From ajmillion at gmail.com Sat Jul 1 20:19:17 2017 From: ajmillion at gmail.com (A.J. Million) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 19:19:17 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] ASIS&T '17, SIG IEP Workshop Call for Participation Message-ID: *Call for Participation*: The New Information State: How Information Ethics and Policy Affects Everyone, sponsored by SIG-IEP, ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Crystal City, Virginia *Date*: October 28, 2017 *Abstract*: In today?s milieu of fake news, misinformation, and generalized distrust of institutions, information ethics and policy affects everyone, across different information science research areas. In this workshop, we will analyze these changes to the informational state and discuss how we can address them through three themes: *pedagogy for information ethics and policy*, *engagement with policymakers*, and *information ethics and policy across information science*. Workshop participants are encouraged to participate in a variety of ways and will leave the workshop with tangible products that can be used in research and teaching. *Contributions*: For the workshop, we seek several different types of contributions: - Panel: A panel should incorporate two of the themes (see below, under workshop organization) and each panel is encouraged to include at least one person outside academia. Panels should be explicit about which themes are addressed and include a brief biography of each contributor. - Paper: A paper should address one of the themes (see below) in detail, tying it back to the broader discussion of the changed information state. Papers should be 3500-5000 words. - Speaker: We seek volunteers to synthesize these themes (see below) and address potential big-picture implications of these trends. Those interested in being a featured speaker should submit a c.v. and a brief essay (under 5000 words) on these themes. *The deadline for all contributions is 8/18*. Contributions should be emailed to Shannon Oltmann at shannon.oltmann at uky.edu. Contact Shannon Oltmann with any questions. Read the full workshop proposal here . -- *?A.J. Million?, Ph.D.* Media Center Director, Drury University Review my professional portfolio: *www.amillion.us * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Wed Jul 5 06:35:56 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:35:56 +0300 Subject: [Sigtis-l] 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017): Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <2DRFPYOK-J8OB-0K2I-G1TC-JX5T2VVYQJFA@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** Last Call for Papers *** 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning mLearn 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 30 October - 1 November, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTE2dGggV29ybGQgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBNb2JpbGUgYW5kIENvbnRleHR1YWwgTGVhcm5pbmcgKG1MZWFybiAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTE0CUxpc3RzCTE3NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP (proceedings in ACM ICPS) *** Submission Deadline: 20th July 2017 (extended and final) *** The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world's largest international conference on mLearning and emerging ambient technologies. Conference Themes The overarching conference theme is 'mLearning and Design for Social Change and Innovation'. Higher education institutions are called upon to provide for the competencies and skills that foster design for social change and innovation. In addition, knowledge and skills alliances are encouraged by funding bodies to cultivate, share and disseminate competencies that foster social entrepreneurship and innovation. However, little is known on how mlearning can facilitate this process, how it can contribute towards social change, innovation and entrepreneurship. The topics of interest can go beyond the conference theme, and can include any of the following: ? The development, deployment and implementation of mlearning in the context of social entrepreneurship, innovation and social change ? mLearning as a tool that fosters social change and social entrepreneurship ? Innovations in mlearning theory and pedagogy ? From pilot projects to mainstream implementation: strategies for the deployment of mLearning ? Mobile technology to support open and distance learning ? Mobile technology for teaching and learning support ? Assessment techniques and practices in mLearning ? Design and development of learning material for mLearning ? Learning objects and metadata for mLearning ? Informal and lifelong learning with the aid of mobile technologies ? Challenges for mLearning in developing countries ? Building and implementing mLearning strategies in educational institutions, companies and public sector organisations ? mLearning management systems (mLMSs) ? Computer tablets ? Creating interactive and collaborative mLearning environments ? Future trends in mLearning technology, including the impact of emerging technologies ? Emerging hardware and software for mLearning including wearable technologies ? Location-aware technologies ? Contextual and situated learning ? Augmented reality ? Serious gaming and simulations ? Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous learning Submission Information The conference solicits regular papers (no more than 8 pages), short papers (no more than 4 pages), as well as posters (no more than 2 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or poster. All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates ? Submission Deadline for Conference Papers: 20 July 2017 (firm) ? Accept/Reject Notification for Conference Papers: 28 August 2017 ? Camera-Ready Submission of all Papers: 11 September 2017 Information on registration categories and registration fees for the mLearn 2017 is available online at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTE2dGggV29ybGQgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBNb2JpbGUgYW5kIENvbnRleHR1YWwgTGVhcm5pbmcgKG1MZWFybiAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTE0CUxpc3RzCTE3NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F. Organization General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Fernando Loizides, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom ? Nicos Souleles, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTE2dGggV29ybGQgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBNb2JpbGUgYW5kIENvbnRleHR1YWwgTGVhcm5pbmcgKG1MZWFybiAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMJMTE0CUxpc3RzCTE3NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2Fcommittees.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eschenfelder at wisc.edu Fri Jul 7 13:24:11 2017 From: eschenfelder at wisc.edu (Kristin Eschenfelder) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:24:11 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] reminder social informatics paper and best student paper award due July 10 Message-ID: Reminder! Call for nominations for the annual Social Informatics Best Paper Awards Nominations due July 10, 2017 Self-nominations encouraged The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) is seeking nominations for the following annual awards: Best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2016 calendar year: The author or authors will receive a $1,000 cash award and will be invited to present their paper at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Washington DC in late October, 2017. Best paper written by a PhD student on a topic informed by social informatics: Nominations for the PhD student paper may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal or a conference proceedings in the 2016 calendar year. The winners will receive a $500 cash award and will be invited to present their work at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Washington DC in October 2017. Nomination statements for both awards should be sent to Kristin Eschenfelder by July 10, 2017 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and an e-copy of the article. Self-nominations are encouraged. Winners will be notified in mid-August. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/ For past award winners see: https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/awards/ Kristin R. Eschenfelder Director and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor SLIS, the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison eschenfelder at wisc.edu 608-263-2105 608-263-2900 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk Wed Jul 12 15:29:55 2017 From: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk (Eric Meyer) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:29:55 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: SIG-SI Research Symposium on the Social Informatics of Knowledge (ASIS&T '17) 28 Oct 2017 Message-ID: <7B20F8B67F0AB44DBC01992D28122CCF856DE4@MBX04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Please circulate widely! Call for Papers and Participation The 13th Annual Social Informatics (SIG-SI) Research Symposium: The Social Informatics of Knowledge https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/the-13th-annual-social-informatics-sig-si-research-symposium-the-social-informatics-of-knowledge/ ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (https://www.asist.org/am17/) Saturday 28 October 2017 from 8:30 - 12:30 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA Submissions Due: 15 August 2017 We are soliciting papers on the Social Informatics of Knowledge for a pre-conference ASIST workshop. Specifically, we are looking for extended abstracts and papers that advance the concepts, methods and theories that support the social informatics perspective. Social informatics is the study of the connections among people and the technologies they use is a lens to understand a wide variety of topics linked by a recognition of the "integration of information and communication technologies into organizations...[which has] now spread from organizations...