Announcing ECSCW'05		by Guardini
ECSCW, the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, will take place in Paris, France, on September 18-22, 2005 (right after the Interact Conference in Rome!). The conference will take place in a 1920's building in the heart of Paris and we hope you will join us for this memorable event. Please note the forthcoming deadlines for submissions: 2 March 2005 : long papers 16 March 2005 : tutorials, workshops, demos, videos 9 May 2005 : posters, doctoral consortium For details about the conference and the submission process, please visit the web site at http://ecscw.org . We look forward to your submissions and to your participation ! Michel Beaudouin-Lafon Wendy Mackay ECSCW'05 co-chairs ECSCW'05 is organized by AFIHM and INRIA.

ACM WEB3D 2005 Symposium: The 10th International Conference on 3D Web Technology		by Guardini
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION March 29-April 1, 2005, Bangor, Wales, UK http://www.hpv.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/s2005/ EARLY BIRD CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: /By February 25th/ http://www.hpv.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/s2005/registration.php PROGRAM: http://www.hpv.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/s2005/program.php SUBMISSIONS to the "Web3D 2005 Workshop on Education and Training": /By February 28th/ http://www.hpv.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/s2005/workshops.php#web3ded

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: INTERACTION DESIGN TEACHERS WORKSHOP		by Guardini
Limerick, Ireland: 24-25 February 2005. The first Interaction Design Teachers Workshop, sponsored by CONVIVIO, the European Network of Excellence for people-centered design of interactive technologies, will place near Limerick (Ireland) on the 24-25 of February 2005. We are seeking participants who are currently involved in teaching Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design graduate courses around Europe. Theme: This small Convivio-sponsored workshop (as part of the Training Activity) is targeted on people involved in the teaching of graduate courses in interaction design in Europe, to help in developing a network of educators, and sharing interesting experiences and lessons learned. The WS will be limited to around 20-25 people for the first meeting, in order to maximize opportunities for dialogue and development of some shared concerns. Participants are required to write short position papers on some aspect of their teaching practice, before the workshop. Everyone should also contribute some material, method, case etc. A selection of these materials will appear on the WS website. At the workshop we will have discussion and workshop sessions, mainly in a plenary style, but with perhaps one or two sessions allowing for breaking into 2-3 groups. Full details on the venue and programme will appear on-line at: https://www.idc.ul.ie/convivio/

CfP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS 2005)		by Guardini
The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services July 18-19, 2005, Munich, Germany in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Electronic Commerce (IEEE CEC 2005) While wired E-Commerce has been accepted and used widely in recent years and become significantly important in our daily life, mobile commerce (M-commerce) is still an emerging discipline that is currently experiencing massive growth rates. The success of M-Commerce is basically dependent on the development and acceptance of new wireless technologies over 3G and 4G networks as well as intelligent service platforms on mobile devices. However, to fully exploit the high growth potentials of M-commerce there is a strong need to adopt existing E-commerce approaches for wireless networks and to develop new sophisticated mobile applications to meet the needs of mobile subscribers, for example in the areas of financial transactions, mobile marketing and gaming, as well as location and context-aware services. Compared with the traditional wired E-commerce, wireless networks and mobile devices impose additional constraints, challenges, and requirements on building M-commerce platforms and applications, for example content adaptation, security and privacy issues, and mobile payment mechanisms. For more information: http://www.wmcs2005.org/

UM 05 workshop on Personalisation for e-Health		by Guardini
Workshop on Personalisation for e-Health to be held in conjunction with UM 2005 Edinburgh, UK, July 2005 The past years have witnessed unprecedented levels of investment in the e-Health sector, both in terms of research effort, and in terms of funding, as well as a great public interest. e-Health can be broadly defined as the application of IT (especially Internet technologies) to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of any processes (clinical and business alike) related to health care. In the e-Health vision, intelligent systems would, for example, enable: * citizens to take more control of their well-being, by accessing personalised and qualified health information, both medical and pedagogical, and accessing appropriate medical care from their homes; * health professionals to manage their activity more efficiently, by receiving relevant and timely updates; and * teams of health professionals to work together more effectively, coordinating their activities, sharing their knowledge about the patients they are collectively taking care of, and ensuring the best coordinated care is provided. More information here: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/UM05-eHealth/

