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STELLAR calls for Theme teams and Incubators are out

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:04:01 +0000

Find the calls at following links:

http://www.itd.cnr.it/page.php?ID=I_CALL&FlagSelected=en

http://www.itd.cnr.it/page.php?ID=TT_CALL&FlagSelected=en

CFP WMUTE2010

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:22:50 +0000

6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2010)

Mobile Social Media for Learning and Education
in Formal and Informal Settings

April 12-16, 2010 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

hosted by National Central University (Taiwan)
http://wmute2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/

(IEEE Computer Society Sponsorship solicited)

General Conference Chairs:
Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece

Program Chairs:
Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA
Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan

Now it’s real barbecue on your phone

specht — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:16:25 +0000

did you ever have the instant need for a steak in a meeting?
Now you can. Enjoy!

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CfP: 18th Int’l Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:57:39 +0000

UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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.

TOPICS

The conference spans, but is not restricted to, the following topics:
- Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products, tailoring search results,
enhancing learning outcomes, personalizing help, assuming routine tasks, adapting interfaces, ...
- User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and preferences, special needs,
affective states, goals and plans, contexts of use, roles, cultural characteristics, ...
- Application domains for UMAP: e-commerce, e-learning, cultural heritage, healthcare, assistive
technologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems, targeted advertisement, digital TV, ...
- Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the semantic/social Web), desktop systems,
groupware systems, mobile and wearable systems, smart environments, smart objects, virtual
environments, ...
- Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model extraction and representation,
adaptation methods, architectures for UMAP, ...
- Evaluation of UMAP: requirements specification, formative evaluation, user testing, validation,
performance tests, ...
- Practical aspects of UMAP: privacy and security, cost-justifying UMAP, integrating UMAP, valuing user
experience, ...

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)
Workshop proposals (3 pages) should outline the area, goals, scope and format of the workshop,
introducing also the members of the organizing team and their backgrounds. 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.

TUTORIAL PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)
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.

RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original reports of substantive new
research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its
significance.
- Short research papers (6 pages) should present original and unpublished highly promising research,
whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical
validation.
Both categories will be strictly kept apart in the review process. Only in extremely unusual
circumstances can long papers be relegated to the short paper category.

INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial implementations or
applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical
situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technical density should
be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short papers (6 pages). Industry Track
submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern industrial applications, and will
typically include at least one industry author.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010)
The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback and advice from the Doctoral
Consortium committee. Submissions (3 pages) should include original and unpublished descriptions of
the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so far. They should clearly indicate
the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the student would especially like to
receive advice.

DEMONSTRATIONS (due May 18, 2010)
Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes of UMAP-based systems at the conference.
Descriptions of demonstrations (3 pages) should be original and unpublished accounts of such
systems. They should be accompanied by a specification of the system requirements, and by a draft
poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.

POSTERS (due May 18, 2010)
Descriptions of posters (3 pages) should be original and unpublished accounts of innovative research
ideas, projects, or results. They should be accompanied by a draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single
slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made through the EasyChair
conference system (workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent directly to the respective co-
chairs). They will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity. Reviews for
research papers will be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs.

PUBLICATION
Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be published by Springer in their
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and electronically through
SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted descriptions of posters,
demonstrations, workshops and tutorials will be published in the UMAP Adjunct Proceedings.
Significantly enhanced versions of research papers can be submitted to User Modeling and User-
Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) after the conference.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair
  David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Program Co-Chairs
  Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine
  Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

Industry Track Co-Chairs
  Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California
  Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
  Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
  Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
  Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Demo and Poster Co-Chairs
  Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Local Arrangements Chair
  Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo

VENUE
UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kona side of the “Big Island” of Hawaii.
Additional student housing will be available at the Aston Shores at Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa
Colony Villas.

STUDENT SUPPORT
This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to students in the past, and it is
expected that there will also be student funds available for UMAP 2010. Authors of accepted technical
and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.

Mobile Learning in Dutch

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:18:30 +0000

Last Week I gave a short Interview on Dutch Televsion NOS Headlines about mobile and learning with mobiles in the classroom. see here

Special Issue of Educational Technology & Society, deadline approaching

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:52:43 +0000

Special Issue of Educational Technology & Society

“Innovations in designing mobile learning applications”

Handheld devices are becoming more prevalent primarily because they provide useful tools which assist one’s work and learning. Many of today’s youth have their own handheld devices on hand for social communication and for personal information management. There is a significant amount of research currently available regarding short messages and multimedia messages, which promote greater usage of handheld devices for entertainment or information retrieval, besides basic voice communication.

