From hrosenba at indiana.edu Thu Jan 5 10:37:27 2017 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:37:27 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] AMCIS 2017> STIR Call for Papers Message-ID: <031175CD-0CAE-4D56-9CCD-9435352ECD5A@indiana.edu> Call for Papers: 23nd Americas Conference on Information Systems August 10 - 12, 2017, Boston, MA, USA http://amcis2017.aisnet.org Dear all, The following call for abstracts may be of interest to list members. Call for abstracts for *Data Power 2017* - Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), June 22, 2017 ? June 23, 2017 - Please submit a 250 word abstract by *Friday 3rd February*: https://ocs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/datapower/datapower2017 Following the successful Data Power 2015 Conference held in Sheffield, Data Power 2017 will take forward critical debates relating to data?s ever more ubiquitous power. The following keynote speakers have been confirmed: - Helen Nissenbaum , New York University, co-author of Obfuscation: A User?s Guide to Privacy and Protest with Finn Brunton (2015), and PI of the Values in Design project; - Paul N.Edwards , University of Michigan, author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010); - Stefania Milan , University of Amsterdam, author of *Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change* (2016), and PI of the DATACTIVE project; - Frank Pasquale , University of Maryland, author of *The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information *(2015). Increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, data are constituted through converging technologies and practices such as the internet of things, smart cities, drones and precision agriculture; global finance, credit scoring and data brokerage firms; surveillance, predictive policing and customer relation management systems, to name a few. Data are also generated by and flow through applications, software, platforms, and infrastructures that reshape how we play, work, eat, socialise, see ourselves, and know the world. In an era of data power, data have become agentic, especially when input into black-boxed algorithms and systems whose outputs are used to profile and sort us, influence the political economy, and for purposes for which no consent was given. Is this a 'fait accompli'? To answer this question, the Data Power 2017 conference asks: How can we reclaim some form of data-based power and autonomy, and advance data-based technological citizenship, while living in regimes of data power? Is it possible to regain agency and mobilize data for the common good? To do so, which theories help to interrogate and make sense of the operations of data power? What kind of design frameworks are needed to build and deploy data-based technologies with values and ethics that are equitable and fair? How can big data be mobilized to improve how we live, beyond notions of efficiency and innovation? This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data?s ever more ubiquitous power. Papers and panel topics are invited on the following - and other relevant - topics: - The political economy of data - Data and journalism - Theorising data - The politics of data visualisation - Data labour - The social life of data and data-driven methods - The politics of open and linked data - Data-driven governance, surveillance and control - Data, discrimination and inequality - Social, ethical and legal issues - Data citizens - Data activism, citizen engagement and advocacy - Data, genealogy and power - Data power and violence - Critical, cultural and feminist approaches to data - Resistance, agency and appropriation If you wish to submit an abstract, please visit the following website: https://ocs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/datapower/datapower2017. Best wishes, The Data Power Conference team *Tracey, Helen, Jo, Ganaele, Ysabel *& * Merlyna Tracey P. Lauriault and Merlyna Lim, Carletion University Helen Kennedy and Jo Bates, Sheffield University Ganaele Langlois, York University Ysabel Gerrard, Leeds University * DataPower2017 at gmail.com -- Dr Jo Bates Lecturer in Information Politics and Policy Co-Editor of Online Information Review Digital Societies Research Group Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 236, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP +44 (0)114 222 2648 Find us on Facebook , follow us on Twitter , read our latest news on our Blog and join our community on LinkedIn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From worrall at ualberta.ca Thu Jan 26 12:49:57 2017 From: worrall at ualberta.ca (Adam Worrall) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:49:57 -0700 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Congrats to new SIG SI co-chairs Kalpana Shankar and Eric Meyer! Message-ID: Hi all, with apologies for the delay in this announcement, and on behalf of Kristin Eschenfelder and myself (as the ASIS&T SIG SI Elections Committee), I am happy to announce that Kalpana Shankar and Eric Meyer have been elected as co-chairs of SIG SI through the end of the ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting. Please offer (off-list) your congratulations to them. Your 2016-17 SIG SI officers are: Co-chairs: Kalpana Shankar (UC-Dublin) and Eric Meyer (Oxford Internet Institute) Secretary: Emad Khazraee (Kent State) Treasurer: Noriko Hara (Indiana) Communications: Hillary Stark (North Texas) Social Chair: Adam Worrall (Alberta) Awards Coordinator: Kristin Eschenfelder (Wisconsin - Madison) Thanks also to outgoing co-chairs Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Fichman for their great service to the SIG over the years. And congrats from Kristin and myself to you, Kalpana and Eric - look forward to working with you! 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Jan 31 07:56:19 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:56:19 +0200 Subject: [Sigtis-l] 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Call for Participation Message-ID: ** Call for Participation *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTIybmQgQUNNIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBJbnRlbGxpZ2VudCBVc2VyIEludGVyZmFjZXMgKElVSSAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkyMglMaXN0cwkxODUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017 *** Early Registration Deadline: February 7, 2017 *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned?5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. The conference venue is the well known 5* beach hotel St. Raphael Resort, situated on one of the largest Blue Flag accredited beaches, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away (http://www.raphael.com.cy). The Larnaca International Airport is 35 minutes away, and Paphos International Airport is 55 minutes away. There are shops, restaurants and bars within walking distance and a bus stop exactly outside the hotel. The conference organizers have secured very competitive rates for accommodation, both at the venue hotel as well as a number of other hotels at close distance (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTIybmQgQUNNIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBJbnRlbGxpZ2VudCBVc2VyIEludGVyZmFjZXMgKElVSSAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkyMglMaXN0cwkxODUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/accommodation.html). In addition, the conference organization offers airport transfers to and from the hotels at very reasonable prices. This year IUI attracted an overwhelming number of submissions for all types of contributions (papers, posters, demos, etc.). The list of accepted contributions can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTIybmQgQUNNIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBJbnRlbGxpZ2VudCBVc2VyIEludGVyZmFjZXMgKElVSSAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkyMglMaXN0cwkxODUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/accepted.html . The program will consist of paper presentations, posters and demos sessions, a Student Consortium and several workshops and tutorials. This exciting program will be further enhanced with 3 keynotes by the Distinguisheed ACM Speaker Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology), George Samaras (University of Cyprus) and Shumin Zhai (Google). The technical program will be complemented with a rich social program, including a welcome reception and a conference dinner at a local traditional Greek taverna with live entertainment. We cordially invite you to attend IUI 2017 and the co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is open (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTIybmQgQUNNIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBJbnRlbGxpZ2VudCBVc2VyIEludGVyZmFjZXMgKElVSSAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkyMglMaXN0cwkxODUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/registration.html). Committees General Chairs ? Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs ? Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia ? Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal ? Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTIybmQgQUNNIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBJbnRlbGxpZ2VudCBVc2VyIEludGVyZmFjZXMgKElVSSAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkyMglMaXN0cwkxODUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiui.acm.org%2F2017/pco.html Posters/Demos Chairs ? Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia ? Denis Parra. PUC, Chile ? Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs ? Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia ? Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs ? Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA ? Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs ? Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK ? Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs ? Daniel Sonntag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) ? Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair ? Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Master ? Marios Christou, Easy Conferences, Cyprus ? Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: