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CFP: ACM Hypertext 2016 (Deadline: 19, Feb. 2016)
by Christoph Trattner 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

--------------------------- Call for Submissions --------------------------- HYPERTEXT 2016 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 10-13 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada http://ht.acm.org/ht2016/ Submission deadline: 19 February 2016 CONFERENCE SCOPE The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. Hypertext 2016 will focus on missing links on the WWW: how can the Hypertext paradigm and research inspire and improve the Web? Which missing links (and linking paradigms) can improve connections, communication and collaboration? Apart from the regular research tracks, Hypertext 2016 will feature a creative track. The conference will take place at the campus of Dalhousie University in Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia and the major cultural centre of Canada’s Atlantic provinces. SUBMISSION CATEGORIES Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, analysis, or application. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original, not previously published works. Submission categories include: - Regular research papers (max 10 pages + references) discussing mature work. - Short papers (max 5 pages + references) describing preliminary results of on-going work or novel thought-provoking ideas. - Posters and demos (max 2 pages + references) presenting innovative research ideas, preliminary results, system prototypes or industry showcases. Submission deadline: 19 February 2016 Accepted papers will appear in the Hypertext 2016 Conference Proceedings that will be published by ACM and additionally be made available through the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZATION General Chairs: - Jamie Blustein, Dalhousie University, Canada - Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Program Chairs: - Helen Ashman, University of South Australia - Jessica Rubart, Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany CONFERENCE TRACKS ------------------------------- Collaboration in the Social Web ------------------------------- Track Chair: Weigang Wang, University of Manchester, UK In the past few years, we have witnessed the proliferation of social media and mobile devices. Mobile social media provide touch points to engage families, friends, group members, and communities, offer entry points to the web, and keep them connected in a Social Web. Therefore, this track includes the analysis and exploitation of links between topics, people and activities in social media and beyond. Apart from various methods and practices using existing social media systems to support collaborative activities, social groupware (or a combination of social media and groupware, , such as MobileMeeting) is emerging, which integrates social media interaction into a structured collaboration process and adds various structure and computational support to social media. ------------------------------------------------- Narrative, Adaptation and Multimedia Storytelling ------------------------------------------------- Track Chair: David Millard, University of Southampton, UK Hypertext and Web systems are fundamentally about communication between people, and people are storytellers. In this track we seek submissions covering a broad range of topics around new media and digital storytelling, from both the technological and human points of view. We expect to include papers around technologies to support content curation and creation, dynamic linking and navigation, for example by exploiting the Web of linked and open data. --------------------------- User Experience and the Web --------------------------- Track Chair: Herre van Oostendorp, Utrecht University, the Netherlands This track seeks original submissions that either contribute to the overall understanding of the relationships between cognitive factors and cognitive processes when interacting with the Web or describe novel systems and applications that make interacting with the Web an easy and effortless process. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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CFP for the themed issue of 'Subjectivity' on Radical Negativity.
by Ella Fegitz 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the latest call for papers for the special issue of the journal 'Subjectivity' on the theme of Radical Negativity. Many thanks for your interest and for sharing, The editors Ella Fegitz Tiffany Page Leila Whitley -------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS: Themed issue on ‘Radical negativity’* Over the past decade, feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively address the dark aspects of human subjectivity, such as unhappiness, irresponsibility, passivity, vulnerability, failure, shame, hesitancy, pain, dispossession, disappointment, rage, madness and depression, contributing to a rethinking and revaluation of the negative. Critique has focused on how normative subject positions are powerful mechanisms that reproduce dominant power structures such as whiteness, patriarchy, sexism, cissexism, heterosexism, and ableism. Such normative subject positions can demand or assume whiteness and thus position those who are non-white as ‘invaders’ in the space of the institution (Puwar 2009), present gender subservience as happiness (Ahmed 2010), and demand compulsory heterosexuality (Rich 1980). Resisting these (normative) demands placed on identities can form subjectivities perceived to be oriented around discomfort, refusal and pain. Borrowing from Eve Sedgwick, this special issue proposes that forms of the negative are “not distinctly ‘toxic’ parts of a group or individual identity that can be excised; they are instead integral to and residual in the processes by which identity itself is formed (2003, p.63).” In choosing to conceptualise subjectivity through the possibility of treating the negative as a viable and integral resource for resistance and a locus of social change, this issue will pay particular attention to the relation of negativity to resistant political practices. More specifically, we are interested in how the formation of subjectivities based on negative states and in relation to negative affects can be productive sites for political engagement. What is opened up or made possible by attending to the negative as an interruption to the force of restrictive social norms upon certain psyche and bodies? We welcome papers based in any discipline that significantly engage feminist and queer theory to respond to one or more of the following questions: 1. How can the negative be conceptualised as an interruption to the force of restrictive social norms? 2. How might rejecting the social compulsion toward positive affect allow for, and even become necessary to, resisting normative structures of power? 3. If we accept that power can differentially produce subjects, and that there is a relationship between power and resistance, how do these differences in turn utilise the negative, and what is the negative’s role in the capacity to resist? Possible topics include, but are not limited to, explorations of: - the construction of normative subjectivities and their effects on those deemed not to ‘fit’ - the construction of subjectivities in relation to narratives of trauma or shame - queer subversion in the face of ambivalence, incoherence and difficulty - the relation between politics and the construction of ‘woundedness’ - the distribution (and understanding) of vulnerability - the construction of health, happiness or ‘goodness’ - the racialization of affect - the gendering of affect - the navigation/rejection of gender norms and cis-sexism - the ways in which gender, sexuality, race and ability inflect the interpretation of affect more generally - deviance - name-calling Issue editors: Ella Fegitz, Tiffany Page and Leila Whitley. The deadline for first drafts of papers is 1 May 2016. Papers should be submitted in the first instance to radicalnegativity(a)gmail.com and should follow submission guidelines for Subjectivity ( http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sub/author_instructions.html) The editors are happy to discuss possible papers informally with potential contributors. Please contact: e.fegitz(a)gold.ac.uk; cup01tp(a)gold.ac.uk; l.whitley(a)gold.ac.uk. *References* Ahmed, Sara. 2010. *The Promise of Happiness.* Durham and London: Duke University Press. Puwar, Nirmal. 2004. *Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place. *Oxford: Berg. Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” *Journal of Women in Culture * *and Society, *5, 4, 631-660. Sedgwick, Eve. 2003. *Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity*. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

