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Connect with fellow innovators, researchers, educators at the 2018 Connected Learning Summit (Register now)
by Jamieson Pond 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Connected Learning Summit 2018 August 1-3, 2018 | MIT Media Lab Join a gathering of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. Homepage: http://clsummit.news/CLShomeAIR Schedule: http://clsummit.news/CLSschedAIR Register: http://clsummit.news/CLSregAIR Connect with fellow game designers, educators, researchers, makers at the first annual Connected Learning Summit, happening August 1-3 at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. The summit’s purpose is “to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning.” The summit will feature discussions aimed at inspiring educators, game designers, learning scientists and others to promote digital citizenship, equity and access in their deployment of educational games, virtual reality and other digital media in and out of school. Its aim is to be a place where those excited to take learning to the next level gather to learn about cutting-edge strategies in connected learning. The Connected Learning Summit will include a keynote conversation between Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and Baratunde Thurston, a comedian, cultural critic who helped re-launch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, co-founder of Cultivated Wit and the About Race podcast and author of the New York Times bestseller “How To Be Black.” The full schedule is available online (http://clsummit.news/CLSschedAIR) Besides the keynote address, the summit includes myriad sessions by leaders in academics, industry and nonprofit organizations; presentations on innovative learning projects and research; interactive workshops on technology research and design, games and other media; a lively “hall of failure,” featuring honest post mortems on projects, programs and products; smart, fast, performative “ignite” sessions; a community showcase evening event for working papers, tech demos, and ideas; and fireside chats with luminaries across fields. The Connected Learning Summit represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, this event brings together leading researchers, educators and developers. Learn more about the first annual Connected Learning Summit: http://clsummit.news/CLShomeAIR Register (*Special registration pricing for students and K-12/informal educators*): http://clsummit.news/CLSregAIR Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Research Community Manager Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine *Connected Learning Summit 2018* August 1-3, 2018 | MIT Media Lab Registration Now Open

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CFP: Spectator (Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data)
by Anirban Kapil Baishya 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hello All, I am currently editing an issue of *Spectator*, University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies Division's journal ( http://cinema.usc.edu/mediastudies/spectator/index.cfm) The issue is titled "Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data". Please find the CFP pasted below: *Call for Papers* *Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data* *Volume 38.2 and Fall 2019* Contemporary discussions on digital media and its effects often tend to focus on “big data” as the primary locus of conversation. Such discussions tend to range from the uncritical embracement of the possibilities of big data in areas such as the advertising and entertainment industries, to doomsday scenarios of surveillance and privacy risks under the increasing interconnections between corporate and state structures. This focus on big data structures often tends to overlook the numerous smaller changes that have taken place in social and communication practices with the advent of digital media. Such changes involve the emergence of “smaller” media forms that integrate themselves into practices of everyday life through routinized usage and habit. One caveat here: “smaller” media is not a judgment on the scale of the media, or their structural complexity, but rather serves as a pointer to the forms of their adoption and adaptations that elude the “big” sweep of corporate and state structures. While such media may indeed be produced by corporations and conglomerations, they may be used in unintended and even subversive ways by their target audiences. This issue of *Spectator* dedicates itself to such forms of adaptations, repurposing and habit that run counter to the utilitarian motivations behind the production and distribution of media forms. How have digital media affected our contemporary conversation styles, both online and offline? In what ways has the integration of network communication devices in everyday life changed our experience of urban spaces? How have online shopping portals and apps changed our practices as consumers? What is the impact of new media on contemporary forms of religiosity and faith-practices? What changes in film and televisual media consumption have taken place with the emergence of both legal streaming options, and underground access through torrent-sites and illegal streaming? This issue is also interested in works that look media practices beyond the West, especially those that diverge from seemingly “normative” uses of media through re-assemblage and tactical usage. Works that interrogate digital media forms through an integration of theory and practice are also encouraged. *Deadline for Submission: November 27, 2018* *Spectator* is a biannual publication and submissions that address the above topics in the following areas are now invited for submission. *Possible topics* include, but need not be limited to: - *Social media, cellphones and conversation style* - *Navigation Apps and everyday life in the city* - *“Binge watching” and the new spectator/cinephile.* - *Dating Apps and digital intimacy* - *Sexting, Camsites and digital-smut* - *Digital Media and the organization of protests* - *Social media and virtual communities* - *Habit, routine and the new-media ecology* - *Digital Media, Space and Temporality* - *Surveillance and self-tracking practices* - *Digital technology and health* - *Smart technology, domesticity and the “connected home”* Include your contact information - Name - Address - Phone - E-mail Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to: Anirban K. Baishya, Issue Editor The Bryan Singer Division of Cinema & Media Studies School of Cinematic Arts, Room 320 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 Email: baishya(a)usc.edu Submissions should be e-mailed directly to the issue editor. Manuscripts should include the title of the contribution and the name(s) of authors. As well as the postal address, e-mail address, and phone numbers for author who will work with the editor on any revisions. All pages should be numbered consecutively. Contributions should not be more than 5,000 words. Please include a brief abstract for publicity. Authors should also include a brief biographic entry. Articles submitted to the Spectator should not be under consideration by any other journal. Book Reviews may vary in length from 300 to 1,000 words. Please include title of book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new archival or research facilities or methods as well as other relevant works related to the field. *Electronic Submissions and Formatting.* Authors should send copies of their work via e-mail as electronic attachments. Please keep backup files. Files should be Microsoft Word in PC or Mac format, depending on the editor's preference. Endnotes should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all contributors as to image and text requirements. *Current Board for Spectator* Founding Editor Marsha Kinder Managing Editor William Whittington Issue Editor Anirban K. Baishya Contributors TBD *Subscription Information* Individual issues cost $10.00. Institutional rate for US and Canada is $30.00 USD. All others $40.00 USD. Please contact the subscription editor for bulk discounts. To order a subscription, please send *$15.00* *for the current volume year to: University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts Cinema & Media Studies SCA, Room 320 Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 Attn: Spectator Subscription Tel: (213) 740-3334 Fax: (213) 740-9471 *If you subscribe now, you will receive one back issue free (based on availability). For additional back issues, contact subscription manager and include $12.00 per issue. Email: Spectator(a)cinema.usc.edu Best, Anirban Baishya Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Division of Cinema and Media Studies School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California

