CONFERENCES, CALLS FOR PAPERS, RESEARCH, RESOURCES

CONFERENCES, EVENTS, CALLS FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION


Via Steve Hargadon:

Worldwide Library 2.011 Conference - Call for Presentations
This is our official call for presentations for the Library 2.011 conference, November 2 - 3, 2011. The conference will be held online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, and will be free to attend. We encourage all to participate, and ask that you share this information where appropriate. Presentation submission instructions are at http://www.library20.com/pages/call-for-proposals.

The Library 2.011 conference will be a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. The conference strands are at the bottom of this email. Session proposals will be posted on the conference website, and we encourage making comments to and connecting with others based on their session proposals, as well as "voting" for session using the "like" button on the submissions. Session proposals are due September 15, and session acceptances will be communicated by September 30.

You may submit more than one session, but priority will be given to providing as many presenters as possible the chance to present before accepting additional sessions from a particular presenter. Sessions should be planned to be at least 20 minutes or more in length, and all sessions must be completed (including Q&A) within one hour. All sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate (previously Elluminate/Wimba). Presenters will be responsible for being familiar enough with the program to present. There is very good recorded training we will send you, as well as providing a number of live training sessions where you can ask questions. To practice you can also sign up for the free 3-person Collaborate room at http://www.LearnCentral.org. Please note that all sessions will be recorded and quickly made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (for more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). By submitting to present you are agreeing to these terms.

Session proposals are to be non-commercial. Interest in commercial sponsorship or presentations should be directed to Steve Hargadon at steve@hargadon.com.

Additionally, there are other ways to also participate in the conference!
If you want to be a conference volunteer, be sure to join the volunteer group at http://www.library20.com/group/library2011conferencemoderatorvolunteers. Volunteers will help us to advertise/promote the conference as broadly as possible, and will also be needed to help moderate actual conference sessions. You can either be familiar with Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate, and the event platform), or we will have training sessions to help you become familiar if this is something you would like to do.

If you'd like to apply to be on our international advisory board, please sign up at http://www.library20.com/page/international-advisory-board. The advisory board members are asked to promote both participation and attendance at the conference, to help us find partner organizations in their regions, to help train and support presenters in their geographical region and local languages, and if possible to help moderate sessions during the actual conference.

Your organization can also apply to be a conference partner! We actively encourage non-commercial organizations that are primarily or substantively focused on libraries, librarians, librarianship, or library programs to become conference partners at http://www.library20.com/page/conference-partners.

Organizations will be listed with a link, logo, and a short description and will be provided with a "spotlight" speaker session in the conference. There are no financial obligations for being a partner organization. Our goal for the conference is to have it be a milestone event, bringing together organizations and individuals from all over the world--so in return for recognizing organizations as partners, we ask that they actively promote the conference to their membership, and encourage participation as well as presentations submissions. Please let your organizations know about this opportunity.

We are very excited about this conference, and look forward to your participation!

Thank you,

Dr. Sandra Hirsh, Professor and Director
School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University
More Information: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/hirshs/hirshs.php

Steve Hargadon
Web 2.0 Labs
Email: steve@hargadon.com
Phone: 916-283-7901
More Information: http://www.stevehargadon.com

CONFERENCE STRANDS

STRAND 1: "Libraries" - The Roles of Libraries in Today’s World
Example Topics:
Libraries as community centers
Libraries as learning commons
Serving distributed and distance users
The library as a space versus the library as a service
Library privatization issues

STRAND 2: "Librarians and Information Professionals" - Evolving Professional Roles in Today’s World
Example Topics:
Librarians as Leaders
Library and Information Professional Careers in a Networked and Changing World
Embedded librarians
Applying library and information science skills in a variety of venues
Advocacy and building influence (professionally and institutionally)

STRAND 3: "Information Organization"
Example Topics:
Social organization of information
Subject gateways, online catalogs, and portals
Metadata: creation, storage, management, dissemination, harvesting and aggregating
RDA
Library automation / management software / integrated library systems

STRAND 4: "Access and Delivery"
Example Topics:
Digital media and the e-book revolution
Social networking use (social networking media for outreach and service promotion, location-based mobile social networks, etc.)
Emerging technology use (augmented reality, QR codes, mobile apps and delivery, etc.)
The changing roles of publishers
Working with vendors in the digital age
Conflicts between privacy and freedom of speech in a hyperlinked world
Measuring and assessing: determining the effectiveness of access and service delivery
Outsourcing

STRAND 5: "Learning" - Digital Age Learning Cultures
Example Topics:
New learning models and the role of the librarian and information professional
The growth of individualized and self-paced learning
Multiliteracies : digital literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, information literacy

STRAND 6: "Content and Creation" - Changes in Accessing and Organizing Information
Example Topics:
From Information Consumption to Co-creation and Production
Digital copyright and licensing
Open educational resources
Open Source Software
Multimedia creation and gaming spaces



Call for Papers: 
IRRODL Special Issue on Emergent Learning, Connections, and Design for Learning
Editors: Roderick Sims, PhD and Elena Kays, PhD

Rationale
Connections? Emergence? Chaos? Complexity? Fractals? Quantum Theory? Although many of these terms originated and have been widely studied in the natural sciences, they are emerging as important interdisciplinary ways to understand both natural and social sciences, including education. The question therefore arises … are the traditions of what it means to teach and learn being challenged by these concepts, or are we simply experiencing the natural evolution of education through a process of emergence?
  • Emergence encourages random encounters, paying attention to your neighbours, and “more being different”. Through such encounters and interactions we can look for patterns in the signs which can be extrapolated to an entire system, the intelligence of which comes from the bottom up, and where low-level rules can create high levels of sophistication.
  • The connections being made between people through social networks has emphasised “connectivism”, an emergent theory of learning where the interactions that are generated by these connections, whether informal or formal, have the potential to result in new, emergent knowledge.
  • For designers, taking account of emergence and connections can challenge the traditional models which have been used to create ‘instructional order’. Emergence theory offers insights into complex adaptive systems that can self-organize, a quite different way of conceptualising the teaching/learning space.
Given this link between connections and emergence, and the significant impact this association would have on how we teach and learn, it is therefore important to analyse what it means to design for emergent, connected learning experiences.
Special Issue
The purpose of this special issue of IRRODL is to provide a forum to explore connections, emergence and design for learning, and in so doing be sensitive to emergent ideas. Because we’ve designed and implemented education in one way for decades does not mean it’s the right way!
We encourage your ideas for topics, with the following list (by no means exclusive) identifying possible topics to be covered in this special issue.
• Methods for studying emergence in distributed , online contexts
• Extensive literature reviews of emergence and related disciplines focusing on their significance for education
• Empirical studies on extent and impact of emergence in learning contexts
• Emergence and social networks
• Connections and emergence – is ‘design’ realistic?
• Designs for learning in connected worlds
• Connecting affordances – virtual worlds, networks, social media
• Open Educational Resources and Emergent Learning
Submissions, especially those that apply multi-disciplinary approaches to online and distance teaching and learning, are welcomed for this edition.
Articles due: May 27, 2011
Editorial decision: September, 2011
Publication: November, 2011
Authors submit their manuscripts online by registering with IRRODL then logging in and following an automated, five-step submission process.




CALL FOR PAPERS AND NOTES
6th Annual ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011

ITS 2011
November 13-16, 2011
Portopia Hotel, Kobe, Japan


The Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011 Conference (ITS) is a premiere venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging tabletop and interactive surface technologies. As a new community, we embrace the growth of the discipline in a wide variety of areas, including innovations in ITS hardware, software, design, and projects expanding our understanding of design considerations of ITS technologies and of their applications.