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CFP ANZCA 2016: The State of Digital Research Methods
by Jonathon Hutchinson 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

With apologies for cross-posting… Call for Papers, ANZCA 2016 Scraping the Political, Economical and Social: The state of digital methods for media and communication research Media and communication researchers have embraced the computational and digitisation turns (Rogers, 2014), which have notably seen the multidisciplinary inclusion of computer science with the humanities. From early methods that some argued over-claimed their impact, towards contemporary approaches that have been nuanced and improved by researchers and specialists, digital media methods are a useful collection of ‘how to’ tools to research social, economical and political sites. Globally, multiple researchers and institutions have developed cutting edge technologies that enable a large proportion of media and communication researchers to interrogate existing research sites in new ways. Additionally, these digital media methods have enabled researchers to find new research environments through data repositories, big data, digital media platforms, and social media, for example. Our interest in digital data will increase further as we see new cultural practices emerge through activities associated with drones, autonomous automobiles, sensors, and the internet of things. There remains a significant gap, however, in our current media and communication methodologies and current research technology. While we are able to identify conversations of public concern and how they inform ‘issues’ (Burgess & Matamoros, 2016), there remains a problem of how to integrate cultural context (humour, geography, history, etc.) into our understanding of large social media data sets. Further, the increasing shift away from text-based communication towards visual methods, i.e. Instagram, instigates a methodological conundrum (Highfield and Leaver, 2016). Finally, while the efforts of Wills (2016), Fordyce et al. (2016), Bruns et al. (2016) and Dowd (2016) advance our understanding of ontologies and typographies of social media data, further work needs to be undertaken to standardise our collection and analysis methods of digital media. Collectively, these issues present problems in data gathering techniques, research design, university ethics and access for digital media research methods. We are seeking contributions from scholars for a ‘progression session’ at the 2016 Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) that can address one or many of the following: 1. What are the cutting edge examples of digital media methods in media and communication research? 2. How can we integrate cultural contexts into the broad computational approach of digital platform research? 3. How can we as media and communication researchers access digital media tools for our own projects? 4. How should we approach ontologies and/or typologies for digital media research? 5. How do we negotiate these emerging research areas with our university ethics boards? Contributions to this panel will form the basis for a collected edition on digital media research methods. Please send your 400 word abstract, noting which area you are addressing, to Jonathon Hutchinson at jonathon.hutchinson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:Jonathon.hutchinson@sydney.edu.au> before 26 February, 2016. Warm regards Jonathon. DR JONATHON HUTCHINSON | Lecturer in Online and Social Media Department of Media and Communications | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Room N233, John Woolley Building A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 2821 | F +61 2 9351 2434 E jonathon.hutchinson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:grant.bollmer@sydney.edu.au> | W jonathonhutchinson.com<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/>