UM'05 WORKSHOP on Decentralized, Agent Based and Social Approaches to User Modelling (DASUM)		by Guardini
UM'05 WORKSHOP on Decentralized, Agent Based and Social Approaches to User Modelling (DASUM) July 25,26, or 29, 2005, Edinburgh Time is ripe to discuss decentralized approaches to user modelling, since decentralized applications are becoming prevalent both in web-based and mobile/ ubiquitous environments. Such applications include personal guides or helpers for navigation or ambient devices, integrated web-sites (e.g. newspapers or magazines), portals (e.g. Yahoo), e-commerce web-sites (e.g. Amazon, e-Bay), or recommender sites (e.g. MovieLens). Emerging classes of such applications are loosely coupled systems. Both, web-service-based and ubiquitous computing applications can be considered as conglomerates of independent, autonomous services developed by independent parties, which have not been integrated by design, but integrate dynamically at run-time, as the need arises. A frequently used metaphor is a free-market of services where the user is a shopper that buys a larger service composed dynamically by smaller services. For example, e-learning courses assembled dynamically from independently created repositories of learning objects and tailored to the needs of a particular learner. Another area where decentralized and social approaches to user modelling are applied is the enrichment of profile data (obtained from whatever source) by information from completely unrelated sources, for example, demographic and sociographic data. An example for this is the Lifestyle Finder and its method of demographic generalization. In decentralized settings, each small player (agent, smart sensor, mobile device, learning object, application, web-service) maintains a small user model (UM) or profile, as needed for its own purposes of adaptation. These models are updated by the players sporadically, whenever they interact with users. However, the players can also talk with other players who interact with users and build their own models to exchange user information, and to be more up-to-date. In this way, through communication, the agents leverage the benefits of the efforts done by many modelers. Instead of one central model acting as a sink where the subscribed applications report their user data, or instead of having isolated models for each application, we have a community of adaptive applications sharing user information. More information at: http://www.l3s.de/~dolog/dasum/

CFP: THIRD SPECIAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA SEMANTICS - WMS05		by Guardini
THIRD SPECIAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA SEMANTICS - WMS05 June 22-24, 2005 Pisa, Italy Multimedia information retrieval is at a crossroads. It is becoming increasingly clear that multimedia information does not have a unique semantics, but exhibits multiple semantics which depend on context and use. Deriving these semantics and using them to answer user queries presents some very difficult problems for researchers. This workshop will concentrate on techniques for doing this task. More Information: http://www.kettering.edu/~pstanche/wms05homepage/wms05.html

Interact 2005 Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction		by Guardini
Interact 2005 12-16 September 2005, Rome, Italy The Interact '05 conference will highlight to both the academic and industrial world the importance of the Human-Computer Interaction area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications. http://www.interact2005.org/

ACM WEB3D 2005 Symposium		by Guardini
Come to the Tenth Annual Web3D Symposium, and focus on every aspect of 3D technologies available today on the Internet: Which industry segments are driving growth in Web Services? What are the languages and tools being used? What's the latest in human-computer interaction issues? What's the state of the art in mobile applications? The annual Web3D Symposium is the premiere event in the Web3D community, uniting researchers, developers, experimenters and content creators in a dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing or creating new 3D web technology such as X3D, VRML, MPEG4, OpenHSF, and Java3D. Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH In association with the Web3D Consortium and Eurographics Corporate Contributer: Welsh Development Agency March 29-April 1, 2005, Bangor, Wales, UK http://www.hpv.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/s2005/

Workshop on Spaces, Spatiality and Technology		by Guardini
The workshop invites papers and presentations that address any of the following perspectives on space, spatiality and technologies. Space - Geometrical and Euclidian spaces. Pure extension. Surfaces and contours.Virtual space.Spatial metaphors. Spatiality - Lived in space, personal space, public space,non-space, planned space. Technologies - Virtuality, collaborative virtual reality, hybrid spaces. Home,ubiquitous and wearable technologies .Assistive technologies. It is scheduled for the 13th and 14th of December 2004 (registration from 5pm onwards on the 12th of December) at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland and again it hopes to attract a wide and varied audience. Web site: http://www.spacespatiality.org/welcome.htm