[ecrea] CFP CrossWorlds Conference

Call for Papers (Extended)

Update 1: Deadline extended – please submit your abstracts (500 words 
minimum) until February 28th.
Update 2: We are proud to present the keynote speakers for our conference!
CROSSWORLDS: THEORY, DEVELOPMENT,&  EVALUATION OF SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY

30th June and July 1st, 2014
Chemnitz, Germany

Chemnitz University of Technology
www.tu-chemnitz.de
www.crossworlds.info/conference

Organizers: Research Training Group Crossworlds, Department of Computer 
Science, and Institute for Media Research


We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit short papers to 
CrossWorlds 2014, the 1st international conference on theory, 
development, and evaluation of social technology. Social technologies 
include both technologies that directly interact with users (e.g. social 
robots, virtual agents, assistance systems) and technologies that 
facilitate the interaction between two or more users (e.g. computer 
mediated communication, multiplayer games, multitouch tables).

Digital technologies have become an inherent part of our society, thus 
evolving into social actors themselves. This development changed the 
focus of research from questioning the general potential of technologies 
to more specific issues. Research from different disciplines addresses 
topics from modeling social aspects of technology to the design of 
human-computer interfaces. Following these focused approaches, it 
becomes even more important to understand the emerging connections 
between users, contexts and social technologies.

The conference addresses this issue and provides a platform for vital 
discussions about different aspects of social technology. To enable a 
broad debate on the subject, approaches from various disciplines, 
methods and perspectives are encouraged. Presentations may feature 
algorithms, technology, implemented systems, empirical research, and 
theoretical considerations.


Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
•    What makes social technology social and intelligent and which 
procedures can be employed?
•    How can we model social behavior theoretically and practically?
•    Do we need new methods? How can we assess social interaction in the 
context of technology usage and development?
•    Which methodological approaches are appropriate for evaluation? Can 
social technology evaluate itself?
•    How can we account for ethical issues as well as non-affirmative 
and critical approaches in HCI?
•    How can social technology be employed to catalyze interaction 
between users in non-virtual space?
•    How can the design of social technology be carried out 
interdisciplinarily?
•    How do developers’ tacit knowledge and concepts of sociality affect 
the design of social technologies?
•    How do different degrees of virtuality shape social interaction?
•    How can social technology motivate user interaction and interaction 
between users (e.g. gamification, proxemics, mobile interaction)?
•    How can virtual and augmented reality be designed to create 
(virtual) sociality?
•    How can social technology account for user needs? In which ways can 
systems act proactively?
•    How can we shape user experience of social technologies? How 
important is it for social technology to be entertaining?
•    How can computer based learning be facilitated by social technologies?

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite you to submit short papers (PDF, between 10.000-25.000 
characters including spaces, figure captions, but excluding references) 
to the program committee ((crossworlds2014 /at/ tu-chemnitz.de)) no later than 
31.01.2014. The submissions will be subject to peer reviews. Please make 
sure, that you remove any author information including author names and 
references as well as acknowledgments and funding information. However, 
you should send your author and contact information on a separate cover 
page for the program committee.
Papers should make absolutely clear what the current status of the 
proposed work is. A preference is given to finished work ready for 
presentation (note: this also includes theoretical/conceptual papers, if 
the concept itself is the main subject of presentation). By submitting a 
paper the authors agree to personally present their research at the 
conference.
Conference Papers will not be published/indexed, but are electronically 
distributed to the conference attendees. However, selected papers will 
be invited to extend their papers to full papers to be published in an 
edited collection of the conference proceedings.
Please use the IEEE template for your submission. Further information on 
the paper layout can be found 
here:http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html


DEADLINES
CFP-Deadline (extended): 28.02.14
Notification of acceptance: 31.03.14
Camera-Ready-Deadline:       13.04.14
Conference:                  30.06./01.07.14

ORGANIZING CHAIRS
Andreas Bischof ((andreas.bischof /at/ phil.tu-chemnitz.de))
Benny Liebold ((benny.liebold /at/ phil.tu-chemnitz.de))

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Michael Teichmann ((michael.teichmann /at/ informatik.tu-chemnitz.de))
Michael Heidt ((michael.heidt /at/ informatik.tu-chemnitz.de))

For more detailed information, please visit www.crossworlds.info/conference

We look forward to meeting you in Chemnitz!

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