CFP: HCOMP 2016

The following announcement is posted on behalf of Arpita Ghosh and Matt Lease, co-chairs of the HCOMP 2016 conference. Arpita writes, “I’m enthusiastic about bringing work from the EC community to the application domain of human computation, very broadly defined.”

Call for Papers

 

Full CFP: http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/submit.html

 

Deadline for full papers: June 7, 2016

The theme for HCOMP 2016 is Interaction:

• between people and technology that is foundational to human computation
• between theoretical foundations, experimental work, and engineering
• between the computational, scientific, and social applications of crowdsourcing
• between diverse disciplines and perspectives, within our community and beyond

HCOMP strongly believes in inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary research on crowdsourcing and human computation. Submissions may present principles, studies, and/or applications of systems that rely on programmatic interaction with crowds, or where human perception, knowledge, reasoning, or physical activity and coordination contributes to the operation of computational systems, applications, or services. More generally, we invite submissions from the broad spectrum of related fields and application areas including (but not limited to):

• human-centered crowd studies: e.g., human-computer interaction, social computing, design, cognitive and behavioral sciences (psychology and sociology), management science, economics, policy, ethics, etc.
• applications and algorithms: e.g., computer vision, cultural heritage, databases, digital humanities, information retrieval, machine learning, natural language (and speech) processing, optimization, programming languages, systems, etc.
• crowdsourcing areas: e.g., citizen science, collective action, collective knowledge, crowdsourcing contests, crowd creativity, crowd funding, crowd ideation, crowd sensing, distributed work, freelancer economy, open innovation, microtasks, prediction markets, wisdom of crowds, etc.

Our Senior Program Committee (SPC) will oversee the review process and ensure that each submission receives a constructive and rigorous review.

To ensure relevance, submissions are encouraged to include research questions and contributions of broad interest to crowdsourcing and human computation, as well as discuss relevant open problems and prior work in the field. When evaluation is conducted entirely within a specific domain, authors are encouraged to discuss how findings might generalize to other communities and application areas using crowdsourcing and human computation.

All papers must be anonymized (include no information identifying the authors or their institutions) for double-blind peer-review and formatted according to the conference’s style guidelines. An Author Kit is available for getting started with LaTeX or Word.

Accepted papers will be published in the HCOMP conference proceedings and included in the Conference’s Digital Archive. HCOMP is a young but quickly growing conference, with a historical acceptance rate of 30% for full papers.

Full Papers
Full papers of up to 10 pages (including references) may be submitted. Full papers must represent original work, not previously published or under simultaneous peer-review for any other peer-reviewed, archival conference or journal.

Important Dates:

• May 31, 2016: Abstracts (for Full Papers) due
• June 7, 2016: Full Papers due
• July 11, 2016: Reviews released to authors
• July 14, 2016: [Optional] author feedback due
• August 4, 2016: Notification of acceptance decisions
• August 20, 2016: Camera-ready papers due

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