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Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility
Special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics
http://www.ci-journal.net/

Submissions close 31 March 2011.

Theme

Following on from the successful workshop held in conjunction with Making Links 2010, this special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will bring together contributions from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss how academic researchers and community practitioners and activists can work together to explore the use of information and communication technologies, social media, augmented reality, and other forms of network technologies for research and action in pursuit of [...]

Dear List,

the INTERSPEECH 2011 Speaker State Challenge is accepting result uploads.
If you are interested to participate, you can register for data download by downloading, signing and sending the corpus agreements:

License agreement ALC corpus for the dataset download (Intoxication Sub-Challenge):

http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/IS11-ALC-Agreement.pdf

License agreement SLC corpus for the dataset download (Sleepiness Sub-Challenges):

http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/IS11-SLC-Agreement.pdf

You can find baselines and description of the Challenge in the (preliminary) paper on the Challenge: [...]

* 4-page paper submissions due in 6 days (March 21)

Call For Papers
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Fourth International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS 2011)

August 22, 2011
Lyon, France

Held in collaboration with the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2011), August 22 - 27, 2011 in Lyon, France.

WIRSS 2011: http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2011/
WI 2011: http://www.wi-iat-2011.org/WI_2011/ [...]

COLLABORATECOM 2011
The 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Work sharing
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (pending), Create-Net and
the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and
Telecommunications Engineering
Orlando, FL, USA, Oct 15-18, 2011

Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied
on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer
applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and
produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without
the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from
standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in
multi-organizational settings, and from general [...]

PPD11 - Workshop on Coupled Multi-display Environments (MDEs) in Classrooms
Aaron Quigley, Alan Dix, Sriram Subramanian, Stephen Brewster, Miguel A. Nacenta
Classrooms present particular educational contexts for Interactive Display Ecosystems or Multi-Display Environments we aim to explore in this workshop.
http://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ppd11

This is a workshop at HCI 2011 - 4th to 8th July - Newcastle upon Tyne. [...]

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GALA (Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents)
at IVA 2011, September 20-22, 2011, Reykjavík University, Iceland
http://di.ncl.ac.uk/publicweb/gala2011/
Call for Participation
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GALA IN A NUTSHELL:
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GALA is an annual festival to showcase the latest Animated Lifelike Agents created by university students and academic or industrial research groups. GALA was launched in 2005. GALA provides:
- The GALA Final event, to demonstrate the state-of-the-art in the technology of virtual humans.
- The GALA Jury Award for student projects and the GALA Public Award for any entry.
- The permanent GALA Gallery on the web with the best entries exhibited for [...]

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Call for Papers

QoMEX 2011

3rd International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience

September 7-9, 2011 - Mechelen, Belgium

http://www.qomex2011.org

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Important Dates

Submission deadline extended: March 28, 2011

Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2011

Camera ready submission: June 19, 2011

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The third International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) will bring together leading professionals and scientists who are developing methods for evaluating multimedia quality and user experience. QoMEX is the flagship workshop of the COST action Qualinet which serves as its technical and financial sponsor. [...]

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Call for Posters: One Minute - One Poster!

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Hello,

I would like to humbly point the community to a short message that was
recently posted by our colleague Dr. Yoshifumi Kitamura, the Head of
the Interactive Content HCI Laboratory at Tohoku University, in
Sendai, Japan

http://www.icd.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/index-e.html

Ehud

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Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona:

Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data

http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/
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** Due to requests we have had to postpone the workshop deadline until
after the main IJCAI notifications, we have decided to postpone the
submission deadline until *April 4th*. Authors who have already
submitted are welcome to submit updated versions during this period if
they wish to do so. ** [...]

Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: Research Poster Showcase

Submission Site:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cfp21research

This year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference will feature a
research showcase in the form of a research poster session as well as a
research panel that includes the authors of the best research posters. CFP
is the leading policy conference exploring the impact of the Internet,
computers, and communications technologies on society. For more than a
decade, CFP has anticipated policy trends and issues, and has shaped the
public debate on the future of privacy and freedom in an ever more
technology-filled world. CFP focuses on topics such as [...]

