The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services (CENTRIC 2016)

August 21 - 25, 2016

Rome, Italy

Call For Papers

The evolution of services and the diversity of the user profiles composed with various contents and context-based access led to the development of specific mechanisms, services, and applications with a definitive, personalized, and user-centric flavor. Mechanisms are in place for service discovery using user profiles, for adapting the traffic following the quality of experience, or allowing personalized navigation and visualization. More is needed for network control and feedback consideration as well as for personalized storage and information retrieval within a given context.

There is a cohort of technologies that favored the so called “user-centric” services and applications. While some of them reached some maturity, others are to prove their economics (WiMax, IPTV, RFID, etc). The human-oriented and personalized technologies and services rely on a key set of features, some to be deployed, others getting more mature (personal profiles, preferences, identity, proximity, personal devices, etc.). Following, advanced applications covering human related activities benefit from personalized and human-oriented networks and services, especially preventive and personalized medicine, body networks and devices, or anticipative systems.

CENTRIC 2016 continues the series of events focusing on human-oriented and personalized mechanisms, technologies, and services, commonly known as I-centric. The conference will provide a forum where researchers shall be able to present recent research results and new research problems and directions related to them. The conference seeks contributions presenting novel result and future research in all aspects of user-centric mechanisms, technologies, and services.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

Building user-centric systems 
User-centered research methods
User-centered methods for development and maintenance
Risks of user-centered design
Innovation and user-centered design
User-centered design in smart environments
Research on user competencies and requirements
Innovative user Interfaces (e.g., brain-computer interfaces)
New types of human-computer-interactions (e.g., gestures)

Centric views 
User centricity: I-centric versus We-centric
User-centric in service-centric systems
User-centric business models
User-centric requirements in network-centric approaches
User-centric and critical time-centric applications and services
User information access behavior
User-centric professional attackers
User-centric data mining
User-centric data aggregation
Personalized seeking and personalized sharing
Contextual user information facets
User-oriented ontology
User empowerment: awareness and control
User-centric trust models

Privacy and anonymity 
Anonymity and pseudonymity
Attacks against de-identified data
Data anonymity
Consent-based privacy disclosure
Private digital assets
Disclosure control techniques
Information loss assessment
Risk assessment for shared information
Privacy and anonymity ontology
Privacy technologies
User location anonymity techniques
Privacy preserving data and text mining
Privacy and anonymity in specialized applications /healthcare. databases, information retrieval, social networks, etc./
Legal aspects in privacy and anonymity

User-centric supporting mechanisms 
Machine learning and artificial neural networks
Network control and feedback with man-in-the-loop
Multi-sensor user interfaces (e.g., tactile, haptic, olfactory)
Personalized storage and information retrieval with user-context
Service discovery using user profile
Personalized navigation and visualization
Semantic web services
Advanced personalization techniques for semantic wikis
Application of advanced reasoning maintenance
Reasoning on user modeling and personalization
Information extraction and semantic web technologies with personalization and user modeling
Quality of experience

Personalization 
Personalization of ICT services and devices
Personalization of eHealth services
Personalization related to ICT in cars
Adaptive personalization
Supporting the user in initial set-up of user profiles
Personalization and user profile management
Preferences for personalization in manufacturers' devices
Standardization

User-centric networking and services 
Personal profiles, preferences
Identity; Reputation
User profiles
Proximity and context-aware services
Social communities
User adapted services
Trust, privacy, security
Community services
Location services
Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
Key exchange, certificate handling, smartcards
Personal devices
Managing identity and security - identity provider
Home content access and rights management

User-centric advanced applications 
Humanoids
Unmanned systems
On-body antennas
Body networks and devices
Preventive and personalized medicine
Anticipative systems for diagnosis and maintenance
Emergency and medical response systems
eHealth and telemedicine services
Personal entertainment

Technologies for personalized services 
Personnel tracking
Presence automatic control
Remote home security control
User-centric recommender services
Identity management
Contactless radio: RFID, NFC
Proximity radio: Bluetooth, WLAN
Broadband and wireless broadband distribution
Ambient wireless and broadband networks
Social engineering and social networks
IPTV and Quadruple Play

People-centric sensing 
People-centric sensing techniques, technologies, and applications
Participatory sensing
Smart phone sensing
Urban sensing
Bio-medical sensing
Mixed sensor networks and people-centric sensing
SensorWeb
Mobility
Mobile social networks and sensing
Mobile healthcare and sensing
Platforms and architectures
Context awareness
Situation awareness and management

User experience and usability 
Attributes and measurement
Ergonomics/human factors
User-Centered and contextual design
Design guidance/best practices
Usability heuristics, testing and evaluation
User feedback and response
Design tools and process
Prototyping technologies
Responsive design strategies
Innovative user interfaces

User research and usage behavior 
Up-front user research
Use cases and case study research
Usage/user studies on new services
Adoption and diffusion research
Usage/demand forecasting and planning
Technology acceptance research
User behavior and attitudes
Social and cultural influences

Paper Submission

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.

Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).

 

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission Deadline    : April 27, 2016
• Authors Notification         : May 28, 2016
• Registration Deadline    : June 12, 2016
• Final version due : July 12, 2016

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