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3rd MANIAC Challenge
by Joly MacFie 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Perhaps a bit technical but I thought I'd throw it out there. j ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eggert, Lars <lars(a)netapp.com> Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:50 AM Subject: [IRTF-Announce] IRTF-cosponsored event: 3rd MANIAC Challenge To: "irtf-announce(a)irtf.org" <irtf-announce(a)irtf.org> Hi, the IRTF is a co-sponsor of the 3rd MANIAC Challenge on the Saturday before IETF-87 in Berlin. Lars -- ** Call for Short Papers for the 3rd MANIAC Challenge ** Co-located with the 87th IETF meeting in Berlin, Germany July 27 - August 2, 2013 http://2013.maniacchallenge.org Sponsored by: Google, ISOC, IETF, IRTF, ANR, and BMBF The MANIAC Challenge is a competition to better understand cooperation and interoperability in ad hoc networks. Competing teams students/researchers come together to form a wireless ad hoc network, while simultaneously connected to a backbone of access points. The organizers will generate traffic coming from the backbone, destined to somewhere in the network. A hop-by-hop bidding contest decides the path of each data packet towards its destination. Each team usually consists of two to three people. Teams will be judged based on how much of the traffic they relay gets to its destination. To get their traffic across the network, each team must rely on other teams willingness to forward traffic for them. We have developed software and an API over Android to allow teams to program their nodes, in particular override forwarding decisions made by the routing protocol and participate in the hop-by-hop bidding contest. ------------------------------------------------ Topic of 3rd MANIAC Challenge: Mobile Offloading ------------------------------------------------ The specific focus of the MANIAC Challenge 2013 is on developing and comparatively evaluating strategies to offload infrastructure access points via customer ad hoc forwarding using handhelds (e.g., smartphones, tablets). The incentive for customers is discounted monthly fees, and the incentive for operators is decreased infrastructure costs. The idea is to demonstrate scenarios/strategies that do not degrade user experience while offering significant mobile offloading on the infrastructure. Details about the scenario and competition rules are available at http://2013.maniacchallenge.org/rules-setup. ---------- Submission ---------- We solicit the submission of short papers (max. 2 pages IEEE double-column format) describing strategies for mobile offloading. After being peer-reviewed, authors of selected submissions will be invited to participate in the MANIAC Challenge and to attend the IETF meeting. We highly encourage authors to continue the development of the offloading strategy during the review time. Please, submit your short paper via email to maniac2013(a)lists.fu-berlin.de. ------------- Participation ------------- Author participation will consist in attending the MANIAC Challenge in Berlin, Germany, July 27 - 28, 2013. Authors are also invited to attend the IETF/IRTF meeting July 28 - August 2, 2013. Participation in the MANIAC Challenge is free of charge. Registration costs (at full-time student rate) for the IETF/IRTF meeting are sponsored by ISOC. Authors bring an implementation of the strategy described in the paper submitted by the author, running on the common API and the common hardware used for the event: the Nexus 7 tablet. The MANIAC API and software will be released with the notification of acceptance. Hardware will be provided by the organizers if necessary. Each participant will then concurrently run its strategy during the contest, taking place on July 27th at the Freie Universität Berlin. The following day, a workshop will take place at the IETF venue, where we will summarize and discuss the results of the contest. The winners of the MANIAC Challenge 2013 will be announced during the IRTF Open Meeting, which is part of the IETF/IRTF week with high visibility. The IRTF Open Meeting usually will be attended by more than 100 experts from industry and academia working on Internet Engineering. Winners will take home some prizes to be determined with sponsors. Competing teams will be provided complimentary IETF registration enabling them to attend the 87th IETF meeting in Berlin, July 28 - August 2nd. Details about the submission and participation are available at http://2013.maniacchallenge.org/participation/ ------------ Mailing List ------------ If you are interested in the MANIAC Challenge 2013, please subscribe to the mailing list maniac2013-info(a)lists.fu-berlin.de. We will inform you about updates. https://lists.fu-berlin.de/listinfo/maniac2013-info#subscribe --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Deadline for short paper submission: May 5, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2013 - Release of API and software: May 12, 2013 - MANIAC challenge dates: July 27 - 28, 2013 - IETF/IRTF meeting: July 28 - August 2, 2013 ---------------- MANIAC Co-Chairs ---------------- - Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA) - Oliver Hahm (INRIA) - Felix Juraschek (Freie Universität Berlin) - Thomas Schmidt (HAW Hamburg) - Heiko Will (Freie Universität Berlin) - Matthias Wählisch (Freie Universität Berlin) ------- Contact ------- For questions, please contact maniac2013(a)lists.fu-berlin.de -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Re: [Air-L] Using social media to reduce stigma
