From aylin.ilhan at hhu.de Sun Oct 1 14:50:20 2017 From: aylin.ilhan at hhu.de (Aylin Ilhan) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:50:20 +0200 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Collecting Signatures for the Formation of the New Special Interest Group Social Media (ASIS&T) Message-ID: <95175AF7-A66D-48B3-8761-86F079FEF74D@hhu.de> Dear friends, my name is Aylin Ilhan, co-chair of the European Student Chapter and one of the new leaders of this year. Together, with Emil Levine, Isabelle Dorsch, Kaja J. Fietkiewicz and Wasim Ahmed, we are planning a new ASIS&T SIG: SIG Social Media and need now your help! In short: You?re on the spot! We attached the Special Interest Group (SIG) Social Media (SM) application proposal. If you say: "Hey, this is very awesome and I would like to support the formation of this new SIG? then please fill out the following formula: https://form.jotformeu.com/72153594954364 Furthermore, if you are interested to join in please feel free to write an email to aylin.ilhan[@]hhu.de Cheers Aylin Ilhan ------------------------------------------------- Aylin Ilhan, B.A., B.A., M.A. Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Bldg 24.53, Level 01, Room 88 Universit?tsstra?e 1 D-40225 D?sseldorf, Germany Tel. +49 211 81-11810 https://www.isi.hhu.de/ilhan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Special Interest Group (SIG) Social Media (SM) application proposal.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 138181 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xyuan at albany.edu Mon Oct 16 10:40:16 2017 From: xyuan at albany.edu (Yuan, Xiaojun) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:40:16 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] call for workshop and tutorials: CHIIR 2018, due 10/22 Message-ID: There is still time to submit your proposals to ACM CHIIR (Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval)! Submissions of workshops and tutorials (4 pages) are open through October 22. CHIIR (pronounced ?cheer?) provides a forum for the dissemination and discussion of research on the user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval. Find more information about CHIIR here: http://sigir.org/chiir2018/ Workshops: Original Workshop Proposals (4 pages) should be highly interactive and could be either full-day or half-day. We welcome workshops that address important issues, discuss potential solutions, integrate various approaches, and offer innovative perspectives within the themes of the conference and have strong potential to contribute to the evolution of research and development of human computer interaction and information retrieval. Tutorials: Proposals for Tutorials (4 pages) should address topics relevant to the themes of the conference and could be either full-day or half-day. Each proposal is expected to cover the selected topic in depth by providing the audience with different perspectives, approaches, and recent developments and advances in the community. The accepted Workshops and Tutorials will be included in the conference proceedings. Important Dates October 22, 2017 ? Workshops and Tutorials proposals due December 15, 2017 - Notification of acceptance Submission Guidelines * CHIIR submissions should be original, high quality research that has not been published previously and are not under review for another conference or journal. * An international program committee will review all submissions. * All reviews will be double-blind, so submissions must be fully anonymized when submitted. * The page limits (4 pages) for each type of submission includes references. * All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF. * All accepted submissions will be made available in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CHIIR series. * Submissions should not contain any author identification and should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system. 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