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The Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos
by Louisa Shu Ying Ha 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Dear AOIRs: I am pleased to announce the release of my new edited book: “The Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos.” Use LEX30AUTH18 as the 30% discount code when ordered online at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498576482/The-Audience-and-Business-of-YouTube-… Below is a blurb for your reference. If you are interested in reviewing the book, please contact me directly. The book will be available at the AEJMC Conference in Washington DC this August. This book is a thorough analysis of digital natives as YouTube audiences as well as creators of online videos. Using a mixed method approach, the authors examine the underexplored business side of YouTube: its audience in the form of product review videos, comments on videos, YouTube and other social media and online video services such as Netflix and Hulu, brand videos, sponsored videos and online video advertising. It will also be the first book that examines YouTube Red (now called YouTube Premium) and other YouTube services such as subscription, pay TV, and movie services. YouTube is conceptualized as a global video portal and the go-to video encyclopedia and demonstration site for the online generation. Although general media attention has focused on the most popular channels and the YouTube influencers, this book calls for audience empowerment through active input to the metrics that determine the algorithm of YouTube’s video recommendation system and identify the weakness of the chase of the most viewed videos which facilitates sensationalism and star power. The availability of both professional and user-generated content on YouTube is what made YouTube so special. The boundary between amateur content and professional content diminishes as popular YouTubers are cultivated and professionalized by YouTube and its intermediary networks to be star producers and influencers. YouTube’s diverse ecosystem and its global audiences and video creators are facilitating the formation of a global village where we see people in other countries in action without censorship. Different organizations, including governments, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, media organizations, and businesses, set up their YouTube channels to reach national and foreign audiences. YouTube is the only global platform that can accommodate so many videos from all over the world. Instead of facilitating a participatory culture that past YouTube research emphasized, this book presents YouTube as the cultivator of a promotional and entrepreneurial culture through its open policy to various individuals and organizations to promote themselves through posting and sharing videos. YouTube is part of the online video industry. The online video audience behavior revealed and analyzed in the book lays the foundation for future research on online video audiences. Table of Contents 1. YouTube as a Global Online Video Portal and an Alternative to TV 2. Users and Non-users of YouTube and Online Video Services 3. What Do Digital Natives Watch on YouTube 4. How Digital Natives Watch Online Videos: Digital Divide and Media Devices 5. YouTube Product Review Videos as eWOM 6. Comments on YouTube Product Review Videos 7. YouTube and Other Social Media 8. Brand Videos on YouTube 9. Sponsored Videos on YouTube 10. Online Video Advertising Viewership and Avoidance on YouTube 11. Most Popular YouTube Channels 12. Is YouTube Red the Ultimate Viewing Experience and What is the Future of Online Video Audience Research? Louisa Ha, Ph.D. Editor, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly Professor, School of Media and Communication Bowling Green State University New Book: The Audience and Business of YouTube & Online Videos 419-3729103 Twitter: @LouisaHaJMCQ https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498576482/The-Audience-and-Business-of-YouTube-…

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CFP: Understanding the social in a digital age (correct years)
by Zoetanya Sujon 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

This one contains the correct dates (my apologies for repetition and cross-posting) *Understanding the social in a digital age: **An interdisciplinary conference on media, technology, and the social* The pervasiveness of social media has led to both the rise and erasure of ‘the social’. The social is increasingly evasive, at once found everywhere and nowhere. Social media are widely lauded for connecting people and enabling richer, more dynamic socialities yet many critique these processes as emptying out social connection in favour of data accumulation, self-promotion, and platform capitalism. Similarly, these new ways of experiencing, augmenting, and understanding the social are rife with their own socio-cultural and socio-economic biases, born out through designers and users, meaning not every user experiences these spaces and relates to these technologies in the same manner. It becomes apparent that ‘the social’ presumes a singular experience, when realities are far more diverse. Current research on social media draws in an interdisciplinary manner from a wide range of thinking on what the social means, and is increasingly challenging extant theories and conceptions of the social. This poses a number of questions for how we consider, define, and explore the social, and crucially what our responsibilities are as researchers and educators. This also poses a number of opportunities to work across disciplinary boundaries to explore and reframe our understandings of media, technology, and the social. *Keynotes will be given by Professor Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Professor Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute.* This event aims to critically examine not only the meanings of the social in contemporary digital practices across cultures, but also challenges underlying epistemologies of the social in research and popular cultures. Papers may approach the topic from theoretical, conceptual, and/or empirical positions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Challenges of and negotiations around agency and structure · The relationship between technology, self, and society · Educational challenges and responsibilities in the digital age · Changing socialities in the face of platform capitalism, the sharing economy, the gig economy, the rise of mediation, & networked selves · The embedding and disembedding of socio-cultural resources online · Resistance and transgression on, in, with, and through technology · The role of designers, users, researchers and the public in the framing, conceptualisation, and representation of ‘the social’ online · Extant and emerging social structures in the digital age · Boundaries between online and offline social practices · Affordances and mediation of social practices · Alternative media and sub-altern communities · Technological mediation of public / private · Digital citizenships and the politics of belonging · Emerging technologies and digital futures This list is merely suggestive of the range of topics of interest to the organisers and is not in any way restrictive of possible interpretations of the theme. We encourage contributors to be imaginative in formulating ideas and paper proposals. Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short bio of 100 words should be submitted via email by *28th August 2018. * You will receive notification of the outcome of your submission by September 30. Submissions from early career researchers are highly encouraged. Final papers should be no longer than 8,000 words / 20 minutes. All those who submit final papers by January 7th will also be invited to submit to a special edition of an international peer-reviewed journal. The event is *free to attend and present*, and will be hosted at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, on the *8th January 2019. * *Key dates:* Abstract submission: August 28th 2018 Notification of outcomes: September 30th 2018 Draft papers due: January 7th 2019 Conference: January 8th 2019, at UEA Organisers: Dr Zoetanya Sujon (University of Arts London) Dr Harry Dyer (University of East Anglia) *Enquiries: **UnderstandingTheSocial(a)gmail.com* <UnderstandingTheSocial(a)gmail.com> -- 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).

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CFP: Understanding the social in a digital age
by Zoetanya Sujon 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Please see the CFP below, and consider contributing to the following conference on January 8th, 2019. *CFP: Understanding the social in a digital age: **An interdisciplinary conference on media, technology, and the social* The pervasiveness of social media has led to both the rise and erasure of ‘the social’. The social is increasingly evasive, at once found everywhere and nowhere. Social media are widely lauded for connecting people and enabling richer, more dynamic socialities yet many critique these processes as emptying out social connection in favour of data accumulation, self-promotion, and platform capitalism. Similarly, these new ways of experiencing, augmenting, and understanding the social are rife with their own socio-cultural and socio-economic biases, born out through designers and users, meaning not every user experiences these spaces and relates to these technologies in the same manner. It becomes apparent that ‘the social’ presumes a singular experience, when realities are far more diverse. Current research on social media draws in an interdisciplinary manner from a wide range of thinking on what the social means, and is increasingly challenging extant theories and conceptions of the social. This poses a number of questions for how we consider, define, and explore the social, and crucially what our responsibilities are as researchers and educators. This also poses a number of opportunities to work across disciplinary boundaries to explore and reframe our understandings of media, technology, and the social. *Keynotes will be given by Professor Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Professor Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute.* This event aims to critically examine not only the meanings of the social in contemporary digital practices across cultures, but also challenges underlying epistemologies of the social in research and popular cultures. Papers may approach the topic from theoretical, conceptual, and/or empirical positions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Challenges of and negotiations around agency and structure · The relationship between technology, self, and society · Educational challenges and responsibilities in the digital age · Changing socialities in the face of platform capitalism, the sharing economy, the gig economy, the rise of mediation, & networked selves · The embedding and disembedding of socio-cultural resources online · Resistance and transgression on, in, with, and through technology · The role of designers, users, researchers and the public in the framing, conceptualisation, and representation of ‘the social’ online · Extant and emerging social structures in the digital age · Boundaries between online and offline social practices · Affordances and mediation of social practices · Alternative media and sub-altern communities · Technological mediation of public / private · Digital citizenships and the politics of belonging · Emerging technologies and digital futures This list is merely suggestive of the range of topics of interest to the organisers and is not in any way restrictive of possible interpretations of the theme. We encourage contributors to be imaginative in formulating ideas and paper proposals. Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short bio of 100 words should be submitted via email by *28th August 2018.* You will receive notification of the outcome of your submission by September 30. Submissions from early career researchers are highly encouraged. Final papers should be no longer than 8,000 words / 20 minutes. All those who submit final papers by January 7th will also be invited to submit to a special edition of an international peer-reviewed journal. The event is *free to attend and present*, and will be hosted at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, on the *8th January 2019.* *Key dates:* Abstract submission: August 28th 2017 Notification of outcomes: September 30th 2017 Draft papers due: January 7th 2018 Conference: January 8th 2018, at UEA Organisers: Dr Zoetanya Sujon (University of Arts London) Dr Harry Dyer (University of East Anglia) *Enquiries and abstract submission: **UnderstandingTheSocial(a)gmail.com <UnderstandingTheSocial(a)gmail.com>* -- 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).

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Final CFP: ICDIM 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018) September 24-26, 2018 Berlin, Germany http://www.icdim.org Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Bangkok (2014) Jeju (2015) Porto (2016) and Fukuoka (2017), the Thirteenth event is being organized at Berlin, Germany in 2018. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design, and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 24-26, 2018 at Berlin, Germany The topics in ICDIM 2018 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Intelligence Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Co-located Workshops Fourth Workshop on Internet of Everything (IoE 2018) Fourth International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2018) Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (IIS 2018) Seventh Workshop on "Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization" (ATDADV 2018) Sixth International Workshop on Data Science (IWDS 2018) Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 7. Journal of Optimization Important Dates Full Paper Submission: July 15, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 08, 2018 Registration: September 10, 2018 Camera Ready: September 10, 2018 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: September 13, 2017 Main conference September: 24-26, 2018 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Program Committee General Chair Stefan Covaci, Technische University at Berlin, Germany Thomas Jell, Siemens, Germany Program Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India & UK Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Co-Chairs Manabu Ohta, Okayama University, Japan Robert Bierwolf, IEEE TEMS, Netherlands Feliz Lustenberger, Espros Photonics Corporation, Switzerland SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference at icdim.org

