CFP: Personal Information Management (PIM) Workshop 2009

> Call for Participation
>
> Personal Information Management (PIM) Workshop 2009
> held in conjunction with ASIS&T 2009
>
> November 6-7, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia
>
> Theme: "Personal information intersections: What happens when PIM
> spaces overlap?"
>
> The 5th International Workshop on Personal Information Management
> (PIM)
> will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American
> Society
> for Information Science & Technology. PIM has been defined as "the
> practice and the study of the activities a person performs in order to
> acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, use and
> distribute
> the information needed to meet life's many goals… and to fulfill lii
> fe's
> many roles and responsibilities." PIM is an interdisciplinary
> field of
> study, attracting researchers from such diverse disciplines as
> information
> science, cognitive psychology, computer science, human computer
> interaction, and records management. While technological
> developments have
> provided powerful tools for PIM access and support, there are problems
> which these technologies have magnified, including increasing volume
> of
> communication, 24/7 connectivity, and variety of format.
>
> The theme for our workshop is "Personal information intersections."
> We
> have discovered through previous workshops that the messy area where
> different information spaces must interact pose particular
> challenges for
> PIM. The workshop theme embraces such subtopics as group information
> management, information spaces that serve multiple users (at home,
> at work,
> at play), information spaces that serve an individual's multiple
> roles,
> task management, privacy and security, organizational strategies and
> policies, social and psychological aspects of sharing work space, and
> defining and negotiating boundaries.
>
> We invite submissions related to the theme in the following
> categories:
>
> • Contributed papers (research or theoretical papers)
> • Short, poster-length position papers
> • Demos (submission should be a short paper to be reviewed)
> Papers should be submitted to:
> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pim2009 no later than
> midnight
> Pacific Daylight Time on June 15, 2009. Submissions will be peer
> reviewed
> and participants will be notified of acceptance by August 7, 2009.
>
> For more information, please consult the PIM Workshop Web site at
> http://www.pimworkshop.org/2009 or contact the organizers directly
> if you
> have questions or want to volunteer.
>
> Co-Chairs:
> Deborah Barreau (barreau@email.unc.edu), Jaime Teevan
> (teevan@microsoft.com), Jacek Gwizdka (pim2009@gwizdka.com)
>
> Organizing Team:
> Rob Capra
> David Elsweiler
> Kirstie Hawkey
> William Jones
> Manuel Perez-Quinones
> Manas Tungare
>
>

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CFP: HCI 2009 Workshop - INFORMATION SPACES FOR CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS

> Call for papers
>
> INFORMATION SPACES FOR CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS
>
> Tuesday 1st September, 2009.
>
> In conjunction with HCI 2009, 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer
> Interaction, Cambridge, UK, 1 - 5 September, 2009.
>
> http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/hci2009.html
>
>
> The strategic importance of creativity has been acknowledged by many
> commentators, both at the international level – the Nomura Institute
> 's proposition is that "Creativity will be the next economic activit
> y, replacing the current focus on information" – and within the
> UK, where the Cox review, commissioned by the Chancellor in 2005, se
> es exploitation of the nation's creative skills as 'vital to the
> UK's long-term economic success'.
>
> A fertile creative conversation, of the kind that might take place
> as part of a design process, requires many things, including a
> willingness and ability to quickly generate new ideas and to release
> less promising ones, a focus on evaluation and development of ideas
> and contributions rather than the personality or position of the
> proposer, and the possibility to revisit and change earlier
> decisions. This workshop will explore the extent to which technical
> and other artefacts and interventions can facilitate rather than
> inhibit such conversations, both in design practice and in learning
> situations.
>
> We wish to support designers in engaging more flexibly and
> effectively in conversations that are characterized by both
> innovation and reflective, critical thinking, and that take place in
> both co-located and distributed settings. Key technological aspects
> of this support include the management and display of design
> information and critical feedback across a range of appropriate
> display surfaces; the capture in appropriate media – audio, video, s
> till images – of significant design information; and the ability to
> replay, annotate and reflect upon such captured content. However, we
> are also interested in the social and procedural contexts in which
> such technologies may be deployed.
>
>
> Workshop programme:
>
> In the first half of the workshop, participants will make short
> presentations of their position papers. There will be an extended
> lunch break to enable sufficient opportunity for participants to get
> to know each other, and to peruse posters, videos and
> demonstrations. In the afternoon, participants will take part in a
> creative design workshop, facilitated by the organizers, which will
> develop ideas for future systems and artefacts that can support the
> kinds of creative design work discussed in the earlier presentations.
>
> The organizers are exploring the possibility of publishing extended
> versions of selected papers in a journal special issue on the topic
> of supporting creative conversations. It is also hoped that workshop
> participants will collaborate in developing new research proposals
> on this topic.
>
>
> Primary objectives of the workshop:
>
> · To provide an opportunity for HCI researchers and practitioners
> to share and learn from each other's experiences of developing and e
> valuating technologies that support creative conversations, both in
> design practice and in learning situations.
>
> · To exchange ideas about empirical and theoretical contributions
> to our understanding of the relationships between technological affo
> rdance and the structure of creative conversations.
>
> · To explore a space of technological and other support mechanisms
> for enhancing creative design.
>
> · To elaborate the challenges in providing technical and other sup
> port in this area.
>
> · To understand how these issues play out in different contexts, e
> .g., where teams are co-located or distributed.
>
> · To work towards an agenda for the development of new technologie
> s in support of collaborative creativity.
>
> · To develop a community of HCI practitioners to take the agenda f
> orward.
>
>
> Participants may include:
>
> · Researchers studying creative design work as a collaborative or
> conversational practice
>
> · Design practitioners wanting to improve their own practice
>
> · Technology providers involved in the design of novel technologie
> s to enhance creative activity in collaborative contexts
>
> · Educators with an interest in designing learning spaces to train
> reflective, creative design practitioners
>
>
> Workshop co-chairs:
>
> Sara Jones, Centre for HCI Design, City University, saraj@soi.city.ac.uk
>
> Bob Fields, Interaction Design Centre, Middlesex University, b.fields@mdx.ac.uk
>
> Andy Bardill, Product Design Research Centre, Middlesex University, A.Bardill@mdx.ac.uk
>
> Panayiotis Zaphiris, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts,
> Cyprus University of Technology, pzaphiri@gmail.com
>
>
> Submission:
>
> Potential participants are invited to send a position paper of up to
> two pages detailing their past work in this area, their perspectives
> on the challenges and approaches for overcoming them.
>
> Submissions should be sent, by email, as an electronic document (in
> pdf, or MS Word) to saraj@soi.city.ac.uk.
>
>
> Important dates:
>
> Deadline for submissions: Friday 1 May
>
> Position paper Notification: Tuesday 12 May
>
> Position paper final copy: Monday 17 August
>
>
> Fees:
>
> The cost of attending a workshop at HCI 2009 will be £80. There may
> be a discount on this fee for people also attending the conference.
> There is NO compulsion to attend the main conference, though this is
> , of course, recommended.
>
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> +44 (0)20 8411 2272
>
> Town Hall Room TG17
>
> Interaction Design Centre
> School of Engineering and Information Sciences
> Middlesex University
> The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BG, UK
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> Interaction Design Centre
> School of Engineering and Information Sciences
> Middlesex University
> The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BG, UK
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CFP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics

> Last Call for Papers
> Submission deadline extended to 30 April 2009
>
> Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics
> Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and
> Technologies
> Penn State, USA, 24th June 2009
>
> April 30th, 2009 Workshop position papers due
> May 18th, 2009 Author notifications sent
> June 24th, 2009 Workshop
>
> http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm
>
>
> Keynote speaker
>
> We are happy to announce that Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the
> SENSEable City Lab at MIT (senseable.mit.edu), will deliver the
> keynote presentation at Digital Cities 6.
>
> The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors
> and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach
> to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and
> understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the
> tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure.
> Studying these changes from a critical point of view and
> anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a
> new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
>
>
> 1 Theme
>
> Transport grids, building complexes, information and communication
> technology, social networks and people form the bones, organs,
> muscles, nerves and cell tissue of a city. Studying the organisation
> and structure of these systems may seem straightforward at first,
> since there are visible artifacts and tangible objects that we can
> observe and examine. We can count the number of cars on the road,
> the number of apartments in a building, the number of emails on our
> computer screens and the number of profiles on social networking
> sites. We could also qualify these observations by recording the
> make and model of cars, the size and price of apartments, the sender
> and recipient of emails and the content and popularity of online
> profiles. This approach would potentially produce a large amount of
> data and render a detailed map of various levels of a city's infrast
> ructure, but a large quantity of detail does not necessarily result
> in a great quality (and clarity) of meaning. How do we analyse this
> data to better understand the 'city' as an organism? How do the
> cells of the city cluster to form tissue and organs, and how do vari
> ous systems communicate and interact with each other? And, recognisi
> ng that we ourselves are cells living in cities as active agents, ho
> w do we evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes w
> e observe in order to plan, design and develop more livable cities?
>
> A macroscopic perspective of urban anatomy does not easily reveal
> those meticulous details which are necessary to help us understand
> and appreciate what Anthony Townsend calls the urban metabolism
> (Townsend, 2000), that is, the nutrients, capacities, processes and
> pace which nurture the city to keep it alive. Some of the
> fascination with human anatomy stems from the fact that a living
> body is more than the sum of its parts. Similarly, the city is more
> than the sum of its physical elements. Trying to get to the bottom
> of a city's existence, urban anatomists have to become dissectors of
> urban infrastructure by trying to microscopically uncover the conne
> ctions and interrelationships of city elements. Yet, this is anythin
> g but trivial for at least three reasons. First, time is a crucial f
> actor. Many events that trigger urban processes involving multiple s
> ystems result in a timely interrelated response. A dissection by iso
> lating one system from another, would cut the communication link bet
> ween them and jeopardise the study of the wider process. The city co
> mprises many of these real-time systems and requires approaches and
> tools to conduct real-time examinations. Second, the physical city i
> s increasingly complemented with a virtual layer that digitally augm
> ents and enhances urban infrastructures by means of information and
> communication technology including mobile and wireless networks. Thi
> s world, which Mitchell (1995) called the 'city of bits,' is
> invisible to the human eye, and we require instruments for live surg
> ery to render the invisible visible. Third and most importantly, the
> 'cells' of the urban body, the lifeblood of cities, are the city
> dwellers who have a life of their own and who introduce human fuzzin
> ess and socio-cultural variables to the study of the city. The toolb
> ox of what could be termed anthropological urban anatomy thus calls
> for research approaches that can differentiate (and break apart) a u
> niversally applicable model of 'The City' by being sensitive to
> individual circumstances, local characteristics and socio-cultural c
> ontexts.
> Exploring these three challenges, this workshop looks at concepts,
> research methods and instruments that become the microscope of urban
> anatomy. We want to discuss urban informatics systems that provide
> real-time tools for examining the real-time city, to picture the
> invisible and to zoom into a fine-grained resolution of urban
> environments that reveal the depth and contextual nuances of urban
> metabolism processes at work.
>
>
> 2 Topics
>
> Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to the following:
>
> • Civic and community engagement strategies to support urban plan
> ning
> • Public sphere, participation and online deliberation systems
> • Urban e-government, e-governance, e-participation, e-democracy
> approaches
> • u-City: Ubiquitous computing, pervasive technology, wireless in
> ternet and mobile applications
> • Locative media, navigation and space
> • Urban informatics design and development methods and epistemolo
> gies
> • Multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos
> , multimedia)
> • Neogeography and 3D virtual environments for urban design and p
> lanning
> • Simulations to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena a
> nd city systems
> • Social networking, collective intelligence and crowd sourcing i
> n the urban context
> • Environmental, economic and social sustainability
> • Citizen science
> • Access, trust, privacy, safety and surveillance
> • Implications for residential architecture and the design of cit
> ies and public spaces
> • Ethical considerations scrutinizing the assumptions behind urba
> n informatics
>
>
> 3 Organisation and Submission Details
>
> This is a full day workshop. We will start off with a keynote
> address by an eminent speaker. Rather than formal conference-style
> paper presentations, we will follow the successful peer interview
> format and ask each participant to interview another contributing
> author. Pairs will be assigned in advance to prepare questions and
> engage with the paper. After lunch, there will be a range of group
> activities and a closing plenary discussion at the end. The workshop
> can accommodate a maximum number of between 25 to 30 participants
> including presenters in order to provide an environment that is
> conducive to debate and interaction.
> We are interested in three types of contributions:
>
> Concepts: Essay style papers discussing theoretical and conceptual
> ideas and innovation within a cross-disciplinary framework.
>
> Methods: Papers reporting on novel approaches in the area of urban
> informatics, e.g. network action research, shared visual
> ethnography, urban probes, cross-disciplinary methods, etc.
>
> Systems: Reports of systems and case studies that ground findings in
> practice and experience.
>
> Prospective participants are asked to submit a position paper (2-4
> pages total, in English, ACM SIGCHI 2-column format, same as for the
> C&T full papers) related to one of the workshop topics. Each
> submission should also include a short biography stating the author'
> s background and motivation for attending the workshop. Workshop pos
> ition papers are due on April 30th, 2009 and will be reviewed and se
> lected by the organisers with the support from an international prog
> ram committee. Accepted authors will be notified by May 18th, 2009 –
> to leave enough time to qualify for the early bird conference regis
> tration. The acceptance of a workshop position paper implies that at
> least one of the authors will register for both the workshop and th
> e Communities & Technologies 2009 conference. The workshop takes pla
> ce on June 24th, 2009. After the workshop, selected contributors are
> invited to submit a full paper by October 1st, 2009. Full papers wi
> ll undergo double blind peer review before being published. Arrangem
> ents for an edited book or a special issue of a relevant internation
> al journal are currently underway.
>
> Template:
> http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
>
>
> 4 Bibliography
>
> Each Digital Cities workshop has produced an edited volume
> containing selected workshop papers and other invited contributions
> as follows:
>
> Digital Cities 5 -- Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on
> Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City.
> Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global.
>
> Digital Cities 4 -- Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.). (2008).
> Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic
> City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
>
> Digital Cities 3 -- van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.).
> (2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social
> Capital (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg,
> Germany: Springer.
>
> Digital Cities 2 -- Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T.
> (Eds.). (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological
> Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg,
> Germany: Springer.
>
> Digital Cities 1 -- Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000).
> Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives
> (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany:
> Springer.
>
>
> 5 Organisers
>
> Marcus Foth
> Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology,
> Brisbane, Australia
> m.foth@qut.edu.au
>
> Laura Forlano
> Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA
> laura.forlano@yale.edu
>
> Hiromitsu Hattori
> Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto
> University, Japan
> hatto@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Marcus Foth
> Senior Research Fellow
>
> Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
> Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
> Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
> Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG
> m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/
>
>
>
>