Recently, sensor technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS), RFID and other environmental awareness peripherals have started to appear embedded within the handheld devices. These new additions enable further value additions to the functionality the handheld devices can provide, with potential to appeal to a greater global audience, and in case of technology-enhanced learning, they bare the potential for facilitating learning in context.

This special issue is devoted to innovations in designing learning applications for handheld devices. The focus is on the integration of the pedagogical and technical strengths of these devices while considering contextual and other factors that influence the learning process.

The aim is to cover various aspects of innovation in learning application design for handheld devices in the context of practice, methodology, and theories to improve the usages of handheld devices or effectively enhance learning and training. This special issue welcomes original ideas, along with supporting design and validation, in following areas (and other areas within the scope):

Ø Innovations in Human Computer Interaction design of mobile learning applications
Ø Multimedia reorganization technologies in learning for handheld devices
Ø Innovations in context awareness and situated learning design for handheld devices
Ø Pedagogical strategy-enhanced learning application design of handheld devices
Ø Innovations in collaborative and socially networked mobile learning applications
Ø Enhanced learning portfolios with multimedia handheld device support
Ø Innovations in methodologies of mobile learning application design
Ø Bridging web-based world and physical world with handheld device support
Ø Innovations in amalgamating entertainment, gaming and learning applications for handheld devices

Special issue guest editors

Yueh-Min Huang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)
Wu-Yuin Hwang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Kuo-En Chang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

Important dates

Submissions due: 15 September2009
First decision: 25 October 2009
Revised manuscripts due: 30 November 2009
Feedback on revised manuscripts: 15 January 2010
Final manuscript due: 15 Feb. 2010

IEEE WMUTE (International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:26:02 +0000

CFP: IEEE WMUTE (International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education in Taiwan. April 2010.

Mobile social media
User experiences in mobile social media creation and collaboration
Specific roles for video in mobile learning and working
Theories and applications for modeling collaboration in mobile environments
Emerging mobile video development platforms and user interfaces
Context-aware learning environments and mobile social media applications
Open educational resources
Mobile video story-telling and communities
Human-computer interaction aspects of technology-enriched classrooms
Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning
Mobile Web 2.0 applications for learning and teaching
Learning scenarios with wireless sensor networks * Small-screen interface design
Mobile collaborative learning systems
Implementation of learning models exploiting one-to-one technology
New devices for learning and instruction
Game-based learning with ubiquitous and one-to-one technologies
Adaptive and adaptable learning environments using mobile and ubiquitous devices
Agent support for ubiquitous learning and one-to-one classroom settings
Architectures and infrastructures for one-to-one classroom settings
Methods of interaction analysis in mobile and ubiquitous learning scenarios
Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for WMUTE

Workshop on SEMHE ‘09: SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING SUPPORT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:14:59 +0000

you can still register for workshops on ECTEL09:

SEMHE '09: SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING SUPPORT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

co-located with ECTEL '09: The 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

Nice, France, 30 September 2009

Registration now open at: http://www.ectel09.org/registration.html

SemHE is concerned with the applications of semantic web technologies in higher education. There has been much interest in this topic within the Technology Enhanced Learning, the Higher Education Support and the Web Science communities.

SemHE is intended to involve a wider international audience in discussing recent developments in this area and in shaping a roadmap for future research.

SemHE is supported by the JISC funded SemTech project and the ESRC/EPSRC funded ENSEMBLE project both of which have been working on the relevance and value of semantic technologies to higher education in the UK.

Discussing Critique on Mobile Learning

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:43:32 +0000

Interesting post discussing some recent critiques on mobile learning as student bullying, cheating with mobiles, recent information access with mobiles.

see the blog of Rob De Lorenz: Addressing Some Critiques of Mobile Learning

Workshop on Attention Metadata at Informatik 2009

Marcus Specht : Weblog — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:53:48 +0000

Exploitation of Usage and Attention Metadata (EUAM 09)