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8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): Call for Demos, Work in Progress and DC
by Announce Announcements 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

*** Call for Demos, Work in Progress and DC *** 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development" July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPListManager2021/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2Z… End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use. Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term "end-user development" acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology. Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas. IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community. Conference Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: · describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development · describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts · present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development · develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: · User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices · Conversational interfaces for end-user development · End-user development for big data visualization and exploration · End-user development for collaborative robotics · End-user development for social robotics · End-user development in Industry 4.0 · End-user development and explainable AI-based systems · Cybersecurity and end-user development · End-user development in daily life · Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development · Empirical studies of end-user development · Recommender systems to support end-user development · Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches · Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies · Evaluation of end-user development technologies · Supporting creative work through end-user development Submissions We invite submissions for Demos, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium. A Demonstration paper (max 6 pages) should be structured according to the following: · Abstract (150 words maximum) · Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community · Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity · Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) · Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) · References Work in Progress submissions (max 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Demonstration, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium submissions should indicate in the title page "Demo", "WiP" or "DC" respectively. Accepted submissions will be included in IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPListManager2021/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2Z… for online publication. Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPListManager2021/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2Z… and should be submitted through the Easy Chair system at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPListManager2021/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2Z… Important Dates · Submissions in all categories: April 21, 2021 · Notification: May 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 Organizers General Chairs · Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) · George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Chairs · Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Daniel Tetteroo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Short papers Chairs · Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Simone Borsci (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Work in Progress Chairs · Jelle Van Dijk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) · Carmen Santoro (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Demonstration Chair · Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) Workshop Chairs · Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) · Simone Stumpf (City University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Monica Maceli (Pratt Institute, USA) · Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy)

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[CFP] GoodIT 2021 Special Track on Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life, Rome, 9-11 Sept 2021
by Filippo Carnovalini 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

******************************************************************** * Call for Papers * GoodIT 2021 * Special track on Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life * 9-11 September 2021, Rome, Italy * Submission by 1 May 2021 * ******************************************************************** More info at: http://csc.dei.unipd.it/serious_games_at_goodit_2021/ SCOPE ====== Serious games and gamification techniques are often used to capture and maintain user’s attention, engagement, and motivation. This is particularly important when dealing with our today’s challenges. The scope of this track is to have novel papers that includes elements of gaming and gamification techniques used as approaches to solve our today’s problems and challenges. The problems and challenges could be within quality of life and well-being, social inclusion, accessibility, persuasive systems and solutions, lifestyle promotion, people with disabilities, teaching and education, social and behavior changes (e.g. global warming and climate changes, nutritional changes, and health behavior changes), physical exercise promotion (exergaming), intervention and treatment, mental health, and addiction. This track will feature new insights, research, and practice on how to design, develop and use gamification and persuasive technologies to create serious games and applications to improve individuals’ Quality of Life (QoL) and behavior, with a particular focus on people with disabilities. The track targets researchers, doctoral students, practitioners and other people interested in presenting, discussing, reflecting and networking on central themes associated with the development and use of serious games and applications to help solving our today’s problems and challenges. Papers on both theoretical aspects and design method of gamification techniques and serious games are welcomed, as well as system prototypes and novel evaluation methods. In addition, the track welcomes full research, work in progress papers and educational cases. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Special issues associated to the conference are being organized. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to those journals. Co-Chairs: Thomas Bjørner, Aalborg University, Denmark, tbj[at]create.aau.dk Antonio Origlia, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, antonio.origlia[at]unina.it Antonio Rodà, Università di Padova, Italy, antonio.roda[at]unipd.it TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Serious game design for better lifestyle promotion Serious games for people with disability Games for Education and Learning Gamification Pervasive Systems Assistive Technologies Persuasive solutions Methods, models, and principles for gamification design Usability and accessibility issues Games for Health and Well-Being Serious Games for social inclusion Serious Games for cultural heritage IMPORTANT DATES ================ Full Paper submission deadline: 1 May 2021 Notification deadline: 22 June 2021 Camera ready: 10 July 2021 Submission instructions at: http://www.grc.upv.es/goodit2021/authors/

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8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce Announcements 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development" July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/ (Proceedings to be published by Springer) End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use. Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term "end-user development" acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology. Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas. IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community. Conference Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: · describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development · describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts · present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development · develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: · User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices · Conversational interfaces for end-user development · End-user development for big data visualization and exploration · End-user development for collaborative robotics · End-user development for social robotics · End-user development in Industry 4.0 · End-user development and explainable AI-based systems · Cybersecurity and end-user development · End-user development in daily life · Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development · Empirical studies of end-user development · Recommender systems to support end-user development · Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches · Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies · Evaluation of end-user development technologies · Supporting creative work through end-user development Submissions We invite two types of paper submissions: 1. Regular papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Workshop proposals are invited (max 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long and will be held on July 6, 2021. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication. Submissions of regular papers, short papers and workshop proposals should indicate in the title page "Regular", "Short" or "Workshop" respectively. Demonstration and Work in Progress papers are also welcomed. A Demonstration paper (max 6 pages) should be structured according to the following: · Abstract (150 words maximum) · Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community · Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity · Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) · Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) · References Work in Progress submissions (max 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Demonstration, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium submissions should indicate in the title page "Demo", "WiP" or "DC" respectively. Accepted submissions will be included in IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication. Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and should be submitted through the Easy Chair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2021 Important Dates · Regular and Short papers submission: March 22, 2021 · Notification: April 14, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 15, 2021 · Workshop proposal submission: March 8, 2021 · Notification: March 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 · Demonstration and Work in Progress submission: April 21, 2021 · Notification: May 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 · Doctoral Consortium submission: April 21, 2021 · Notification: May 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 Organizers General Chairs · Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) · George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Chairs · Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Daniel Tetteroo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Short papers Chairs · Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Simone Borsci (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Work in Progress Chairs · Jelle Van Dijk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) · Carmen Santoro (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Demonstration Chair · Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) Workshop Chairs · Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) · Simone Stumpf (City University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Monica Maceli (Pratt Institute, USA) · Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy)

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