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WOW17: Web Observatories, Social Machines and Decentralisation workshop at WWW
by Amy G 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hi all, I've been a long time subscriber of this list, first time poster. I'm consistently impressed with the quality of information, links, and discussions that do the rounds here :) I'd like to share a call for a workshop at this years' World Wide Web conference that may be of interest. The deadline is in two days (18th Jan) so apologies for the short notice, but perhaps if you're looking for somewhere to submit a work-in-progress, vision paper, or small project report along the workshop themes, this could be a good opportunity. *Workshop on Web Observatories, Social Machines and Decentralisation* http://www.sociam.org/wow2017/ Topics include: analysing and understanding social media users and data; data sharing, re-use of data and applications; study of social machines; decentralisation of Web infrastructure and services; emerging research challenges when these are combined with the Internet of Things (IoT); the challenges of interoperability and distributed analytics across the growing number of Web services, Web Observatories, and most recently, IoT devices. We will also discuss the pressing issues around the decentralisation of Web infrastructure and social machines, with a specific focus on the decentralisation of scholarly communications. The workshop accepts HTML submissions, as well as old-fashioned PDF. The workshop is in Perth at the beginning of April. Hope to see you there! Amy

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Jan 25: Building Community with the Help of Information and Commmunications Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges (netCommons/WIAS event)
by Christian Fuchs 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

BUILDING COMMUNITY WITH THE HELP OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Wed, 25/1/2017 6pm University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London W1B 2HW Fyvie Hall Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-community-with-the-help-of-informat… Accessing the Internet day in, day out is part of everyday life. But we take for granted that the way we access the Internet is via a service provider, usually among the largest for-profit corporations in the world. We rarely think about whether there are alternative forms of Internet infrastructure that do not operate access as profitable business. This event explores community networks as alternative forms of Internet access and presents two talks on community networks by experts who come from academia and industry. Prof Claire Wallace, University of Aberdeen, will present work carried out in Aberdeen among four rural communities that have used information technology in different ways to help build community networks and an enhanced sense of identity and social cohesion. The research was sponsored by the EPSRC as part of the Cultures and Communities Network+ initiative and as part of the Aberdeen Digital Economy hub. Adam Burns, member of the netCommons project advisory board and a long-time community network practitioner, will talk about his experiences, motivations, and the realities of community networks. He will report on how from his experience alternative Internet access and infrastructure can be organised and what the opportunities and challenges are in doing so. This public event is organised by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) in the context of the EU Horizon2020 project netCommons (http://netcommons.eu/) Forthcoming WIAS events: Fri, Feb 3: China’s Economic Transformation in the New Media Era, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chinas-economic-transformation-in-the-new-me… Fri, March 3: The Unreality of Reality TV: From "After Dark" towards Twitter, Big Data, and "Big Brother" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unreality-of-reality-tv-from-after-dark-towa… For WIAS infos about events, publications, calls, etc, subscribe to the WIAS Newsletter https://www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter

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2nd CfP: Crowd Dynamics: Conflicts, Contradictions, and Cooperation Issues in Crowdsourcing (Int. Journal on CSCW)
by Karin Hansson 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

