Conferences
January 2010
CfP - 2010-01-30: ECTEL 2010
October 2009
CfP - 2009-10-22: IEEE First International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Mashups
CfP - 2009-10-13: International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS)
CfP - 2009-10-12: Alpine Rendez-Vous Workshop on Context-aware Recommendation for Learning
June 2009
CfP - 2009-06-18: Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF)
CfP - 2009-06-16: Science 2.0 for TEL workshop at EC-TEL 2009
CfP - 2009-06-12: 2nd workshop on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE’09) at EC-TEL 2009
April 2009
CfP - 2009-04-29: Joint European Summer School on TEL 2009
CfP - 2009-04-29: Workshop of the GLDV Working Group on Hypermedia
CfP - 2009-04-14: Exploitation of Usage and Attention Metadata (EUAM 09) at Informatik 2009
February 2009
CfP - 2009-02-12: 8th International Conference on Web-based Learning
CfP - 2009-02-10: 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
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CfP - 2010-01-30: ECTEL 2010
Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice
http://www.ectel2010.org
28 September - 1 October 2010 in Barcelona, Spain
The last decade has seen significant investment in terms of effort and
resources (time, people, money) in innovating education and training.
The time has come to make the bold step from small scale innovation
research and -development to larger scale implementation and
evaluation. The time has come to show the world (government, industry,
general population) that we have matured to the stage that sustainable
learning and learning practices – both in schools and in industry – can
be achieved based upon our work.
What not long ago was seen and experienced as a novel technology
(Internet and WWW) has become for much of the populace mundane and
commonplace (Web 2.0 and social software). What not long ago was
expensive and exotic (computers and broadband computer networks) is now
inexpensive and ordinary (netbooks and omnipresent wireless). And what
in the past was proprietary and inaccessible (information and learning
materials) is now generic and open (open educational resources).
The TEL community is faced by new research questions related to large
scale deployment of technology enhanced learning, support of individual
learning environments through mashup and social software, new approaches
in TEL certification, etc. Furthermore, for new approaches are required
for TEL design, implementation, and use to improve the understanding and
communication of educational needs among all stakeholders, ranging from
researchers, learners, tutors, educational organizations, companies, TEL
industry, and policy makers.
ECTEL 2010 will bring together technological developments, learning
models, and implementations of new and innovative approaches to training
and education. The conference will explore how the synergy of multiple
disciplines, ranging from Computer Science, Education, Psychology,
Cognitive Science, and Social Science, can provide new, more effective
and more especially more sustainable, technology-enhanced learning
solutions to learning problems. The conference welcomes researchers and
developers from European and Non-European countries and industries to
present recent advancements from technologies, applications, and
learning models in all areas of technology enhanced learning.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
From both research and experience perspective the following topics of
interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
Technological underpinning
* Large scale sharing and interoperability
* Technologies for personalisation and adaptation
* Context-aware systems
* Social computing and web 2.0
* Semantic web and web 3.0
* Mobile technologies
* Intelligent games
* Network infrastructures and architectures for TEL
* Sensors and sensor networks
* Roomware and ubiquitous computing
* Data mining and information retrieval
* Natural language processing and latent semantic analysis
* eLearning specifications and standards
Pedagogical underpinning
* Problem- and project-based learning / Inquiry based learning
* Computer supported collaborative learning
* Collaborative knowledge building
* Game-based and simulation-based learning
* Story-telling and reflection-based learning
* Instructional design and Design approaches
* Communities of learners & Communities of practice
* Teaching techniques and strategies for online learning
* Learner motivation and engagement
* Evaluation methods for TEL
Individual, social & organisational learning processes
* Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge acquisition and construction
* Self-regulated and Self-directed learning
