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Call for Papers WoHCI 2009

Seattle,Washington, July 20 - July 24, 2009 
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Agency in Media Networks

In conjunction with the 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software 
and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2009) Workshop on Human Computer 
Interaction (WoHCI 2009) provides an international meeting of 
researchers to explore the fundamental synergy of community media mining 
(media network analysis, community and media co-evolution) and HCI 
technologies (usability, sociability, privacy, security and trust), thus 
defining their future roles in social networks. Media networks - 
networks of media traces left by human activities on the Web - are a hot 
topic in the Web 2.0.

Media networks are about connecting people through their media artifact 
traces. However, beyond the media artifacts are (most of the time) real 
people we know. We get information from those people and ultimately base 
our decisions on that information. The social capital in real life 
depends on many aspects, also from the physical environment. Is that 
also true for virtual worlds and online social networking environments?

The intersection of both community media mining and HCI refers to new 
areas of research about media networks, like influencing motivations and 
intentions, contagion, goal moderation, personalization, and responsiveness.

The workshop bridges the needs of the recent media networks with best 
practices from HCI. Media networks have forever changed the way people 
interact with each other. Currently, we experience another dramatic 
change with new requirements for HCI. We have to adapt and apply 
available techniques as well as develop new means for defining relevant 
models of community interaction in the Web 2.0. The challenges for HCI 
are recognizing the impact of new media technologies on large web-based 
communities and their behavior. In this context, we are looking forward 
to the contributions on the following topics (but not exclusively):

    * Community-Media Mining
    * Designing for community dynamics
    * Community-centered design processes for interactive systems
    * Usability goals: Effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction
    * Enabling technologies for community-centered learning
    * Responsive frameworks for interactive systems
    * Privacy-preserving technologies in media networks
    * Design issues in privacy and web identity support
    * Online trust in media networks
    * Technology-mediated social capital
    * User-centered models of design frameworks
       
Theme of the workshop / Context and motivation

Social networks are about connecting people. However, this purpose is 
not the even: it is about knowing people, getting new information from 
people, making decisions based on that information - all these processes 
are called socializing or derivables from socializing. The socializing 
in real life depends on environment: How cozy is a room? How are the 
surroundings interpreted? What are backgrounds for user behavior? and 
many other questions. The same reflects on virtual life. Success of 
technology depends on its design. The rate of interactivity of software 
influences on quantity and quality of human interactions. The way social 
networks are constructed controls the audience of these, e.g. Facebook 
members are mostly personalities with degrees starting from B.Sc. and 
Myspace members are teenagers and artistic volks. "What design for 
sociability is appropriate for this or that situation" is one of the 
important points to understand during social networks mining.
 
Program Committee

Jacob Biehl, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, California, USA
Kursat Cagiltay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Luis Castro, University of Manchester, UK 
Tom Erikson, IBM's Watson Labs, USA 
Darren Gergle, Northwestern University, USA
Denis Gillet, EPFL, Switzerland
Wolfgang Graether, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Anna Hannemann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Davinia Hernandez-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Michal Jacovi, IBM Haifa, Israel
Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester, UK
Wendy Moncur, University of Aberdeen, UK
Felix Mödritscher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Gary Olson, University of California, Irvin, USA
Kai Pata, Tartu University, Estonia
Peter Sloep, Open University of The Nederlands, The Netherlands
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Lucia Terrenghi, Vodafone Group Research & Development, Germany


Important Dates

March  7, 2009  Workshop paper submission due 12 p.m. (CET)
April  10, 2009   Workshop paper notification (electronic)
April  30, 2009    All final manuscript and author pre-registration due

Submission

Both draft and camera-ready papers must be submitted electronically via 
the WOHCI2009 Submission Page. Manuscripts will be limited to *six 
*pages for regular/invited paper, four pages for short paper, two pages 
for fast abstract and position statement including all figures, tables, 
and references. Extra page charges apply. Please consult COMPSAC Paper 
Submission page for proper naming convention. The format of submitted 
papers must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines (i.e., 
8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF: instruct.pdf; DOC: instruct.doc); 
Layout Guide (PDF: format.pdf; DOC: format.doc; all under 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/).

All accepted papers will be published in the electronic conference 
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI 
Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically 
included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of 
each accepted paper must register as a full participant of COMPSAC for 
the paper to be included in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be 
presented in person by an author.

Workshop Organizers

Alev Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus
Zinayida Petrushyna, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Katja Kurdyukova, University of Augsburg, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Eastern Mediterranean University 


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