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<p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class=""><font color="#000000" class="">*
We apologize for cross-posting *</font><br class=""><br class=""><font color="#000000" class="">***
Covid-19 announcement ***</font><br class=""><br class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The
HCOMP organisers are monitoring the ongoing situation around Covid-19
closely. We plan to hold the conference at the same dates, either
online, or, if it‘s safe and the restrictions allow it, at the
planned venue in the Netherlands. We aim to disclose further details
in a few months. In the meantime, we’re looking forward to your
submissions!</font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">*** HCOMP 2020: Call for Work-in-Progress and Demonstration Papers ***</span></font></font></p><p class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Hilversum, the Netherlands</li><li class="">October 26-28 2020</li><li class="">Website: <a href="https://www.humancomputation.com" class="">https://www.humancomputation.com</a></li><li class="">Twitter: @hcomp_conf</li></ul></p><span class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><span class=""></span><h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="important-dates-2" class=""></a><a name="all-times-are-midnight-cest-amsterdam-time-2" class=""></a>
<font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">IMPORTANT
DATES - All times are midnight CEST (Amsterdam time)</font></font></span></h2>
<ul class="">
<li class=""><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">August
7, 2020: Submission due</font></font></p>
</li><li class=""><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">August
20, 2020: Notification of acceptance</font></font></p>
</li><li class=""><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">September
20, 2020: Final camera-ready papers due</font></font></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
</li></ul>
<h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="overview-2" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">OVERVIEW</font></font></span></h2><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">The
Works-in-Progress and Demonstration track focuses on recent findings
or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work, hands-on
demonstration, novel interactive technologies and experiences
relevant to the HCOMP community.</font></font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">We
encourage practitioners and researchers to submit Works-in-Progress &
Demo Track as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable
ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering
discussions and collaborations among colleagues. To maximise
visibility this year accepted Works-in-Progress and Demonstration
submissions will also be presented with a 1-2 min PechaKucha
presentation dedicated to the Works-in-Progress & Demonstration
Track within the HCOMP plenary programme.</font></font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Submissions
are welcome from any area of computer science, artificial
intelligence, and human-computer interaction, to economics and the
social sciences, all the way to digital humanities, policy, and
ethics. This year, we especially encourage work that generate new
insights into the “human computation” side of HCOMP, such as new
understandings about human cognition, human-in-the-loop intelligence
systems, human-AI interaction and collaboration, algorithmic and
interface techniques for augmenting human abilities to perform tasks,
and other issues that affect how humans collaborate with AI systems
(such as bias, fairness, and interpretability).</font></font></p>
<h3 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="works-in-progress" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Works-in-progress</font></font></span></h3><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">A
Work-in-Progress is a concise report of recent findings or other
types of innovative or thought-provoking work relevant to the HCOMP
community. The difference between Works-in-Progress and other
contribution types is that Work-in-Progress submissions represent
work that has not reached a level of completion that would warrant
the full Refereed selection process. That said, appropriate
submissions should make some contribution to the body of HCOMP
knowledge, whether realized or promised. A significant benefit of a
Work-in-Progress derives from the discussion between the author and
conference attendees that will be fostered by the face-to-face
presentation of the work. Work-in-Progress submissions are in the
form of a ~2 page extended abstract, see Submission section.</font></font></p>
<h3 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="demonstrations" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Demonstrations</font></font></span></h3><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">A
demonstration is a high-visibility, high-impact forum of the HCOMP
program that allows you to present your hands-on demonstration, share
novel interactive technologies, and stage interactive experiences.
