CFP: Microblogging in the enterprise at CSCW 2010

Microblogging tools like Twitter enjoy high popularity in social
contexts, but they have not yet achieved wide acceptance in corporate
settings. Nonetheless, there is reason to believe microblogging could
serve as an informal corporate communications channel. Could
microblogging augment existing status messaging tools? Could the brief
format and near-real-time (yet asynchronous) nature of microblogging
support other communication tasks within the enterprise?

This one day workshop will explore problems and solutions associated
with business microblogging and consider how microblogging technologies
can be customized and transitioned to the workplace. Suggested themes:
(1) Microblogging Technology and Functionality, (2) Business
Applications for Microblogging (including applications that blend
business and social uses), and (3) Strategies for Deploying and
Evaluating Microblogging in the Enterprise. Attendees will discuss
position papers and participate in group brainstorming activities.
Workshop products will be posted to the website; the organizers are
currently exploring other venues for publishing this work, as well.

To participate, please submit a 2-4 page position paper in CSCW format
describing relevant work, approaches, and/or concepts by Friday 20
November 2009. Position papers can be emailed directly to
organizers@microblogworkshop2010.com<mailto:organizers@microblogworkshop2010.com>.
Please include author affiliations and contact information. Workshop
organizers will evaluate papers based on relevance and unique
contribution to the workshop (note that papers addressing themes other
than those listed will still be considered). Authors will be notified of
acceptance by 15 December 2009.

For more information, please see the workshop website
(www.microblogworkshop2010.com<http://www.microblogworkshop2010.com/>)
or contact the organizers at
organizers@microblogworkshop2010.com<mailto:organizers@microblogworkshop2010.com>.

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CFP: UMAP 2010: Workshops and Tutorials

UMAP 2010 -- 18th International Conference on

User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010

http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

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Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

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UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and
practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to
groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this
purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling and Adaptive
Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the
auspices of User Modeling Inc.

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Workshop Proposals (due Nov. 23, 2009)

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A workshop provides an opportunity to meet researchers with similar
interests, discuss common issues in a focused way and suggest directions for
future research. Preference will be given to workshops that aim to produce
answers to one or more explicitly formulated questions and that involve
interactive presentations and constructive work, as opposed to
"miniconferences" that comprise mainly paper presentations.

Workshop proposals (3 pages) should contain:

1. A cover page including:

- Workshop title

- Name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address for each
organizer

- Identification of the primary contact person(s)

2. Area: Describe the overall topic of the workshop and why it is
interesting for UMAP participants.

3. Goals: Identify the specific questions the workshop will focus on.

4. Format: Give a description of the proposed workshop format, specifying
the mix of events such as position statements, invited talks, panels, demos,
and general discussion. Indicate the intended duration (a half day or a full
day). Provide a preliminary schedule with estimated times. Design your
schedule for a length of 6 hours (full-day workshop) with a lunch break and
two coffee breaks.

5. Participants: State your estimate of the number of participants and how
you want to attract them. Also indicate how you plan to select participants
and contributions to the workshop. Describe the relevant criteria and/or
review process that will be used to select position papers.

6. Organizers: Give short descriptions of each organizerÕs relevant
expertise and experience.

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Workshop OrganizersÕ Responsibilities

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The organizers of a workshop will be responsible for:

* Producing and distributing a Call for Participation.

* Selecting the contributions to be included in the workshop proceedings.

* Producing a two-page abstract.

* Scheduling and coordinating the activities of the workshop.

* Editing the workshop proceedings.

* Presenting a summary of the workshop results during the main conference.

* Creating and maintaining a workshop web site.

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Tutorial Proposals (due Nov. 23, 2009)

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Tutorial proposals (3 pages) should describe the topic of the tutorial and
its importance, the intended style of presentation, and the instructor's
qualifications. Conference participants can attend tutorials at no extra
charge. Tutorial instructors will receive a complementary conference
registration.

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Submission Instructions

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Proposals should be submitted electronically to the workshop and tutorial
cochairs, Judith Masthoff and Yang Wang:

j.masthoff[at]abdn.ac.uk

yangwang[at]uci.edu

All proposals will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee.