* Social processes in teams and communities
* Social awareness
* Knowledge management and organisational learning
* Sustainability & TEL business models and cases
* Business-learning models
Learning contexts and domains
* Applications of TEL in various domains
* Formal education: initial (K-12, higher education), post-initial
(continuing education)
* Workplace learning in small, medium and large companies
* Aggregated learning at the workplace Distance and online learning
* Lifelong learning (cradle to grave)
* Vocational training
* Informal learning
* Non-formal learning
* Ubiquitous learning
TEL in developing countries
* ICT Inclusion for learning
* Digital divide and learning
* Generation divide and learning
* Education policies
* Rural learning
TEL, functional diversity and users with special needs
* Accessible learning for all
* Visual, hearing and physical impairments
* Psycho-pedagogic support for users
* Educational guidance for tutors
* Adapted learning flow, content and monitoring process
* Standards about accessibility and learning
IMPORTANT DATES (PROVISIONAL)
Paper submission: 11 April 2010
Paper acceptance: 31 May 2010
Camera-ready final papers: 30 June 2010
Workshop proposals: 11 April 2010
Workshop acceptance: 11 May 2010
Workshops: 28/29 September 2010
Conference 30 September /1 October 2010
SUBMISSION FORMATS (use of supplied template is mandatory)
All papers will be reviewed through a non-blind review process. Accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Proceeding
publishing is currently under negotiaiont with the Springer publisher
within their “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” series which is ranked
in the ISI Web of Knowledge. Please follow the Spinger guidelines at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
* Full Papers (max. 16 pages)
* Short Papers and Posters (max. 6 pages)
* Poster and Demos (max. 2-4 pages)
* Meetings: contact the local organisation chair
WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
EC-TEL 2010 offers the opportunity to host several workshops. Parties
interested to organize a workshop are asked to submit a proposal of max.
4 pages outlining the theme of the workshop, workshop format, expected
participants and domains addressed, dissemination
activities, programme committee, and organizational requirements.
Proposals should be submitted to the workshop chair by 11 April to:
Daniel Burgos Solans
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
- General chair: Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
- Programme chairs: Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany and Paul A.
Kirschner, Open Universiteit Nederlands
- Workshop chair: Daniel Burgos, TELSpain, ATOS Origin, Spain
- Poster and Demonstration chairs: Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center
Graz, Austria
- Industrial session chair: Ignacio Canela, TELSpain/Int. University of
La Rioja, Spain
- Local organization chair: Marta Enrech, TELSpain/Open University of
Catalonia, Spain
- Doctoral Consortium chairs: Katherine Maillet, INT, France, and Ralf
Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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CfP - 2009-10-22: IEEE First International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Mashups
Here is a very interesting Call for Papers for our ROLE-community:
IEEE First International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Mashups.
20th April 2010. Perth, Australia. (Workshop at IEEE AINA 2010)
http://www.aina2010.curtin.edu.au/workshop/stamashup/
Paper deadline: 15th November 2009 (6 pages).
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CfP - 2009-10-12: Alpine Rendez-Vous Workshop on Context-aware Recommendation for Learning
2nd Call for Papers: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien/arv
The workshop is part of the second Alpine Rendez-Vous, November 30 - December 3, 2009, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
>>> deadline of extended abstracts: October 15, 2009
SCOPE
The development and proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies has impacted the way users retrieve and use information and the way they interact with each other. Web-based communities, wikis, blogs and social networks are some of the applications that have emerged in recent years. An important feature of Web 2.0 applications is that they experience an exponential growth of both users and content, leading to potentially viral social networking, collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing opportunities. This is especially true for professional individuals and communities which rely on rapid distribution of novel, innovative knowledge and learning content.
