Hello everyone,
Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting your papers to the
CyberSafety workshop is approaching quickly (Jan 15, 2017).
Best,
Srijan Kumar
University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~srijan/

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Srijan Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> CyberSafety 2017 Call for Papers
> The Second International Workshop on Computational Methods for CyberSafety
>
> Co-located with WWW 2017 (April 3-7, 2017 at Perth, Australia)
>
> The theme of cybersafety is an important emerging research topic on the
> Internet that manifests itself daily as users navigate the Web and
> networked applications. Examples of cybersafety issues include
> cyberbullying, cyberthreats, recruiting minors via Internet services for
> nefarious purposes, using deceptive means to dupe vulnerable populations,
> exhibiting misbehaving behaviors such as using profanity or flashing in
> online video chats, spreading rumors or hate speech via WWW services, and
> many others. These issues have a direct negative impact on the social,
> psychological and in some cases physical well-being of users. An important
> characteristic of these issues is that they fall in a grey legal area,
> where perpetrators may claim freedom of speech or rights to free expression
> despite causing harm.
>
> We invite submissions of research on computational methods for addressing
> cybersafety. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the
> following:
>
>
>    -
>
>    Human-computer interaction issues surrounding cybersafety
>    -
>
>    Data mining and machine learning approaches for cybersafety
>    -
>
>    Social science aspects of cybersafety
>    -
>
>    Cyberbullying
>    -
>
>    Cyberthreats, coercion, and predation
>    -
>
>    Hate speech
>    -
>
>    Social media vandalism
>    -
>
>    Misbehaving users in online video chat services
>    -
>
>    Trolls in chat rooms, discussion boards, and other social media
>    -
>
>    Deception to shape opinion, such as fake news, fake reviews
>    -
>
>    Deceptive techniques targeted at vulnerable populations such as the
>    elderly and K-12 minors
>    -
>
>    Bad actors in social media
>    -
>
>    Online exposure of inappropriate material to minors
>    -
>
>    Education and promotion of safe spaces
>    -
>
>    Interface design to improve cybersafety
>    -
>
>    Remedies for preventing or thwarting cybersafety issues
>    -
>
>    Grooming and sexual predation
>    -
>
>    Radicalization via social media
>
>
>
>
> Paper Submission
>
> Authors are invited to submit papers of 4-8 pages in length. Papers should
> be submitted electronically in PDF format, using the ACM SIG Proceedings
> format <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (
> http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), with a font size
> no smaller than 9pt. The formatted manuscript should be submitted via email
> to [email protected].
>
> All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published
> in the companion proceedings of the WWW conference and the ACM digital
> library.
>
> Important Dates
>
> January 15, 2017: Paper submission deadline
>
> January 31, 2017: Notification of acceptance
>
> February 14, 2017: Camera-ready deadline
>
> Program Committee Co-Chairs
>
> Homa Hosseinmardi, Danaher Labs, USA
>
> Qin Lv, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
>
> Program Committee
>
> Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
>
> Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London, UK
>
> Francesca Spezzano, Boise State University, Boise, USA
>
> Gianluca Stringhini, University College, London, UK
>
> Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California, USA
>
> Keith W. Ross, New York University, USA
>
> April Edwards, Ursinus College, Collegeville, USA
>
> Haewoon Kwak, Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
>
> Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami Institute of Technology
> <http://www.kitami-it.ac.jp/old/eng/index.html>, Kitami, Japan
>
> Publicity Chair
>
> Srijan Kumar, University of Maryland, USA
>
> Organizing Committee
>
> Shivakant Mishra, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
>
> Jeremy Blackburn, Telefonica Research, Spain
>
> Bert Huang, Virginia Tech, USA
>
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