Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Maps Based Interaction in Social
Networks (MapISNet '07)
http://www.dsi.unive.it/mapisnet07
Google Maps-based website: http://www.dsi.unive.it/mapisnet07/mapbased
Held in conjunction with INTERACT'2007
11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
September 10–14, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
http://www.interact2007.org/
Aims and goals of the workshop
In social networking maps can greatly improve the users perception of
the social environment through the visual representa-tion of other
people's social properties and of the relations inside a community.
Maps improve also interaction among users, who are able to visually
identify and relate each other. Maps are particularly useful as a
real-time representation of the social environment dynamics, and for
localizing events such as meeting, entertainement, public places,
that can affect the virtual community evolution.
Social maps occur in two categories: conceptual maps and geolocated
maps. Conceptual maps are useful for identifying social parameters
such as friendship relations, or commonalities of interests.
Geolocated maps represent the social environ-ment in relation to the
location in the real or in a virtual world.
Maps can also be the expression of a general social 'mood' of a part
of the environment, derived from example from an interpolation of
events related to the locations of the humans participating to the
social network (such as a map of the risks associated to different
areas of the city).
This one-day workshop aims at answering a number of open questions
related to the use of maps for representing the so-cial environment
and interacting with it:
- Which are the most useful social parameters that the map
representation can efficiently communicate to the users?
- Which are the social communication and interaction processes
that can be effectively improved by a map based approach?
- Which are the tools that can enable the user to seamlessly
communicate the modification of his/her social parameters?
- Which is the role of geographical versus conceptual maps in
dealing with people physical and emotional neighborhood?
- How can individual parameters be integrated and interpolated to
visualize a (possibly evolving) social 'mood' of the network?
- How can novel visualization and interaction techniques improve
the perception of the user social environment?
- How is the development of context-aware and ubiquitous systems
contributing to improve the map based interaction to discover and
access social services?
- Which are the privacy concerns related to the representation of
the social environment?
- While most people agree that individual data should not be
shared without the user consent, what about the commu-nication
through a graphical map of the social mood of a certain environment?
Topics
The workshop addresses both theoretical and practical issues related
to the above questions, providing an opportunity to discuss both the
state-of-the art and the expectations in the definition and use of
maps for social interaction. Relevant topics include (but are not
limited to):
- Models for visualization of social networks
- Map design and visualization
- Social parameters representation
- Geolocated representation of social information
- Abstract vs. location-based representation
- Tools for map interaction
- Mobile and personal devices
- Multimodal map interaction
- Map annotation
- Cultural diversity in map representation
- Context-aware support for map interaction
- Map based interaction and communication tools
- Privacy and security issues
Paper submission
Submissions are solicited as full papers describing completed work
(up to 5,000 words) or position papers (up to 2,000 words).
Submissions will be evaluated according to relevance, originality,
ability to represent different perspectives on the theme and to
generate discussions between the participants. The paper format must
follow the Springer LNCS format. Papers should be submitted in PDF
format through the workshop submission site (in preparation).
Submission implies the willing-ness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper.
Important dates
Abstract submission: June 22, 2007
Paper submission: June 29, 2007
Acceptance notification: August 6, 2007
Camera ready: August 25, 2007
Workshop: September 10 or 11, 2007
Proceedings
Informal proceedings will be posted on the workshop web site and
distributed to attendees. Revised versions of the papers will be
published as post-workshop proceedings by Springer Verlag in HCI
Series (approval pending).
Workshop Co-Chairs
Augusto Celentano
Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Informatica
e-mail auce @dsi.unive.it
Piero Mussio
Universita' di Milano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione
e-mail mussio @dico.unimi.it
Fabio Pittarello
Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Informatica
e-mail pitt @dsi.unive.it
Programme Committee (to be extended)
Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer Institut for Intelligent Analysis and
Information Systems, Germany
Yiwei Cao, University of Aachen, Germany
Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research, USA
Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Elisa Giaccardi, University of Colorado, USA
Athula Ginige, University of Western Sidney, Australia
Robert Laurini, INSA de Lyon, France
Mark T. Maybury, MITRE Corporation, USA
Esteban Zimanyi, ULB, Belgium
Contact
MapISNet'07 Scientific Secretary
Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Informatica
e-mail [log in to unmask]
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Augusto Celentano
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia
+39 041 2348425, [log in to unmask], www.dsi.unive.it/~auce
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