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Call for Proposals: Special Issue of "Convergence": Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies
by Leif Kramp 08 Jul '18

08 Jul '18

Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue of "Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies" Guest-editors: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen, Germany), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden), and Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen, Germany) Digital media, networked services, and aggregate data are beacons of the future. These incessantly emerging tools and infrastructures project new ways of communication, bring unknown kinds of information, and open up untrodden paths of interaction. Yet digital technologies do not only forecast uncharted times or predict what comes next. They are, it seems, both prognostic and progressive media: they don’t await the times to come but realize the utopian as well as dystopian visions which they have always already foreseen. At the same time, all calculation of anticipations has to rely on past data that profoundly shape our ability to manage expectations and minimize uncertainties. In these fast forward dynamics, the special issue of Convergence examines the futuremaking capacity of networked services and aggregate data. We ask contributions to consider: What role do digital technologies and data play in the construction and circulation of future knowledge, e.g., through forecasting, modelling, prediction, or prognosis? What expectations and anticipatory visions such as promise or warning do accompany the creation and diffusion of new media? Over the course of history, which imaginaries of social and technological futures have been propelled by the media innovations at that time? How do new media technologies and discourses contribute to the production and reproduction of social time that is future oriented? How do they impact on the ability to exert control over the future? Papers in this special issue will explore the future making dimension of new media and may include the following topics: • Role of media in reconfiguring the relations and distances among present, past, and future times • Communicative construction of differently vast and (un)certain horizons of expectation • Data-based modes of anticipation (e.g., prognosis, prediction, prevention, precaution, pre-emption); calculative practices and other kinds of speculative accounts of possible events • Historical succession of past future visions around media innovations and mediated social life • Imaginaries of futures related to digital media • Interventions into the plans, efforts, and processes of constructing futures • Backwards-orientation of forecasting and conservative aspects of future scenarios • New media in the production of simultaneity, coincidence, or (non)contemporaneity Submissions: Proposals should include the author's name and affiliation, title, an abstract of 500 words, and 3 to 5 keywords, and should be sent to the e-mail address no later than 1 December 2018: mediatizedtime(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:mediatizedtime@uni-bremen.de> Invited paper submissions will be due 1 June 2019 and will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of the journal. The invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue will be published in 2020. All inquiries should be sent to: christian.pentzold(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:christian.pentzold@uni-bremen.de>. Download the Call for Proposals here <http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/redak_zemki/dateien/Dateien-News/C…>.

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1 year Teaching fellow at UCD School of Info and Comm Studies
by Amber Cushing 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Please follow this link for more info: https://medium.com/ucd-ischool/vacancy-teaching-fellow-1-year-school-of-inf… The position is ideal for a newly graduated PhD or anyone looking to gain more teaching experience. Closes soon-23 July Dr. Amber L. Cushing Lecturer/Assistant Professor Director, Msc & Graduate Certificate in Digital Information Management (formerly Digital Curation) Director, ICS PhD Programme School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland +353 01 716 8441 www.amberlcushing.info Office: C117 Neman

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ACM Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI 2019: Call for Papers
by Axel Soto 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