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi The See Me Scotland Campaign uses social media (as well as offline methods like adverts on buses) http://www.facebook.com/seemescotland https://twitter.com/seemescotland -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Edinburgh Napier University is one of Scotland's top universities for graduate employability. 93.6% of graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. The Telegraph newspaper named us as one of the "top ten UK universities for getting a job" in 2012. This university is also proud winner of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2009, awarded for innovative housing construction for environmental benefit and quality of life. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Re: [Air-L] Using social media to reduce stigma
by Avery Holton 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Re: Using social media to reduce stigma (Avery Holton) You might check into Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness (2005). It's a global report that's a bit dated, but valuable nonetheless. I've also found the Stuart et al. (2012) volume, Paradigms Lost: Fighting Stigma and the Lessons Learned, very helpful. -Avery Avery Holton Doctoral Candidate / William Powers, Jr. Fellow School of Journalism Disabilities Studies Doctoral Portfolio Texas Center for Disabilities Studies University of Texas at Austin averyholton(a)gmail.com @averyholton On Mar 25, 2013, at 5:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Re: Using social media to reduce stigma

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Re: [Air-L] Using social media to reduce stigma
by Bridianne Odea 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Dear all, My research team and I are interested in designing a social media campaign to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness. I have not been very successful in my search of existing campaigns, both within and beyond Australia. Is anyone aware of, or conducting their own research, in the areas of social media and stigma (whether it be for mental illness or any other health issue)? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Bridi BRIDIANNE O’DEA PhD | Research Assistant | Thursday - Friday The Transitions Study Brain & Mind Research Institute THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Room 203, Level 2, Building M02G | 100 Mallett St Camperdown | NSW | 2050 T +61 2 9114 4151 | M +61 423 366 563 E bridianne.odea(a)sydney.edu.au | W sydney.edu.au/bmri CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org] Sent: Monday, 25 March 2013 9:00 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 104, Issue 26 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Possible adopters, Digital Media Ethics, 2nd edition? (Charles Ess) 2. CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings (John Vines) 3. Help recruiting and enrolling participants in Twitter study (Benjamin Gleason) 4. Re: Quantitative analysis of online pornography (Antoine Mazieres) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:46:29 +0100 From: Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> To: Air list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Possible adopters, Digital Media Ethics, 2nd edition? Message-ID: <CD745FD5.5C0DC%charles.ess(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Dear AoIR friends and colleagues, (with apologies in advance to any of you who experience this as a form of unwanted spam. My reason for sending this to the AoIR list is that the book and its revisions are so deeply indebted to AoIR colleagues, the work of the ethics committee, and conference presentations and discussions that AoIR seems to me the book's first and most natural home.) The second (substantially revised and thoroughly updated) edition of my book, Digital Media Ethics (Polity Press) will come out later this year, I'm very happy to say. I've appended the blurb at the end of this note. In the meantime, however, Polity would like me to develop a list of possible adopters of the book: the possible adopters will then be sent an inspection copy of the book for review. So: if you would like to be included in the list, please send me your indication of interest along with exact contact details - name, address, email address, and phone number - so that Polity can contact you as needed. (You can send these to either my gmail account or UiO account: <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no>) Along these lines, if anyone has recommendations for journals that would be interested in reviewing the new book, I would very much appreciate that information as well. Thanks in advance, and best in the meantime, -charles Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no The blurb: The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover current research and scholarship, and recent developments and technological changes, particularly the dominance of Internet access via mobile devices. The new edition also benefits from extensively updated case-studies and pedagogical material, incorporating more recent scholarship as well as examples of ?watershed? events and developments, including privacy policy changes on Facebook, Google+, and others, in relation to on-going changes in privacy law in the U.S., the E.U., and Asia. New for the second edition are sections on friendship online, democratization, and ?citizen journalism? and its implications for traditional journalistic ethics. With a significantly updated section on the ?ethical toolkit?, this book will also introduce students to prevailing ethical theories and illustrate how they are applied to central issues in digital media ethics. Topics covered include privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online. Digital Media Ethics is student- and classroom-friendly: each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions that foster careful reflection upon, writing about, and discussion of these issues and their possible resolutions. Each chapter includes additional resources and suggestions for further research and writing. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:48:47 +0000 From: John Vines <john.vines(a)newcastle.ac.uk> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings Message-ID: <CD748A89.1B53A%john.vines(a)ncl.