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Important Dates

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Monday 23 November 2009 Submission of workshop and tutorial
proposals

Monday 14 December 2009 Notification to proposers

--
Yang Wang
University of California, Irvine
http://www.isr.uci.edu/~yangwang/

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CFP: IUI 2010 Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems

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IUI 2010 Workshop on

Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS)

February 7, 2010
Hong Kong, China

Submission deadline: November 15, 2009

http://www.semais.org
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Motivation and goals
====================
Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal,
shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly
important role also for the design and development of user interfaces
and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a
number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as
application or interface models in model-driven design and generation of
user interfaces. Semantic Models can also be applied for representing
the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive
systems.

In particular, they have promise to provide a technique for representing
external physical context factors such as location, time or technical
parameters and 'internal' context such as user interest profiles or
interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these
properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g.,
between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI
generation.

There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models
as a basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential
adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent
recommendations, interactive assistance when performing
application-specific tasks, adaptation of the application functionality,
or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and
machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve
adaptive system behavior.

Topics of interest
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- Representing user models, domain knowledge and interaction context by
means of semantic models
- Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as
activation spreading for semantic user models
- Context-aware interaction based on semantic models
- Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g.
recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems
and others
- Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence
and support traceability
- Scalability of semantic model-based interactive systems.
- Semantic model-driven UI development
- Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems
- Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction

Objectives of the Workshop
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The workshop generally aims at sharing experiences and identifying a set
of shared research issues that need to be addressed in future research.
Specifically, we intend to identify and structure approaches and
techniques for ontology-based interaction and adaptation with the aim of
developing a conceptual framework, to identify the potential for
building and sharing ontologies for adaptive UIs and, possibly, to start
an initiative for developing them. Identify evaluation methods and
criteria for semantic model-based interactive systems (shorten)

Submission guidelines
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Prospective participants should submit a 2-page position paper
describing their interests and work in the topic of the workshop and
first comments concerning a list of research issues we will compile and
publish on the workshop website prior to the deadline. We will select
participants based on the abstract's quality and their response to the
list of issues; the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an
interdisciplinary group. A list of issues to be discussed at the
workshop will be distributed through the workshop Website. The selected
presenters will be asked to provide an extended 5-page position paper
one month before the workshop. These position papers will be circulated
in advance for participants to get an understanding of the mutual views
and to provide a starting point for the discussion.

Please send your submissions to submissions@semais.org

Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: November 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: December 14, 2009
Revised, formatted document due: January 7, 2010
Workshop date: February 7, 2010

Plan for dissemination
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The results of the workshop will be available on the workshop website
and will be presented as an interactive poster during the IUI
conference. We will also consider an edited publication depending on the
workshop results.

Organizers
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Alan Dix (Lancaster University, GB)
Tim Hussein (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, NL)
Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org

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CFP: 2nd Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking (@CSCW 2010)

Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking
(in conjunction with CSCW 2010, Savannah, Georgia, February 2010)

- position papers due November 20th

- workshop website: http://workshops.fxpal.com/cscw2010cis/

Although most digital information-seeking tools are designed for solo
use, studies have shown that groups of many types (e.g., students,
families, and knowledge workers) have shared information needs that are
not adequately served by status quo technologies. This workshop seeks to
bring together researchers with backgrounds in CSCW, social computing,
information retrieval, library sciences, and HCI to discuss the research
challenges associated with the emerging field of collaborative
information seeking. This workshop will serve as an opportunity to make
connections with researchers with diverse backgrounds, to learn about
participants' works-in-progress, and to brainstorm on topics of mutual
interest, such as developing standardized evaluation tasks for
collaborative information seeking systems and considering how new media
such as social networking and microblogging tools can play a role in
collaborative information seeking.

Questions? Contact the workshop organizers, Meredith Ringel Morris
(MSR), Gene Golovchinksy (FXPAL), and Jeremy Pickens (FXPAL) at
cscw2010@fxpal.com<mailto:cscw2010@fxpal.com>. This workshop follows
our first Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking, which took
place at JCDL 2008 -- the first workshop resulted in a lot of great
ideas and a special issue of Information Processing and Management on
CIS, so we are excited to be able to bring this topic to the CSCW venue!

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CFP: CSCW 2010 Doctoral Colloquium

Please consider submitting to the CSCW Doctoral Colloquium, details
below:

Deadlines

* October 18, 2009, 5PM PST: Submissions of application materials
due
* November 22, 2009: Notification of acceptance
* December 5, 2009, 5PM PST: Final versions of abstracts due
* February 7, 2010: Doctoral Colloquium

The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students can meet
and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW
researchers and practitioners. The colloquium itself will begin with
dinner Saturday night February 6, 2010 and continue all day Sunday
February 7.

