of questions around the relationship between live streaming and society. We understand live streaming to encompass many forms of real-time broadcasting online such as: Just Chatting streams on Twitch, social eating on YouTube, live music on Facebook, webcam modeling on MyFreeCams, as well as video and analog gameplay. Scholars, methods, and perspectives from across disciplines are all welcome, as long as they are rooted in the cultures, human experiences, and histories that surround live streaming. Contributions from non-academics, including streamers and community organizers, are also encouraged. Contributions may take one of the following general formats: - Academic article written for an interdisciplinary audience. Accessible writing is appreciated. - First-person account of experiences with streaming or streaming communities. - Q&A-style interview with live streamers or others involved in live streaming cultures. - Research- or experience-based call to action, such as arguments for new approaches to design, community management, or platform policy. Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by July 17, 2020 and can be submitted to the contact address above. Authors can expect to hear back regarding abstracts by August 14. Full paper submissions of 3,000 - 5,000 words will be due December 18. Any citation style is acceptable for abstracts. We know these are challenging times and we are willing to work with potential contributors on deadlines. If you have questions, please feel free to send a quick query to Johanna Brewer (johanna(a)anykey.org) and Bo Ruberg (bruberg(a)uci.edu)

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Seeking survey participation for OECD Trustworthy AI best practices
by Peter Cihon 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

The OECD's Network of Experts on Artificial Intelligence has launched a short survey to identify and share practical approaches and good practices that can be learned from in order to implement trustworthy AI systems; that is, AI systems which embody principles such as human rights, fairness, transparency, explainability, security, safety and accountability. There is particular interest for input from academia and civil society. Please share trustworthy AI tools or use cases of AI systems by answering a few questions at www.oecd.ai/survey. Multiple submissions are welcome. The success of this project hinges on your participation! Thank you, Peter -- Peter Cihon Mobile: 1-315-399-9207 Skype: peter.cihon | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/pcihon/>

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How to calculate survey sample size for multiple social media platforms?
by Matt Erlandsen 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

Hello everybody, Hopefully you are all safe and sound. I need to conduct an online survey, which will be handed out through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the website of a local online newspaper. My objective is to reach their audience as a whole, yet I am confused and lost about how to calculate the survey sample size having in consideration that: 1) There are fans from Facebook and followers in Instagram who are the same person (but of course I cannot match them to filter them out); 2) What number should I use as a population in order to calculate the sample size --i.e Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Instagram followers, web page visitors, or a sum of all of those, an average of all of those, should I calculate and therefore run one survey sample size for each platform/source? If you could give me any input/feedback on this I will be very glad. Thanks a lot. *Matt Erlandsen* *Estudiante Doctorado en Ciencias de la Comunicación* *PhD Student of Communication Sciences* Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile +56 (9) 8218-5055 @matterlandsen <http://twitter.com/matterlandsen> Santiago, RM, Chile.- By not printing this email you've helped save paper, ink, and millions of trees. No imprimas este mensaje, así estarás ahorrando papel, tinta, y millones de árboles.

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Webinar 14 July 2020: Digital Extremism and the City
by Scott Rodgers 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

Digital Extremism and the City When: 14 July 2020, 17:00-18:00 (GMT+1) Venue: Online (Blackboard Collaborate) Booking: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/14170 In this webinar Bharath Ganesh<https://www.rug.nl/staff/b.ganesh/> and Robert Topinka<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/Robert%20Topinka> discuss the digitalised tropes, affects and infrastructures of the far right in, through and in relation to the city. Part of the new Urban Intersections series hosted by Birkbeck, University of London, each speaker will offer an initial set of reflections drawing on work in-progress (abstracts below), followed by a discussion with one another as well as webinar attendees. The event will be chaired by Scott Rodgers<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/culture/staff/teaching-staff/scott-rodgers> and introduced by Mara Nogueira<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/geography/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/mara-nogu…>. All are welcome, but registration is required. Participants will receive details about accessing the webinar via Blackboard Collaborate on the day prior to the event. Invaded, Degenerate, Untraversable: Far Right Political Geographies of the “Western” City (Bharath Ganesh, University of Groningen) In this talk, I will present initial reflections on far right’s political geography of the city, centering on three tropes. First, the far right imagines the city as the front line of an invasion and “replacement” of “native” culture, with images of mosques, of slums, and non-white inhabitants frequently reproduced in digital cultures. Second, the city is constructed as culturally degenerate, dilapidated, and controlled by leftists. Third, often articulated through the trope of the “no-go zone”, the far right’s political geography of the city renders it as untraversable, a space of risk that threatens the safety of white people—particularly women—that seek to travel through it. In presenting reflections on these three tropes of the far right’s political geography of the city, it emerges as a mythical entity that reflects far right anxiety over the supremacy of whiteness in European and North American space. This myth-making is not simply diagnostic; the myth of the city as invaded, degenerate, and untraversable synthesizes a false sense of white victimhood, reconfiguring the right to the city as the demand for the (maintenance of) the inscription of white supremacy in urban space. The Right in the City: From Charlottesville to the Boogaloo Boys and Beyond (Robert Topinka, Birkbeck, University of London) This talk charts a provisional trajectory from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville to street-fighting Proud Boys in Seattle’s CHAZ and the menacing but ambiguous public appearance of so-called Boogaloo Boys at recent Black Lives Matter protests. Although these reactionary subcultures are typically understood to be ‘extremely online,’ the city looms large in the reactionary imaginary not only as a scene of riotous, unruly black and brown bodies but as a material and embodied site of violent political contestation. I suggest that recent work on platform urbanism has much to offer the study of right-wing extremism. Rather than attempting to categorize these contradictory reactionary phenomena as ‘movements,’ I argue that the recombinatory and modular affordances of platforms shape and circulate protean political affects in digital and urban space. Speakers Dr Bharath Ganesh<https://www.rug.nl/staff/b.ganesh/> is Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. He is a political geographer, focusing on new media, political communication, and cultures of hate and intolerance online using computational and qualitative methods. His research has been published in journals such as Policy & Internet, Cultural Studies and Communication Research. With Jonathan Bright, he is co-editor of Extreme Digital Speech: Contexts, Responses, and Solutions (2020, VOX-Pol Network of Excellence). Dr Robert Topinka<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/culture/staff/teaching-staff/robert-topinka> is Lecturer in Transnational Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Film, Media & Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. His research spans disciplines and time periods, drawing on urban studies, media theory, rhetoric, and aesthetics to examine the history and present of media, race, and urban life. He has been published in journals such as New Media & Society, Visual Communication and Citizenship Studies, and is the author of Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric and Technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900 (forthcoming, University of California Press). For more information, contact: Scott Rodgers at s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for papers [corrected dates]
by Axel Soto 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Apr 13, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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