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Apologies for cross-posting ************************** Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Int. Journal of Human-Computer Studies Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings http://di.ncl.ac.uk/participation/special-issue/ ************************** Scope ************************** Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI community. Traditionally, the term has been used to suggest a democratized approach to the design of technology that calls for end-user involvement in the design process. This may vary from researchers inviting specific users or stakeholders to participate in design workshops, through to long term engagements with communities to define research questions and study deployments of new technologies. As HCI is an interdisciplinary field, however, there are multiple understandings of what participation in research might mean, from subjects and disciplines such as social science, participatory and performance arts, international development, and action research. Beyond these influences, there is also increased pressure from funding bodies and public institutions to involve a wider spectrum of the public in academic research. The convergence of these factors has drawn attention to the potential benefits and challenges , both theoretical and practical of involving users and the public in HCI research. While user, citizen or stakeholder participation in design processes can offer great insight into the applicability of technological interventions in certain contexts, the HCI community would benefit from critically reflecting on how participation is planned, managed, and sustained. The mundane yet still significant details of how participatory HCI research is performed are rarely documented and discussed by the community. The coming together of multiple perspectives from different disciplines ? some of which have existing frameworks, some debate the very notion of participation ? provides an opportunity for HCI researchers to reflect critically on how people are involved in design processes. Specifically, we call attention to the following three phases of performing participatory HCI research: How we begin: How do researchers establish relationships with communities, participants, or users and stakeholders prior to commencing participatory research? Who here determines the research context and the setting it takes place in, or what research questions are formed? Furthermore, what agendas, skills and assumptions do researchers bring to a participatory project? Why are certain participants selected or invited to take part over others? How we reflex and reflect: How do researchers reflect upon and manage the complicated processes of participation and engagement while working with groups or communities? How are researchers and participants given space to document and reflect upon the activities they perform and how does this inform the research or design process throughout? How do we understand our practice when busy doing it and can we develop strategies to elicit generative reflections on practice as it is enacted? Furthermore, is it possible to document participatory work along the way without skewing the process itself? How we end: How do researchers determine whether deployments or interventions should be sustained beyond the formal completion of research, and what are the practical challenges of leaving a legacy of a participatory project? Is sustainability or legacy always positive outcome of participatory research, and are there ways of empirically understanding transformations within a context beyond the uptake or success of a specific technology or intervention? ************************** Topics ************************** This special issue aims to present a set of high quality, thought provoking, original research articles that address one or more of these stages through topics including, but not limited to: -- Empirical studies collaborating with organizations and communities in the design or evaluation of new technologies. -- Studies of participatory HCI that target specific populations or communities, such as older people, young people, activist groups, charities, rural communities, among others. -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks that unpack the questions and related problems of participation as a process. -- Critical reflections on existing and historical examples of participation in HCI. -- Strategies for documenting and eliciting reflection from both researchers and participants engaged in research. -- Considerations of the ethical, moral and political implications of designing technologies with communities of users and stakeholders. -- Interdisciplinary perspectives on participatory HCI research. -- Case studies discussing experiences of beginning, reflecting on or sustaining participatory HCI research. It is anticipated that submissions will tackle at least one stage of participatory research/design processes in use, as described above, and that accepted papers will comprise examples from each phase. Papers addressing theoretical issues will only be considered where the contribution is exceptional. ************************** Paper submission ************************** Authors are requested to contact the guest editors (email: participation.di(a)gmail.com<mailto:participation.di@gmail.com>) prior to making a submission by July 31st 2013 to inform them of their plans to submit to the special issue. All submissions should be made to the IJHCS submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs selecting "SI: participatory HCI" as the Article Type. Full manuscripts should be submitted according to the IJHCS Guide for authors and will be blind refereed. Articles must be based on original research, although extended versions of published conference papers may be acceptable if they contain at least 50% new material. All manuscripts should be submitted online. The IJHCS Guide for authors and online submission is available at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs. ************************** Key dates ************************** Email guest editors prior to submission: 31st July 2013 Paper due date: 31st August 2013 Review completion date: 15th November 2013 (Notification of 1st review) Re-Submission by: 17th January 2014 Final Acceptance: 21st February 2014 (Notification of 2nd review) Final Version due: 7th April 2014 ************************** Guest Editors ************************** John Vines, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) Rachel Clarke, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) Ann Light, Northumbria University (United Kingdom) Peter Wright, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:41:37 -0400 From: Benjamin Gleason <horns2k(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Help recruiting and enrolling participants in Twitter study Message-ID: <CAN16u+v-X0t7Dv7D1HRn0vVmPmyGEg3hAG=Sv6JXX8aehztJmg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi there. My name is Benjamin Gleason and I'm a 2nd year PhD student at Michigan State University. I'm currently doing a study that explores the digital literacy practices and identity performances of high school aged Twitter users. The study design is composed of two stages-- the first will be a discourse analysis of tweets and the second will be semi-structured interview about their Twitter practices. I've received IRB approval for my study and am ready to recruit and enroll participants, who I've been following on Twitter for the past 4-6 weeks or so. Anecdotally, I've seen a lot of interesting identity-work happening and would like to get the young people I've been following to participate in the study. I invited a few of the participants to join the study, but the response has been limited. I was hoping to find participants through Twitter who may be interested in participating, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for how to recruit participants (aged 15-18) to join my study. The requirements of the study *seem* pretty minimal-- only one (or maybe two) interviews about their Twitter use. But I'm having a hard time getting young people to participate. Your help is appreciated. Thanks and have a great day :) -- p: 415-516-6240 https://sites.google.com/site/bwgleason (research) http://www.progroup.us <http://www.prospectusgroup.us> (consulting) "For every single idea of a judicious and reasonable nature which offers itself to us, what hosts of frivilous, bizarre, and absurd ideas cross our mind." [Paul Soriau, Theory of Invention, 1881] ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:45:03 +0100 From: Antoine Mazieres <antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography Message-ID: <CAH+6s9dKuMpMsojfGo0jbKr9JLcJqtCFzF2qaibotEZ5U+AgGw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.pornmd.com/sex-search Very nice data ! never saw it before... the presence of "rape" in the top ten (india for instance) is quite frightening... This data is bound to server-side information (pornhub - #3 in the world). Best, Antoine On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Antoine Mazieres < antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Thank you very much for all your answers. I'll get back to you as soon as > I went through all this references. > Also, I will let you know about the dataset I have in mind. > > Thanks again, > Antoine > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Antoine Mazieres < > antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear IRs, >> >> I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at >> available studies made out of them. >> >> I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of >> pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution >> of the object itself. >> >> Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? >> >> (If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public >> website, I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) >> >> Thanks for your help, >> All best, >> Antoine >> http://mazier.es/ >> > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 104, Issue 26 **************************************

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Re: [Air-L] Using social media to reduce stigma (Bridianne Odea)
by Karen Smith 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi Bridianne, I think you might want to look up the Let's Talk campaign that was Bell Canada's campaign to get the public talking about mental health to reduce stigma. http://letstalk.bell.ca/en/ Best, Karen -- Karen Louise Smith www.karenlouisesmith.net

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Lurking Theory
by Scott Kushner 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi AOIRites (apologies for x-posting), I'm pleased to share http://lurkingtheory.wordpress.com, a blog that I'm using to jump-start a project on internet lurking. The most recent post looks at how different languages speak of the practices of reading without writing online. A number of AIR-L celebrities helped out, so please check it out. Other posts outline some of the project's key concerns and more are on the way. Your comments and critiques will be terribly helpful in developing the project, so I hope you'll share any reactions, either through the blog or by email (if you'd rather lurk). All the best, SK

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CFP: Workshop on LARGE-SCALE IDEA MANAGEMENT AND DELIBERATION SYSTEMS
by Lu Xiao 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