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Funded PhD in digital memory and (Manchester, UK)
by Adi Kuntsman 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Dear AoiR's Please distribute widely- Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, UK) and the Digital Transformations/Social Media Studies research group are offering two funded PhD scholarships, which would be of a particular interest to AoiR . Further information in the links below 1. Rethinking Digital Memory: New Technologies and EverydayPractices of Marginalised Communities in Manchester 2016 · Scholarships · Research Study · Research · Manchester Metropolitan University 2. Devolution and Citizenship: Innovation, Power andTechnologies of the Self http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-study/scholarships/2016/devolution-… --- Dr. Adi KuntsmanDepartment of Languages, Information and CommunicationsManchester Metropolitan UniversityAll Saints Campus, Geoffrey Manton 437 Manchester M15 6LLTel: ++44-(0)-161-2476165 https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/ New books: Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age (with RebeccaL. Stein, Stanford U Press)Queer Necropolitics (withJin Haritaworn and Silvia Possoco, Routledge), now availablein paperback

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Submissions for Computer History Museum Prize due 18-Feb
by Joy Lisi Rankin 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

2016 Call for Submission Books published in 2013-2015 are eligible for the 2016 Computer History Museum Prize. Books in translation are eligible for three years following the date of their publication in English. Publishers, authors, and other interested members of the computer history community are invited to nominate books. Please note that books nominated in previous years may be nominated again, provided they have been published in the timeframes specified above. Send one copy of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed below. To be considered, book submissions must be postmarked by February 18, 2016. For more information, please contact Dr. Joy Rankin, the 2016 prize committee chair. Current information about the prize, including the most recent call and a list of previous winners, always may be found at http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize. 2016 Prize Committee Members • Joseph A. November Associate Professor and McCausland Fellow Department of History University of South Carolina 817 Henderson Street Gambrell Hall, Room 245 Columbia, SC 29208 USA • Joy Rankin (2016 Chair) Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 136 Irving Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA • Christophe Lécuyer LIP6 Université Pierre et Marie Curie 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris France