With the explosion of available content and applications on the Web, recommender systems have become crucial to assist learners in finding relevant content as well as tools. There has been much research done in the area of recommender systems over the past decade. Most of this research focuses on recommending content to users and vice versa, through collaborative filtering, content-based approaches or a combination of both. The goal of this workshop is to explore recommendation for learning – with specific focus on recommendation based on contextual information of the learner. In this context, new challenges emerge for understanding and capturing the context of the learner and exploiting such contextual information for creating intelligent recommendations and combinations of Web 2.0 applications, content and semantic structures. Examples include personalized learning environments that recommend and combine content and functionalities from various web sources, adapted to the needs and context of the learner.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- discovery and modelling of personal, social and contextual information to support the recommendation of resources and applications for learning
- examples of context-aware recommender systems to support learning
- context-aware data management and processing
- semi-automatic aggregation and sequencing of content/tools relevant to the learning context
- semi-automatic identification and evolution of semantic structures underlying the collaboration behaviour of the users
- semi-automatic identification of user profile data and their interconnectivity
- reputation and trust management
- online communities and social networking
- privacy preservation
- evaluation methodologies and metrics
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as papers
(4-8 pages). Including demonstrations is explicitly encouraged. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity, and quality.
Re-worked versions of accepted submissions will be published in the Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS).
All questions and submissions should be sent to: Katrien Verbert.
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Based on workshop submissions, the organizers will identify key research challenges. The workshop program will be organized as a series of discussions around these challenges, introduced through presentations of accepted submissions and keynote presentation. The final session of the workshop will bring together the results of the discussions and chart a common understanding of the future of context-aware recommendation for learning.
ORGANIZERS
Katrien Verbert (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Erik Duval (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Stefanie Lindstaedt (KnowCenter, Austria)
Denis Gillet (EPFL, Switzerland)
Peter Scott (Open University, UK)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of extended abstract (500-1000 words) : October 15, 2009 (extended deadline)
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 20, 2009
Submission of papers: November 20, 2009
Workshop: November 30 - December 1, 2009
VENUE DETAILS
The workshop will be held at the Dorint Sporthotel Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
For information on traveling to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, please check the STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous website: http://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous/
Funding for lodging and food will be available for a number of participants.
THE ALPINE RENDEZ-VOUS
This 2009 Alpine Rendez-Vous is the second event of a series. It is organized and funded by STELLAR, a new European network of excellence on learning technologies (http://www.stellarnet.eu/). It is not a conference, but a set of independent workshops held in the same hotel during the same week. Five workshops will be held on the Monday-Tuesday and four other workshops on the Wednesday-Thursday. On the Tuesday afternoon, all workshop participants are invited to join a common section, the Rendez-Vous, ending up with a social event.
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First Special Track on
Computer-based Knowledge & Skill Assessment and Feedback in Learning Settings (CAF)
Due to some requests of potential authors we have decided to extend the deadline for paper submissions to July 3rd, 2009.
This CfP is also available as PDF.
This special track will take place during ICL 2008 in Villach, Austria (23-25 September 2009) as a special program item.
The Special Track CAF 2009 provides an interdisciplinary forum for international scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of computer-based knowledge & skill assessment in learning settings and based on that feedback provision for students and teachers.
The International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL) is an interdisciplinary conference which aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in interactive computer aided learning.
More information under http://www.iicm.edu/CAF2009
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CfP - 2009-06-16: Science 2.0 for TEL workshop at EC-TEL 2009
SCIENCE2.0 FOR TEL, 29. Sept. - 2. Oct. 2009, Nice, France
1st Workshop on Web2.0 approaches, tools and technologies to support research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0)
at the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL09), Nice, France, September 29 - October 2, 2009
More information under http://stellarnet.eu/science2ectel/
SCOPE
In Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), the use of web2.0 technologies is now actively being researched, under banners such as “Personal Learning Environments” or “Open Learning Environments” and the like. In this workshop, we want to discuss how we can leverage the same opportunities
for our research on TEL.
Indeed, as researchers in Technology Enhanced Learning we already know how to include things like blogs, wikis and forums into the heart of our work to enhance collaborative working, but a full “Science 2.0″
framework might provide us with a much more powerful framework to make our research more effective.
