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<p><font face="Calibri">Dear all,</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">this year's International Conference on
Persuasive Technology will have a special track on Socially
Interactive Agents. See call for papers below.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">kind regards,</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">Birgit Lugrin</font></p>
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PAPERS<br>
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Persuasive 2022: The 17th International Conference on Persuasive
Technology 2022 <br>
Hosted by Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, 29-31 March
2022<br>
Conference Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://persuasivetech.org/">https://persuasivetech.org/</a><br>
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Abstract Submission deadline: 25 November 2021<br>
Paper Submission deadline: 30 November 2021 [Strict]<br>
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Please register your abstract and submit your paper here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=persuasive2022">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=persuasive2022</a><br>
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COVID-19 Note<br>
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PT2022 is currently planned to be held as a hybrid conference.
We will monitor the COVID-19 situation carefully. If traveling
is not possible, it will change to a virtual conference. The
proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS regardless.<br>
<br>
In a world in which technology is increasingly present in
people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is
often the key to solving many societal and personal problems,
studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in
their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is
paramount. <br>
Persuasive technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research
field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of
technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or
behaviors through informed persuasion, but not through coercion
or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s
lives in various domains such as health, sustainability,
education and well-being, by supporting the setting and
achieving of goals they set for themselves, and thus change
their behaviors.<br>
<br>
The 2022 conference will be hosted by Hamad Bin Khalifa
University in Qatar. The previous versions of conferences have
been successfully organised in Bournemouth (2021, online due to
COVID-19), Aalborg (2020, online due to COVID-19), Limassol
(2019), Waterloo (2018), Amsterdam (2017), Salzburg (2016),
Chicago, Padua, Sydney, Linköping, Columbus, Copenhagen,
Claremont, Oulu, and Stanford Eindhoven. The conference series
seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from
industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive
technology.<br>
<br>
We welcome the following categories of papers:<br>
• Technical papers that introduce novel persuasive technology
approaches and solutions alongside evidence of their potential<br>
• Empirical studies which seek to provide evidence and
explanation of methods, principles and theories in persuasive
systems<br>
• Conceptual-theoretical papers which primarily seek to
contribute to the general understanding of the field’s core
themes and specificities<br>
• Other papers, e.g. literature reviews or experience
reports. <br>
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SCOPE<br>
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The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the
following topics:<br>
• Persuasive systems’ design<br>
• Behavior change support systems<br>
• Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces,
visualisation<br>
• Interactive agents in persuasive systems<br>
• AI for persuasive technology <br>
• Tailored, personalised and proactive persuasion <br>
• Gamification for persuasion<br>
• Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications<br>
• Software architectures and technical infrastructures for
persuasive systems<br>
• Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion<br>
• Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems<br>
• Cognition, attention and persuasive technology<br>
• Application domains for persuasive technologies such as
safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and
training, marketing and commerce, work environments,
organisations<br>
• Positive technology<br>
• Humanising and/or de-humanising effects of persuasive
technology<br>
• Values and ethics in persuasive technology<br>
• Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive
technology<br>
• Resilience and counter-persuasion <br>
• Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts<br>
• Encourageing adherence to safety measures in pandemic
situations<br>
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SPECIAL TRACKS<br>
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Special Session 1: Socially Interactive Agents <br>
<br>
Description: Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs) are virtually or
physically embodied agents that are capable of autonomously
communicating with people and each other in a socially
intelligent manner using multi-modal behaviours. SIAs are
envisioned to unobtrusively support humans in their daily lives.
In order to interact with humans in a socially intelligent
manner, the social context, that the interaction is embedded in,
needs to be understood by the agent. This special track welcomes
submissions that target SIAs in Persuasive Technology
applications, to persuade users towards attitude or behaviour
change in domains such as health-related applications, aging
support, or to foster well-being.<br>
<br>
Special Session 2: Sensor-based Persuasive Technology<br>
<br>
IoT sensors are very versatile and collect a wealth of
information-rich data. This data can be mined to provide
significant insight and information about people's behavior and
aid both tailoring and testing influence techniques. A wide
range of application areas can benefit from these advances,
including those in healthcare, elderly living, safety and
sustainability, etc. This track aims to solicit novel
contributions that directly relate to the design of novel
persuasive technology infrastructure and solutions that utilize
sensors and intelligent algorithms for detecting behavior,
tailoring persuasive techniques and testing their impact. <br>
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SUBMISSION TYPES<br>
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REGULAR PAPERS<br>
This format is suitable for original research, which is
completed work at the time of submission and, regardless of the
length of the paper, is a self-sufficient scientific
contribution. Papers can be full papers (12 pages, excluding
references) or short papers (6 pages, excluding references) in
Springer LNCS format, and describe work not presented, published
or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Accepted papers will be
included in the conference proceedings and be devoted a timeslot
for oral presentation.<br>
Submitted papers must be classified by the authors as either
technical, empirical, conceptual-theoretical or others for its
main contribution, and will be reviewed in the light of this.<br>
<br>
POSTERS<br>
This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies,
project outlines, or work-in-progress.<br>
Authors should submit a 2-page abstract in Springer LNCS format.
Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct conference
proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). Posters will be
displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the
conference.<br>
<br>
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS<br>
The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference
where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive
atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with
other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the
area of persuasive technology. Students interested in
participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 4-page
abstract in Springer LNCS format describing their research
question, its position with respect to state of the art, their
research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so
far. Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct
conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) unless opted
out by the student).<br>
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WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS:<br>
Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work
interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Tutorials
are intended to help people attending the conference organise a
related scientific meeting on a specific topic or instruct on a
specific practice. Approved workshops and tutorials will be
announced on the conference website. Tutorials and workshops
will take place during a half- or full-day session before the
conference. If you want to organise a workshop, please submit a
proposal as a maximum 4-page description in Springer LNCS
format, including a description of the topic, motivation,
organisation, expected outcome, and supporting materials.
Workshop and tutorial descriptions will be included in the
adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).
Workshop chairs must commit to create their Call for Paper and
their website and EasyChair accounts within one week from the
notification. <br>
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: <br>
- Please consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines when
preparing your paper.<br>
- Make sure to use the Springer LNCS proceedings template,
either for LaTeX or for Word, when preparing your paper.<br>
- Remember the page limit for each type of submission <br>
- Remember that your paper must be anonymised as we implement
a double-blind review process. That means removing author names,
emails and affiliations and avoiding any explicit reference to
the authors' identity in the paper. <br>
<br>
We look forward to receiving your submission! <br>
<br>
Please use this link for your submission<br>
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PUBLICATIONS<br>
Accepted regular and special track papers (full and short) will
be published by Springer in a volume of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.springer.com/lncs">www.springer.com/lncs</a>). Workshop and
demo descriptions, abstracts from posters, and doctoral
consortium abstracts will be published as an adjunct proceedings
volume with an ISBN (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Regular papers submissions: <br>
Abstract Submission deadline: November 25, 2021<br>
Paper Submission deadline: November 30, 2021 [Strict]<br>
Decision notification: January 11, 2022<br>
Final versions due: January 20, 2022<br>
<br>
Workshop and tutorial proposals: <br>
Submission deadline: December 01, 2021<br>
Notification deadline: December 17, 2021<br>
<br>
Poster, technical demonstration and doctoral consortium
submission:<br>
Submission deadline: February 02, 2022<br>
Decision notification: February 20, 2022<br>
Camera-ready: Feburary 28, 2022<br>
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE<br>
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General Chair<br>
- Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<br>
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Program Chairs<br>
- Nilufar Baghaei, Massey University, New Zealand<br>
- Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada<br>
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Workshop and Tutorial Chair<br>
- Dena Al Thani , Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<br>
- Sandra Gram-Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>
<br>
Doctoral Consortium Chairs<br>
- Jaap Ham, the Eindhoven University of Technology, the
Netherlands<br>
- Alexander Meschtscherjakov, University of Salzburg, Austria<br>
- Lisette Van Gemert-Pijnen- University of Twente, the
Netherlands<br>
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Poster Track chairs<br>
- Rita Orji, Dalhousie University, Canada<br>
- Khin Than Win - University of Wollongong, Australia<br>
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Special Tracks:<br>
Sensor-based Persuasion<br>
· Marwa Qaraqe, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<br>
· Qammer H. Abbasi, University of Glasgow, UK<br>
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Socially Interactive Agents <br>
· Birgit Lugrin, University of Würzburg, Germany<br>
· Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten, RWTH Aachen, Germany<br>
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Proceedings Chairs:<br>
· Kiemute Oyibo, University of Waterloo, Canada<br>
· Sameha Al-Shakhsi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<br>
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Publicity Chairs <br>
· Ifeoma Adaji, University of Saskatchewan, Canada<br>
· Khansa Chemnad, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<br>
· Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Prof. Dr. Birgit Lugrin
Professur für Medieninformatik
Informatik IX (Mensch-Computer-Interaktion)
Institut für Informatik
Institut Mensch-Computer-Medien
Universität Würzburg
Am Hubland Süd,
97074 Würzburg
Germany
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:birgit.lugrin@uni-wuerzburg.de">birgit.lugrin@uni-wuerzburg.de</a>
Tel: +49 931 31-84602</pre>
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