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Save The Date and Call for Abstracts: 2016 DataONE Users Group Meeting
by Robert Sandusky 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Please save the date for our upcoming DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting to be held July 17th-18th, 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As in previous years, we will be co-locating with the ESIP Summer Meeting. There is no cost to register. *Meeting Theme and Objectives* The 2016 meeting theme, “Expanding Data Networks,” will focus on the new challenges and efforts in making data accessible, discoverable, and deliverable while promoting open data policies, standards, and compliance with funders’ emerging data management requirements. A strong emphasis is on data synthesis and technological progress made in data network infrastructure. In a departure from previous years, the scientific program of the 2016 meeting invites both talks and posters from the community on the following topics: - Leveraging research data level metrics for large data repositories and data networks - Integrating the needs and inputs of data users to advance and improve data discoverability - Assessing the progress, impact, and success in promoting open data policies DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks. *Abstract Submission for Posters and Talks* Please submit an abstract (250 words maximum) and indicate whether you prefer to give a talk or present a poster to dugchairs(a)dataone.org. Talks will be approximately 10-20 minutes in duration, to be confirmed with development of the agenda. The poster session will be held the evening of Sunday evening July 17th during the reception events. Submissions will be reviewed by the DataONE Users Group Steering Committee. Accepted abstracts will be published on the DataONE website. *Important Dates* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2016 Author Notification: May 15, 2016 Preliminary meeting information for the DUG Annual Meeting can be found here: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group/2016-meeting Preliminary information for the ESIP Summer Meeting can be found here: http://commons.esipfed.org/2016SummerMeeting Best regards, DUG Steering Committee Felimon Gayanilo (co-chair) Plato Smith (co-chair) Steven Aulenbach, Amber Budden, Debora Drucker, Rebecca Koskela, Myrica McCune, Laura Moyers, Shannon Rauch, Robert J. Sandusky, Stephanie Simms, Heather Soyka -- Robert J. Sandusky, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Associate Professor and Associate Dean UIC University Library 312-413-9822

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using deep learning to characterize campaign television ads
by kalev leetaru 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Apologies for cross-posting. Thought many of you would find of great interest this latest experiment, which took the Internet Archive's TV Political Ad Archive of 267 campaign ads airing on monitored television stations over the last several months, split them into a sequence of images, one per second, and ran them through Google's neural network Cloud Vision API to catalog the visual contents of each frame including major objects, activities, and themes it depicts, extract any recognizable text, estimate the geographic location it captures, and identify the presence and emotional expression of any human faces. Coupled with the live airing data compiled by the Archive (http://politicaladarchive.org/) and the fact that ads were analyzed in sequence every 1 second, you can do all kinds of analyses, from which themes were aired the most and where to trends in the sequencing of themes in ads. A few high-level trends are summarized here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/08/what-does-art… The full JSON output capturing the data output by the Cloud Vision API for each frame is here: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/computers-watching-ads-deep-learning-meets-cam… You can download the image frames here: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/image-frames-available-for-political-ad-image-… ~Kalev http://www.kalevleetaru.com/ http://blog.gdeltproject.org/

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Tenure System Position in Media and Information @ MSU
by Casey O'Donnell 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

My department is hiring on a assistant / associate position with a very wide call for applicants. Cheers. Casey -- The Department of Media and Information (M&I) at Michigan State University (MSU) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the area of Media and Information broadly defined. We seek an emerging scholar and teacher with an innovative research program that can complement our efforts to expand the boundaries of our field. While we are open to candidates with a wide range of backgrounds and interests, we are particularly interested in candidates with a strong interest in one of the following areas: human-computer interaction; multi-disciplinary study of the design, use and effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, social media, games, and mobile. An interest in computational social science, behavioral social science approaches, and emerging research methods related to these areas is desirable. Candidates with a specialization in a specific domain, such as media and information in health, community, or development are encouraged to apply. Given our strong interdisciplinary culture we welcome applications individuals from a diverse range of disciplinary and methodological traditions who thrive in a vibrant academic environment. Candidates will be judged on their promise for advancing research in their field, their potential for obtaining external funding in support of their scholarship, and their track-record of publications in leading peer-reviewed research outlets commensurate with their level of experience. We expect candidates to be dedicated teachers and mentors to graduate students. A PhD in a relevant discipline, such as Media Studies, Information Science, Science and Technology Studies, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Communication or other social sciences is required. Expected start date is August 16, 2016. The M&I department is a member of the iSchools consortium and home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary faculty internationally recognized for their cutting-edge research on the uses and implications of ICTs. Within the department and across the college, projects involving cross-disciplinary teams in such areas as health and security are actively pursued and encouraged. Our faculty advance theory and research, build human-centered technology, design traditional and interactive games and media experiences, and pursue new forms of scholarship. The BIT Lab facilitates research collaborations among faculty and students at the intersection of behavior, information, and technology. Faculty associated with the GEL (Games for Entertainment and Learning) Lab design and study innovative prototypes, techniques, and digital games. The Quello Center strengthens the ability of the department to address issues of technology and policy through engagement with practitioners and policy-makers. The Trifecta initiative brings together faculty and students from the MSU Colleges of Communication Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Nursing to conduct interdisciplinary cutting-edge research aimed at improving health and health care delivery through innovative communication and engineering technologies. The doctoral program in Media and Information Studies (MIS), offered jointly by M&I along with the School of Journalism and the Department of Advertising & Public Relations, was ranked among the leading Media Ph.D. programs in the U.S. by the National Research Council. In the 2015 QS World University Rankings, MSU was ranked #6 in Communications and Media Studies worldwide. Our curricula address both the theoretical and practical aspects of ICT and media use and production, and our alumni have achieved positions of prominence in academia, industry, and government. To apply, please visit the Michigan State University Employment Opportunities website (https://jobs.msu.edu) refer to Posting #2778, and complete an electronic submission. Applicants should submit the following materials electronically: (1) a cover letter indicating the position you are interested in and summarizing your qualifications for it, (2) a current vita, (3) if appropriate, the URL to an existing individual or collaborative website that conveys your current scholarship, and (4) the names and contact information for three individuals willing to serve as your recommenders to the search committee. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2016, and continue until the position is filled. Please direct any questions to Professor Casey O’Donnell, Search Committee Chair, Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University, at <caseyod(a)msu.edu>. MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans and persons with disabilities. -- Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Media and Information Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab (GEL) Michigan State University Author of Developer's Dilemma <http://www.amazon.com/Developers-Dilemma-Videogame-Creators-Technology/dp/0…> http://www.caseyodonnell.org