*** ACM IUI 2019: Call for Papers *** Los Angeles, CA, USA March 17-20, 2019 http://iui.acm.org/2019/ ACM IUI 2019 is the 24rd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas: academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Along with 25 other topics in AI & HCI, this year we especially encourage submissions on explainable intelligent user interfaces for IUI 2019. ** Why you should submit to ACM IUI ** At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. 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. The conference brings together people from 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. It 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 doctoral consortium for graduate students. IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Affective and aesthetic interfaces - Big data and analytics - Collaborative interfaces - Education and learning-related technologies - Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces - Explainable intelligent user interfaces - Explainable artificial intelligence - Interactive visual analytics and interpretation for deep learning - Health and intelligent health technologies - Information retrieval and search - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces - Intelligent ubiquitous user interfaces - Intelligent visualization tools - Interactive machine learning - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Modeling and prediction of user behavior - Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) - Natural language and speech processing - Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI - Planning and plan recognition for IUI - Proactive and agent-based user interaction - Recommender systems - Smart environments and tangible computing - Social media analysis - User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces - User-Adaptive interaction and personalization ** Dates ** Oct 1, 2018: Abstract deadline (compulsory) Oct 8, 2018: Papers deadline Dec 7, 2018: Notification Dec 21, 2018: Camera ready due Mar 17, 2019: Conference starts ** Submission - Full and Short Papers ** We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated 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 2019". ** Submission Guidelines ** - Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. - Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of Full papers. - Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: -- Author's names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. -- Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. -- Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). - Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being rejected without review. - Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences, see: https://sigchi.org/about/sigchi-policies/conference-policies/submission-and… - Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format. Use either the Microsoft Word template (https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats/blob/master/Word/SIGCHIProceedin…) or the LaTeX template ( https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats/tree/master/LaTeX) Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation. ** AUTHORS TAKE NOTE ** The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ** Chairs - program-iui2019(a)acm.org ** Oliver Brdiczka, Adobe, USA Gaëlle Calvary, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Polo Chau, Georgia Tech, USA -- Dr. Axel J. Soto Researcher National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación (ICIC-UNS) http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Axel.Soto/index.html ---- Oficina A8 San Andrés 800 - Campus Altos del Palihue Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación (DCIC-UNS) (8000) - Bahía Blanca Argentina

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Call for Papers 'Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness'
by Regner Ramos Ramirez 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Dr Regner Ramos, and I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture. My current research project explores how mobile technologies are changing and informing queer spatial practices in San Juan, Puerto Rico (there's more info here <http://elsite.xyz/about>). I want to invite the members of the AOIR to a conference we're organizing here at the University of Puerto Rico next February 2019. called 'Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness'. We've got an open Call for Papers at the moment, and I'd like to encourage members working on topics that touch on any of these aspects to submit. If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. *CFP - **Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness* *University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture, Río Piedras Campus* *Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 August 2018* *Conference Dates: February 7-9, 2019* Much of queer theory, history, art and performance have been discussed from Anglo American and European perspectives. *Sites Queer* is an interdisciplinary three-day conference exploring the multiple ways in which LGBTQ+ spaces and identities get reconfigured, performed and contested through the technologies and spatial politics of diverse ethnic cultures. We welcome submissions from all cultural backgrounds, and are particularly interested in inviting research projects rooted in Latin American, Asian, Aboriginal and African cultures. >From within the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, *Sites Queer* will be a space to discuss, foreground and analyze divergent queer histories, narratives and spatial practices. Subsequently, playing off the word 'site' as a physical locale as well a digital space, the conference will problematize the ways the Internet, digital technologies, mobile apps and social networks are informing, changing, shaping or contesting queerness for ethnic minorities at urban and rural levels. The outcome of the conference will be to create a book proposal acting as a critical, cultural memory; a written and visual record; and a speculative, spatial cartography of queer spaces, drawing them out from their Otherness and situating them within contemporary sociopolitical debates. Potential themes and sub-themes of the conference include but are not limited to: *-Autoethnography, Autobiography and Performance* *-Non-normative Relationship Structures* *-Intimacy and Romance* *-Chem-sex* *-Digital Economies and Transactions* *-Distance and Proximity* *-Postcodes and Addresses* *-Urban Infrastructures* *-Ephemerality, Transcience and Permanence* *-Nighttime Culture and Economies* *-Migration* *-Bias and Marginalization* *-Looking for Others and Being Found* *-Politics of Space* *-Citizenship and Otherness* *-Tourism and Mobility* *-Activism and Resistance* *Sites Queer* is funded by Dr. Regner Ramos’s FIPI research grant at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture. We are inviting research papers, performances, workshop sessions, roundtable sessions and pre-constituted panels to participate. Please send 250-word abstracts and a 150-word biography to regner.ramos(a)upr.edu . In the case of group submissions, please provide biographies for each individual. We accept submissions in Spanish and English. *Submission Deadline: 31 August 2018* For more details: http://elsite.xyz/calendar/sites-queer We are delighted to have Dr. Sharif Mowlabocus as *Sites Queer's* keynote speaker. Dr Mowlabocus is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Digital Media, based within the School of Media, Film and Music at University of Sussex. His research focuses on gay and queer sexualities in media culture, and has authored a variety of articles and books on the subject. Best wishes, Regner Ramos, PhD

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