Demonstrations will showcase this year’s most exciting human
computation and collaborative human-AI prototypes and systems. If you
have an interesting prototype, system, exhibit or installation, we
want to know about it. Sharing hands-on experiences of your work is
often the best way to communicate what you have created. The
demonstration submission should describe the nature of the system as
well as the expected form of interaction with the user and the
audience. If you have special infrastructure requirements for the
demonstration, please include them in a dedicated paragraph within
the submission. Demonstrations submissions are in the form of a ~2
page extended abstract, see Submission section.</font></font></p>
<h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="submission-1" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">SUBMISSION</font></font></span></h2><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">All
submitted Works-in-Progress and Demos must represent original work,
not previously published or under simultaneous peer-review for any
other peer-reviewed, archival conference or journal.</font></font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Submissions
must be done in the form of up to 2 pages Extended Abstract
(references can extend beyond the 2 pages) via the HCOMP-20
EasyChair Website. Submissions to Easychair is required on or before
the deadline listed above. We cannot accept submissions by e-mail or
fax. Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their
submissions, including an ID number, shortly after submission. HCOMP
will contact authors again only if problems are encountered with
papers. Inquiries regarding paper receipt must be made no later than
August 10.</font></font></p>
<h3 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="formatting" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Formatting</font></font></span></h3><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Extended
Abstracts must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style;
please refer to the AAAI 2020 Author Kit for details. Papers must be
in trouble-free, high-resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter
(8.5″ x 11″) paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. The AAAI
copyright block is not required for works-in-progress or demo
submissions, as they are not included in the formal proceedings.
Please see below for information about publication.</font></font></p>
<h3 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="supplemental-materials" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Supplemental
Materials</font></font></span></h3><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Authors
are invited, but not required, to include supplemental materials such
as executables and data files so that reviewers can reproduce results
in the paper, images, additional videos, related papers, more
detailed explanations, derivations, or results. These materials will
be viewed only at the discretion of the reviewers, who are only
obligated to read your paper itself.</font></font></p>
<h3 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="not-anonymized" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">NOT
Anonymized</font></font></span></h3><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Authors
should include information identifying themselves and their
institutions for single-blind review.</font></font></p>
<h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="reviews-1" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">REVIEWS</font></font></span></h2><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Submissions
to the Works-in-Progress & Demonstration Track will be curated.
This means that submissions will only be evaluated by the
Works-in-Progress & Demonstration chairs (in coordination with
other relevant conference chairs). Authors should expect to receive
only very light feedback on their submissions.</font></font></p>
<h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="publication-and-proceedings-1" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">PUBLICATION
AND PROCEEDINGS</font></font></span></h2><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Accepted
papers will NOT be included in official conference proceedings, and
so may be submitted later to other conferences or journals for
official publication. Accepted papers will be made available online
on the conference website, and a summary of the WiP and Demo session
will be provided in the AAAI AI Magazine.</font></font></p>
<h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="presenting-at-the-conference" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">PRESENTING
AT THE CONFERENCE</font></font></span></h2><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Accepted
submissions will be presented at the conference in two main
modalities: 1) with a 1-2 min PechaKucha presentation in a plenary
session dedicated to the Works-in-Progress & Demonstration Track
within the HCOMP plenary programme, and 2) with an author proposed
presentation format. Authors can propose their desired presentation
format(s) at the time of submission, including (but not limited to)
poster, interactive demo, short video, short presentation, or small
exhibition booth. The eventual format(s) will be decided in
cooperation between authors and conference organizers. Authors are
asked to include special requests and requirements at the time of
submission by sending an email to the chairs.</font></font></p>
<h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="work-in-progress-and-demo-award" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">WORK-IN-PROGRESS
AND DEMO AWARD</font></font></span></h2><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">HCOMP
2020 will recognize one best Works-in-Progress and one best
Demonstration. Announcement of the winners will be done at the
conference in a plenary session together with the other conference
award. The Works-in-Progress and Demonstration chairs will assess the
Works-in-Progress and Demonstrations submissions to determine the
winners (considering both quality of paper submission and
presentation at the conference).</font></font></p>
<h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a name="contacts" class=""></a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">CONTACTS</font></font></span></h2><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Please
contact the Works-in-progress and Demonstration Co-Chairs if you have
any questions.</font></font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">Anna
De Liddo, at <a href="mailto:anna.deliddo@open.ac.uk" class="">anna.deliddo@open.ac.uk</a> <br class="">Alessandro Checco,
at <a href="mailto:a.checco@sheffield.ac.uk" class="">a.checco@sheffield.ac.uk</a></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><br class="">
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