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Deadline approaching: IAMCR Pre-conference, 26-27 July 2016: Children's and Young People's Rights in the Digital Age
by Livingstone,S 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Apologies for cross-posting Children's and Young People's Rights in the Digital Age We are delighted to announce that a conference on children’s and young people’s rights in the digital age at LSE, as a London-based pre-conference to the Leicester IAMCR conference this coming July. We hope anyone interested in researching this field will consider participating. We see a growing momentum behind calls for the recognition of the potential of online and networked media for promoting children’s rights. At the same time, researchers, child rights’ advocates and internet governance experts are concerned that children’s rights are being newly infringed rather than enhanced in the digital age. This raises questions for research, policy and practice: * Exactly how is the digital impacting on children’s rights today? * What are the challenges to children’s rights presented by the digital? * How might we seize the opportunities that can accompany children’s online participation to promote children’s rights in the contemporary world? See http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/preconf/youth-digital-rights-cfp for further information and the call for papers. Abstracts are due: 15 February, 2016. Abstracts must be submitted at http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/preconf/youth-digital-rights Please note that conference participants do not need to be IAMCR members, or to attend the main IAMCR conference. Note too that registration for the conference will open in March, once we have a provisional programme. All the very best, Sonia Livingstone, Amanda Third and Mariya Stoilova

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ACM UMAP 2016 Call for Papers
by Christoph Trattner 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