Find here the details of the call for papers.
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CfP - 2009-06-12: 2nd workshop on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE’09) at EC-TEL 2009
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Consequently, the aim of this workshop is not to discuss the
concepts ‘PLE vs. LMS’, but to focus more generally on how learning
experiences can be enriched using mash-ups of widgets and services
with microformats and how technology can help to respond automatically
to competence level, need, or context. Moreover, the investigation
of necessary competencies to deploy mash-up technologies, is
dedicated special attention in this workshop.
Technologically speaking, this shift manifests in a learning
web where information is distributed across sites and
activities can easily encompass the use of a greater number
of pages and services offered through web-based learning
applications. Mash-ups, the ‘frankensteining’ of software
artefacts and data, have emerged to be the software
development approach for these long-tail and perpetual-beta
niche markets. Core technologies facilitating this paradigm
shift are Ajax, javascript-based widget-collections, and
microformats that help to glue together public web APIs
in individual applications. Interoperability is the enabler
to allow these different components to be worked
together facilitating the achievement of the underlying
learning task.
In a wide range of European IST-funded research projects
such as ROLE, iCoper, Stellar, LTfLL, Mature, Palette, OpenScout,
and TENcompetence a rising passion for these technologies
can be identified.
This workshop therefore serves as a forum to bring together
researchers and developers from these projects and an open
public that have an interest in understanding and engineering
mash-up personal learning environments (MUPPLEs).
TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):
- Visions: Architectures, Frameworks, Strategies, Models
- (Collaborative) Authoring Tools
- Data Interoperability: with e.g. Microformats,
streaming data, mixed media data - User Interfaces: Concepts, Metaphors, Workflows
- Development Methodologies
- Innovative Widgets and Services: e.g. for instruction,
game-based learning, self-reflection, personal information - Interoperability Standards for widgets,
content recombination, configuration - User Studies & Evaluation Methods: evaluating e.g. performance,
usability, specific design features, training methods
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The aim of this workshop is to bring together the various research
and development groups in technology-enhanced learning that currently
focus on the development of the next generation learning environments –
learning environments that put the individuum centre stage and empower
learners with design capabilities by deploying modern mash-up principles
to establish system-spanning interoperability.
As this approach is rather young, the workshop seeks to attract
both research results and work in progress in order to chart out
the current state-of-the-art of MUPPLEs in TEL and to define
main enablers and future challenges. Naturally, it will serve
as a forum for establishing new collaborations.
Using the presentations as impulses and continuing post-talk
debates, the workshop will conclude the day with an open discussion
exchanging ideas, summing up, and defining a medium- to
long-term research agenda.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full
papers (8 pages), work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or
position statements (max. 2 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-
reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for
originality, significance, clarity, and quality.
The workshop proceedings will be published online as part of the
CEUR Workshop proceedings series. http://CEUR-WS.org is a recognized
ISSN publication series, with ISSN 1613-0073.
Furthermore, the workshop serves as stage for presenting
a snapshot of the work on contributions planned to be submitted
to the upcoming special issue on mash-up personal learning
environments in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL,
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel).
Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/
lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see “For Authors”
instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
All questions and submissions should be sent to:
f.wild @ open.ac.uk
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission:
July 31stAugust 10th, 2009 - Results Notification: August
15th26th, 2009 - Camera Ready Submission: September 15th, 2009
- Workshop Date: September 29th, 2009
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
- Abelardo Pardo (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
- Dai Griffith (University of Bolton, UK)
- Denis Gillet (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Effie Law (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)
- Felix Mödritscher (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
- Graham Atwell (Pontydysgu, United Kingdom)
- Gytis Cibulskis (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)
- Mart Laanpere (Tallinn University, Estonia)
- Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
- Mohamed Amine Chatti (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
- Nikos Karacapilidis (University of Patras, Greece)
- Scott Wilson (University of Bolton, United Kingdom)
- Stephane Sire (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Tony Hirst (Open University, UK)
- Bernd Simon (Knowledge Markets)
- Jad Najjar (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
- Kai Hoever (IMC AG)
- Zuzana Bizonova (INT Paris)
- Jan M. Pawlowski (University of Jyväskylä)
ORGANISERS
- Marco Kalz (Open University, The Netherlands)
- Daniel Müller (IMC AG, Germany)
- Matthias Palmer (University of Upsala, Sweden)
- Fridolin Wild (The Open University, UK)
ABOUT EC-TEL09
After three successful EC-TEL conferences in 2006, 2007, and 2008,
the Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
provides a unique forum for all research related to TEL, among
them education, psychology, and computer science. The contributions
will cover the design of innovative environments, the implementation
of new technological solutions, results of empirical studies on
socio-cognitive processes in learning, and field studies regarding
the use of technologies in context.
EC-TEL is a competitive and broad forum for TEL research in Europe
and beyond. In its specialised accompanying workshops and the
highlighting main conference programme, EC-TEL09 provides
unique networking possibilities for participating researchers
throughout the week and includes project meetings and discussions
for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European
Commission. See http://www.ectel09.org/ for details.
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CfP - 2009-04-29: Joint European Summer School on TEL 2009
The first Announcement and Call for Participation
Joint European Summer School on TEL 2009
Venue: Terchova, Slovakia
Date : May 30 - June 6, 2009
Deadline for Applications : March 16th, 2009
Objectives
STELLAR, the Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning (building on the achievements of the previous PROLEARN and KALEIDOSCOPE NoE) and the EU ICT TEL research projects APOSDLE, MATURE, PROLIX, ROLE, ICOPER, GRAPPLE, LTfLL and the B-IT Research School together with the EATEL Association are pleased to announce their Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning.
Our ambition is to foster cross-domain training and collaboration opportunities among researchers in Europe and beyond, working in the disparate fields of expertise which promote the advancement of TEL at the workplace. The programme includes lectures and working sessions from leading professors in the field, tutoring, mentoring, and joint research opportunities. Additionally the school will offer practical sessions in research methodology for Technology Enhanced Learning.
Advanced PhD students will be identified to present their research at the Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning in Cannes, France, September, 2009 (http://www.ectel09.org), and to participate in EATEL thematic workshops.
Programme Topics
- Creation of and Access to Knowledge & Learning Resources
- Practice Modelling, Management & Mining
- Personalisation & Adaptation in Learning Environments
- Story-Telling & Educational Gaming
- Web 2.0 and Social Software
- Open Responsive Learning Environments
- Learning communities & communities of practice
- Privacy & Security
- Disagreement Management
- Pedagogy, Life-Long Learning, and TEL
- Individual, Social & Organisational Learning Processes
- Interoperability: TEL Standards, Models, Processes, Tools
- Research Techniques
- The Future of TEL
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CfP - 2009-04-29: Workshop of the GLDV Working Group on Hypermedia
Usability Aspects of Hypermedia Systems
Date: October 1st, 2009, 13:30-17:00h
Location: University of Potsdam/Germany
Registration: Please register for the main conference.
The workshop is organized as part of this year’s Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL), hosted by the Applied Computational Linguistics group in the Department of Linguistics at Potsdam University. The GLDV Working Group on Hypermedia is offering a one-day workshop dedicated to usability aspects for hypermedia systems and applications in the E-Humanities (corpus retrieval frontends, web information systems, community grids etc.).
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
- Web design and usability in the E-Humanities: Context, productivity/performance, and acceptance
- (Multimodal) reception research: Methods and test procedures
- Visualization, navigation, and orientation in complex information systems
- Interactive and collaborative aspects of hypermedia systems
- Standards and guidelines on software ergonomics, user-oriented design, and accessibility
Since Jakob Nielsen pointed out the main criteria for user-friendly hypermedia systems - Easy to learn, efficient to use, easy to remember, few errors, pleasant to use – in the mid-nineties, usability research is engaged in the statistical investigation and empiric validation of ranking methods. One goal is the improvement of usability on the internet, currently focusing on up-to-date topics like Web 2.0 and multimodal interfaces.
