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Reminder: closing date 25th April

Note that the submission instructions have been revised
CREATIVITY AND COGNITION 2011 AWARD
for Best Contribution to Creative Communication

AN AWARD IN MEMORY OF EMMA CANDY

Deadline for proposals 25th April 2011

Proposals are invited for an award for an innovative contribution to concepts or products that combine creativity and communication in ways that influence the way people use digital media in the future. The proposal could be a paper or digital prototype, a scenario, a story, an interactive installation, an artwork or a game. [...]

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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMOTIVE USER INTERFACES AND
INTERACTIVE VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS
AutomotiveUI'11 www.auto-ui.org
Salzburg, Austria, 29 Nov - 02 Dec 2011
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SUBMISSIONS

AutomotiveUI 2011 invites submissions in the following categories:

* Papers (Submission Deadline: July 11th, 2011)
* Workshops (Submission Deadline: July 25th, 2011)
* Posters& Interactive Demos (Submission Deadline: Oct. 10th, 2011)
* Industrial Showcase (Submission Deadline: Oct. 10th, 2011) [...]

We invite submissions for the Innovation Forum at “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums 2011: Emerging Experiences” conference. The Innovation forum will take place on May 27th and will provide opportunities for companies, individuals and organisations to showcase technologies and services that are designed to support visitors’ experiences for museums, exhibitions and other heritage sites, or technologies that hold potential for such domains.
The audience at the conference, which jointly hosted by the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick and the Irish Museums Association, will be a mix of museum education and communication experts, curators, exhibition designers and interaction designers. [...]

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ECSCW 2011 Workshop in Aarhus, Denmark

Fostering Social Interactions in the Ageing Society:
Artefacts - Methodologies - Research Paradigms

2nd International Workshop in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - ECSCW 2011
24 - 28 September 2011 at Aarhus University, Denmark http://www.ecscw2011.org/

Workshop submission deadline: 15 May 2011

http://fosible.eu/ecscw2011-workshop/

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Demographic change has stimulated ICT development and research in different fields, such as CSCW, HCI, or the AAL (Ambient Assisted
Living) domain. Enabling 'aging at home' has become a main target in many nations due to economic challenges and demographic changes. 'Aging at home' [...]

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First international workshop on "Collaborative usage and development of
models and visualizations" at ECSCW 2011

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Date: 24 or 25 September 2011
Submission deadline: 15 June 2011
Website: http://www.imtm-iaw.rub.de/events/ecscw/index.html.en
Contact/Submissions: collabviz@iaw.rub.de

---Organizers---

Alexander Nolte, Michael Prilla, Thomas Herrmann; University of Bochum,
Germany
Stephan Lukosch, Gwendolyn Kolfschoten; TU Delft, Netherlands

---Workshop Content---

In the workshop, we want to bring together researchers and practitioners
reporting on the usage and development of shared visualizations, be it
e.g. process models or others. The workshop is intended to provoke
discussion and generate new impulses for practice and research. [...]

BCS HCI 2011
Interactive Experience
7 July, 2011 (session in the main conference)

http://hci2011.co.uk/site/interactive-experience/

The “Interactive Experience” is session is intended to give researchers and practitioners the opportunity to show polished systems, not-so-polished systems, cool-but-flakey prototypes, videos, or even short performances – whatever you feel might be appropriate and interesting to hci2011 attendees. These demos, performances and presentations will take place in parallel, through Culture Lab, for the whole duration of a 2-hour session. [...]

ECSCW 2011 call open for posters, videos and demos. Deadline is April
25, 2011

Find the preliminary conference program with very exciting papers on www.ecsw2011.org
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Workshop and masterclass program soon to be announced. Watch out!

Prof. dr. scient Susanne Bødker
Department of Computer Science
University of Aarhus
+45 89425630
+45 40839689

bodker@cs.au.dk

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UIST 2011 Call for Papers

Deadline: FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011 (17:00 PDT)
http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2011/call/index.html

Papers are the main medium for conveying new research results at
UIST. Submissions are sought that describe original, unpublished work
on user interface interaction techniques, services, devices,
applications, or metaphors. UIST'11 will adopt an anonymous submission
process (similar to CHI) for paper submissions. Please consult the
UIST 2011 Author's Guide for information on paper format and UIST's
policies on previous and simultaneous publications. [...]

Can a mobile app improve the quality of life for a farmer in America's heartland? Can a web app help school children in Detroit,MI?

The Knight Foundation and the FCC challenge you to develop a software application (app) that delivers personalized, actionable information to people that are least likely to be online. Using hyper-local government and other public data you should develop an app that enables Americans to benefit from broadband communications -- regardless of geography, race, economic status, disability, residence on Tribal land, or degree of digital or English literacy --by providing easy access to relevant content. [...]

------------------------ IVA CFP (3rd) ------------------------
Eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
http://iva2011.ru.is
September 15-17, 2011
Reykjavik, Iceland
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OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS - Deadline Wednesday 27th of April (new)
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Download CFP poster at http://iva2011.ru.is/docs/iva2011cfp.pdf
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Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as speech and gesture. They are capable of realtime perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. [...]

Final Call for Workshop Papers

5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – C&T 2011
29 June – 2 July 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/program/workshops/

Workshops are full day sessions to be held on Wed, 29th and Thu, 30th June 2011 prior to the main conference program. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals – please check with the chairs of each workshop. Please consult the submission guidelines and closing dates on each workshop's web page listed below. [...]

deadline for the UMAP 2011 workshop on:

User Models for Motivational Systems:
the affective and the rational routes to persuasion

has been extended to APRIL 29th 2011

Also, the date for the workshop is set at July 11th

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/UM4Motivation2/

In conjunction with UMAP 2011
User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
http://www.umap2011.org/

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AMENDED KEY DATES
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- Paper submission: April 29, 2011
- Notification: May 13, 2011
- Final Copy Due: May 31, 2011
- Workshop date: July 11, 2011
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Dear All,

ONLY A FEW DAYS UNTIL THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE!

CBMS 2011, the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (http://www.cbms2011.org) will be held at the University of the West of England, Bristol, from June 27th to 30th 2011. The conference will provide an international forum for discussing the latest developments in the field of computational medicine, biomedical informatics and related fields. There will be regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international programme committee, as well as keynote talks and tutorials given by leading experts in their fields. [...]

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call)

International Workshop on
Adaptive Support for Team Collaboration
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in conjunction with UMAP 2011, Girona, Spain, 11-15 July 2011

http://astc2011.ascolla.org

Keynote speech
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Prof. Gloria Mark
(University of California, Irvine, USA)

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: The deadline for the submission of papers has
been extended by one week, to April 22nd. If you have not submitted an
abstract, but would still be interested in submitting a paper, please
contact the workshop organizers at:
astc2011 \at gmail \dot com. [...]

New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect:
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5644-2011-999769997-3038742
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Most Cited Paper Award

Stella Mills
Caring through technology: Using e-mail for Christian pastoral care

Benjamin R. Cowan, Mervyn A. Jack
Exploring the wiki user experience: The effects of training spaces on novice user usability and anxiety towards wiki editing

Kine Dørum, Kate Garland
Efficient electronic navigation: A metaphorical question? [...]

On behalf of the Editor in Chief and Elsevier, the Publisher is pleased to announce the winning article for our annual Interacting with Computers Most Cited Paper Award.

Our most cited paper award offers an alternative to committee-selected ‘‘best papers’’. The only objective and transparent metric, which is highly correlated with the quality of a paper, is the number of citations. We hope that the design of this most cited paper award will assure fairness and equal opportunity for all authors published in the Journal. It is our hope that this award will stimulate the best minds to release their [...]

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and IBM, are pleased to announce a new annual event, the BCS Karen Spärck Jones Lecture, celebrating women in computing research.

The 2011 Lecture will be given by Fran Allen, IBM fellow emerita and the first woman to win a Turing award. It will take place on Tuesday 24 May 2011 at the BCS in London, with tea at 5.30 and the lecture at 6pm. [...]

AUM @ UMAP 2011: new deadline is April 29

International Workshop on:
Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences
to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation

In conjunction with UMAP 2011
Girona, Spain
11 - 15 July 2011

http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/aum2011/

IMPORTANT DATES *new deadlines*
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* 29 April 2011: Submission deadline (23:59 pm Hawaiian time)
* 20 May 2011: Notification of acceptance
* 17 June 2011: Camera-ready paper
* 11 or 15 July: AUM workshop [...]

Apologies for possible duplicates
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Dear colleague,
We are pleased to announce and invite you to submit a paper to the:
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
USER MODELING AND ADAPTATION FOR DAILY ROUTINES (UMADR'2010):
PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL AND SPECIFIC NEEDS
http://hada.ii.uam.es/umadr2010
Big Island of Hawaii, June 21st, 2010
At The 18th Intl. Conference on
User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2010)
(http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper submission: April 15th, 2010 (extended)
* Notification of acceptance: May 3rd, 2010
* Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 24th, 2010
* Workshop: June 21st, 2010 (afternoon)
MOTIVATION
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Following the success of last year's workshop we will be running a workshop at HCI 2011 focusing on developing a common curriculum for UX.

You are invited to submit 2-page position papers on subjects related to “a common curriculum for university modules and qualifications in the field of User Experience” before April 15th. [...]