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CFP: Mobile Life 2009: Call for Panels, Tutorials, Demos, Posters and Cases

Call for Proposal for Panels, Tutorials, Demos, Posters and Cases

at mLife 2009: Three Conferences and Exhibitions
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2 - 3 - 4 September 2009, Barcelona, Spain,
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
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http://www.m4life.org conf@mlife.org

"Converting impacts of mobile technologies to economical and social
welfare"

-- mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society
-- EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government
-- mDEVELOPMENT 2009: The 1st Int. Conference on Mobile Development

mLife conference and exhibitions are prime events providing
opportunities to businesses, public sector organizations and
researchers to explore the frontiers of the social mobile revolution
and be informed in order to reach their goals.

Covering all aspects of mobile business, mobile society, m/e-
government and mDevelopment, mLife Organisation invites research,
practice and policy presentations; exhibitions and demos; tutorials
and special sessions.

The Conference Committee is soliciting above proposals from
researchers, public or private sector professionals regarding
implementations, best-practices, cases in all areas related to the
mobile development, mobile society, mobile government, e-government,
mobile business and mobile technologies in general.

For more please refer to http://www.m4life.org/ or fill in the for here:
http://www.m4life.org/sites/default/files/practicetalkguide.pdf

Looking forward to your proposals

Regards,
Kushchu
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IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD
Associate Professor and Founding Director,
Mobile Government Consortium International, UK
http://www.mgovernment.org
ik@mgovernment.org
+44 1273 777853

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CFP: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web - held in conjunction with SocialCom'09, Vancouver, Canada

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Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web

Held in conjunction with SocialCom '09
29th-30th August, Vancouver, Canada

http://thesocialmobileweb.org

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The mobile space is evolving at an astonishing rate. At present there are over 3.5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide and with continued advances in devices, services and billing models, the mobile web looks set to inspire a new age of anytime, anywhere information access. The inherent characteristics of mobile phones enable new types of interactions, e.g. mobile phones are personal to the individual, they are always on and always connected. And as such we are seeing a shift towards mobile devices for social mediated tasks. The world is also witnessing an explosion in social web services. Online social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace continue to experience huge increases in usage, with more and more users seeking novel ways of interacting with their friends and family.

