INVITATION
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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:
CENTRIC 2021, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services
CENTRIC 2021 is scheduled to be October 3 - 7, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain under the SoftNet 2021 umbrella.
The submission deadline is July 5, 2021.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org
Note: For 2021, all events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site or virtual choices (live, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, and .pdf slides). We hope for better times allowing us to return to the traditional on site scientific events. However, we are ready to adapt any which way the conditions dictate.
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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
CENTRIC 2021, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services
General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CENTRIC21.html
Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/SubmitCENTRIC21.html
Event schedule: October 3 - 7, 2021
Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
Submission deadline: July 5, 2021
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: https://www.thinkmind.org
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
CENTRIC 2021 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CfPCENTRIC21.html
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CENTRIC 2021 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Building user-centric systems
User-centered research methods; User-centered methods for development and maintenance; Risks of user-centered design; Innovation and user-centered design; User-centered design in smart environments; Research on user competencies and requirements; Innovative user Interfaces (e.g., brain-computer interfaces); New types of human-computer-interactions (e.g., gestures)
Centric views
User centricity: I-centric versus We-centric; User-centric in service-centric systems; User-centric business models; User-centric requirements in network-centric approaches; User-centric and critical time-centric applications and services; User information access behavior; User-centric professional attackers; User-centric data mining; User-centric data aggregation; Personalized seeking and personalized sharing; Contextual user information facets; User-oriented ontology; User empowerment: awareness and control; User-centric trust models
User Centricity and Artificial Intelligence
AI-Support and Human Decision Making; Human Interpretable and Explainable AI; Data Annotation and Data Labeling Problems; Detecting and Dealing with AI Bias; User Acceptance of AI-Based Decision Making; AI for User Behavior Classification and Prediction; AI and Recommender Systems for Personalized Offerings
User Centered Design of Chatbots and Voice Assistants
User Requirements and User Acceptance; New Design Patterns and Approaches; Innovative Tools for Prototyping and Dialog Design; Wizard-of-Oz Testing and New Approaches for User Testings; Impact of Advances in Natural Language Detection; Methods for Analyzing and Classifying User Intents; Accessibility and Findability in Conversational Commerce
Affective computing and emotional intelligence
Frameworks for affective computing; Principles in emotional intelligence; Concepts in affective robotics; Social aspects of affective computing; Ambient systems embedding emotional intelligence; Empathy in artificial agents; Human-centric obedience towards virtual agents; Affective gaming; Deep multitask learning; Apps for body perceptions and emotions; Multi-sensing and human behavior; Active sensing system for distress detection; Recognition of facial emotions; Automatic prediction of depression and anxiety; Mitigate public speaking anxiety; Prediction of emotion from heartbeat; Conveying emotional awareness; Emotional intelligence; Happiness entailment; Cooperative machine learning; Emotion prediction; Emotion recognition; Emotion in ambiguous speech
Privacy and anonymity
Anonymity and pseudonymity; Attacks against de-identified data; Data anonymity; Consent-based privacy disclosure; Private digital assets; Disclosure control techniques; Information loss assessment; Risk assessment for shared information; Privacy and anonymity ontology; Privacy technologies; User location anonymity techniques; Privacy preserving data and text mining; Privacy and anonymity in specialized applications /healthcare. databases, information retrieval, social networks, etc./; Legal aspects in privacy and anonymity
User-centric supporting mechanisms
Machine learning and artificial neural networks; Network control and feedback with man-in-the-loop; Multi-sensor user interfaces (e.g., tactile, haptic, olfactory); Personalized storage and information retrieval with user-context; Service discovery using user profile; Personalized navigation and visualization; Semantic web services; Advanced personalization techniques for semantic wikis; Application of advanced reasoning maintenance; Reasoning on user modeling and personalization; Information extraction and semantic web technologies with personalization and user modeling; Quality of experience
Personalization
Personalization of ICT services and devices; Personalization of eHealth services; Personalization related to ICT in cars; Adaptive personalization; Supporting the user in initial set-up of user profiles; Personalization and user profile management; Preferences for personalization in manufacturers' devices; Standardization
User-centric networking and services
Personal profiles, preferences; Identity; Reputation; User profiles; Proximity and context-aware services; Social communities; User adapted services; Trust, privacy, security; Community services; Location services; Web 2.0 and Web 3.0; Key exchange, certificate handling, smartcards; Personal devices; Managing identity and security - identity provider; Home content access and rights management
User-centric advanced applications
Humanoids; Unmanned systems; On-body antennas; Body networks and devices; Preventive and personalized medicine; Anticipative systems for diagnosis and maintenance; Emergency and medical response systems; eHealth and telemedicine services; Personal entertainment
Technologies for personalized services
Personnel tracking; Presence automatic control; Remote home security control; User-centric recommender services; Identity management; Contactless radio: RFID, NFC; Proximity radio: Bluetooth, WLAN; Broadband and wireless broadband distribution; Ambient wireless and broadband networks; Social engineering and social networks; IPTV and Quadruple Play
People-centric sensing
People-centric sensing techniques, technologies, and applications; Participatory sensing; Smart phone sensing; urban sensing; Bio-medical sensing; Mixed sensor networks and people-centric sensing; SensorWeb; Mobility; Mobile social networks and sensing; Mobile healthcare and sensing; Platforms and architectures; Context awareness; Situation awareness and management
User experience and usability
Attributes and measurement; Ergonomics/human factors; User-Centered and contextual design; Design guidance/best practices; Usability heuristics, testing and evaluation; User feedback and response; Design tools and process; Prototyping technologies; Responsive design strategies; Innovative user interfaces
User research and usage behavior
Up-front user research; Use cases and case study research; Usage/user studies on new services; Adoption and diffusion research; Usage/demand forecasting and planning; Technology acceptance research; User behavior and attitudes; Social and cultural influences
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CENTRIC series Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ComCENTRIC21.html
Publicity Chairs
José Miguel Jiménez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
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