[Apologies for cross-postings] 2nd Call for Papers Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices (JCSCW) Special Issue on Crowd Dynamics: Conflicts, Contradictions, and Cooperation Issues in Crowdsourcing Organizing Special Issue Editors Thomas Ludwig (University of Siegen), Karin Hansson (Stockholm University), Tanja Aitamurto (Stanford University), Neha Gupta (University of Nottingham) Deadline for Submissions March, 31 2017 Through this special issue we aim to make contributions towards the emerging and intriguing subject of crowdsourcing and enrich academia’s understanding of individual and collaborative aspects of crowdsourcing. ----------------------------------------------------- Scope of the Special Issue Unfair reputation systems, slow payments, lack of transparency, discrimination, misunderstandings and misinterpretations, lack of access to decision-making or socio-spatial inequalities are only some of the many reasons for conflicts in crowdsourcing. The divisive logic of the system, its related tools and practices as well as the sharing processes in the peer-community creates interesting dynamics and new foci on old conflicts. The development of new types of working relationships has previously been problematized for several reasons. For example, Irani and Silberman (2014) have questioned crowd-worker dynamics from a labor rights perspective, leading to calls for collective action by crowd workers (Salehi et al., 2015). Martin et al’s (2014, 2016) analysis of the online discussion in the community of workers at the Mechanical Turk, shows the tensions between the dividing logic of the system and the information-sharing practices in the community. Gupta et al’s (2014) study of Indian workers shows how lack of control over the work environment affect participants work practices. Other common conflicts are due to rejected work, slow or unfair payments, lack of transparency, or technical problems (Six et al., 2010). In the area of digital democracy, digital differentiation and inequalities within the crowd becomes problematic (Hansson, 2014). Studies of Amazon Mechanical Turk (Fort et al., 2011), Wikipedia (Menking & Erikson, 2015; Ortega et al., 2008), Twitter (Duggan et al., 2015) and crowdsourced policymaking (Aitamurto and Landemore, 2016) indicate a lack of representativeness in terms of age, gender and education. Cultural geographers have also pointed out the hegemonic discourses and socio-spatial relations in the geographic web (Crampton et al., 2013; Soden & Palen, 2014; Shelton, 2014). But crowdsourcing, nowadays, also has an impact on physical “offline” activities, such as conducting voluntary work in crisis management (Ludwig et al., 2015) or making use of the large part of population to contribute to scientific challenges via crowdsourcing, defined as Citizen Science (Irwin, 1995). The physical circumstances and potential conflicts, such as endangering voluntary crowd workers or citizen “scientists” also needs to be considered. However, there is a need of studies of actual work practices in crowd-work settings and a more empirical research on the conflicts and dynamics within the more fluid work and interactive relations in crowd work. There is also a lack of a more structured overview of typologies of participation indicating levels of power and agency in the context of crowd work and crowdsourcing at large. This special issue therefore focuses on research exploring actual reasons, practices, power relations, and dynamics of conflicts within crowdsourcing and crowd work. Sample Topics We invite participants from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives to contribute with insights about types of crowdsourcing in practice, to deepen our understanding of actual work practices and relations in contexts such as crowd work, peer-production and citizen science. Furthermore, we also aim to gather typologies of participation examining and explaining power relations of crowd work. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Transparency in Crowdsourcing: Empirical studies, design case studies or theoretical work about how to allow crowd workers to understand, configure, personalize, and control applications relating to crowdsourcing. What levels of transparency exist in the implementation of crowdsourcing? What are the clashes of needs that exist between crowd workers and sourcers? What types of conflicts of expectations arise in crowd contexts? What is the role of transparency in resolving or amplifying these conflicts? Tools, processes, services and architectures for supporting the management of conflicts, contradictions, or cooperation issues in crowdsourcing contexts: What are the tools, services and architectural infrastructures for discovering or supporting the actual work of and conflicts in crowdsourcing? What are the characteristics of tools that support conflict management and/or conflict resolution in crowdsourcing? Social and organizational factors influencing conflicts, contradictions, or cooperation issues: Crowdsourcing deals highly with social and organizational aspects. What are the social and organizational aspects that foster conflicts in practice? How is labor and capital distributed? How could social and organizational aspects help overcome inequity and how does technology foster those aspects? What are dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in crowdsourcing, reflecting societal issues of race, gender, identity, and geography? Tensions between “offline” and “online” activities: Crowdsourcing often has an impact on physical activities and vice versa. Therefore the physical circumstances and potential conflicts need to be considered. What problems exist while conducting physical crowd work? What areas of tension exits? How could technology support solving those conflicts? Social computing approaches for crowdsourcing: The emergence and success of crowdsourcing practices may (not) rely on supporting peer networks and on sharing results that allow pooling resources in user communities. What are conflicts or contradictions between crowd members and crowd workers? How does technology help addressing and resolving those conflicts? Research ethics in citizens’ science: When relying on crowdsourcing, crucial ethical questions arise: What kind of work can be sourced to the crowd? What legal, moral and ethical protections are missing or should be in place to support the crowd and the sourcers? What are the ethical questions concerning “child-based crowdsourcing” (e.g. creativity work)? Schedule Submissions due: March, 31 2017 Reviews due: May, 15 2017 Notification to authors: June, 15 2017 Revised version due: July, 15 2017 Special issue published: 2017/2018 Manuscripts are submitted via the online manuscript system at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/ <https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/> Submission type: SI: Crowd Dynamics Further information, including JCSCW submission procedures and advice on formatting and preparing manuscripts, can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606 <http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606> To discuss a possible contribution please contact the special issue editors at crowdsourcing-jcscw(a)listserv.uni-siegen.de <mailto:crowdsourcing-jcscw@listserv.uni-siegen.de> With best regards, Karin Hansson ____________________________________ Karin Hansson PhD Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, SWEDEN Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista E-mail: khansson(a)dsv.su.se <mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> people.dsv.su.se/khansson <http://people.dsv.su.se/khansson> ____________________________________

