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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western">Apologies for
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Call for Submissions<br class="">
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Special Issue of the<br class="">
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems<br class="">
on BIG PERSONAL DATA IN INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS<br
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Main submission deadline: July 14th, 2015<br class="">
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<a href="http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html" class="">http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html</a><br
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AIMS AND SCOPE<br class="">
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Increasingly vast amounts of data about people's interaction with<br
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the social and physical world are generated when people use<br
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social media, personal tracking devices, and the internet of<br
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things. How can big personal data be collected, analyzed, and<br
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exploited so as to provide new or improved forms of interaction<br
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with intelligent systems; and what new issues have to be taken<br
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into account?<br class="">
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The question of how to process big personal data is challenging<br
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because of their sheer quantity, their heterogeneous and<br
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sometimes contradictory nature, and the large semantic distance<br
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between the data and the conclusions that can be drawn from them.<br
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Big personal data can serve users in various novel ways, but the<br
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question of what goals to pursue and how to pursue them is<br
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open-ended and not easy to answer.<br class="">
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Exploiting big personal data in interactive systems raises a<br
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range of questions concerning usability and acceptance, ranging<br
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from privacy issues to those of system comprehensibility and<br
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controllability.<br class="">
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This special issue aims to publish the best current work on<br
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questions like these, not only presenting technical solutions but<br
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also discussing explicitly the consequences of these solutions<br
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for users of interactive intelligent systems, from both a design<br
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and an engineering point of view.<br class="">
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TOPIC DIMENSIONS<br class="">
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The following topic dimensions indicate the range of work that is<br
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relevant to the special issue. Each dimension is a question that<br
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can be asked about a possible submission to the special issue,<br
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accompanied by several possible answers to that question. A<br
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manuscript is probably relevant to the special issue if you can<br
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give meaningful answers to most of these questions (including<br
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possibly answers that are not listed here).<br class="">
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What is the origin of the big personal data considered in this<br
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work?<br class="">
- Users' behavior on social media sites<br class="">
- Users' traces (e.g., comments) and microtraces (e.g., likes)<br
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left on the web<br class="">
- People's use of wearable monitoring devices<br class="">
- Users' interaction with objects that are part of the internet<br
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of things<br class="">
- ...<br class="">
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What benefits of big personal data processing for end users are<br
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considered in this work?<br class="">
- Support for users' choice and decision making<br class="">
- New forms of personalization<br class="">
- Prediction of user trajectories (e.g., with regard to career,<br
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health, or activities)<br class="">
- Novel services (e.g., concerning smart buildings or intelligent<br
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transportation systems) that require big personal data<br
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- ...<br class="">
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What issues of usability and acceptance are considered?<br
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- Users' understanding of how big personal data are processed<br
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- Predictability and comprehensibility of interactive system<br
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behavior<br class="">
- New forms of privacy threat<br class="">
- Suitability of novel input methods for collecting big personal<br
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data<br class="">
- Suitability of methods for visualizing big personal data<br
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- ...<br class="">
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What user-related challenges in terms of computing technology are<br
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addressed?<br class="">
- How to combine historical and streaming big personal data<br
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- How to personalize the collection and storage of big personal<br
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data<br class="">
- How to capture the semantics of big personal data<br class="">
- ...<br class="">
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SPECIAL ISSUE ASSOCIATE EDITORS<br class="">
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- Federica Cena, University of Turin (cena[at]<a
href="http://di.unito.it" class="">di.unito.it</a>)<br class="">
- Cristina Gena, University of Turin (gena[at]<a
href="http://di.unito.it" class="">di.unito.it</a>)<br class="">
- Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology<br class="">
(g.j.p.m.houben[at]<a href="http://tudelft.nl" class="">tudelft.nl</a>)<br
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- Markus Strohmaier, GESIS and University of Koblenz-Landau<br
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(strohmaier[at]<a href="http://uni-koblenz.de" class="">uni-koblenz.de</a>)<br
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IMPORTANT DATES<br class="">
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- By July 14th, 2015: Submission of manuscripts<br class="">
- By October 12th, 2015: Notification about decisions on initial<br
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submissions<br class="">
- By January 10th, 2016: Submission of revised manuscripts<br
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- By March 10th, 2016: Notification about decisions on revised<br
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manuscripts<br class="">
- By April 9th, 2016: Submission of manuscripts with final<br
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minor changes<br class="">
- By May, 2016: Announcement of accepted articles on the TiiS<br
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website<br class="">
- July, 2016: Publication of accepted articles in the ACM Digital<br
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Library<br class="">
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Except for the initial submission deadline, these dates are<br
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indicative rather than definitive. Some submissions will be<br
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processed more quickly, while others may require more reviewing<br
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and revision. Each accepted article will be announced on the TiiS<br
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website shortly after its acceptance and published in the ACM<br
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Digital Library within 2-3 months, even if other articles for the<br
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special issue are not yet ready for publication.<br class="">
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HOW TO SUBMIT<br class="">
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Please see the instructions for authors on the TiiS website<br
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(<a href="http://tiis.acm.org" class="">http://tiis.acm.org</a>).<br
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<br class="">
ABOUT ACM TiiS<br class="">
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TiiS (pronounced "T double-eye S"), is an ACM journal for<br
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research about intelligent systems that people interact with.<br
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Federica Cena, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor - Researcher
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy
Phone +39 0116706779
Fax +39 011751603
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cena@di.unito.it">cena@di.unito.it</a>
web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.di.unito.it/~cena/">www.di.unito.it/~cena/</a>
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Federica Cena, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor - Researcher
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy
Phone +39 0116706779
Fax +39 011751603
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cena@di.unito.it">cena@di.unito.it</a>
web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.di.unito.it/~cena/">www.di.unito.it/~cena/</a>
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