CrowdUI >> SWISIG

Dear Alessandro, Lora and Paolo
cc swisig

we read with interest about your forthcoming workshop below, which is
 relevant to our community's agenda

http://www.w3.org/community/swisig/

We invite you to join our group, share your stuff (or give us a virtual
talk sometimes if you are inclined) and pitch the workshop to our group
members also!!

Best regards

Paola Di Maio



>                    1st  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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>                               CrowdUI 2014
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>                1st International Workshop on User Interfaces
>                    for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
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>
> Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/crowdui2014/
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>
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> *ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE* (not mandatory): March 3rd, 2014
> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: March 7th, 2014
>
> Aims and Scope
> --------------
>
> Crowdsourcing and Human Computation raises a variety of new challenges for
> user interfaces and user interaction designers. How to efficiently and
> effectively support implicit and/or explicit Crowdsourcing and Human
> Computation tasks is still an open research question. The goal of the
> CrowdUI workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in the diverse
> fields related to the integration, interaction and visualization of data to
> explore the feasibility of using and combining different approaches to
> create effective user interfaces and usage experience for applications
> relying on, or producing crowdsourced data.
>
> Recent years witnessed an explosion in the number and variety of data
> crowdsourcing initiatives. From OpenStreetMap to Amazon Mechanical Turk,
> developers and practitioners have been striving to create user interfaces
> able to effectively and efficiently support the creation, exploration, and
> analysis of crowdsourced information. A representative example comes from
> the fields of Smart Cities and Human Mobility: there, new breeds of
> (mobile) human computation applications and games-with-a-purpose employ new
> interaction paradigms for the collection and retrieval of urban-related
> data. On the other hand, analysts and other urban stakeholders are provided
> with application that fused multiple datasources together in order to
> support sensemaking and knowledge-extraction processes for decision- making.
> The extensive usage of crowdsourcing techniques brings a major change of
> paradigm with respect to traditional user interface for data collection and
> exploration, as effectiveness, speed, and interaction quality concerns play
> a central role in supporting very demanding incentives, including monetary
> ones.
> At this purpose, cross fertilization between different disciplines is
> mandatory: existing approaches for visual interfaces design and
> implementation, data visualization and interaction methodologies,
> crowdsourced data management, and human computation task design should be
> merged with the purpose of identifying the best interaction and
> visualization paradigms for crowd-driven data collection, analysis, and
> exploration applications.
>
> Topics of Interest
> ------------------
>
> Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited
> to) the following:
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> * Interfaces for human computation tasks
> * Studies on quality, usability and effectiveness of human computation and
> crowdsourcing user interfaces
> * Innovative user interaction paradigms for task execution
> * Human computation interaction design tools
> * Game interfaces for crowdsourcing and human computation
> * Tools for human computation task design and deployment
> * Tools for visual analytics of crowdsourced data
> * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces for human computation tasks
> * Spam detection for crowdsourced data collection and analysis
> * Human factors in human computation task interface design
> * Work modelling for user interface adaptation
> * Performer /Task and Task/Performer recommendation
>
> Workshop Organizers
> -------------
> * Alessandro Bozzon (Delft University of Technology)
> * Lora Aroyo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
> * Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano)
>
> EMAIL: crowduiworkshop@gmail.com
>
> Submission Procedure
> --------------------
>
> *The 2 best submissions of the workshop will be included in the ACM
> proceedings of the AVI 2014 conference.*
>
>
> We welcome submissions describing ideas, experiments, and application
> visions originating from requirements for, and efforts aimed at, supporting
> crowdsourced and human computation tasks. We encourage the following
> submission types:
>
> * demos and posters not exceeding 2 pages
> * position and technical papers not exceeding 4 pages
>
> The CrowdUI workshop also aims at providing visibility and a discussion
> forum to universities, companies, and developers for presenting software
> tools related to the field of Web Engineering. We plan to provide you an
> exciting and highly interactive way of demonstrating your tool, systems,
> and research, and it is an excellent way of advertising the applicability
> of your results. Submissions about commercial tools, prototypes, open
> source software, and ongoing development are welcome.
>
> Submissions should describe the innovative aspects of the work they
> present, highlighting pros and cons with respect to related work. Demo
> proposals should describe clearly what will be demonstrated and how the
> contributions will be illustrated interactively. Optionally, proposals can
> include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g.,
> screenshots, videos, or a running system). Submissions will be
> peer-reviewed by members of the CrowdUI Program Committee, who will judge
> the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. All
> submission must be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI format. Papers
> should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done
> electronically via the CrowdUI 2014 web submission system.
>
> At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in
> the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and
> procedure of the main AVI conference to be found on their website (
> http://hoc12.elet..polimi.it/avi2014/).
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