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Call for submissions to Persona Studies 3.1
by Kim Barbour 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Call for papers, Volume 3, Issue 1 We now invite submissions on all persona-related topics for volume 3, issue 1 of Persona Studies (to be released April 2017). It seems the world’s attention is shifting to consider questions of authenticity and legitimacy in a post-truth, fake news era. The increasing polarisation of political and social views is heightening tensions in families, workplaces, and public spaces. The role of the persona, whether writ large by celebrities or produced for intimate, domestic networks, can provide us with critical insight into ways people perform their various identities for others. Creative works and traditional article submissions could address (but are not limited to) persona in: Politics Television, film, radio Games Social media Subculture Celebrity Feminism Youth Professions Mobile media Authenticity For both creative and critical works, please submit a 250-300 word abstract or proposal to personastudies(a)gmail.com by 3 February 2017. Artists and authors will be notified of initial acceptance by 10 February 2017. Please note that official acceptance of the work is contingent upon peer review. Full papers (5,000-8,000 words) and projects are due 11 March 2017. For creative submissions where peer review or critical response is not desired, a full submission will be required by 1 April 2016. Please advise in your initial proposal if you would a creative arts review.

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Fwd: Call for papers - Special issue 3/2017 “The Remaking of Truth in the Digital Age”
by Cecilia Tanaka 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