Dear colleagues,

(Apologies for cross-posting)

We have extended the deadline for submissions to Workshops and Masterclasses to 29. March 2011

We would like to to encourage you to submit proposals for workshops and master classes for ECSCW 2011 to take place 24 - 28 September 2011 at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Masterclasses and Workshops will be held Saturday 24 - Sunday 25 September. [...]

iPEx

Workshop on Online Patient Experience and its Role in E-health

Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK - 5th July 2011 - at
the 25th Human Computer Interaction conference (HCI2011)

Organisers

Sue Ziebland Department of Primary Health Care, University of
Oxford

Pamela Briggs School of Life Sciences, Northumbria University

John Powell Health Sciences Research Institute, University
of Warwick

Call for papers

Overview of the Workshop [...]

Delivering User Centred Mobile Design: Commercial realities and UCD methodology
Chandra Harrison, Charlotte Magnusson, Benjamin Poppinga, Sam Medrington, Whan Stransom, Ginger Claassen
Practitioners and academics will discuss methods to translate and communicate user requirements to stakeholders, to encourage best practice and to address commercial limitations to improve delivery of user-centred mobile designs.
http://ducmd11.offis.de [...]

INTERACT 2011
13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011
http://www.interact2011.org

The submissions for the Short Papers track of INTERACT 2011 is now open!
The deadline is April 7.

We solicit submissions for short papers that address any area of HCI,
including those identified in the conference topics. Authors are
encouraged to submit late-breaking research results and work in progress
that show timely and innovative ideas. Short paper submissions should
report original work and must not have been published previously or be a
condensed version of previously published papers.
All short paper submissions will be peer-reviewed [...]

MobileHCI 2011
13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with
Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2011),
August 30th - September 2nd, 2011, Stockholm Sweden

www.mobilehci2011.org/
www.facebook.com/mobilehci2011 www.twitter.com/mobilehci2011
MobileHCI 2011 will be held between the 30th of August and
the 2nd September, 2011, in Stockholm Sweden,
Doctoral Consortium Day, Workshops and Tutorials on August 30th, 2011.

MobileHCI 2011 is organised by the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Centre
(Stockholm University, Interactive Institute and SICS) in collaboration
with Ericsson, Nokia, Kista Science City, the City of Stockholm, and in
cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. [...]

Early Registration Ends March 26

The Information Institute (http://www.information-institute.org), a
charitable, non-profit, educational and scientific organization, in
conjunction with faculty from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), is
offering live, interactive, synchronous online classes (one AM and one PM to
reach all time zones) introducing the use of R for a variety of
academic-research statistical analyses. The early registration cost (through
March 25) for the 14-hour, 5 week course is $195 (student); $250 (faculty);
and $295 (practitioner). This course is popular so please do not wait if you
are interested. [...]

## The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 20th, 2011 ##

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP]

1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SUPPORTIVE USER INTERFACES (SUI 2011)
at the 3rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing
Systems (EICS 2011)
Pisa, Italy - June 13, 2011
http://www.supportiveui.org/
chairs@supportiveui.org

IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper Submission: March 20, 2011 [extended]
* Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2011
* Final paper due: April 29, 2011
* Distribution of final papers: June 06, 2011
* Workshop day: June 13, 2011 [...]

Call for papers - Internet of Things marries Social Media | Workshop at Mobile HCI 2011, 30th of August, Stockholm, Sweden.

What happens when non-human objects enter social media and begin to imitate social relations with people? Starting from a social networking stance towards connected objects this workshop looks at the challenges of designing for the dualism in objects consisting of a physical thing and a digital representation online, and how we could develop user interaction models that are understandable, liberates us from screens and move out in the physical world. [...]

Organizational Overviews-have a great lab or research group you'd like to talk about?
Chairs: Teresa Chambel, Mary Czerwinski
organizational-overviews@interact2011.org
Organizational overviews describe work in organizations that have demonstrated excellence in, or made innovative contributions to the field of HCI. We expect contributions that address:
* Achievements and/or defeats
* Risks, challenges, trends, visions for the future and business opportunities
* Innovation management
* Organizational alignment with user-centered approaches
* Relationships between organizations, market and users
* Collaborative efforts involving several groups or organizations
Contributors should be members of universities, corporate or government research groups or institutions. We are also interested [...]