The goal of this workshop is to create a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in hypermedia systems in the context of natural language processing. By offering paper presentations (30 min.) and discussion panels , we hope to stimulate and facilitate an active exchange on unique and interdisciplinary ideas, practices, and methods.
The workshop features English or German paper presentations and extended demos. Authors are invited to send abstracts which may not exceed two pages of text. All submissions will be peer-reviewed (please place author’s name and affiliation on a separate page for anonymous review). The final papers are limited to 12 pages, including figures and literature. They will appear in a special issue of “SDV – Sprache und Datenverarbeitung/International Journal for Language Data Processing”.
Important dates:
- Submission of abstracts: June 30th, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: July 31st, 2009
- Final paper submission: September 4th, 2009
Websites:
- Workshop Homepage: http://hypermedia.ids-mannheim.de/gscl-ak/workshop09en.html
- GSCL Working Group on Hypermedia: http://hypermedia.ids-mannheim.de/gscl-ak/
- Main Conference Homepage: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/gscl09/
Program Committee:
- Dorothea Kugelmeier, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON Usability Lab
- Dr. Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON Usability Lab
- Dr. Roman Schneider, IDS Mannheim
- Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schröder, Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer, Universität Dortmund
- Dr. Heinz J. Weber, Universität Trier
Organization Committee:
- Dr. Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON (hans-christian.schmitz@fit.fraunhofer.de)
- Dr. Roman Schneider, Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim (schneider@ids-mannheim.de)
- Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schröder, Universität Duisburg-Essen (bernhard.schroeder@uni-due.de)
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CfP - 2009-04-14: Exploitation of Usage and Attention Metadata (EUAM 09) at Informatik 2009
2nd Call for Papers
Workshop organised as part of Informatik 2009, Sep 28, 2009 in Lübeck, Germany
The Workshop Proceedings will be included in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), published by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
Workshop Purpose and Topics:
Information systems provide an almost unlimited number of information in numerous environments. Users in diverse contexts need support to deal with the new challenges in information acquisition and use. Today, such support is rather limited as it does not take into account the user’s tasks and goals. A promising way of dealing with this challenge is provided by approaches that determine adequacy and relevance on the basis of the user’s actual behaviour and attention as recorded in server log files or on the individual user’s computers. Frameworks and data formats - like the Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAM) format - have been developed for capturing, storing, exchanging and analyzing metadata on usage and attention. However, the effective exploitation of such metadata is still a desideratum, specifically in the more life science oriented research directions (medical staff, for example, can neither afford a lack of information nor an overflow with irrelevant information in emergency cases). Another example is the application of personal learning environments in higher and lifelong education where individual educational support is scarce. The workshop objective is to discuss new ways of exploiting usage and attention metadata in different application areas like technology enhanced learning, recommender systems, collaborative systems, etc.
The workshop deals with the generation and exploitation of usage and attention metadata for attention aware systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Capturing attention metadata
- Secure exchange of usage and attention metadata
- Attention metadata sources
- Representing attention metadata
- Frameworks for capturing, storing and analyzing usage and attention metadata
- Analyzing attention metadata
- Combining semantic metadata with usage/attention metadata
- Contextualizing usage and attention metadata
- Detection of users’ tasks, goals and intentions based on their behaviour
- Attention based task support
- Identification of preferences
- Identification of skills and competencies
- Mental and emotional states recognition
- Generation of usage-based document profiles
- Attention and usage based recommender systems, determining relevancy and informativity of data
- Generation of user profiles and social network analysis
Keynote speaker: tba.