We welcome applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches
that inform CSCW, including anthropology, sociology, computer science,
cognitive science, organizational studies, and related fields. We are
particularly interested in applications from institutions and groups
that have not traditionally been well-represented at past CSCW
conferences.

Applicants should be Ph.D. students with an already well-established
direction of research relevant to CSCW, and who would benefit from
attendance at the Doctoral Colloquium; preference will be given to
students within 2 years of graduation.

The Colloquium committee will select approximately 15 participants who
will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their work
during the Colloquium, to be followed by extensive group discussion.
Participants will also present their research in an interactive poster
session during the main technical program of the conference.

Applicants should submit the following items (by email to
doctoral@cscw2010.org
with the subject line "CSCW2010 Colloquium Submission."):

* A two-page overview of your doctoral research that describes
your research question, work in progress, and expected contributions.
This overview should also include (1) a paragraph that articulates
what you hope to get from attending the CSCW Doctoral Colloquium, and
(2) an abstract of no more than 100 words. This overview should be
formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI Proceedings Template (two-column
format, same as for papers).

Submissions must be in PDF format.
* A short (2-3 paragraph) biographical sketch, in PDF format
* An up-to-date curriculum vita, in PDF format
* Optionally, one publication as an indicator of your progress in
your research, in PDF format The above items should be combined into
one PDF file named YOURNAME_CSCWDC2010.pdf (substitute your actual
name where it reads YOURNAME)
* An email letter from your supervisor sent to doctoral@cscw2010.org
, indicating that they support your application to the colloquium and
that they agree that your research is at an appropriate stage for
participation. These letters should also make reference to how you
might benefit from the Doctoral Colloquium and how they expect that
you might benefit the other students in this group experience. The
email should have "CSCW Doctoral Colloquium: " + YOUR NAME in the
subject header.

Submissions should be made by email to doctoral@cscw2010.org with the
subject line "CSCW2010 Colloquium Submission." All questions can also
be directed to this address.

All submissions must be received by the chairs by 5:00pm (17:00)
Pacific Time on October 18, 2009. Submissions received after this date
will not be considered. All submissions will be acknowledged by email.

Funding

We will be able to cover some hotel costs and conference registration
for all Doctoral Colloquium participants. We will also be able to
cover some portion of air fare for domestic (US) participants; non-US
participants will have to cover their own air fare however.

Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs

* Tom Rodden University of Nottingham
* Gillian Hayes University of California, Irvine

Expected Faculty Panelists:
* Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan
* Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex
* Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary
* Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University

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CfP: Special Issue of International Journal of Medical Informatics on Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare Settings

Special Issue of International Journal of Medical Informatics on
Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare Settings

Guest Editors:

* Madhu Reddy, PhD, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park,

PA, USA

* Jakob Bardram, PhD, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

* Paul Gorman, MD., Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical
Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Sciences University,

Portland, OR, USA

Healthcare is among the most complex and highly collaborative domains of
work in the world. For instance, with the increasing complexity and
specialization of medical care in settings such as hospitals, individual
care has given way to multidisciplinary patient-care processes. The
National Institute of Medicine in its landmark Crossing the Quality
Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century states that patient care
teams will become central to the delivery of high-quality medical care.
Clearly, collaboration is a central component to effective patient care
teams as well as central aspect of the healthcare delivery. With the
focus on patient-centered care, collaboration also plays an essential
role in informal care settings such as the patient's home. For these
reasons, it has become critically important that health information
technologies are understood, designed, built, and deployed with
collaboration in mind.

This special issue calls for original research and methodology papers on
the role of health information technologies in supporting collaboration
in healthcare. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together a
set of research papers that will (1) advance our understanding of
collaboration in healthcare, (2) discuss the role of technology in
supporting/hindering collaboration, and (3) provide examples of
effective collaborative health information technologies. Through this
special issue, we hope to increase the awareness of the importance of
understanding and supporting collaboration in this important domain.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

* Empirical studies exploring collaboration around the use of health IT
in both traditional (e.g., hospitals) and non-traditional

settings (e.g., health websites)

* Methodologies for conducting research on collaboration in the
healthcare domain

* New designs and technologies that support collaboration in healthcare

* Evaluation techniques for collaborative technologies in healthcare

* Evaluation studies of Health IT with respect to how well they support
collaboration and coordination needs

* Case studies on the deployment and long-term use of collaborative
technologies in healthcare

There will also be a workshop <http://sites.google.com/site/cscwinhc/>
related to this special issue to be held in conjunction with the 2010
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
<http://www.cscw2010.org/> . You do *not* have to attend the workshop to
submit to the special issue but we would welcome your participation if
interested.

Important Dates:

* Papers to be submitted: March 31, 2010

* Peer reviews completed: June 31, 2010

* Revisions completed and submitted: August 1, 2010

* Publication date: October/November 2010

Length of the paper: 15-30 manuscript pages (double spaced)

If you intend to submit a paper to this special issue, you are strongly
encouraged to send a brief email to Dr. Madhu Reddy

(mreddy@ist.psu.edu) at your earliest convenience. The email should
include the tentative title of the paper, the list of

authors, and the institutions of the authors. Also, if you have any
questions concerning submitting to the special issue,

please contact Dr. Reddy.

Information about International Journal of Medical Informatics

Editors-in-Chief: C. Safran and J. Talmon

Journal web site http://ees.elsevier.com/ijmi/

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CFP: CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium (deadline October 9)

Reminder: Submissions for the CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium are due Friday,
October 9, 2009, 5:00 PM (1700) PST.

For complete information, see

http://www.chi2010.org/authors/cfp-dc.html

CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Wendy A. Kellogg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Gilbert Cockton, Northumbria University
Contact us: doc@chi2010.org

The CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for Doctoral
students to explore and develop their research interests in an
interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished
researchers. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind
of feedback on their dissertation work to apply for this unique opportunity
to share their work with students in a similar situation as well as senior
researchers in the field. The strongest candidates will be those who have a
clear idea and an area, and have made some progress, but who are not so far
along that they can no longer make changes. Also, as well as stating how you
will gain from acceptance, both you and your advisor should be clear on what
you can contribute to the Doctoral Consortium.

What is the Doctoral Consortium?
The Consortium has the following objectives:
-- Provide a supportive setting for feedback on students' current
research
and guidance on future research directions
-- Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from
researchers and students outside their own institution
-- Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a
spirit of collaborative research
-- Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other
researchers and conference events

The Consortium will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 10th and 11th
2010. About 15 doctoral students will be invited to participate. Applicants
who are selected will receive complimentary conference registration, and a
limited, partial reimbursement of travel, accommodation, and subsistence
(i.e., food) expenses.

Preparing and Submitting your Doctoral Consortium Proposal
Current graduate students pursuing a PhD project who would benefit from
detailed workshop discussions of their doctoral research should submit a
single PDF file consisting of:

1. A 4-page extended abstract of your thesis work in the Extended Abstract
format. Clearly specifying:
-- Originality of the work with respect to current concepts and techniques
-- Importance of the work with respect to fundamental issues and themes
in HCI
-- Results to date and their validity
-- Contribution of the work (expected and/or achieved) to HCI
2. Your CV
3. A one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of participation for both
yourself and the other consortium participants (i.e., what will you
contribute as well as gain).
4. A letter of recommendation from the student's primary dissertation
advisor, who should also state what you contribute as well as gain from the
consortium, as well as why April 2010 would be timely in terms of the
balance between the maturity of your research and the ability to take
advantage of input from faculty and fellow consortium students. Where
reference is made to institutional milestones in your PhD process, your
advisor should write for an international committee and not assume that
reviewers will have knowledge of the specific implications of having reached
a specific stage. Advisors should be clear about the basis on which your
research is well enough developed to benefit, but not so advanced that you
cannot act on feedback from the consortium.

All materials except the recommendation letter should be posted (as a single
PDF file) by 9th October 2009, 5:00 PM (1700) PST to the CHI 2010 Submission
web site. Your file should be named lastname_dc.pdf, where lastname is your
family name. The file must be no larger than 5 Mbytes in size.

The recommendation letter, as a text file, should be sent via email to
doc@chi2010.org by 9th October 2009, 5:00 PM (1700) PST. Please ask your
advisor to put "reference for" and your name in the e-mail subject line.
Plain text recommendations are preferred. An email receipt of the letter
will be sent to you and to your advisor.

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