Call for Papers - IS-EUD 2021

*** Preliminary Call for Papers ***

8th International Symposium on End-User Development
(IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development"

July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus

http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/

Conference Topics

The conference welcomes contributions that:
• describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development
• describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to
create, modify and tailor digital artifacts
• present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of
end-user development
• develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user
development

Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones:
• User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices
• Conversational interfaces for end-user development
• End-user development for big data visualization and exploration
• End-user development for collaborative robotics
• End-user development for social robotics
• End-user development in Industry 4.0
• End-user development and explainable AI-based systems
• Cybersecurity and end-user development
• End-user development in daily life
• Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development
• Empirical studies of end-user development
• Recommender systems to support end-user development
• Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches
• Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies
• Evaluation of end-user development technologies
• Supporting creative work through end-user development

Submissions

We invite two types of paper submissions:
1. Long papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research
making a substantial contribution to the research field
2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research,
making a small but solid contribution to the field

All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers
(both long and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021,
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS)
series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference.

Work in Progress submissions (max 4 pages) and Demonstration papers
(max 4 pages) are also welcomed. A Demonstration paper should be
structured according to the following:
• Abstract (150 words maximum)
• Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community
• Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity
• Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant)
• Supporting documentation (e.g., project website)
• References

Work in Progress submissions are intended for presenting preliminary results
or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted
contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during
parallel sessions.

Workshop proposals are invited (max 4 pages) aligned to the themes of the
conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have
the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the
active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long.

Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD
students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage
students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit
doctoral consortium abstracts (max 4 pages) describing the topic of their
PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress.

Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the
Springer LNCS format:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
and should be submitted according to the submission instructions (detailed
information will appear soon on the conference web site).