ACM UMAP 2016 Call for Papers The 24th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 13-17 July 2016 Collocated with Hypertext 2016 http://www.um.org/umap2016/ UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. It is sponsored by ACM SIG CHI and SIG WEB, and organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. ACM UMAP 2016 covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation: recommender systems; adaptive educational systems; intelligent user interfaces; eCommerce; advertising; digital humanities; social networks; personalized health; entertainment, and many more. Key Areas: UMAP 2016 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following Key Areas chaired by leading researchers. User Modelling for Recommender Systems (Area Chairs: Alexander Felfernig & Pasquale Lops) - Semantic recommenders - Social recommenders - User Experience, Explanations, Trust, Control - Context-aware recommender systems - Conversational recommender systems - Implicit and explicit user feedback - Preference elicitation - Machine learning for recommender systems - Case studies of real-world implementations Adaptive & Personalized Educational Systems (Area Chairs: Antonija Mitrovic) - Learner modeling - Intelligent tutoring systems - Adaptive and personalized learning support - Collaborative and group learning - Emerging environments such as MOOCs and educational games - Educational data mining and learning analytic modeling techniques - Learning at scale Modeling affective, motivational, and metacognitive aspects of learning Case studies of real-world implementations Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era (Area Chairs: Alessandro Bozzon & Harith Alani) - Data-driven approaches and big data techniques - Deep learning for personalization with social and crowd-generated data - Social network analysis - Modeling individuals, groups, and communities - Engagement & sustainability for personalization - User awareness and control - Privacy, perceived security, and trust - Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture - Mining of social media and crowd-generated data - Human computation and machine intelligence for personalization - Harnessing wisdom of the crowd for personalization - Case studies of real-world implementations Adaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces (Area Chairs: Julien Epps & Hatice Gunes) - Multimodal user models - Natural interaction (speech, language, gestures) - Brain-computer interfaces - Adaptive information visualization - Adaptive hypermedia systems - Adaptive collaboration support - User modeling for special needs - Case studies of real-world implementations Architectures, techniques & methodologies for UMAP (Area Chairs: Stephan Weibelzahl & Mihaela Cocea) - Models of perception, action, cognition, and affect - Neurobiological and physiological models - User experience - Ongoing continuous modeling - Lifewide modeling - Data-driven approaches - Non-standard database representations (networks, graphs) - Sensor networks - Handheld and mobile devices - Standards and specifications - Interoperability, semantics - Evaluation methodologies and metrics - Case studies of real-world implementations Submission Categories and Review Process UMAP 2016 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. We welcome original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts. Authors will be asked to indicate one or more key areas (from the five listed below) at the time of submission. Submissions should be made into one of two categories - long and short papers as defined below. Long papers (8 pages + references) should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers (4 pages + references) should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies, although some form of validation is desirable. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories but within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be invited to be resubmitted as posters and/or demos. Submission Details and Publication: Page limits: Long papers - 8 pages + references; Short pages: 4 pages + references. Note that reference do not count towards page limits. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings template and submitted via EasyChair. Submission templates: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Easychair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2016 Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by May 1, 2016 for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Authors are expected to attend the conference and present the paper there. Important Dates: 23 February 2016: Abstracts for Full and Short Papers (mandatory) 1 March 2016: Full and Short Papers due 25 March 2016: Doctoral consortium papers 15 April 2016: Notification for full, short, posters & DC papers 1 May 2016: Camera-ready for Full, Short, Posters & DC papers (main proceedings) Author Registration Deadline for main proceedings 7 May 2016: Workshop papers & demos, Late-Breaking Results (LBR) 1 June 2016: Notification of workshop papers & Demos, LBR papers 7 June 2016: Camera-ready for Workshop papers & Demos, LBR papers (extended proceedings) Early Registration Deadline (author registration for extended proceedings) 12 July 2016: Regular Registration Deadline 13-17 July 2016: UMAP 2016 Conference On-site Registration The submissions times are 11:59 pm Hawaii time. Organization General Chairs * Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada * Jamie Blustein, Dalhousie University, Canada Program Chairs * Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Sidney D'Mello, University of Notre Dame, USA Workshop and Tutorial Chairs * Federica Cena, University of Torino, Italiy * Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Doctoral Consortium Chairs * Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, United Kingdom * Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Poster and Demo Chairs * Darina Dicheva, Winston Salem University, USA * Michel Desmarais, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Track Chairs User Modelling for Recommender Systems * Alexander Felfernig, University of Graz, Austria * Pasquale Lops, University of Bari, Italy Adaptive & Personalized Educational Systems * Antonija Mitrovic, University of Christchurch, New Zealand * Kalina Yacef, University of Sidney, Australia Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era * Alessandro Bozzon, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Harith Alani, The Open University, UK Adaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces * Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge, UK * Julien Epps, University of New South Wales Architectures, Techniques & Methodologies for UMAP * Mihaela Cocea, University of Portsmouth, UK * Stephan Weibelzahl, Private University of Applied Sciences (Goettingen), Germany Publicity Chairs * Denis Parra, PUC Chile, Santiago de Chile * Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria Conference Website http://www.um.org/umap2016/ -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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