Building on their success in previous years, ITS again features Papers and Notes presentations, as well as tutorials, posters, demonstrations tracks and a doctoral symposium. ITS 2011 will also include workshops.

ITS 2011 will bring together top researchers and practitioners who are interested in both the technical and human aspects of ITS technology. On behalf of the conference organizing committee, we invite you to begin planning your submissions and participation for this year's conference!

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS AND NOTES
The use of interactive surfaces is an exciting and emerging research area. Display technologies, such as projectors, LCD and OLED flat panels, and even flexible display substrates, coupled with input sensors capable of enabling direct interaction, make it reasonable to envision a not-so-distant future in which many of the common surfaces in our environment will function as digital interactive displays. ITS brings together researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and interests, such as camera and projector based systems, new display technologies, multi-touch sensing, user interface technologies, augmented reality, computer vision, multimodal interaction, novel input and sensing technologies, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), and information visualization.

The intimate size of this single-track symposium provides an ideal venue for leading researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and experiences. We encourage submissions on (but not limited to) the following topic areas as they relate to interactive tabletops and surfaces:

* Gesture-based interfaces
* Multi-modal interfaces
* Tangible interfaces
* Novel interaction techniques
* Data handling/exchange on large interactive surfaces
* Data presentation on large interactive surfaces
* Software engineering methods
* Computer supported collaborative work
* Middleware and network support
* Virtual reality and augmented reality
* Social protocols
* Information visualizations
* hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities
* Human-centered design & methodologies
* Applications

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conference Co-Chairs
Jun Rekimoto, The University of Tokyo / SonyCSL, Japan
Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Kentaro Fukuchi, Meiji University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs
Yoshifumi Kitamura, Tohoku University, Japan
Daniel Wigdor, University of Toronto, Canada

SUBMISSIONS
Papers/Notes: We invite paper submissions of two kinds: Papers (10 pages) and Notes (4 pages). Papers must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research, possibly in one or more of the themes given above. Notes must also report novel and complete research, but where the scope and scale of the contribution is more focused and succinct than papers. Submissions must be submitted as a single PDF file in the ACM format through the submission system. A template for submissions can be found on the ITS

All accepted submissions will be presented at ITS 2011 and appear in the ITS digital proceedings and be archived in the ACM digital library.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper/Note Submissions: June 30, 2011
Paper/Note Author Notifications: September 2, 2011
Paper/Note Camera-Ready Deadline: October 21, 2011

The calls for the posters, demos, tutorials, workshops and the doctoral symposium will be published soon, please check our website for further information.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Touch the Web 2011

2nd International Workshop on Web-Enabled Objects
The workshop will be held on June 20-24, 2011 in Paphos, Cyprus, in conjunction with the:
The vision of the Internet of Things builds upon the use of embedded systems to control devices, tools and appliances. With the addition of novel communications capabilities and identification means such as RFID, systems can now gather information from other sensors, devices and computers on the network, or enable user-oriented customization and operations through short-range communication. When the information gathered by different sensors is shared by means of open Web standards, new services can be defined on top of physical elements. In addition, the new generation of mobile phones enables a true mobile Internet experience. These phones are today’s ubiquitous information access tool, and the physical token of our "Digital Me“. These meshes of things and “Digital Me” will become the basis upon which future smart living, working and production places will be created, delivering services directly where they are needed.



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Call for Papers/Participation




CHI 2011 Schedule of 25 Workshops Announced: UX, HCI, Digital Arts, Brain/Body/Computer Interface, Child-Computer Interaction, Urban/Mobile, Design, and more -calls for participation/papers open NOW!  (Links to info)




Large Displays in Urban Spaces: From Exhibition Halls to Media Facades (Call for Participation)


The above workshops will be held at CHI 2011:  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems


Call for Papers
Journal of Educational Technology & Society
(ISSN 1436-4522)
Special Issue on
“Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Management in E-Learning”
http://web3.edu.hku.hk/magwang/CFP_ETS.pdf
http://www.ifets.info/Announcements/1243545089.doc
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction: ICMI 2011 Call for Papers
MediaStorm Multimedia Storytelling Workshops


Via Jessica Stuart
"Dates have been announced for the 2011 MediaStorm Multimedia Workshops.
Workshops will be held in New York City:
March 5-11, 2011 (application deadline January 7, 2011)
July 23-29, 2011 (application deadline May 27, 2011)
November 12-18, 2011 (application deadline September 16, 2011)
The MediaStorm Multimedia Workshop in New York City is an intensive, hands-on educational experience in advanced multimedia storytelling. Over the course of a week, participants will work in three-person teams, reporting and editing in collaboration with a seasoned multimedia professional to produce a multimedia project for distribution across multiple platforms. Each team will produce a professional-quality, ready-for-publication multimedia story.
See the site for additional information and to apply. You can also see stories from previous workshops."

CALL FOR PAPERS: Question Generation in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

 SPECIAL ISSUE on QUESTION GENERATION

          Dialogue & Discourse

          An International Journal


IMPORTANT DATES
- One-page abstract (intent to submit): December 15, 2010
- Full papers: February 15, 2011
TOPIC
Automatically generating questions is an important task in many
different contexts including dialogue systems, intelligent tutoring
systems, automated assessment and search interfaces. Questions are
used to express informational needs: when we do not know something,
the natural thing to do is to ask about it. As computer systems become
more advanced and are expected to be more adaptive and autonomous,
their informational needs grow, and being equipped with the ability to
ask questions has clear advantages. State-of-the-art spoken dialogue
systems are a good case in point: where would they be without the
ability to ask questions, for example, about the user's goals ("Where
would you like to travel to?") or about their understanding of the
users' utterances ("Did you say 'London'?")?

Of course, the purpose of asking questions is not limited to
satisfying straightforward informational needs. In a classroom, a
teacher may ask a question, not because she doesn't know the answer,
but because she wants to know whether the student knows the answer (or
perhaps she wants to provide the student with a hint that will help
him solve whichever problem he is dealing with). Generating such
questions automatically is a central task for intelligent tutoring
systems. Exam questions are another case in point. In the context of
automated assessment, generating questions automatically from
educational resources is a great challenge, with, potentially,
tremendous impact.

In recent years, a significant body of work has begun accumulating on
Question Generation. In 2010, the third workshop on Question
Generation was held in Pittsburgh (co-located with the Tenth
International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems). This
followed on from Question Generation workshops in Washington, D.C.
(hosted by the National Science Foundation) and Brighton, U.K.
(co-located with the 14th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Education). The 2010 workshop included a track on the
First Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Campaign
(QGSTEC), with teams from the US, UK, India, Germany, and Canada
participating. November 2010 also brings the 4th Workshop of
Modelling, Management and Generation of Problems/Questions in
Technology-Enhanced Learning.

SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors in a range of disciplines including, but not limited to,
Discourse Analysis, Dialogue Modelling, Formal Semantics, Intelligent
Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Generation, Natural Language
Understanding, and Psycholinguistics are cordially invited to submit
their work for publication in the Special Issue. The work may report
on the automatic generation of questions from a wide variety of inputs
such as, but not limited to, raw text, numerical data, ontologies, and
dialogue act specifications. The ideal article will describe a
substantial novel body of work on automatic question generation and
will appeal to the Dialogue & Discourse audience. Question generation
is an integral part of dialogue behaviour that brings to the forefront
such issues as when questions are asked, what functions they serve,
and what answers might be expected. Additionally, much of the effort
on automatic generation of questions focuses on generating questions
from text, and consequently relies heavily on automated parsing of
both syntax and discourse structure of the texts. Authors are
encouraged to explain how their work fits into the broader context of
dialogue and discourse research.

