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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