[ACT-R-users] Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems Workshop

[Wai-Tat Fu]

Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems CHI
2010 workshop April 11th, 2010 Atlanta,Georgia,USA

 

Note: Deadline is extended to Jan 6th, 2010.

 

Website:http://www.humanfactors.uiuc.edu/cognitivemodelworkshop/

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

Submission

 

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.

 

Please submit an 3-5 page research or position paper about your work.

Papers will be reviewed and selected based on their relevance to the
workshop and ability to contribute to the discussion.

 

Email your paper, in PDF, to socialcog2010 at gmail.com or wfu at illinois.edu
with the subject line "CHI 2010 Cognitive Models Workshop" by Jan 6th,
2010.

Authors will be notified by January 20th, 2010. Papers should be in the ACM
SIGCHI submissions format.

 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us by email directly.

 

 

Organizers

Wai-Tat Fu & Thomas Kannampallil, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign

 

 

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Wai-Tat Fu

Assistant Professor

Human Factors Division and Beckman Institute

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL 61807

Tel: 217-244-8617

Fax: 217-244-8647

http://appliedcogsci.vp.uiuc.edu

 

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