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Call for proposals now open for Connected Learning Summit 2019
by Jamieson Pond 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Call for proposals now open for the 2019 Connected Learning Summit Call for proposals page: http://clsummit.news/CLScfpAIR  Online submissions open: January 11, 2019 Deadline for submissions: March 8, 2019 Notifications of Acceptance: June 2019 Connected Learning Summit 2019 October 2-5, 2019 | University of California, Irvine We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the second annual Connected Learning Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the Connected Learning Summit brings together leading researchers, educators, and developers. The program includes a mix of engaging presentation and workshop formats ranging from speculative design, to game walkthroughs, sharing works in progress, and research panels.  We encourage the submission of academic papers and project presentations as well as more innovative session formats which focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial games and other media, innovative tech-infused curricula, and theoretical and/or empirical exploration of digital media and technology for learning. Abstracts from all session types will be included in the Connected Learning Summit Conference Proceedings. Research papers will be published in full, and subject to blind peer review. All other session formats will be subject to committee review. We will be accepting proposals for: - Research papers - Workshops - Showcases - Symposia - Well Played sessions - Hall of Failure - Posters - Tech demos - Ignite talks About the Connected Learning Summit The mission of the Connected Learning Summit is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. The Connected Learning Summit represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. The 2019 Connected Learning Summit will be held at the University of California, Irvine campus October 2-5, 2019. Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Communications Manager Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine *Connected Learning Summit 2019* University of California, Irvine October 2-5, 2019 2019.connectedlearningsummit.org/ @TheCLSummit | #CLS2019

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WG: Workshop Sisterhood on Twitter Feb 18, 2019, in Tübingen, Germany
by Schelenz, Laura 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Dear colleagues, to whom it may concern, Hereby I would like to draw your attention to our upcoming graduate workshop with the title “Sisterhood on Twitter? ICT-based Collective Action and Narratives of Solidarity and Justice” on February 18, 2019, at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Please save the date and share our call for abstracts (for 10-minute presentations) with interested colleagues or students of yours. The deadline for abstracts is January 20, 2019. More information can be found below and online at https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/103584?tx_news_pi1[news]=32008<https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/103584?tx_news_pi1%5bnews%5d=32008> Many thanks and kind regards, Laura Schelenz Call for Abstracts: Graduate Workshop “Sisterhood on Twitter”, February 18, 2019, at the University of Tübingen Today, it seems that a hashtag is the means of choice to show solidarity with women/LGBTI* or advocate for gender justice. Social media and in particular Twitter are used by government bodies, civil society, activists, but also companies to promote gender equality. Examples of collective action that focus on the advancement of women’s and gender issues include the incredibly popular #MeToo initiative against sexual harassment in the United States, the relatable #YoTeCreo campaign in Spain, but also the #CzarnyProtest mobilization to push back against a proposed ban on abortion in Poland. Examples of top-down initiatives in support of gender justice include the UN campaign for IDEVAW #OrangetheWorld and the European Commission’s initiative #SayNoStopVAW. All of the above cases represents instances in which people claimed visibility by aggregating their voices and speaking up on a given issue. While in some cases more than in others, the overall impression emerging from these initiatives is that of a powerful show of horizontal democracy. However, the picture is probably not as clear-cut as it might look at first sight. Deeply rooted mechanisms of exclusion de facto prevent a large portion of the public from participating in these forms of collective action. Similarly, inequalities in the distribution of social media visibility seriously question the widespread assumption that anyone’s voice can actually be heard, as long as they tweet loud enough. At the Centre for Ethics in Tübingen, we will discuss the following and related questions: What are mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in ICT-based collective actions? What is the actual visibility that these kind of actions can hope to achieve? Who are the most visible actors within their narrow context? What narratives do these actors voice? How do the actors’ narratives of solidarity and justice clash with feminist ideas about gender equality and justice? We encourage Master’s students and Ph.D. candidates to join our workshop. The goal of the workshop is to develop new thoughts about the topic at hand, gather inspiration for your own work, and connect with academics working on similar issues. If you would like to contribute a 10-minute presentation, please send your abstract of max. 500 words to the organizers of the workshop by January 20, 2019. If you would like to attend the workshop merely as a participant, please register with the organizers by February 10, 2019. Organization: Ms. Laura Schelenz, University of Tübingen, laura.schelenz(a)uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:laura.schelenz@uni-tuebingen.de> Mr. Tommaso Trillò, University of Lodz, tommaso.trillo(a)uni.lodz.pl<mailto:tommaso.trillo@uni.lodz.pl> Date and Place: February 18, 2019 Room 1.13 in Wilhelmstraße 19, 72074 Tübingen Preliminary Program: 10:00 Welcome and warm up 11:00 Lecture by Tommaso Trillò: “Can the Subaltern Tweet? Unfulfilled Promises of Participation and Strategies of Resistance” 12:00 Lunch break 13:00 Short