In this workshop we are interested in the combination of these two exciting research spaces: the social web and the mobile space. We believe that the social mobile web is going to be a highly influential research area in the near future. As such this workshop will investigate the current state of the social mobile web. Topics of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Novel social interactions on mobile devices.
* Social mobile content sharing and distribution services.
* Context aware mobile services - beyond location based services.
* Social mobile search and social mobile browsing.
* User evaluations of social mobile services.
* Mobile user interfaces that incorporate social elements.
* Mobility and social networks.
* Models of mobile social behavior and mobile traces.
* Urban gaming, mobile mixed reality, etc.
* Innovative social mobile applications.

This workshop is targeted towards researchers working within the mobile web and social web spaces. Participants are invited to submit: (1) a short position or demonstration paper of 2-4 pages in length or (2) a full length technical paper of up to 10 pages in length. Papers should be in IEEE publication format and should be submitted as a PDF file via email to organizers@thesocialmobileweb.org. Workshop papers will be published by IEEE CS Press. Note that at least one author of accepted papers needs to register and attend the workshop.

Organising Committee
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* Karen Church, Telefonica Research, Barcelona
* Josep M. Pujol, Telefonica Research, Barcelona
* Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, Evanston

Program Committee
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* Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
* Alex Arenas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
* John Breslin, DERI Institute, NUI Galway
* Meeyoung Cha, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
* Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson Research
* Nathan Eagle, MIT/Santa Fe Institute
* Andreas Flache, University of Groningen
* Jill Freyne, CSIRO
* Scott A. Golder, Cornell University
* Carmen Guerrero, Universidad Carlos III
* Tom Heath, Talis
* Matt Jones, FIT Lab, Swansea University
* David Lazer, Harvard University
* Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research
* Alex Payne, Twitter
* Ramon Sangüesa, Technical University of Catalonia, Citilab
* Albrecht Schmidt, University Duisburg-Essen
* Marc Smith, Telligent
* Roger M. Whitaker, University of Cardiff
* Peter Mika, Yahoo Research Labs

Important Dates
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11th May 2009: Deadline for submissions
5th June 2009: Notification to authors
15th June 2009: Final paper version deadline
29th-31st August 2009: Conference dates

Website
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Further details are available from the workshop website at: http://thesocialmobileweb.org

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CFP: Workshop on Scientific Writing and New Patterns of Scientific Communication, Cologne, 24th June 2009

Call for Participation

Scientific Writing and New Patterns of Scientific Communication

Workshop in association with the
5th International Conference on e-Social Science,
Maternushaus, Cologne, 24-25 June 2009

Workshop organisers: Julian Newman (Glasgow Caledonian University), Esther Breuer (University of Cologne)

http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference-09/

This workshop aims to promote dialogue and debate around the interrelationships among scientific writing, language learning and use, and the impact of web culture and "Web 2.0" technologies upon the practice and communication of science. On the one hand it has been held that the linguistic styles of web culture are at odds with the academic conventions of attribution in the cumulative effort that is science. On the other hand, the Open Science movement claims that massively distributed collaboration can be brought about by making clear accounts of methods, data and results freely available on the internet.

Scientific writing is difficult to learn. In particular, the writer must learn to construct an argument within the conventions of a discipline, balancing the need to show originality with the need to ground the argument in a body of existing knowledge and relevance structure. Appropriate use of citation, and setting citation within appropriate argumentation, is a significant aspect of writing skill. Learners, to a greater or lesser extent, model their writing on sources which they treat as exemplars: however learning to cite is a complex skill that is developed in conjunction with the use of argumentation. The workshop starts, therefore, from the position that the Web agenda for scientific communication should take account of research on learning to communicate and of research on argumentation support, as well as of the potential of Web technologies to create environments that can promote access to shared scientific content.

Recent controversies surrounding new methods of scholarly communication, exploiting so-called "Web 2.0" technologies, implicitly raise issues concerning the need for science to be communicated in multiple genres. New forms of communication for scientists, influenced by "Web 2.0", include specialised "social networking sites" – sometimes referred to as "MySpace for Scientists" – which host blogs and discussion boards, and may support the setting up of collaborations, "referral sites" which support the tagging of interesting items from the literature, and/or online reference management, Wikipedia-type secondary information sources and online videos of experiments and/or visualised data. Scientists have always had informal registers for "talking shop", discriminable from the communications of the formal journal paper: the issue inevitably arises, whether they now need to develop special writing or production skills for the dissemination of ideas and results in new media. Will this require "unlearning" the current academic conventions, or learning to code-switch between "paper" and "web" styles and registers?

