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

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

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

UMAP 2011  --  19th International Conference onUser Modeling, Adaptation, and PersonalizationGirona - Spain, July 11-15, 2011http://www.umap2011.org
Call for Workshop and Tutorial ProposalsSubmission deadline: 24 December 2010UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. It is organized under the auspices... Read full post

The European Association for Technology Enhanced Learning is pleased to call for proposals for organizing the 6th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning, ECTEL 2011.
 This event will be the latest in the series of this successful and highly competitive event: see e.g. the 5th ECTEL Conference in in Barcelona, Spain (http://www.ectel2010.org).
DEADLINE for Provisional Bids: November 19, 2010. Submissions to: martin.wolpers@fit.fraunhofer.de
Short proposals are invited at... Read full post

Do you want your Web browser to be smarter? So do we. And it is easy for you to help. Submit your anonymized Web history to the Web History Repository. With your data, researchers can gain new insights; programmers can create new tools and plugins for you.
Firefox users: please contribute. Spread the word through email, Facebook or Twitter. Thanks a lot!
Visit the project Website http://webhistoryproject.blogspot.com/ or directly download the Add-On from Mozilla.org

ABIS 2010 is the 18th Intl. Workshop on Personalization and Recommendation on the Web and Beyond. It will take place 4-6 October in Kassel, Germany. Exchange novel ideas, expertise and feedback on ongoing research before submitting to major conferences such as CHI, UMAP, WWW and SIGIR.
 Our keynote speaker will be Jürgen Geck, CEO of Open-Xchange, a company that provides integrated tools for mail and collaboration to millions of users in Europe.
We have extended the submission... Read full post