For your knowledge! <3 Ceci ------ "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Call for paper:/CS Journal of Media Performing Arts and Cultural Studies./ Special issue 3/2017 “The Remaking of Truth in the Digital Age” edited by Chiara Giaccardi and Nathan Jurgenson The deadline for abstract submission is: January 31st 2017 *The Special Issue * Many thought Brexit would not come to pass, that Donald Trump could not be elected, experts, pollsters, and probability models told us so, down to the decimal point. An entire media apparatus that was increasingly certain came to produce instead confusion. The manufactured character of news becomes dramatically exposed, as well as the entertainment-driven nature of electoral politics that increasingly look like reality shows. The vacuum left behind is threatened to be filled with the rising tide of hate speech, hoaxes, and so-called fake news. We introduce this project amidst this wave of anti-inclusionary and counter-informative forces. Populist movements around the globe are rallying against journalists, politicians, and other professionals and experts who themselves have failed to speak to and about the lives of these people. We are said to now be in a “post truth” time, one where debate over truth has been replaced by a chaos of facts, where the work of building knowledge feels exhausting and impossible, leading to a normalization of the surreal, the uncritical acceptance of heavily biased information as intuitive and unproblematic. This issue is about our moment of epistemic chaos, the decline of old knowledge gatekeepers, and the political ramifications of fake, misleading, and propagandistic information. We pay special attention to the role of new, digital, social technologies of knowledge and their relationship with politics. We cannot understand how and what people know without understanding the set of information technologies in which we inhabit. Those debates around the diminishing of traditional institutions being disrupted away by the rising tide and quickening flow of digitality are instructive, too, as institutions of epistemic authority, grapple with staying useful and relevant today. This issue is a meta-discourse on discourse in a time many have called “post truth.” What is it to do theoretical work in a so-called post-truth world without falling in the equally undesirable opposites of cynical functionalism (truth is merely what works, comforted in what they already know, and preserving the status quo) or a new positivism (paternalistic explainerism, where truth is a matter of numbers, and those in power claim a false objectivity). What might Foucault’s “parrhesia” mean today? And, ontologically, the disagreement over the basic shape of thing in the world might lead to useless possibilities like a radical constructivism where reality is merely what we do with it or an essentialism where reality can somehow be perfectly grasped using the right methodologies. If reality is hard to grasp, its consequences are hard to miss: people suffer injustice and tourture, strive to survive in impossibly harsh conditions, and find ways of resilience and resistance. Suffering and death has a concreteness that escapes any rhetorical strategy, a reminder of the limits of the defeatism of simply claiming everything is fake or a simulation. Is there room for a critical realism that recognizes that reality always exceeds our capacity to grasp it? One that could suggest respect and care over arrogance and exploitation? These crucial questions have precedent. A decade ago, conversations about the internet often centered on how truth and news and information more generally will flow when people have access to consume so much more information. And, only a little later, when so many more people can produce such information. Those debates around the introductions of Wikipedia, Google News, or Facebook Newsfeed are instructive today as we continue to struggle with how to incentivize, create, and sort information in ways that are accurate and just. We should draw on the literature describing the history of political performance and propaganda. Global strategies of political misinformation and shaping information ecosystems to manufacture ideology and behavior shape and are shaped by the information technologies of their times, and these are lessons we need to draw from to understand our current moment. Is the epistemic vertigo being felt a feature or a flaw, a momentary readjustment or a new normal? Describing our current situation should also draw on past thinking about knowledge, politics, and technology. For instance, the debates about positivism, the myth of the neutrality and objectivity of numbers and science are instructive. From “big data” science to “data journalism”, numbers play a large part in our contemporary data flows, from metric-based incentives like clicks, shares, and followers to the ubiquity of polling and probabilistic forecasting of elections. Indeed, the most important global news media entity, Facebook, claims it does not have a political or editorial philosophy because it is merely “technology”, a nod to the history of claiming false neutrality. How do we describe epistemic responsibility and pedagogy within a tech culture of supposed objective disinterest? Is there room to move beyond reducing people to numbers? Is a different “proxemics” based on closeness possible? What is the role of social science in this discussion, especially with respect to new media technologies? Is there room for dialogue today, when information is consumed as a resource for belonging, for maintaining oppositional echo-chamber blocs, especially acknowledging the point that knowledge and understanding is never purely for its own sake but is always entwined with power? The knowledge-power link is no longer something that needs to be made convincing when more and more information is so overtly weaponized, targeted, in the Info Wars. And how can social science speak to and about our own epistemic bubbles? What about the epistemic gap between those with and without college educations, those who and who are not part of the knowledge-work economy? We welcome submissions about all of what we’ve talked about here, as well as the many more threads we did not mention relating to this complex theoretical topic. *Deadlines & Guidelines* Please send your abstract to: redazione.cs(a)unicatt.it <mailto: redazione.cs(a)unicatt.it> by *January 31, 2017*. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed shortly after the deadline. Abstracts must be from 300 to 400 words long, and may be presented in English. The proposal shall include 5 keywords, authors, institution, and contacts (e-mail), together with a short curriculum for each author. Authors will be asked to send the whole article (preferably in English, but Spanish, French and Italian are also welcome) by April 30, 2017. Contributions will be sent to two independent reviewers in a double-blind procedure prior to publication decision. Articles should be between 4,000-5,000 words (no more than 35,000 characters, spaces and notes included), but shorter articles will also be considered. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A guide for authors, sample issues, and other relevant information is available on the journal’s website. For further information or queries regarding this Special Issue, please contact the editors: chiara.giaccardi(a)unicatt.it <mailto: chiara.giaccardi(a)unicatt.it>; nathanjurgenson(a)gmail.com <mailto: nathanjurgenson(a)gmail.com> CS is A-class rated journal by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the three academic disciplines: Cinema, photography and television (L-ART/06), Performing arts (L-ART/05), and Sociology of culture and communication (SPS/08). The journal obtained an international recognition by the French AERES - Agence de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur, being listed between its information and communication sciences journals. CS is included in the IATJ database – International Archive of Theatre Journals < http://www.iatj-journals.org/>, also accessible on the IFTR - International Federation for Theatre Research <http://www.firt-iftr.org/links>'s website and in SCOPUS.