[into] people's social lives" (Fichman & Rosenbaum, 2014, p. x). We are particularly keen to see submissions that look at questions about how knowledge - broadly conceived - can be better understood when we look at the social contexts in which knowledge is created, generated, organized, shared, and used. Kling (2000) pointed out that in socio-technical models of ICT in society, "...knowledge and expertise are inherently tacit/implicit..." (p. 220) as opposed to explicit: all too often, the processes of knowledge generation and discovery are hidden behind (or within a black box of) technology. There is obviously considerable research on knowledge in a variety of outlets (see Hislop, 2013 for a comprehensive review). This said, many of these focus on specific practices of knowledge management and are often constrained to the realms of formal organizations (Grant, 2011) instead of the broader socio-technical questions of how knowledge practices are embedded within and enabled by technical systems. Ackerman, Dachtera, Pipek, and Wulf (2013) in their survey of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) highlight the development of our understanding of knowledge and information in organizations. By way of comparison, Hara and Fichman (2014) argue that we can use social informatics and the concept of boundaries to better understand knowledge sharing in the social media space, while Auernhammer and Hall (2014) focus on how leadership and social conditions within organizations are reflected in knowledge creation processes. We seek submissions that extend our understanding of how we can better explain knowledge practices by looking at the connections between people and technologies, which we have elsewhere called 'examining the hyphen' in the socio-technical sphere (Meyer, 2014) that represents the connections of the social to the technical. Interested participants are also encouraged to look at Kling's foundational paper on the nature of the entanglement between the social and the technical in which he wrote that social informatics is "the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts" (Kling, 2007, p. 205). We expect an engaging discussion, with expert feedback on papers and lively interactions with the audience. The topics of this workshop and associated special issue include, but are not limited to, social informatics empirical research and/or theory development in the areas of: * Knowledge: o Creation o Dissemination o Screening / filtering o Validation / authentication o Consumption o Impact * Knowledge generation and sharing platforms o Online knowledge spaces o Changing knowledge standards in news and politics * Novel approaches to knowledge generation, including: o Big data approaches o Machine learning o Computational models o Topic discovery o Scientific workflows * Knowledge discovery techniques, including: o Corpora-based information extraction o Data mining o Data visualization and other exploratory efforts o Trace data collection o Multiple methods * Collaborative scientific practices, including: o The roles of groups/teams/collectives in knowledge generation o Group memory and knowledge sharing o Distributed scientific collaboration o Knowledge and innovation Special Issue of JASIST: The ASIST pre-conference workshop will serve as an optional paper development workshop for a special issue of JASIST on Social Informatics (final submission due January 15 2018). Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to present their papers-in-development for feedback and discussion, and will also have the opportunity to discuss how social informatics can be embedded in their work. Special issue co-editors Eric T. Meyer, Kalpana Shankar, and Steve Sawyer will be on hand and give feedback to individual paper presenters. A half-hour mini-workshop will end the symposium, with information both on the special issue procedures and goals and more general information on successful publishing in JASIS&T and elsewhere. Authors who wish to take full advantage of the opportunity for mentoring and feedback on their papers are encouraged to submit optional full or draft papers by 15 October. NOTE: Authors who are unable to attend the workshop will not be disadvantaged - all papers will go through a full peer review process to decide which papers to include in the special issue. The workshop is designed to help those who want some guidance that might not be as readily available locally to have access to the expertise they need to develop their papers or just want some extra feedback before submitting. For more information on the planned special issue, see https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/jasist-special-issue-on-the-social-informatics-of-knowledge/. Call for papers and posters: Please submit an extended abstract of up to 750 words by August 15, 2017 with author names, affiliations, and contact information with 'SIG-SI Workshop' in the subject line to Kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie and eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk. Accepted extended abstracts will be shared with other workshop participants. Papers that explicitly advance social informatics concepts, theories, or methods will be given priority in the review process. Acceptance announcements will be made by September 1, 2017 in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 15). Late submissions up to Sept 30 will be considered on a rolling basis, and will only be accepted if there is still space in the program. We aim to have an interactive workshop to enable the fullest exchange of ideas amongst attendees. For this reason, we encourage participants from both SIG-SI members and non-members, and enthusiastically support attendance and participation even if you don't have a paper to present. Tentative Schedule The workshop is scheduled for Saturday 28 October 2017 from 8:30 - 12:30 