presentations/working groups 15:00 Short break 15:30 Short presentations/working groups 17:00 Final discussion and wrap-up 18:00 Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner: “Algorithmic Subjectivities and Digital Publics” Laura Schelenz is a Research Associate in the project “Ethical Implications of ICT export to sub-Saharan Africa” at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen. She is exploring ethical concerns about digitalization processes in Africa and is particularly interested in understanding the gender digital divide and mechanisms of exclusion. Schelenz holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and a BA in American Studies from Heidelberg University. She has spent time abroad in the USA and Hungary, and has previously worked in conflict research and human rights advocacy. Tommaso Trillò is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Early Stage Researcher and PhD candidate at the University of Lodz, Poland, in the context of GRACE – Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe (MSCA grant agreement No 675378). His main research focus is on the production of cultures of gender equality on social media platforms. His doctoral research project aims at exploring how key institutions at the EU supranational level and at the Italian national level contribute to the construction of ‘gender equality’ as a core European value through a comparative analysis of the narratives they advance on Twitter. Trillò holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Sciences from John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. Laura Schelenz Research Associate International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities University of Tübingen, Germany Room 2.01, Wilhelmstraße 19, 72074 Tübingen Phone: +49 7071 29-77517

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

*** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) "Making Personalization Transparent: Giving control back to the User" Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Abstracts due: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) Papers due: February 1, 2019 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ACM UMAP, "User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization", 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. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and 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, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. This year the conference hosts three new tracks, one on privacy and fairness, one on personalized music access, and one on personalized health. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS · Marios Avraamides, University of Cyprus · Judith Masthoff, Utrecht University · Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Spotify London CONFERENCE TRACKS Track 1 - Personalized Recommender Systems Chairs: Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, marko.tkalcic(a)unibz.it Alan Said, University of Skövde, alansaid(a)acm.org Personalized, computer-generated recommendations have become a pervasive feature of today's online world. The underlying recommender systems are designed to help users and providers in a number of ways. >From a user's viewpoint, for example, these systems assist consumers in finding relevant things within large item collections. On the other hand, from a provider's perspective, recommenders have also shown to be valuable tools to steer consumer behavior. From a technical perspective, the design of such systems requires the careful consideration of various aspects, including the choice of the user modeling approach, the underlying recommendation algorithm, and the user interface. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss open challenges, latest solutions and novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. Besides the above-mentioned technical aspects, works are also particularly welcome that address questions related to the user perception and the business value of recommender systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Recommendation algorithms · Recommender and personalization system evaluation · User modeling and preference elicitation · Users' perception of recommender systems · Business value of recommendation systems and multi-stakeholder environments · Explanations and trust · Context-aware recommendation algorithms · Recommending to groups of users · Case studies of real-world implementations · Novel, Psychology-informed User- and Item-modeling Track 2 - Adaptive Hypermedia And The Semantic Web Chairs: Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Katrien Verbert, KU Leuven, katrien.verbert(a)cs.kuleuven.be Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web explore alternatives to the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach in the development of web and hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web systems build a model of the interests, preferences and knowledge of each individual user, and use this model in order to adapt the behavior of hypermedia and web systems to the needs of that user. Semantic web frequently serves as an infrastructure to enable adaptive and personalized Web systems. Semantic web technology targets the use of explicit semantics and metadata to help web systems perform the desired functionality: this implies the use of linked data from the web, the use of ontologies in models, or the use of metadata in user interfaces, as well as the use of ontologies for information integration. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia and semantic web. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Web user profiles · Adaptive navigation support · Personalized search · Web content adaptation · Analytics of web user data · Adaptive web sites and portals · Adaptive books and textbooks · Social navigation and social search · Navigation support in continuous media and virtual environments · Usability engineering for adaptive hypermedia and web systems · Novel methodologies for evaluating adaptive hypermedia and web systems · Semantic Web technologies for web personalization · Ontology-based data access and integration/exchange on the adaptive web · Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the adaptive web · Ontology-based user models · Semantic social network mining, analysis, representation, and management · Crowdsourcing semantics; methods, dynamics, and challenges · Semantic Web and Linked Data for adaptation Track 3 - Intelligent User Interfaces Chairs: Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, lichen(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk Jingtao Wang, Google, jingtaow(a)acm.org Intelligent User Interfaces aim to improve the interaction between computer systems and human users by means of Artificial Intelligence. The systems support and complement different types of abilities that are normally unavailable in the context of human-only cognition. Previous work has found that humans do not always make the best possible decisions when working together with computer systems. By designing and deploying improved forms of support for interactive collaboration between human decision makers and systems, we can enable decision making processes that better leverage the strengths of both collaborators. More generally this research track can be characterized by exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Adaptive personal virtual assistants (e.g., interaction with robots) · Adapting natural interaction (e.g., natural language, speech, gesture) · Intelligent user interfaces based on sensor data (UIs for cars, fridges, etc.) · Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological info, etc.) · Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces · Smart environments and tangible computing · Transparency and control of decision support systems (e.g., semi-autonomous systems) · Explainable intelligent user interfaces · Affective and aesthetic interfaces · Tailored persuasion and argumentation interfaces · Tailored decision support (e.g., over- and under-reliance in uncertain domains) · Adaptive information visualization · Scalability of intelligent user interfaces to access huge datasets · User-centric studies of interactions with intelligent user interfaces · Novel datasets and use cases for intelligent user interfaces · Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces Track 4 - Personalized Social Web Chairs: Ilaria Torre, University of Genova, ilaria.torre(a)unige.it Osnat Mokryn, omokryn(a)univ.haifa.ac.il The social web is continuously growing and social platforms are a fundamental part of our life. Mediated communication is becoming the primary form of communication for young people, and adults follow in increasing numbers. Online communication is increasingly enriched by the use of memes, pictures, audio and video, though language (textual and oral) remains a fundamental tool with which people interact, convey their opinions, construct and determine their social identity. Lifelogging data (e.g., health, fitness, food) is growing as well on the social web. This type of personal information source, gathered for private use through personal devices, is now often shared in online communities. These trends open new challenges for research: how to harness the power of collective intelligence and quantified self data in online social platforms to identify social identities, how to exploit continuous feedback threads, and how to improve the individual user experience on the social web. We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of personalization, user models building and personal experience in online social systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Personalization of the web experience in social systems · Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture · Personalization algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies · Social recommendation · Identifying social identities in social media · Social and crowd-generated data for adaptation · Personalized information retrieval · Exploiting quantified self data on the social web of things · Data-driven approaches for personalization · Modeling individuals, groups, and communities · Collective intelligence and experience mining · Pattern and behaviour discovery in social network analysis · Opinion mining for user modeling · Sentiment analysis · Topic modeling for online conversations and short texts · Privacy, perceived security, and trust in social systems · Ethical issues involved in studying the social web · User awareness and control · Evaluation methodologies for the social web Track 5 - Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning Chairs: Jesús G. Boticario, UNED, jgb(a)dia.uned.es Inge Molenaar, Radboud University, i.molenaar(a)pwo.ru.nl At large there is an on-going "fusion" between humans and technological systems. The ongoing integration of devices into our daily lives furthers the integration of technology in human learning. With technology increasingly gaining more data and intelligence, a new era of technology-enhanced adaptive learning is emerging. Consequently, the interactions between learners, teachers and technology are becoming increasingly complex. Learning is a positioned as a complex human process that involves cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, affective and psychomotor aspects which interact with the learning context. Smart technological solutions are increasingly able to identify and model the learner needs on these five aspects and accordingly provide personalized support that can improve the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of learning experiences. Current research in artificial intelligence combined with data science and learning analytics bring new opportunities to recognize, and effectively support individual learners' needs and orchestrate collaborate and classroom learning with intelligent learning solutions, and augment teachers in blended learning situations. The aim of this track is to foreground the systematic complexity of human learning and use systematic analytic approaches to measure, diagnose and support human learning with technologies. This covers not only formal educational settings, but also lifelong learning requirements (including workplace training) as well as the acquisition of skills informal learning settings (e.g., in daily activities, serious games, sports, healthcare, wellbeing, etc.). To address the wide spectrum of modeling issues and challenges that can be raised, contributions from various research areas are welcome. Therefore, this track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to present their innovative adaptive learning solutions, share acquired experience, and discuss the main modeling challenges for technology enhanced adaptive learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Domain, learner, teacher and context modeling · Modeling cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, affective and psychomotor aspects of learning · Diagnosis of learner needs and calibration of support and feedback Adaptive and personalized support for learning · Dealing with ethical issues involved in detecting and modeling a wider range of information sources (e.g., information from novel sensing devices, ambient intelligent features) that may affect learning · Management of large, open, and public datasets for educational data mining · Agent-based learning environments and virtual pedagogical agents · Open corpus personalized learning · Collaborative and group learning · Adaptive technologies to orchestrated classroom Learning · Personalized teachers awareness and support tools · Multimodal learning analytics to personalize learning · UMAP aspects in specific learning solutions: educational recommender systems, intelligent tutoring systems, serious games, personal learning environments, MOOCs · Wearable technologies and augmented reality in adaptive personalized learning · Processing collected data for UMAP: educational data mining, learning analytics, big data, deep learning. · Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning · Interoperability, portability, and scalability issues · Case studies in real-world educational settings · New methodologies to develop user-centered highly personalized learning solutions Track 6 - Privacy And Fairness Chairs: Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, bartk(a)clemson.edu Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, aimeur(a)iro.umontreal.ca Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social responsibility to care about their users. This involves building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, and protect users' privacy. We invite papers that study, in the context of UMAP, the topics of privacy (as well as innovative means to resolve privacy problems through algorithms, interfaces, or other technical or non-technical means), fairness (covering the spectrum from algorithmic fairness to social implications of adaptive systems), and transparency (as a concept of system usability as well as a means to resolve problems with privacy and fairness). Beyond this we encourage authors to submit to this track any work that ascribes to or advances the general idea of "adaptive systems that care". Privacy topics: · Analysis of privacy implications of user modeling · Privacy compliance · Algorithmic solutions to privacy · Architectural solutions to privacy · Interactive solutions to privacy · Usable privacy for adaptive systems · User perceptions of privacy in UMAP applications · Studies of users' privacy-related behaviors in UMAP applications · Descriptions or evaluations of privacy-settings user interfaces · Privacy prediction / personalization · User-tailored approaches to privacy · Privacy education for user modeling · Modeling of data protection and privacy requirements · Economics of privacy and personal data · Measuring privacy Fairness topics: · Ethical considerations for user modeling · UMAP applications for underrepresented groups · Cultural differences (e.g. culture-aware user modeling) · Bias and discrimination in user modeling · Imbalance in meeting the needs of different groups of users · Balancing needs of users versus system owners · Ethics of explore/exploit strategies or A/B testing · 'Filter bubble' or 'balkanization' effects · Enhancing/embracing diversity in user modeling · Algorithmic methods for increasing fairness · User perceptions of fairness · Measuring fairness Transparency topics: · User perceptions of transparency · Transparent algorithms · Interface innovations that increase transparency · Explanations for transparency · Visualizations for transparency · Adaptive systems for self-actualization · (User-centric) evaluations of methods that increase transparency · Measuring transparency Track 7 - Personalized Music Access Chairs: Markus Schedl, University of Linz, markus.schedl(a)jku.at Nava Tintarev, TU Delft, n.tintarev(a)tudelft.nl Music access systems (e.g., search, retrieval, and recommendation systems) have experienced a boom during the past decade due to the availability of huge music catalogs to users, anywhere and anytime. These systems record information on user behavior in terms of actions on music items, such as play, skip, or playlist creation and modification. As a result, an abundance of user and usage data has been collected and is available to companies and academics, allowing for user profiling and to create and improve personalized music access. This track addresses unsolved challenges in this area relating to user understanding and modeling, personalization in recommendation and retrieval systems, modeling usage context, and adapting interactive intelligent music interfaces. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners for the latest research on? user modeling and personalization for finding, making, and interacting with music. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Personalized music preference elicitation and preference learning · Psychological modeling of music listeners (e.g., personality, emotion, etc.) · Subjective perceptions of music (e.g., similarity, mood, tempo) social and cultural aspects of listening behavior (e.g., for group recommenders) · Applications for personalized music consumption and creation · Personalized playlist generation and continuation (e.g., sequences and transitions) · Personalized music interaction and interface paradigms (e.g., visualization, VR) · Explainability, transparency, and fairness in personalized music · Systems user-centric performance measures (e.g., diversity, novelty, serendipity, etc.) · Datasets (including benchmarks) for personalizing music retrieval and recommendation Track 8 - Personalized Health Chairs: Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg, david(a)elsweiler.co.uk Growing health issues and rising treatment costs mean that technological systems are increasingly important for global health. Personalised systems, tailored to the needs and behaviours of individual patients, are one of the promising approaches to health promotion by encouraging lifestyle change, managing treatment programmes and providing doctors and other healthcare providers with detailed individualized feedback. The challenges to developing such systems, which model user needs and preferences, as well as appropriate medical knowledge to provide assistance and recommendations are plentiful. The diverse technologies which could potentially feature in solutions are equally vast, ranging from AI systems to sensors, from mobile computing, augmented reality and visualization, to mining the web or other data streams to learn about health issues and user behaviour. In this track we invite scholars working in these or related areas to contribute to the discourse on how technology can promote health. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches and in doing so to strengthen the community of researchers working on Personalized Health and attract representatives from from diverse scholarly backgrounds ranging from computer and information science to public health, epidemiology, psychology, medicine, nutrition and fitness. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Algorithms and Recommendation Strategies to increase health · Mobile health · Quantified self · Applied data analytics and modeling for health · Health risk modeling and forecasting · Systems for Preventative Measures · Medical Evaluation Techniques · Domain Knowledge Representation · Behavioral Interventions: Persuasion/Nudging/Behavioral Change · HCI, Interfaces and Visualisations for health · Regulations and Standards · Human/ Expert-in-the-Loop · Gamification and Serious Games · Privacy, Trust, Ethics · Datasets SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers should be submitted through EasyChair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… The ACM User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP) 2019 Conference will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the ACM 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. Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style, peer reviewed, 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 are welcome. Long papers 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 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. For both long papers and short paper submissions, it is not required to anonymize the manuscripts, i.e., ACM UMAP will apply a single-blind reviewing process. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Please note that ACM changed its templates at the start of 2017, so please ensure that you use the new template and do not reuse an old template. All 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 and present the paper there. 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 · Abstract: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) · Full paper: February 1, 2019 · Notification: March 11, 2019 · Camera-ready: April 3, 2019 · Adjunct proceedings, camera ready: April 15, 2018 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). GENERAL CHAIRS · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen, Germany RELATED EVENTS Separate calls will be later sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Demos, Late Breaking Results and Theory, Opinion and Reflection works, as they have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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Job posting: PhD student in media communication / linguistics at Ghent University (Belgium): a Brexit-related project
by cbouko 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

The Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society (MULTIPLES) at Ghent University, invites applications for a full-time position as doctoral researcher. The PhD student will be working on the project “ Representations of intra-EU mobility and extra-EU migration in new media and in their readers' comments, in the context of Brexit”. *Project description* The research is situated in the domain of media communication, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. The media are considered partly to blame for the Brexit vote, not least because of their biased coverage of migration during the campaign. The project addresses this issue from two angles. Firstly, while most analyses of media coverage still focus on broadsheets vs. tabloids, increasingly popular Internet-only media fall within any of these two categories and remain particularly understudied. Therefore, the project seeks to identify digital-only practices in news-making, particularly regarding mobility in the Brexit context. Secondly, the ‘refugee crisis’ has resulted in fears of the extra-European ‘other’ but intra-European mobility is also instilling fears that undermine one of the very pillars of the EU, namely freedom of movement. Contrary to research to date which focuses on extra-EU migration, this project will analyze the media discourses regarding intra- and extra-EU mobilities, as well as the reactions these discourses trigger in readers’ comments. The news articles published by Buzzfeed UK, The Huffington Post UK and The Guardian are the subjects of the study, together with the comments posted by their readers. By combining the two angles, the project will have scientific impact both regarding new media and migration discourses. *Your profile* - master’s degree in linguistics, communication, or a related discipline, obtained with excellent grades before the start of the project - C2 or native-speaker level in English. The applicants’ skills in English will be tested; applicants below level C2 will not be considered for this research. - excellent academic skills in English - good social and communicative skills - capacity for autonomous research *Your tasks* - analyzing news articles and comments through quantitative and qualitative methods (the data is already collected). - preparing a PhD on the basis of the project - preparing individual and joint publications for national and international scientific journals - presenting research at national and international conferences *We offer* We offer a 48-month PhD position at Ghent University (Research Centre MULTIPLES & Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication). The position is available from 1 May 2019, but the starting date is negotiable up to 1 October 2019. *How to apply?