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WEBCAST Jan 24: Will The Internet Always Be American?
by Joly MacFie 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

This was set for late last year and got postponed <http://Will The Internet Always Be American>. You might call it eagerly awaited. It's going to be rapid fire with all those speakers! Should be great. joly posted: "On Tuesday January 24 2017 Future Tense will hold a lunchtime discussion - Will The Internet Always Be American? at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. Many leading Internet players are U.S. firms. What will resurging nationalism portend for the " [image: Future Tense] <http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/03/future_tense_…>On *Tuesday January 24 2017 Future Tense <http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/03/future_tense_…>* will hold a lunchtime discussion - *Will The Internet Always Be American? <https://www.newamerica.org/future-tense/events/will-internet-always-be-amer…>* at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. Many leading Internet players are U.S. firms. What will resurging nationalism portend for the future of the American-centric internet and the values that initially defined it? Speakers: *Rebecca MacKinnon*, Director, Ranking Digital Rights, New America; *Emily Parker*, Future Tense Fellow, New America; *Nu Wexler*, Senior Manager of Communications, Twitter; *Carolyn Nguyen*, Director of Technology Policy, Microsoft; *Ross Schulman*, Senior Policy Counsel, Open Technology Institute; *Jennifer Daskal*, Associate Professor of Law, American University; *Hao Wu*, Fellow, New America; *Ellery Roberts Biddle*, Advocacy Director, Global Voices; *Joshua Keating*, Staff Writer, Slate. Moderator: *Andrés Martinez*, Editorial Director, Future Tense. The event will be webcast live on the *New America YouTube Channel <https://youtu.be/pGGMb1l2KGE>*. Viewers are requested to *RSVP <http://newamerica.cvent.com/d/2vqx8c/4W>*. *What: Will The Internet Always Be American? <https://www.newamerica.org/future-tense/events/will-internet-always-be-amer…> Where: New America Foundation, Washington DC When: January 24, 2017 12:00pm-2:00pm (17:00-19:00 UTC) Webcast: https://youtu.be/pGGMb1l2KGE <https://youtu.be/pGGMb1l2KGE> RSVP (including webcast): http://newamerica.cvent.com/d/2vqx8c/4W <http://newamerica.cvent.com/d/2vqx8c/4W> Twitter: #AmericanInternet https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericanInternet <https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericanInternet>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8920#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8920#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8920 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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[CfP] Studying User Perceptions and Experiences with Algorithms Workshop @ ICWSM
by Nicholas J Proferes 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

CfP: Studying User Perceptions and Experiences with Algorithms Workshop ICWSM 2017 – Montreal, Canada May 15th, 2017 The 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17) *Overview:* >From Facebook’s News Feed algorithm that shapes the posts and updates we see, to Spotify’s recommendation service that introduces us to new music that we might love, to dating site algorithms that attempt to match us with potential romantic partners, algorithms play an increasingly important role in shaping many aspects of our daily lives. We seek to bring together a community of researchers interested in taking a human-centered perspective on studying the experience of algorithms. To this end, we will be holding a half-day workshop on Monday, May 15th, 2017 in Montreal, Canada. The objective of this workshop is to articulate the grand challenges of studying the user-algorithm relationship and to bring together participants interested in developing projects to address these grand challenges. This workshop is action oriented, and we welcome participants from a variety of disciplinary perspectives who are interested in starting new projects on studying user perceptions and experiences with algorithms or who are in the early stages of an ongoing project. This workshop is part of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). *Participation:* Participants must submit a 1 – 2 page position paper to studyingusers(a)gmail.com by March 4, 2017 (see important dates). The submissions will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the workshop theme. The position papers may address any of the following: + What are the grand challenges of studying user perceptions and experiences with algorithms? + What are the methodological or theoretical entry points for studying this relationship? + A potential empirical study or an early stage project dealing with user perceptions and experiences with algorithms. + Design implication or policy position papers that address how we can design systems such that users can better identify algorithmically mediated experiences or can better understand how specific algorithms work. Topic areas might include things such as: trust in algorithms, user belief about how algorithms work, algorithmically mediated experience, transparency and algorithm black-boxing, how different groups of users engage with algorithms, filter bubbles, user interventions with algorithms, or the discursive construction of algorithms. There will be no formal Proceedings for the work submitted. *Important Dates:* + Proposal Submission: March 4, 2017 + Proposal Notification: March 16, 2017 *Contact Info:* More information about the workshop can be found at: www.studyingusers.org You can reach the organizers with any questions at studyingusers(a)gmail.com -- ----- Nicholas Proferes Postdoctoral Scholar @ Ethics and Values in Design Lab College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park

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Facebook Post Content Analysis
by Jessika Tremblay 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Dear all, I am preparing to deliver a workshop about how to analyze and interpret the content of a *Facebook post*, specifically from an anthropological perspective. I've come across quite a bit of literature about the significance of Facebook and social media for contemporary social science research, but little in the way of actual methods and techniques for interpreting data once you return from the field. If you have any literature recommendations about this I would be very grateful. A focus on anthropology would be great, but of course I'm interested in learning more about how other internet researchers go about this. thanks, -- Jessika Tremblay Ethnography Lab Coordinator PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology University of Toronto, Room 332 19 Russell Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S2

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Fwd: [RCC] Open Tenure Track Position in Wireless Communications at Tampere University of Technology, Finland
by Simona Lohan 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

fyi -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [RCC] Open Tenure Track Position in Wireless Communications at Tampere University of Technology, Finland Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:53:38 +0000 From: Mikko Valkama <mikko.e.valkama(a)TUT.FI> To: rcc(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, has an open tenure track position in the area of Wireless Communications. Applications for the position are invited within the broad field of Wireless Communications and Communications Engineering in general. **Application deadline is January 26th, 2017** Link for more information and to apply: -http://www.tut.fi/en/about-tut/careers-at-tut/open-positions/index.htm => Tenure Track in Wireless Communications General information about TUT: -http://www.tut.fi/en/home I am happy to provide more information based on needs. I would also appreciate if you could please distribute this message within your organizations and among interested colleagues. Best Regards, Mikko Valkama __________________________________ Mikko Valkama, Professor Tampere University of Technology Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering P.O.Box 553, FI-33101 Tampere, FINLAND Mobile: +358-40-8490756 Email:mikko.e.valkama@tut.fi <mailto:mikko.e.valkama@tut.fi>

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Call for Participation
by Announce Announcements 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

** Call for Participation *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Early Registration Deadline: February 7, 2017 *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd 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), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. The conference brings together people from academia, industry 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. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. The conference venue is the well known 5* beach hotel St. Raphael Resort, situated on one of the largest Blue Flag accredited beaches, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away (http://www.raphael.com.cy) The Larnaca International Airport is 35 minutes away, and Paphos International Airport is 55 minutes away. There are shops, restaurants and bars within walking distance and a bus stop exactly outside the hotel. The conference organizers have secured very competitive rates for accommodation, both at the venue hotel as well as a number of other hotels at close distance (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…) In addition, the conference organization offers airport transfers to and from the hotels at very reasonable prices. This year IUI attracted an overwhelming number of submissions for all types of contributions (papers, posters, demos, etc.). The list of accepted contributions can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The program will consist of paper presentations, posters and demos sessions, a Student Consortium and several workshops and tutorials. This exciting program will be further enhanced with 3 keynotes by the Distinguisheed ACM Speaker Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology), George Samaras (University of Cyprus) and Shumin Zhai (Google). The technical program will be complemented with a rich social program, including a welcome reception and a conference dinner at a local traditional Greek taverna with live entertainment. We cordially invite you to attend IUI 2017 and the co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is open (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…) Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. PUC, Chile · Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs · Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK · Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs · Daniel Sonntag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) · Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair · Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Master · Marios Christou, Easy Conferences, Cyprus · Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus

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