[ACT-R-users] CFP: CHI workshop on Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems

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Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems
CHI 2010 workshop
April 11th, 2010
Atlanta,Georgia,USA
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 computational  
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 with the subject  
line "CHI 2010 Cognitive Models Workshop” by December 15, 2009.  
Authors will be notified by January 10th, 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

Wai-Tat Fu
__________
Assistant Professor
Human Factors and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: wfu at illinois.edu


Wai-Tat Fu
__________
Assistant Professor
Human Factors and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: wfu at illinois.edu



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