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| Special track on: Social Computing |
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Scope:
The relentless development of Internet technologies in recent years has radically altered the landscape for human/social interaction. Characterized by flexibility, user-friendliness and simplicity, Web applications such as wikis, blogs, microblogs, video sharing platforms and social networking sites offer rich, interactive user experiences that facilitate community-based knowledge sharing and collaboration. Previously, users visited static web pages and accessed institutional content that mirrored print-based publications. Now, users are provided with the tools and platforms to undertake their own collaborative content creation and distribution.
With the Internet rapidly taking on the role of a global marketplace for the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge, an interesting research area has emerged: social computing. Social computing lies at the intersection of social behavior and computing systems. It focuses on the use of technology to create social conventions and contexts, as well as the new relationships and power structures that result. Three widely-agreed tenets of social computing are (i) the shift of innovation from a top-down to a bottom-up model; (ii) the shift of value from ownership to experiences; and (iii) the shift of power from institutions to communities.
Social computing (also known as Web 2.0 and social media) has drawn much interest in academia, the information technology industry and among Internet users. This track at ITNG 2013 is therefore timely, and will serve as a platform for those researching this area. Submissions may include research, system, evaluation, policy and position papers.
Topics:
- Infrastructure and architectures for social computing
- Online communities and social networking
- Social tagging and collaborative information organization
- Use of information communication technologies for social computing
- Mobile social computing
- Social games, human computation games, and gamification
- Information retrieval and sharing techniques
- Usability and user needs
- Applications and case studies in social computing
- Novel applications supporting user-generated content and social interaction
- Social, institutional and policy issues in social computing
- Social computing in schools, enterprises and other organizations
- Collaboration and social computing
- Social computing trends and issues
Paper Submission:
Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature, or be
unique experience reports. Interested authors should submit a 6-page summary of their original
and unpublished work including 5 keywords in the CPS format to the track chair. Electronic
submission in the PDF, PS or MS Word format is strongly encouraged. For instructions on
electronic submissions, Click here (we will update this link later on the main page).
Evaluation Process
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Per ITNG policy,
except for invited papers, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an ISBN.
Best Student Paper:
The Best Student Paper will be awarded at the conference. To be eligible, the student must be
the sole author of the paper, or the first author and primary contributor. (The winner of the
award will present the paper in a plenary session at the conference). A cover letter to the
General Chair/Track Chair must identify the paper as a candidate for this competition at the time
of submission.
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