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WSmGov 2016 - Call for Speakers: World Summit on mobileGovernment
by Prof. I Kushchu 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Dear Colleagues The World Summit, a platform for sharing accumulated experiences of the last decade in eGovernment and mobileGovernment, will be hosted by Turkey during 5-7 October 2016 in one of the best seaside towns, Fethiye. - The Summit will feature up to top 10 best mGovernment implementers in the world to share their experiences and lessons learned. - It also hosts the Global mobileGovernment awards - nominations open for existing solutions, apps, and projects of private and public sector organisations. The Organisation is soliciting highly qualified and experienced speakers from Industry, Public Sector, Third Sector and Academia to present their experiences, and innovative ideas at this prime event. In the first instance, please visit http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/contact/ <http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/contact/> and show interest to speak by fill in the form and to receive the speakers info. You will then be sending in max three pages of talk summary together with a short bio and affiliation. All talk summaries will be evaluated by the technical committee members. More information on exhibiting, sponsoring and Global mGov Awards are available at the conference web site - www.m4life.org <http://www.m4life.org/> Looking forward to your speaking proposals. Best wishes Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, Mobile Government, UK http://mgovernment.net/ <http://www.mgovernment.org/> ik(a)mgovernment.net <mailto:ik@mgovernment.net> +44 7740143135 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org <http://www.m4life.org/>

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FAO Maria (20 May 2016 posting)
by Karen Davies 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hi Maria Having recently completed an assignment on ethics in IMR (Internet-mediated research), I can recommend the following additional publications (apologies for the delay in sending this message but I have had issues with server access): Convery, I. & Cox, D. (2012). A review of research ethics in internet-based research. Practitioner Research in Higher Education 6 (1), 50-57. Retrieved from http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/1334/2/100-467-1-PB.pdf Eysenbach, G. & Till, J. E. (2001). Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities. British Medical Journal, 323, 1103-1105. Retrieved from http://www.bmj.com.ezproxy.lancs.ac.uk/content/323/7321/1103 Hair, N. & Clark, M. (2007). The ethical dilemmas and challenges of ethnographic research in electronic communities. International Journal of Market Research,49(6), 781-799. Hammersley, M. & Traianou, A. (2012). Ethics In Qualitative Research: Controversies And Context. Available from eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) Lancaster University, Lancaster. Whiteman, N. (2010). Control And Contingency: Maintaining Ethical Stances In Research. Retrieved from http://ijire.net/issue_3.1/2_whiteman.pdf Whiteman, N. (2012). Undoing Ethics: Rethinking Practice in Online Research. Available from http://link.springer.com.ezproxy.lancs.ac.uk/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-1827-6… I realise there are a couple of duplications here. Best wishes Karen

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CFP: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE2016) - Bangkok, Thailand
by Lee, Mark 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

================================================================= The 5th IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE2016) Call for Papers ================================================================= Sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, IEEE Thailand Section and King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok ================================================================= Date & Venue ----------------- 7-9 December 2016 Dusit Thani Bangkok Hotel Bangkok, Thailand ================================================================= Background -------------- The aim of TALE 2016 is to provide a forum for academicians and professionals from various educational fields and with cross-disciplinary interests to network, share knowledge and engage in dialogue around the theme of fostering innovation and excellence in engineering education. To this end, both research and practice-oriented papers are invited that encompass all aspects of education in the engineering fields (including computing, computer science, information technology and cognate disciplines). The conference will feature traditional paper presentations, workshops, as well as keynotes by renowned educational experts and authorities. ================================================================= Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Accreditation and Quality Assurance Assessment and Evaluation Capstone Projects Computational Thinking and Problem Solving Computer-Based Learning and Courseware Technologies Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Curriculum Design Distance, Open and Flexible Education Educational Games and Simulations Educational Policy, Leadership and Administration Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs Ethical and Social Justice Issues (e.g., Equity, Diversity) Faculty/Staff Development Generic Skills (e.g., Communications, Teamwork) Industry Linkages and Partnerships Instructional Design Interdisciplinary Teaching Approaches Internet of Things in Education Introductory Engineering and Computing Courses K–12 Initiatives and Partnerships Laboratory Experiences (On-Campus, Remote and Virtual) Learning Analytics and Big Data Learning Management Systems Marketing and Outreach for Engineering Programs Mobile, Ubiquitous and Contextual Learning Online/E-Learning and Blended Learning Open Educational Resources and MOOCs Research Training (Undergraduate and Graduate) Service Learning Work-Based and Work-Integrated Education ================================================================= TALE 2016 will also include a Special Track on Computing Education (see separate CfP on the conference website for details.) ================================================================= Paper submission, review and publication ---------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of two (2) to eight (8) A4 pages (including tables, figures and references) in standard IEEE double-column format. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference website, from which submission guidelines and a template for papers are available. A blind peer-review process will be used to evaluate all submitted papers. Each full registration for the conference will cover a maximum of two papers; each student registration will cover a single paper only. All accepted and registered papers that are presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings (CD-ROM/USB with ISBN), uploaded to IEEE Xplore, and submitted for potential indexing by other prominent scholarly databases including SCOPUS, Ei Compendia, and CPCI. Information about submitting your paper can be found under the Authors menu item of this website ( http://www.tale-conference.org/tale2016/) ================================================================= Important Dates --------------------- 20th Aug 2016 Paper Submission 20th Sept 2016 Review Outcomes 20th Oct 2016 Final Paper Submission 31st Oct 2016 Registration Deadline ================================================================= Presentation Formats ---------------------------- Full Papers: 6-8 pages Short Papers: 4-6 pages Work-In-Progress Papers: 2-4 pages Special Sessions, Panels and Workshops