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA. Opening keynote: 8:30-9:00 Paper presentations & feedback: 9:00-10:30 Paper awards, followed by coffee break: 10:30-11:00 Paper presentations & feedback: 11:00-11:30 Closing keynote: 11:30-12:00 JASIS&T special issue mini-workshop: 12:00-12:30 FEES Members: $115 Non-members $125 For more information please contact the SIG SI Research Symposium Organizers: Kalpana Shankar University College Dublin (Ireland) kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie Eric T. Meyer University of Oxford (UK) eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk Prof Eric T Meyer, University of Oxford Professor of Social Informatics & Director of Graduate Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute, London Email: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk | Web: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/eric-meyer/ | Twitter: @etmeyer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk Wed Jul 12 15:30:21 2017 From: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk (Eric Meyer) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:30:21 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: JASIST Special Issue: The Social Informatics of Knowledge Message-ID: <7B20F8B67F0AB44DBC01992D28122CCF856E6E@MBX04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Please circulate widely! Call for Papers JASIST Special Issue on "The Social Informatics of Knowledge" https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/jasist-special-issue-on-the-social-informatics-of-knowledge/ Submissions Due: 15 January 2018 In this special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (https://www.asist.org/publications/jasist/), we are calling for papers that advance the concepts, methods and theories that support the social informatics perspective. Social informatics as the study of the connections among people and the technologies they use is a lens to understand a wide variety of topics linked by a recognition of the "integration of information and communication technologies into organizations...[which has] now spread from organizations...[into] people's social lives" (Fichman & Rosenbaum, 2014, p. x). We are particularly keen to see papers that look at questions about how knowledge - broadly conceived - can be better understood when we look at the social contexts in which knowledge is created, generated, organized, shared, and used. Kling (2000) pointed out that in socio-technical models of ICT in society, "...knowledge and expertise are inherently tacit/implicit..." (p. 220) as opposed to explicit: all too often, the processes of knowledge generation and discovery are hidden behind (or within a black box of) technology. There is obviously considerable research on knowledge in a variety of outlets (see Hislop, 2013 for a comprehensive review). This said, many of these focus on specific practices of knowledge management and are often constrained to the realms of formal organizations (Grant, 2011) instead of the broader socio-technical questions of how knowledge practices are embedded within and enabled by technical systems. Ackerman, Dachtera, Pipek, and Wulf (2013) in their survey of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) highlight the development of our understanding of knowledge and information in organizations. By way of comparison, Hara and Fichman (2014) argue that we can use social informatics and the concept of boundaries to better understand knowledge sharing in the social media space, while Auernhammer and Hall (2014) focus on how leadership and social conditions within organizations are reflected in knowledge creation processes. For this special issue, we seek submissions that extend our understanding of how we can better explain knowledge practices by looking at the connections between people and technologies, which we have elsewhere called 'examining the hyphen' in the socio-technical sphere (Meyer, 2014) that represents the connections of the social to the technical. Interested authors are also encouraged to look at Kling's foundational paper on the nature of the entanglement between the social and the technical in which he wrote that social informatics is "the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts" (Kling, 2007, p. 205). Examples can be drawn from any domain or across multiple domains, but we will be particularly interested in papers which foreground this relationship between people and technology in their analysis. Topics of Interest The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to, social informatics empirical research and/or theory development in the areas of: * Knowledge: o Creation o Dissemination o Screening / filtering o Validation / authentication o Consumption o Impact * Knowledge generation and sharing platforms o Online knowledge spaces o Changing knowledge standards in news and politics * Novel approaches to knowledge generation, including: o Big data approaches o Machine learning o Computational models o Topic discovery o Scientific workflows * Knowledge discovery techniques, including: o Corpora-based information extraction o Data mining o Data visualization and other exploratory efforts o Trace data collection o Multiple methods * Collaborative scientific practices, including: o The roles of teams in knowledge generation o Team-based memory and knowledge sharing o Distributed scientific collaboration o Knowledge and innovation Submission Guidelines Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the JASIST Submission Guidelines (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2330-1643/homepage/ForAuthors.html). The complete manuscript should be submitted through JASIST's Submission System (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jasist). To insure that you submit to the correct special issue, please select "Special Issue on The Social Informatics of Knowledge" as your manuscript type. Paper Development Workshop sponsored by SIG-SI at ASIS&T 2017 On the morning of October 28, 2017, the guest editors of this special issue will host an optional paper development workshop at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology in Washington D.C. (Crystal City, Virginia), USA. At this workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the SIG-SI (the Social Informatics Special Interest Group) pre-conference research symposium, participants will be given the opportunity to present their papers-in-development for feedback and discussion, and will also have the opportunity to discuss how social informatics can be embedded in their work. Authors who are unable to attend the workshop will not be disadvantaged - all papers will go through a full peer review process to decide which papers to include in the special issue. The workshop is designed to help those who want some guidance that might not be as readily available locally to have access to the expertise they need to develop their papers. For more information on submitting your work to the workshop, see https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/the-13th-annual-social-informatics-sig-si-research-symposium-the-social-informatics-of-knowledge/. Extended abstracts of up to 750 words are due 15 August 2017, and should be submitted to kalpana.shankar at ucd.iu and eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk with 'SIG-SI Workshop' in the subject line. Submission Deadlines Paper submission due: January 15, 2018 First round review notification: April 2, 2018 Revision due: June 1, 2018 Final notification: August 15, 2018 Guest Editors Eric T. Meyer, University of Oxford, UK (eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk) (ASIS&T SIG-SI Co-Chair) Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin, Ireland (kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie) (ASIS&T SIG-SI Co-Chair) Matthew Willis, University of Oxford, UK (matthew.willis at oii.ox.ac.uk) Sarika Sharma, Syracuse University, USA (skshar01 at syr.edu) Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University, USA (ssawyer at syr.edu) References cited Ackerman, Mark S., Dachtera, Juri, Pipek, Volkmar, and Wulf, Volker. (2013). Sharing Knowledge and Expertise: The CSCW View of Knowledge Management. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 22(4), 531-573. Auernhammer, Jan and Hall, Hazel. (2014). Organizational culture in knowledge creation, creativity and innovation: Towards the Freiraum model. Journal of Information Science, 40(2), 154-166. Fichman, Pnina and Rosenbaum, Howard. (2014). Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Grant, Kenneth A. (2011). Knowledge Management: An Enduring but Confusing Fashion. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 9(2), 117-131. Hara, Noriko and Fichman, Pnina. (2014). Frameworks for Understanding Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities: Boundaries and Boundary Crossing. In Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum (Eds.), Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future (pp. 89-100). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Hislop, Donald. (2013). Knowledge management in organizations: A critical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kling, Rob. (2000). Learning About Information Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics. The Information Society, 16(3), 217-232. Kling, Rob. (2007). What Is Social Informatics and Why Does It Matter? The Information Society, 23(4), 205 - 220. Meyer, Eric T. (2014). Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching. In Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum (Eds.), Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future (pp. 57-74). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholarly Publishers. Prof Eric T Meyer, University of Oxford Professor of Social Informatics & Director of Graduate Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute, London Email: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk | Web: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/eric-meyer/ | Twitter: @etmeyer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Jul 17 05:41:18 2017 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:41:18 +0300 Subject: [Sigtis-l] 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017): Last Mile Message-ID: *** Last Mile *** 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning mLearn 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 30 October - 1 November, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTE2dGggV29ybGQgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBNb2JpbGUgYW5kIENvbnRleHR1YWwgTGVhcm5pbmcgKG1MZWFybiAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBNaWxlCTExNwlMaXN0cwkxNzYJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP (proceedings in ACM ICPS) *** Submission Deadline: 20th July 2017 (final and firm) *** The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world's largest international conference on mLearning and emerging ambient technologies. Conference Themes The overarching conference theme is 'mLearning and Design for Social Change and Innovation'. Higher education institutions are called upon to provide for the competencies and skills that foster design for social change and innovation. In addition, knowledge and skills alliances are encouraged by funding bodies to cultivate, share and disseminate competencies that foster social entrepreneurship and innovation. However, little is known on how mlearning can facilitate this process, how it can contribute towards social change, innovation and entrepreneurship. The topics of interest can go beyond the conference theme, and can include any of the following: ? The development, deployment and implementation of mlearning in the context of social entrepreneurship, innovation and social change ? mLearning as a tool that fosters social change and social entrepreneurship ? Innovations in mlearning theory and pedagogy ? From pilot projects to mainstream implementation: strategies for the deployment of mLearning ? Mobile technology to support open and distance learning ? Mobile technology for teaching and learning support ? Assessment techniques and practices in mLearning ? Design and development of learning material for mLearning ? Learning objects and metadata for mLearning ? Informal and lifelong learning with the aid of mobile technologies ? Challenges for mLearning in developing countries ? Building and implementing mLearning strategies in educational institutions, companies and public sector organisations ? mLearning management systems (mLMSs) ? Computer tablets ? Creating interactive and collaborative mLearning environments ? Future trends in mLearning technology, including the impact of emerging technologies ? Emerging hardware and software for mLearning including wearable technologies ? Location-aware technologies ? Contextual and situated learning ? Augmented reality ? Serious gaming and simulations ? Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous learning Submission Information The conference solicits regular papers (no more than 8 pages), short papers (no more than 4 pages), as well as posters (no more than 2 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or poster. All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates ? Submission Deadline for Conference Papers: 20 July 2017 (firm) ? Accept/Reject Notification for Conference Papers: 28 August 2017 ? Camera-Ready Submission of all Papers: 11 September 2017 Information on registration categories and registration fees for the mLearn 2017 is available online at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTE2dGggV29ybGQgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBNb2JpbGUgYW5kIENvbnRleHR1YWwgTGVhcm5pbmcgKG1MZWFybiAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBNaWxlCTExNwlMaXN0cwkxNzYJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2F. Organization General Chair ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ? Fernando Loizides, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom ? Nicos Souleles, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YXNpcy5vcmcgLAkJCXNpZ3Rpcy1sQGFzaXMub3JnCTE2dGggV29ybGQgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBNb2JpbGUgYW5kIENvbnRleHR1YWwgTGVhcm5pbmcgKG1MZWFybiAyMDE3KTogTGFzdCBNaWxlCTExNwlMaXN0cwkxNzYJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiamlearn.org%2Fmlearn%2Fcommittees.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kathryn.labarre at gmail.com Thu Jul 20 13:28:07 2017 From: kathryn.labarre at gmail.com (Kathryn La Barre) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:28:07 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] ASIST 80th Anniversary - request for your assistance! Message-ID: Greetings, I'm writing to you, in my capacity as Chair of the ASIST 80th Anniversary Advisory Group. This group is advising Wiley (the JASIST publisher) on their project to identify key and high impact papers in JASIST. For their part Wiley conducted a bibliometric study of highly cited papers, ranked by decade. As part of this initiative the 80thAG is soliciting nominations of JASIST papers that have been central to your own work, or to that of your SIG. Wiley realizes that articles can be quite useful without attracting citations, so we are reaching out to SIG members! In early September, all ASIST members will have a chance to vote on the most significant JASIST paper for each decade. The papers span the years 1956-2017. The outcome of this initiative will be a Wiley-hosted website that features access to select papers. ASIST members will be able to add comments and images. This website will launch during the upcoming annual meeting in Washington, DC. Please send your paper nominations (in the form of a citation) by August 15th to klabarre [at] illinois.edu -- Kathryn La Barre Director at Large, Association for Information Science and Technology Chair ASIST Anniversary Advisory Group Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: