-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] Call for papers for MSM 2011: 2nd International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (co-located with IEEE SocialCom 2011) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 04:06:10 +0000 From: alvin.chin@nokia.com Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

Hi all,

Based on the success of MSM 2010 which was held in Hypertext 2010 in Toronto, Canada (http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/MSM10/), please consider submitting to MSM 2011, the 2nd International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (co-located with IEEE SocialCom 2011).

Call for papers is below:

http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2011/

Objectives

Continuing the success of MSM 2010, we would like to address the user interface aspects of modeling social media. Much, if not all, interaction is done through some sort of user interface, however how to model social media through the user interface has still not been standardized. For example, people interact with their Facebook friends through the Facebook interface or perhaps another SNS interface like Seesmic. How do we model this user interface, and can this model be replicated to other social media and other form factors like new pad-based devices like the Apple iPad and to more recent high graphics-oriented smartphones like the Apple iPhone 4? The goal of this workshop is to continue our vibrant discussion on modeling social media, focusing on the user interface modeling. The workshop aims to attract and discuss various aspects of user interface modeling in social media using a wide range of modeling perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive, formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling, conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc). We want to bring together social networking researchers and user interface designers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling complex social media phenomena and systems through the user interface, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of social media can serve, and 3) issues of integrating and validating user interfaces in social media systems.

Topics of Interest

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

* New modeling techniques and approaches for user interfaces in social media * Application design for user interfaces of social media (phone, pad-based, PC, web) * modeling social media users and their motivations and goals * Modeling user behaviour in social media * User-centered design for social media * Models of user cooperation and collaboration in social media * Trust and user-acceptance of social media * Integrating user interface design with social media * Testing user interface models and social media applications * Usability in social media interfaces (is usability not much of a concern since connectivity is more important?)

We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics.

________________________________ Workshop Organizers

* Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China * Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany * Denis Helic, Graz University of Technology, Austria

________________________________ Program Committee

* Ed Chi, PARC, USA * Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria * Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain * Jordi Cabot, INRIA, France * Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA * Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Italy * Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA * Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA * Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany * Else Nygren, Uppsala University, USA * Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel * Pranam Kolari, Yahoo Research, USA

________________________________ Submission and Proceedings

We intend to publish proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and include them on the conference CD.

We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 papers) in the IEEE conference paper style. Information about the submission system will be released on the workshop website soon.

________________________________ Thanks.

Alvin

--- Alvin Chin Senior Researcher Mobile Social Networking Group Nokia Research Center Beijing MSM2011 Workshop Co-chair