WORKSHOP ON LARGE-SCALE IDEA MANAGEMENT AND DELIBERATION SYSTEMS (LSID 2013) Held in conjunction with C&T 2013 Conference in Munich, Germany, on June 29, 2013 Website: http://comtech13.xrce.xerox.com/ Hashtag: #lsdelib Email: lsdeliberation(a)xrce.xerox.com IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Position/Extended Paper submission: April 16, 2013 (www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=lsdeliberation) * Author notification: April 23, 2013 * Camera-ready paper submission: April 30, 2013 * Workshop date: June 29, 2013 WORKSHOP AIMS AND SCOPE --------------- The workshop aims to assemble a diverse set of participants with an interest in studying or building systems for large-scale ideation and deliberation in business or civic settings. Aside of presenting new work in the area, the goal of the workshop is to enable a multi-disciplinary discussion about the key research questions and related themes underlying the design, deployment, and evaluation of LSID platforms in real world contexts. Therefore, in addition to presentations, the workshop will involve networking activities of all workshop participants in a series of organised discussions on the future developments of deliberation systems and managing collaboration for future joint projects. The research issues related to workshop area can be summarised by the following problems: * How can we facilitate interaction of large communities ? * How can we organise information stored in deliberation systems and enable to utilise this data in an efficient way? * How can we maintain sustainability of deliberation platforms and stimulate impact of discussions and ideas? The LSID Workshop invites researchers, engineers, software developers to present their research and works in the field of idea management and deliberation systems. Papers may deal with methods, models, case studies, practical experiences and technologies. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------- Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: Theory of Collaborative Interaction and Deliberation: * models of crowd knowledge, crowd aggregation, and crowd reasoning * argumentation theories & technologies * models of social influence * influencers identification * measuring engagement * social network analysis * opinion diffusion models * self organisation, emergence of volunteering, game theory models * cognitive factors in ideation and deliberation * deliberation as structured discourse * discourse modelling * extrinsic and intrinsic motivational factors * discovering reasoning patterns * network structure for collaboration * systemic properties from node interactions Technological aspects of Collaborative Systems: * systems for collective policy amendment * role-based tools for contributors, decision-makers, reviewers, facilitators, aggregators, and group formation * real-time deliberation and stream reasoning * discourse and arguments visualization * visual analytics * analytics functionalities for reflection * awareness and self-correcting tools * automatic user profiling from contributions * social ideation & business process management * reputation systems * incentives and reward systems Applications in practice of organisations: * energy infrastructure, business strategy, pub. policy, emergencies * grassroots innovation & decisions * democracy, open & accountable governance * earth policies, social sustainability, health, ageing, participation * artistic cooperation, large-scale games, films PAPER SUBMISSION --------------- Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, neither submitted nor accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. They must be written in English, and formatted using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) Manuscripts should be submitted (in PDF format) through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=lsdeliberation) In case of any inquires, please do not hesitate to contact the organising committee: lsdeliberation(a)xrce.xerox.com. The submissions should focus on one or more of the following categories: * Empirical studies: e.g., case studies illustrating practices and pointing to specific design requirements for business or civic settings. * Designs and demos of new systems or proof-of-concept prototypes of systems for supporting large-scale ideation and deliberation; or in-depth evaluations of systems already deployed. * Theoretical contributions on ideation and deliberation (processes and systems) that can inform future design and research. * Cases of multi-disciplinarily research showing the interplay between field studies, analysis of requirements, and development of systems. Depending on the scope and research maturity, we invite submissions of two kinds of papers: * Position Papers: describing preliminary work, initial research results or vision papers proposing exciting new ideas for research and development of either Idea Management or large-scale deliberation systems. (1,500-2,000 words) * Extended Papers: reporting more substantial research or development work. The extended papers report on mature research results and present an evaluation that delivers new insight into problem areas described in the workshop themes. (up to 8,000 words) Three researchers will carefully review each submission using review criteria shared by the organisers. The selection criteria includes the significance of the contribution, relevance to the workshop themes, and clarity. The maximum number of contributions accepted for presentation will be about 20. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------- * Gregorio Convertino, Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE), France * Mark Klein, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA * Anna De Liddo, Open University, UK * Adam Westerski, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain * Paloma Diaz Perez, Universidad Carlos III, Spain * Manas Hardas, Spigit, USA * Lu Xiao, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA * Josh Folk, IdeaScale, Washington, D.C.

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Help recruiting and enrolling participants in Twitter study
by Benjamin Gleason 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Hi there. My name is Benjamin Gleason and I'm a 2nd year PhD student at Michigan State University. I'm currently doing a study that explores the digital literacy practices and identity performances of high school aged Twitter users. The study design is composed of two stages-- the first will be a discourse analysis of tweets and the second will be semi-structured interview about their Twitter practices. I've received IRB approval for my study and am ready to recruit and enroll participants, who I've been following on Twitter for the past 4-6 weeks or so. Anecdotally, I've seen a lot of interesting identity-work happening and would like to get the young people I've been following to participate in the study. I invited a few of the participants to join the study, but the response has been limited. I was hoping to find participants through Twitter who may be interested in participating, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for how to recruit participants (aged 15-18) to join my study. The requirements of the study *seem* pretty minimal-- only one (or maybe two) interviews about their Twitter use. But I'm having a hard time getting young people to participate. Your help is appreciated. Thanks and have a great day :) -- p: 415-516-6240 https://sites.google.com/site/bwgleason (research) http://www.progroup.us <http://www.prospectusgroup.us> (consulting) "For every single idea of a judicious and reasonable nature which offers itself to us, what hosts of frivilous, bizarre, and absurd ideas cross our mind." [Paul Soriau, Theory of Invention, 1881]

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CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings
by John Vines 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Apologies for cross-posting ************************** Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Int. Journal of Human-Computer Studies Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings http://di.ncl.ac.uk/participation/special-issue/ ************************** Scope ************************** Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI community. Traditionally, the term has been used to suggest a democratized approach to the design of technology that calls for end-user involvement in the design process. This may vary from researchers inviting specific users or stakeholders to participate in design workshops, through to long term engagements with communities to define research questions and study deployments of new technologies. As HCI is an interdisciplinary field, however, there are multiple understandings of what participation in research might mean, from subjects and disciplines such as social science, participatory and performance arts, international development, and action research. Beyond these influences, there is also increased pressure from funding bodies and public institutions to involve a wider spectrum of the public in academic research. The convergence of these factors has drawn attention to the potential benefits and challenges, both theoretical and practical of involving users and the public in HCI research. While user, citizen or stakeholder participation in design processes can offer great insight into the applicability of technological interventions in certain contexts, the HCI community would benefit from critically reflecting on how participation is planned, managed, and sustained. The mundane yet still significant details of how participatory HCI research is performed are rarely documented and discussed by the community. The coming together of multiple perspectives from different disciplines – some of which have existing frameworks, some debate the very notion of participation – provides an opportunity for HCI researchers to reflect critically on how people are involved in design processes. Specifically, we call attention to the following three phases of performing participatory HCI research: How we begin: How do researchers establish relationships with communities, participants, or users and stakeholders prior to commencing participatory research? Who here determines the research context and the setting it takes place in, or what research questions are formed? Furthermore, what agendas, skills and assumptions do researchers bring to a participatory project? Why are certain participants selected or invited to take part over others? How we reflex and reflect: How do researchers reflect upon and manage the complicated processes of participation and engagement while working with groups or communities? How are researchers and participants given space to document and reflect upon the activities they perform and how does this inform the research or design process throughout? How do we understand our practice when busy doing it and can we develop strategies to elicit generative reflections on practice as it is enacted? Furthermore, is it possible to document participatory work along the way without skewing the process itself? How we end: How do researchers determine whether deployments or interventions should be sustained beyond the formal completion of research, and what are the practical challenges of leaving a legacy of a participatory project? Is sustainability or legacy always positive outcome of participatory research, and are there ways of empirically understanding transformations within a context beyond the uptake or success of a specific technology or intervention? ************************** Topics ************************** This special issue aims to present a set of high quality, thought provoking, original research articles that address one or more of these stages through