Addressees and Workshop Format:
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant disciplines (digital libraries, information systems, personalization, attention aware systems, user modeling, social systems, psychology, linguistic pragmatics, sociology, technology enhanced learning etc.) who work on capturing and analyzing usage and attention metadata. While focusing on the German research communities, which are already rather fragmented, the workshop encourages submissions from all world-wide relevant research communities. Therefore, the workshop language will be English. The workshop will foster the cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology transfer from basic research into practice.
Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit full papers not exceeding 6 pages until April 26, 2009. Further details will be given soon on the workshop-webpage at euam.fit.fraunhofer.de. For questions regarding the submission procedure, please contact Hans-Christian Schmitz (hans-christian.schmitz@fit.fraunhofer.de). Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop’s program committee.
Participants must register for Informatik 2009 (only for the day of the workshop).
Workshop Proceedings:
Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of Informatik 2009 which will appear as a volume of the ‘Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)’. Further information can be found at www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-informatics-lni-2005/autorenrichtlinien.html.
Important Dates:
- Apr 26, 2009: Submission of full papers
- May 25, 2009: Notification of acceptance
- July 1, 2009: Camera-ready papers
- Sept 29, 2009: Workshop
Program Committee:
- Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Brause, University of Frankfurt am Main
- Mohamed Amine Chatti, RWTH Aachen
- Prof. Dr. Erik Duval, KU Leuven
- Dr. Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock
- Dr. Stefanie Lindstädt, Know Center Graz
- Dr. Jobst Löffler, Fraunhofer IAIS
- Martin Memmel, DFKI
- Dr. Jehad Najjar, Synergetics
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Roda, American University Paris
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schade, FGAN FKIE
- Dr. Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT
- Sven Schwarz, DFKI
- Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht, Open University Netherlands
- Kai Eckert, University of Mannheim
- Dr. Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT
Workshop Organisers:
- Dr. Hans-Christian Schmitz
- Dr. Martin Wolpers
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CfP - 2009-02-12: 8th International Conference on Web-based Learning
International Conference on Web-based Learning at the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
on 19-21 August 2009
ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning. Since the first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002, it has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), and China (2008). The 8th ICWL 2009 will be held in Aachen, Germany, a city with rich culture, high-tech research, and a truly European spirit.
ICWL 2009 will be jointly organized by Hong Kong Web Society, RWTH Aachen University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. The technical program will feature keynote addresses, workshops, tutorials, in addition to presentations of refereed papers.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:
* Technology Enhanced Learning
* Responsive Open Learning Environments
* Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages
* Mobile Learning
* Social Software and Web 2.0 for Technology Enhanced Learning
* Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management
* Design, Model and Framework of E-learning Systems
* E-learning Metadata and Standards
* Educational Gaming and Multimedia Storytelling for Learning
* Practice and Experience Sharing
* Pedagogical Issues
Important Dates:
* Full Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 2009
* Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline: March 1, 2009
* Poster Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2009
For more information about the conference, workshop proposal or paper
submission, please check the conference web site or send an email.
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CfP - 2009-02-10: 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
IDC 2009 - The 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN - in cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI
Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus, Como, Italy - June 3-5, 2009
- SHORT PAPERS AND DEMOS: DUE MARCH 6, 2009
- WORKSHOP POSITION PAPERS: DUE APRIL 8, 2009
http://www.idc09.polimi.it
The IDC 2009 conference will continue IDC’s tradition of better understanding children’s and youngsters’ needs in relationship to technology, exploring how to create interactive products for and with them, and investigating how technology-mediated experiences affect their life. The program will include full-day and half day workshops, panels, papers sessions, poster sessions, demo sessions, and keynotes by two prestigious speakers - Sasha A. Barab, Indiana University, and Allison Druin, University of Maryland.
The deadline for full papers is expired, but please consider to submit a SHORT PAPER or a DEMO ! See http://www.idc09.polimi.it/Submission.html for submission instructions.
