CHI 2012 - It's the Experience!May 5-10, 2012 - Austin, Texashttp://chi2012.acm.org/The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. The experience of CHI 2012 is centered in vibrant Austin, Texas, the Live Music Capital of the World.STUDENT GAME COMPETITIONDeadline: 9 January 2012http://chi2012.acm.org/cfp-studentgame.shtmlThe student game competition is new within CHI. The competition is aimed at meeting the... Read full post

The meeting of the Young Minds is starting today. I take part as representative for the Evaluation Work Package. 

After 3 successful Alpine Rendez-Vous events the previous organizers (Kris Lund, Frank Fischer, Pierre Dillenbourg), the European TEL community, the ISLS/CSCL community, and the members of STELLAR, are engaged to continue the story for many years. Therefore a Call for the organisation has been published. For further details, please, follow the link: http://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous/

Follow our tweets #arvmupemureThe Alpine Rendez-Vous 2011 tweets can be found here:#arv11

AUM 2011: International Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation. In conjunction with UMAP 2011 (Girona, Spain 11 - 15 July 2011) http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/aum2011/ IMPORTANT DATES

15 April 2011:  Submission deadline (23:59 pm Hawaiian time)
13 May 2011:    Notification of acceptance
17 June 2011:   Camera-ready paper
6 May 2011:    Demo & position paper submission... Read full post

We are happy to announce the third update of the Web History Repository. The new version contains the anonymized usage logs of 356 contributors, with a total of 2.392.116 page visits. Thanks again to all who contributed.
http://webhistoryproject.blogspot.com/

During his visit to Germany, Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) announced that Google will launch a research center in Berlin that will focus on the impact of the Internet on our society (e.g. Street View, privacy issues). Further details (amount of funding, partners involved, timeline) are not clear yet.
More details (in German, der Spiegel): http://bit.ly/dS44wL

 
This conference might also be interesting for some of the STELLAR partners
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= Web Science Conference 2011  =
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=     Call for Abstracts      ... Read full post

The development of digital technologies, their interfaces and association with communication technology, has opened up the possibility of accessing a large diversity of learning tools and a wide range of resources. Digital technology has the potential to enhance learning in a number of ways, some of which are suggested here.
It can be a communication tool, which provides the means for people who are not co-located to collaborate (e.g. using a wiki, instant messenger, document sharing and track... Read full post

In the first round of the Stellar Delphi study, the following research topics were perceived as important.
Collaborative learning
Collaborative learning is identified as one of the most important and prominent research themes in the last few years. However, whether collaborative learning is established as a pedagogical practice remains debatable.
Experts who mentioned collaborative learning as a research theme in the past also mentioned Web 2.0/social software as a technological development... Read full post