The organisers welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners involved in these problems from a wide range of disciplines and specialisms. Participants should submit a position-paper of around 2000 words by 4th May 2009. The final workshop programme will be published on 18th May 2009.

The workshop will take place on the first day of the conference, 24th May 2009. The fee for attendance at the workshop only will be £150 or £65 for students (earlybird rate, available until 26th April 2009). [Full conference £300/£150.] Prospective workshop participants requiring a response to their submission before 26th April should submit a draft of their position paper by 22nd April.

Submission of position papers: Please email as an attachment to

esciencewriting@googlemail.com

Please use one of the following file formats:

• MS Word Compatibility Format (.doc)
• RTF
• PDF
• HTML

Use of the paper template available from the conference site is encouraged.

Conference details

For full details of the Conference, see http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference-09/

Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474

Times Higher Education award winner 2008: outstanding international student support
http://www.gcal.ac.uk/news/pressoffice/releases/241008.html

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CFP: 1st CfP: Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning

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Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced
Learning (SIRTEL'09)
in
the International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009)
Aachen, Germany, August 21, 2009
http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/workshops.html
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IMPORTANT DATES

Contribution Submission: June 14, 2009
Results Notification: July 13, 2009
Camera Ready Submission: July 31, 2009
Workshop date: August 21, 2009

RATIONALE

Learning and teaching resource are available on the Web - both in
terms of digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other
learners, experts, tutors). They can be used to facilitate teaching
and learning tasks. The remaining challenge is to develop, deploy
and evaluate Social information retrieval (SIR) methods, techniques
and systems that provide learners and teachers with guidance in
potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

The aim of the SIRTEL'09 workshop is to look onward beyond recent
achievements to discuss specific topics, emerging research issues,
new trends and endeavors in SIR for TEL. The workshop will bring
together researchers and practitioners to present, and more
importantly, to discuss the current status of research in SIR
and TEL and its implications for science and teaching.

TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):

* Recommender systems and collaborative filtering in educational
settings
* Defining the scope, purpose and objects of social information
retrieval in TEL
* Novel ways of generating input for recommenders (explicit and
implicit methods)
* Ranking of search results to support individualised learning needs
* Integrating SIR services in existing educational platforms
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based information
retrieval systems
* Social navigation processes and metaphors for searching information
related to teaching and learning
* Social networks and interactions in learning communities to
facilitate information sharing and retrieval
* Approaches to TEL metadata reflecting social ties and collaborative
experiences in the field of education
* Pedagogic decisions, recommender systems and how to contextualise
recommender system to support learning processes.
* Interoperability of SIR systems for TEL
* Visualisation techniques in learning and teaching
* Semantic annotation and tagging for social information retrieval
purposes
* Evaluating the performance of SIR systems in educational applications
* Measuring the effectiveness of SIR systems in supporting learning
and teaching
* Evaluation the user satisfaction with SIR systems in supporting
learning and teaching

WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS

The workshop invites several types of contributions which allow a wide
level of participation:
* Research papers (up to 8 pages)
* System Demos (up to 2 pages)
* Hands-On proposals (1-pager)
* Abstract for Pecha Kucha (1-pager)

Submissions should be sent to: sirtelworkshop@gmail.com

Please use the template of the main conference:
http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/submission.html.

The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop
Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org is a recognised ISSN publication series,
with ISSN 1613-0073:
http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/

Past SIRTEL proceedings:
* SIRTEL'07 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-307
* SIRTEL'08 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-382

Authors of papers presented in the Workshop will also be invited
to submit enhanced versions of their papers for potential publication
in a planned special issue of a relevant journal.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC)

* Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
* Brandon Muramatsu, MIT, USA
* Frans van Assche, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
* John Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
* Lloyd Rutledge, Open University of the Netherlands, NL
* Markus Strohmaier, Technical University of Graz, Austria
* Markus Weimer, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
* Martin Wolpers, Fraonhofer-Institut, Germany
* Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain
* Olga Santos, UNED, Spain
* Rick D. Hangartner, MyStrands, USA
* Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Wolfgang Reinhardt, Universitat Paderborn, Germany
* Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Zinayida Petrushyna, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

ORGANISERS

* Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium and CELSTEC,
OUNL, Netherland
* Hendrik Drachsler, CELSTEC, OUNL, Netherlands
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
* Rob Koper, CELSTEC, OUNL, Netherlands

ABOUT ICWL 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.
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