* Candidates are invited to apply by submitting two types of documents by e-mail to Prof. Catherine Bouko (catherine.bouko(a)ugent.be) by 15 March 2019, 23:59 (CET): 1) A single pdf-document with : - a letter of application - a CV (including an overview of the applicant’s study results and the contact details of one person we may contact for a reference) - a copy of the required Master’s degree 2) a personal piece of (scientific) writing in the form of a student paper or publication (e.g. Master thesis or article) in English, demonstrating your academic skills. On the basis of these documents, candidates will be selected for an interview (if necessary, interviews can be held via Skype if the applicants live abroad). *More information* For more information, please contact Catherine Bouko: catherine.bouko(a)ugent.be https://www.ugent.be/en/work/vacancies/scientific/phd-student-in-media-comm… -- Catherine Bouko Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45 9000 Gent Belgium Bureau: B2.06 http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/catherine.bouko

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Research survey: Risk-taking in cybersecurity (Indiana State University)
by Andrew Gillam 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Greetings. I am soliciting acquaintances, friends and colleagues to participate in an online survey; the survey findings will support my doctoral research. The survey explores various decision-making factors and their impacts on technology use by people in the US who use information technology at work. Participation is anonymous for all participants; investigators cannot determine who participates and who does not. The survey is short, and uses single-click answers. No more than 12 minutes are needed to complete it. Most people complete it in a shorter period. The questionnaire consists of 68 questions, and is available online at https://indstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2H2vHMmacQD8iN. A case-sensitive password is required for access. The password is ISUresearch . We ask that those who choose to participate only access the survey once, and that they use personal time to participate outside of work. Please feel free to share this request by forwarding to others. Qualified participants must be working or retired adults in the United States who routinely use(d) employer-owned computers and/or mobile devices to do their jobs. They can access the questionnaire using the information provided above. Thanks and best regards, Andy Andrew R. Gillam Ph.D. Candidate agillam(a)sycamores.indstate.edu Indiana State University

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CFPs for a Special Issue of Digital Journalism: Engaging News Audiences (Abstracts by 30 April 2019)
by Sora Park 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

*Call for papers for a special issue of Digital Journalism* *Engaging news audiences: Exploring the links between digital platform affordances, selective exposure and social endorsement* *Editor-in-Chief: *Oscar Westlund *Guest editors:* Sora Park, University of Canberra Yoonmo Sang, University of Canberra Jaemin Jung, KAIST Natalie Jomini Stroud, University of Texas at Austin *Call for papers:* Digital platforms and mobile technologies are diversifying the ways in which audiences are exposed to and engage with news, ranging from news avoidance to active news sharing (Newman et al., 2018; Park et al., 2018). Among different types of news engagement, the act of ‘sharing’ encourages the culture of social endorsement where audiences signal to others and are influenced by their social networks in encountering news. This creates a social news environment where audiences are inadvertently exposed to news that may not match their political beliefs or interests (Anspach, 2017). On social media, audiences are oftentimes incidentally exposed to different perspectives and views (Fletcher & Nielsen, 2017; Lu & Lee, 2018; Weeks et al., 2017). Yet, whether they will engage with the news they encounter incidentally is a different matter; news audiences may or may not choose to consume or engage with the news that they have discovered. Exposure to diverse information from counter-attitudinal sources does not automatically lead to the consumption of such information (Anspach, 2017). In the context of news sharing, there exist two closely linked dimensions. First is the technological affordances offered by digital platforms (Feraj & Azad, 2012; Evans, Pearce, Vitak, & Treem, 2017). Technological affordances can influence news consumers’ levels of news exposure, consumption and engagement. As yet, relatively little is known about the extent to which and how different technological affordances lead to different types and levels of news engagement. This is further complicated by the fact that audience behavior is an outcome of a contextual and multi-faceted relationship between the technology and the user (Evans et al., 2017). The second dimension is the human factors that come into play in the uptake, reception, and sharing of news. Consistent with the theory of selective exposure, how news consumers consume and interact with news are also dependent on their political beliefs (Shin & Thorson, 2017; Stroud et al., 2017). The phenomenon of selective exposure can lead to a decrease in opportunities for news consumers to consume and engage with diverse news and information (Messing & Westwood, 2012; Stroud, 2008, 2010). On digital platforms, there is a third, moderating factor—social endorsements—that bridges technological affordances and human factors. Social endorsements serve as a heuristic cue that signals news audiences as to which news deserves their attention (Anspach, 2017; Messing & Westwood, 2012). This is a key trend in the digital platform environment among news audiences who interact with others through news sharing. To date, the link between affordances of digital platforms and news audiences’ selective exposure remains largely unknown as the interplay between technological affordances associated with news engagement and human factors remains understudied. To further develop this area, this special issue of *Digital Journalism* invites scholars to investigate the interplay between the structural and human factors that influence news consumers’ exposure to and engagement with news. Among different types of digital news engagement, this special issue focuses on news sharing behaviors that epitomize how news consumers interact with technological affordances offered by digital platforms. We welcome quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods approaches. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: · Different types and levels of news engagement; o News avoidance o Passive versus active sharers of news o Public versus private news sharing on social media and messaging apps · How different tones of news stories influence news sharing · Personalized news and its impact on news engagement · Technological affordances of digital platforms and their linkage to sharing of news · Proprietary and non-proprietary news platforms and sharing of news · Socio-demographic and cultural factors that influence news sharing · Social endorsements and news sharing · The interplay between selective exposure and social endorsements *Information about submission:* Proposals should include the following: an abstract of 500-750 words (not including references) as well as background information on the author(s), including an abbreviated bio that describes previous and current research that relates to the special issue theme. Please submit your proposal as one file (PDF) with your names clearly stated in the file name and the first page. Send your proposal to the e-mail address engagingnewsaudiences(a)gmail.com and sora.park(a)canberra.edu.au by the date stated in timeline below. Authors of accepted proposals are expected to develop and submit their original article, for full blind review, in accordance with the journal's peer-review procedure, by the deadline stated. Article submissions should target 7,000 words in length. Guidelines for manuscripts can be found here <https://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rdij20&page=ins…> . *TIMELINE:* Abstract submission deadline: 30 April 2019 Notification on submitted abstracts: 30 May 2019 Article submission deadline: 30 November 2019 *If you have any questions regarding the special issue, please contact * sora.park(a)canberra.edu.au.

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CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19)
by Gaurav Misra 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

*Call for Papers: Fifth International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19) * https://iwpe.info/ co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy May 23, 2019 - Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA ************************************************************ *IMPORTANT DATES* *Deadline of abstract submission: January 30, 2019* *Deadline of paper submission: February 3, 2019* *Notification of acceptance: February 23, 2019 * ************************************************************ We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 5th International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19). Ongoing news reports regarding global surveillance programs, massive personal data breaches in corporate databases, and notorious examples of personal tragedies due to privacy violations have intensified societal demands for privacy-friendly systems. In response, current legislative and standardization processes worldwide aim to strengthen individual’s privacy by introducing legal, organizational and technical frameworks that personal data collectors and processors must follow. However, in practice, these initiatives alone are not enough to guarantee that organizations and software developers will be able to identify and adopt appropriate privacy engineering techniques in their daily practices. It is also difficult to systematically evaluate whether the systems developed comply with legal frameworks, provide necessary technical assurances, and fulfill users’ privacy requirements. It is evident that research is needed in developing techniques and tools that can aid the translation of legal and normative concepts, as well as user expectations into systems requirements. Furthermore, methods that can support organizations and engineers in developing systems that address these requirements are of increasing value. In this context, privacy engineering research is emerging as an important topic. Engineers are increasingly expected to build and maintain privacy-preserving and data-protection compliant systems in domains such as health, energy, transportation, social computing, law enforcement, public services; based on different infrastructures such as cloud, grid, or mobile. While there is a consensus on the benefits of an engineering approach to privacy, concrete proposals for models, methods, techniques and tools that support engineers and organizations in this endeavor are few and in need of immediate attention. To cover this gap, the topics of the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19) focus on all the aspects of privacy engineering, ranging from its theoretical foundations, engineering approaches, and support infrastructures, to its practical application in projects of different scale. Specifically, we are seeking the following kinds of papers: (1) technical papers that illustrate the engineering or application of a novel formalism, method or other research finding (e.g., a privacy enhancing protocol) with preliminary evaluation; (2) experience and practice papers that describe a case study, challenge or lessons learned from in a specific domain; (3) early evaluations of tools and other infrastructure that support privacy-related tasks; (4) interdisciplinary studies or critical reviews of existing privacy engineering concepts, methods, tools and frameworks; (5) vision papers that take a clear position informed by evidence based on a thorough literature review. ************************************************************ PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION IWPE 2019 offers the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions. The **non-archival* *option is offered to avoid precluding future submissions to area-specific venues. Accepted archival submissions will be published in IEEE eXplore, which is indexed by EI Engineering Index, ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI-S), Scopus, etc. We solicit short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 8 pages) reporting technical, research or industry experience on all dimensions of privacy engineering. Each paper, written in English, must follow the IEEE conference proceedings format. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop to present the paper. All papers must be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwpe19 ************************************************************ If you have any questions regarding IWPE'19, please contact iwpe19(a)easychair.org IWPE’19 Organizing Committee Jose M. del Alamo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Aleksandra Korolova (University of Southern California) Jose M. Such (King’s College London) Borja Balle (Amazon Research) Gaurav Misra (Carnegie Mellon University) -- *Gaurav Misra* Postdoctoral Associate Institute for Software Research School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Wean Hall 4111 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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CFP: 4S Open Panel No. 28: Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies as Innovation and/or Contestation
by Yvonne Eadon 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Dear AiR community, Apologies for cross-posting. This is a call for contributions to 4S Open Panel No. 28: Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies as Innovation and/or Contestation. <https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/> The official call can be found below. This open panel could include papers on a myriad of subjects having to do with different systems of knowledge coming up against one another, such as the following: - Silences, Imaginaries, Ethics, and Mistrust: Identifying and Interacting with Suspicious Researchers in Archives - Pharmacological Self-Experimentation: How do techniques of self-quantification shape popular discourses of wellness? - Indigenous knowledge systems and their relationship to museums' institutionalized forms of coloniality - Looking to Black Mountain College for pedagogical innovation in arts education - Ghost hunting: pseudoscientific methods in the post-truth era Submissions are due on February 1, 2019. Please contact the organizers Yvonne Eadon (UCLA), ymeadon(a)gmail.com; and James Hodges (Rutgers) James.hodges(a)rutgers.edu with any questions. "Resistance to dominant modes of thinking, knowing, and doing can take a variety of forms– and often results in the production of new epistemological communities of practice. The counter-hegemonic epistemologies of conspiracy theorists, self-experimenters, citizen scientists, marginalized and oppressed communities, and members of many other knowledge domains frequently embody narratives and ways of knowing that run against the dominant paradigms of their social and historical contexts. Thomas Kuhn’s work on paradigm shifts is just one example of the turmoil around shifts in dominant scientific epistemology. In many cases, critical or disruptive epistemologies are met by those in power with skepticism and even fear. This open panel calls for case studies addressing counter-hegemonic epistemologies in the fields of history of science and technology, as well as STS, information studies, education, media studies, and other relevant disciplines. We are particularly interested in research that brings a comparative historical perspective to bear on the continuously contested nature of dominant knowledge systems. Some points to consider could be: how have specific counter-narratives affected the dominant discourses in the fields that they challenge? Alternatively, how do dominant discourses overpower counter-hegemonic epistemologies? What kinds of contexts does this happen in, and what are the social, political, and historical implications of such contestation? We welcome submissions that address communities including but not limited to alternative education, decolonial science and technology, clandestine chemistry, whistleblowing, harm reduction, and radical politics. By bringing such disparate ways of knowing into contact, our panel aims to build towards a robust account of the innovation and contestation that prevail among counter-hegemonic epistemological communities." *If you would like to submit, please visit the 4S website and upload your 250-word abstract to 4S Open Panel No. 28: Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies as Innovation and/or Contestation. <https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/> *The deadline is February 1, 2019. We look forward to your contributions! -- Yvonne M. Eadon Information Studies Doctoral Student UCLA

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hotel recommendations for Brisbane / AoIR 2019?
by Charles M. Ess 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi everyone, I realize it's early - but for those of us who, um, need to be careful with our travel budgets, and so are urged by our universities to book earlier rather than later - are there some recommendations for hotels close by the conference venue? Many thanks in advance, and looking forward to seeing those who can make the trek to Brisbane! best, - charles -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Advances in Library Practices in Higher EducationCALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Advances in Library Practices in Higher Education
by Dr. Patrick Blessinger 13 Jan '19

13 Jan '19

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Advances in Library Practices in Higher Education: https://www.hetl.org/emerald-library-practices-education-submission-form/ An edited volume by Dr. Enakshi Sengupta, Dr. Patrick Blessinger, and Dr. Milton Cox. Emerald Group Publishing and International HETL Association. Submission Deadline: 30th January, 2019. -- *Dr. Patrick Blessinger* University World News <http://www.universityworldnews.com/search.php?query=blessinger&type=all&mod…> UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab <http://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/patrick-blessinger> St. John's University, New York City <http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/patrick-blessinger-edd> Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jar…> Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/books/series.htm?id=2055-3641>

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