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<p class=MsoPlainText>Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social
Information Systems CHI 2010 workshop April 11th, 2010 Atlanta,Georgia,USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Note: Deadline is extended to Jan 6th, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Website:http://www.humanfactors.uiuc.edu/cognitivemodelworkshop/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>The main goal of this workshop is to connect researchers
from different areas whose work focuses on the development of models of user
behavior in social information systems. Our hope is to integrate ideas from
diverse domains such as (but not limited to) HCI, cognitive science, AI,
psychology, computer science, information science, and computational
linguistics to generate novel perspectives on understanding, characterizing,
and predicting system characteristics and user behavior at both the individual
and aggregate/ social levels. We also hope that his workshop will provide a
venue for researchers in both academia and industry to discuss the use of
cognitive models to inform designs of future social information systems in
diverse application areas.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>We broadly define social information systems as systems
that support social functions. Difference forms of social information systems
have gained significant popularity over the last decade. For example, social
networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace and social tagging systems such
as del.icio.us and CiteUlike.org attract several thousand users a day. While
serving different social functions, these systems provide its users increased
social presence and opportunities for easy collaboration and social interaction.
User behavior on these systems has been generally conducted based on analysis
of snapshots of long-term user interaction patterns such as logs of user
activities, connections between users, etc. But, very little is known about the
cognitive mechanisms underlying these interactions. A good understanding of the
individual cognitive mechanisms is important for engineering better interface
representations and interaction methods that support user behavior in social
systems. Additionally, models that aim at characterizing these mechanisms can
complement existing research and provide a basis for a more complete
explanation of emergent social and collaborative behavior in social information
systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Submission<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>We welcome submission from researchers and practitioners
who are interested in developing computational models of social information
systems. We particularly welcome submissions from diverse disciplines, and we
welcome and value suggestions about themes or directions of research related to
this area.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Please submit an 3-5 page research or position paper
about your work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Papers will be reviewed and selected based on their
relevance to the workshop and ability to contribute to the discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Email your paper, in PDF, to <a
href="mailto:socialcog2010@gmail.com">socialcog2010@gmail.com</a> or
wfu@illinois.edu with the subject line "CHI 2010 Cognitive Models
Workshop" by Jan 6th, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Authors will be notified by January 20th, 2010. Papers
should be in the ACM SIGCHI submissions format.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>If you have any questions please feel free to contact us
by email directly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Organizers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Wai-Tat Fu & Thomas Kannampallil, University of
Illinois at Urbana- Champaign<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Wai-Tat Fu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Human Factors Division and Beckman Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Urbana, IL 61807<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tel: 217-244-8617<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Fax: 217-244-8647<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://appliedcogsci.vp.uiuc.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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