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Archiving Facebook Group Posts
by Michael Deml 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hello, I am a Master's student in sociology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. I am currently working on research involving a Facebook group as a sort of virtual ethnography. I was wondering if anyone knew of any researchers who work with archiving Facebook group discussions. I am looking for a way to better facilitate the archiving of my data, as I planned on creating a corpus based on 6 months of discussions within the Facebook group. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Please respond offline to michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com. Best wishes, Michael Deml (michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com)

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Third Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

** Third Call for Papers *** 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… Overview 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. 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. 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. 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 discuss research from both HCI and AI simultaneously, but also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. 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. 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. IUI 2017 especially encourages submissions on innovative and visionary new concepts or directions for the design of intelligent interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. 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://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2017". Examples of ACM IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Intelligent visualization tools · User-Adaptive interaction and personalization · Recommender systems · Intelligent wearable, mobile and ubiquitous interfaces · Modeling and prediction of user behavior · Information retrieval and search · Education and learning-related technologies · Social media analysis · Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) · Natural language and speech processing · Generation of multimodal content · Big Data and analytics · Smart environments and tangible computing · Intelligent assistants for complex tasks · Collaborative interfaces · Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI · Affective and aesthetic interfaces · Interactive machine learning · Planning and plan recognition for IUI · Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation · Proactive and agent-based user interaction · Example-and demonstration-based interfaces · Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces 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: 1. Author's names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. 2. Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. 3. 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 results in submissions being rejected without review. Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format available here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . You may use either the Microsoft Word template or the LaTeX template. Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation, depending on the quality of the papers. 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.) Important Dates · Abstracts: October 9, 2016 · Full and Short Papers: October 14, 2016 · Reviews to Authors: November 21, 2016 · Rebuttals: November 25, 2016 · Notification of Decisions: December 9, 2016 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 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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CfP: Ting – Making publics through provocation, conflict and appropriation (PDC2016 Workshop)
by Karin Hansson 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Second call for papers Ting: Making publics through provocation, conflict and appropriation A workshop at The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Aarhus 2016, August 15. http://www.performingthecommon.se/ting/ <http://www.performingthecommon.se/ting/> Because of the importance of the role and embodiment of the designer/artist in making publics, this workshop calls attention to self-reflective practices in participatory design, and questions how these self-reflective practices can be embedded in the functionality of new publics and design practices. More specifically, the workshop aims to explore the following questions: How do the designer/artist create and maintain publics? How do we accommodate differences in these agonistic spaces? What is the role of the designer/artist in these contexts? How can we understand the tension between artistic control in speculative design and empowerment in participatory design? We invite researchers, designers, activists, artists, who in their work are exploring utopian, speculative, and critical design projects as well as designing for and with social movements, alternative societies and relational economies. The specific themes and topics we are interested to revisit and discuss in this workshop are: • Agonistic public spaces versus consensual decision-making • Role of the author/designer/creator/artist in speculative and critical design in relation to participatory design • Exclusion and inclusion in the design practice • Norms in speculative participatory design practices • Institutional conditions for the development and growth of speculative and critical design within a participatory design practice Workshop Participation and Key Dates Participants will be selected to participate in the workshop based on their submitted position-papers. The submission should be between 1,000 to 2,000 words long, and include an image or illustration of a design work or design process. Submission should follow the ACM ICPS format (http://pdc2016.org/formatting-guidelines/ <http://pdc2016.org/formatting-guidelines/>). • Position paper deadline: June 13, 2016 • Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Extended papers will be considered for a special issue in Design Issues. Organizers Karin Hansson, Stockholm University Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Digital Media Program Tessy Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University Silvia Lindtner, School of Information, University of Michigan Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University Somya Joshi, Stockholm University For submissions and further information contact: ting(a)performingthecommon.se <mailto:ting@performingthecommon.se>

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CPDP2017 Call for Panels
by Imge Ozcan 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Dear all, We are very pleased to announce that the international Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference is returning with the 10th edition and seeking for cutting edge panel proposals. The 10th anniversary edition of <http://www.cpdpconferences.org/> CPDP will take place in Brussels between 25-27 January 2017. This call for panels is aimed at academic consortia, research projects, think tanks and other research organisations. (Another call, to individuals for academic research papers, will go out in May 2016) We welcome panels in all areas related to technology, privacy and data protection. This year's main theme is Artificial Intelligence so we especially welcome panel proposals that fit this theme. We encourage panels that are well-balanced, multidisciplinary and geographically and gender diverse. More information about rules for panel composition and submission can be found <http://2dsf1.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/k74nc6lav5o7d.html> here. Please note: chosen institutions, organisations or EU research projects will become CPDP 2017 event partners. This implies that the event partner is able to finance all costs of the panel speakers (transport and lodging) in addition to paying a conference contribution of €1200. In return, the event partner's logo will be visibly displayed on the CPDP website and programme brochure. The partner will also have the option of putting a flyer or advertisement in the conference bag. All panelists will get free registration for the three conference days Panel proposals should be submitted through the online form at: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/callforpanels.html Please fill in the form as completely as possible. Key Dates Final panel submission/suggestion: June 15th, 2016 Notification sent to panel proposers: before July 8th 2016 Panel organisation finalised: October 15th 2016 Dates of CPDP 2017: 25th to 27th January, 2017 Contact If you have an innovative idea for the set up of a panel or workshop or have any questions regarding potential panel topics, please contact: Dara Hallinan at <mailto:Dara.Hallinan@isi.fraunhofer.de> Dara.Hallinan(a)isi.fraunhofer.de or Imge Ozcan at <mailto:Imge.Ozcan@vub.ac.be> Imge.Ozcan(a)vub.ac.be. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Best regards, The CPDP 2017 Programme Committee

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academic authority on Facebook
by Danil Mikhailov 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Hi all, I am a newbie member of the list, doing my PhD at Brunel University in the UK. I am looking at how academic expert authority is challenged when experts or expert institutions (like universities or learned societies) try to engage with the wider public online to either educate, explain or "correct" public perception of a given topic. Can anyone recommend papers that deal with Facebook in that context of academics engaging with the public, and looking at what features of Facebook might determine the success or failure of such engagement? That would be much appreciated! I am trying to plug any gaps I might have with respect to recent papers in this area I may have missed. I will be happy to collate all the responses and re-publish them together in case anyone else will find it useful. Many thanks, Danil Mikhailov This message has been scanned for viruses by Websense Hosted Email Security - www.websense.com

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Call for Participation: Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) Doctoral Colloquium
by Pamela Wisniewski 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

**New Deadline to Apply: June 24th, 2016** Doctoral students who have not defended their thesis are invited to participate in the Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) Doctoral Colloquium. The 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) will address, explore and exchange information related to the state-of-the-art in collaborative enterprises and systems, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact. The DDC is an opportunity for students to present, discuss, and disseminate their ongoing research in a constructively critical and informal atmosphere. The goal is for students to obtain valuable feedback from conference attendees, particularly senior researchers and experts in their fields. Additionally, the colloquium is meant to facilitate the interaction and collaboration with other peer researchers and future collaborators. For more information: http://cts2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-doctoral-colloquium

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Doctoral thesis on the collective identity of the Anonymous movement
by Sylvain Firer-Blaess 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Dear all, I indulge in shameless self-publicisation by sharing my newly-published doctoral thesis, which concerns the collective identity of the Anonymous movement. It is available here https://goo.gl/ZCy6sP and you can get a hard copy if you send me your address. If you are incidentally spending your holidays in Uppsala, Sweden (where else?) on the 26th of August, you can come to my defense as well. I enclose the abstract below for those interested. My best regards, Sylvain Firer-Blaess PhD cand., dept. of Informatics and Media Uppsala university, Sweden sylvain.firer(a)gmail.com Abstract: The present dissertation explores the collective identity of the Anonymous movement. This movement is characterised by the heterogeneity of its activities, from meme-crafting to pranks to activist actions, with a wide range of goals and tactics. Such heterogeneity raises the question as to why such a diverse group of people makes the decision to act under the same name. To answer this question, the concept of collective identity is applied, which describes how participants collectively construct the definition of their group. This dissertation is based on a three-year ethnography. The main findings show that the collective identity of Anonymous rests on five sets of self-defining concepts related to: 1) Anonymous’ counterculture of offense and parrhesia, 2) its personification into two personae (the ‘trickster’ and the ‘hero’) that have differing goals, means, and relationships with the environment, 3) a horizontal organisation and a democratic decision-making process, 4) practices of anonymity and an ethics of self-effacement, and 5) its self-definition as a universal entity, inclusive, and unbounded. The collective identity construction process is marked by tensions due to the incompatibility of some of these concepts, but also due to differences between these collective identity definitions and actual practices. As a consequence, they have to be constantly reaffirmed through social actions and discourses. Not all individuals who reclaim themselves as Anonymous recognise the totality of these collective identity definitions, but they all accept a number of them that are sufficient to legitimate their own belonging to the movement, and most of the time to be recognised by others as such. The different groups constituting Anonymous are therefore symbolically linked through a web of collective identity definitions rather than an encompassing and unified collective identity. This ‘connective identity’ gives the movement a heterogeneous composition while at the same time permitting it to retain a sense of identity that explains the use of a collective name.

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