GUEST EDITORS
Paul Piwek
Centre for Research in Computing
The Open University, UK
http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pp2464/

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University, USA
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~keboyer


REVIEWING COMMITTEE
Gregory Aist (Iowa State University, USA)
Itziar Aldabe (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Lee Becker (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Delphine Bernhard (LIMSI-CNRS,Orsay, France)
Rafael Calvo (University of Sydney, Australia)
Yllias Chali (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International, USA)
Zhi-Hong Chen (National Central University, Taiwan)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA)
Michael Heilman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA)
Mihai Lintean (University of Memphis, USA)
Jack Mostow (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Rodney Nielsen (Boulder Language Technologies, USA)
Juan Pino (University of Cambridge, UK)
Rashmi Prasad (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, USA)
Svetlana Stoyanchev (The Open University, UK)
Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft, USA)
Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Manuscripts should conform to the Dialogue & Discourse requirements
(http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/auth_instr.html). One-page
abstracts (intents to submit) must be submitted by email to the guest
editors at MCT-QG2010@open.ac.uk no later than December 15, 2010. Full
manuscripts must be submitted by email no later than February 15,
2011.

Amber Festival '10 Art and Technology Festival
http://www.amberconference.org/10/
Istanbul, Turkey  November (5-14)  2010 


Selected works from this year's Playful Interface Cultures exhibition at Ars Electronica will be shown at the Amber Festival in Istanbul, European cultural capital 2010:

Rambler Shoes by Tiago Martins (PT) & Ricardo O'Nascimento (BR)
MohrSMS by Hugo Camargo (BR) & Veronika Pauser (AT)
Endotastic Voyage A20.10, by Reinhard Gupfinger (AT)
nanoCup by Hugo Martinez-Tormo (ES)
Thumb Fu! by Vesela Mihaylova (BG) & Tim Devine (AU)
Artificial Stupidity by Bager Akbay (TR) & Ana Çigon (SI)
Urban Mood by Mahir Yavuz (TR)


CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7-12 2011
"The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. CHI 2011 focuses on leveraging our diversity and connecting people, cultures, technologies, experiences, and ideas"


If you are interested in the topic of children and technology, you'll might be interested in the CHI 2010 Child-Computer Interaction Community:

CHI 2011 Child-Computer Interaction Featured Community

Important Dates


Immersive Technology Summit 2010:  LA Center Studios, October 21, 2010
Related post: Emerging Tech News - Immersive Technology Summit 2010


ACM International Conference on Interactive Tables and Surfaces
Related post: Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces: 2010 ACM Conference, Nov. 7-10, Saarbrucken, Germany.  Wish I could go!


O'Reilly Strata Conference: The Business of Data February 1-2, 2011 (Santa Clara, CA)
There will be presentations of interest to "data-driven designers, journalists, and anthropologists".


RESOURCES AND LINKS 
For "mega resources and links" see RESOURCES: Natural User Interaction, InfoViz, Multi-touch, Blog roll, and More


ONLINE COMMUNITIES
SPARKON
"sparkon is a social platform for people that are sparked (inspired) by creative and emergent technology. On sparkon, you'll find projects demonstrating the latest interactive techniques, applications, software frameworks, case studies, and blog articles relating to creative and emergent technology. sparkon can be used to learn, share, create, promote, and meet people with similar interests and goals."
NUI Group"Founded in 2006 - the Natural User Interface Group or ~ NUI Group is an open source interactive media community researching and creating sensing and display techniques to benefit artistic, commercial and educational applications. We offer a collaborative environments for developers and scientists that are interested in learning and sharing new HCI (Human Computer Interaction) methods and concepts. This may include topics such as: augmented reality, voice/handwriting and gesture recognition, touch computing, computer vision, and information visualization... "

RESEARCH COLLABORATIVES
PD-NET
PD-NET Project: "Exploring...large scale networks of pervasive public displays"
RENCI
RENCI Visualization Center Update & Link to Innovative Interactivity Post


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