topics including, but not limited to: -- Empirical studies collaborating with organizations and communities in the design or evaluation of new technologies. -- Studies of participatory HCI that target specific populations or communities, such as older people, young people, activist groups, charities, rural communities, among others. -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks that unpack the questions and related problems of participation as a process. -- Critical reflections on existing and historical examples of participation in HCI. -- Strategies for documenting and eliciting reflection from both researchers and participants engaged in research. -- Considerations of the ethical, moral and political implications of designing technologies with communities of users and stakeholders. -- Interdisciplinary perspectives on participatory HCI research. -- Case studies discussing experiences of beginning, reflecting on or sustaining participatory HCI research. It is anticipated that submissions will tackle at least one stage of participatory research/design processes in use, as described above, and that accepted papers will comprise examples from each phase. Papers addressing theoretical issues will only be considered where the contribution is exceptional. ************************** Paper submission ************************** Authors are requested to contact the guest editors (email: participation.di(a)gmail.com<mailto:participation.di@gmail.com>) prior to making a submission by July 31st 2013 to inform them of their plans to submit to the special issue. All submissions should be made to the IJHCS submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs selecting "SI: participatory HCI" as the Article Type. Full manuscripts should be submitted according to the IJHCS Guide for authors and will be blind refereed. Articles must be based on original research, although extended versions of published conference papers may be acceptable if they contain at least 50% new material. All manuscripts should be submitted online. The IJHCS Guide for authors and online submission is available at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs. ************************** Key dates ************************** Email guest editors prior to submission: 31st July 2013 Paper due date: 31st August 2013 Review completion date: 15th November 2013 (Notification of 1st review) Re-Submission by: 17th January 2014 Final Acceptance: 21st February 2014 (Notification of 2nd review) Final Version due: 7th April 2014 ************************** Guest Editors ************************** John Vines, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) Rachel Clarke, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) Ann Light, Northumbria University (United Kingdom) Peter Wright, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)

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Possible adopters, Digital Media Ethics, 2nd edition?
by Charles Ess 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Dear AoIR friends and colleagues, (with apologies in advance to any of you who experience this as a form of unwanted spam. My reason for sending this to the AoIR list is that the book and its revisions are so deeply indebted to AoIR colleagues, the work of the ethics committee, and conference presentations and discussions that AoIR seems to me the book's first and most natural home.) The second (substantially revised and thoroughly updated) edition of my book, Digital Media Ethics (Polity Press) will come out later this year, I'm very happy to say. I've appended the blurb at the end of this note. In the meantime, however, Polity would like me to develop a list of possible adopters of the book: the possible adopters will then be sent an inspection copy of the book for review. So: if you would like to be included in the list, please send me your indication of interest along with exact contact details - name, address, email address, and phone number - so that Polity can contact you as needed. (You can send these to either my gmail account or UiO account: <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no>) Along these lines, if anyone has recommendations for journals that would be interested in reviewing the new book, I would very much appreciate that information as well. Thanks in advance, and best in the meantime, -charles Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no The blurb: The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover current research and scholarship, and recent developments and technological changes, particularly the dominance of Internet access via mobile devices. The new edition also benefits from extensively updated case-studies and pedagogical material, incorporating more recent scholarship as well as examples of ³watershed² events and developments, including privacy policy changes on Facebook, Google+, and others, in relation to on-going changes in privacy law in the U.S., the E.U., and Asia. New for the second edition are sections on friendship online, democratization, and citizen journalism¹ and its implications for traditional journalistic ethics. With a significantly updated section on the ethical toolkit¹, this book will also introduce students to prevailing ethical theories and illustrate how they are applied to central issues in digital media ethics. Topics covered include privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online. Digital Media Ethics is student- and classroom-friendly: each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions that foster careful reflection upon, writing about, and discussion of these issues and their possible resolutions. Each chapter includes additional resources and suggestions for further research and writing.

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