ICWSM-12

Workshop Program

Important Dates for Workshop Organizers and Participants

Workshop Paper Submission: March 2, 2012
Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: March 16, 2012
Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 2, 2012
ICWSM-12 Workshops Day: June 4, 2012

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Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) [Full Day]
Workshop on Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams (RAMSS) [Full Day]
When the City Meets the Citizen Workshop (WCMCW) [Full Day]
Workshop on the Potential of Social Media Tools and Data for Journalists in the News Media Industry (SocMedNews) [Half Day]

ICWSM-12 is pleased to present Workshops Day at the Sixth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12). The Workshops Day will be held on June 4, 2012, the day prior to the first day of the technical conference, in Dublin, Ireland. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus - providing an informal setting for active exchange among researchers, developers and users on topics of current interest.

Please refer to the individual workshop websites and Calls for Participation for complete details regarding submissions. All workshop paper submissions must be formatted in AAAI style and are due March 2, 2012. Conference and workshop registration information will be posted in late March.

Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis)

Full Day, June 4, 2012

Social media study and analysis brings researchers from many fields into a single setting. Even though the tasks of these researchers are varied, data visualization and analytics plays an important role. For industry and academics alike, visualization of social media data helps with hypothesis formation and supports the explanation of phenomena. The SocMedVis Workshop provides a venue to discuss how we can apply data visualization and analytic techniques to social media data.

The workshop caters to designers and consumers of interactive visualization methods to better understand the applications of these techniques to social media data for the purposes of analysis and entertainment. The workshop is open to both novel visualization techniques and applications of visualization techniques to social media data sources. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary contributions that discuss the application of visualization to social media research and how these techniques can better support user tasks in other domains.

This workshop sesion will also feature an invited talk by Dr. Ben Shneiderman. Dr. Ben Shneiderman is a Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and founding Directory of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Keynote speaker

Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Shneiderman is the co-author with Catherine Plaisant of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th ed., 2010). With Stu Card and Jock Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). His book Leonardo’s Laptop appeared in October 2002 (MIT Press) and won the IEEE book award for Distinguished Literary Contribution. His latest book, with Derek Hansen and Marc Smith, is Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL (2010).

Organizers

Daniel Archambault, Clique Strategic Research Cluster, University College Dublin, Ireland
Eser Kandogan, IBM Research, Almaden, USA
Martin Harrigan, Clique Strategic Research Cluster, University College Dublin, Ireland

Email

Daniel Archambault

Web

http://socmedvis.ucd.ie/

Workshop on Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams (RAMSS)

Full Day, June 4, 2012

The recent increase of real-time data provided by users on social networking services has leveraged an importance gain of the real-time processing of social streams. Processing the streams in real-time can help enhance search engines, news media, and many other systems by feeding them with fresh knowledge about current affairs. Performing such analysis in real-time is of utmost importance for early reporting of breaking news, events, trends, and knowledge related to current affairs. However, analyzing social streams in real-time makes the task more challenging as it requires making decisions without clue of what will be next in the stream. The RAMSS workshop aims to bring together experts in the real-time analysis and mining of social streams, as well as to further develop and exchange knowledge around these tasks.

Keynote speaker

Jimmy Lin, Twitter
Jimmy Lin is a Visiting Research Professor at Twitter, currently on leave from the University of Maryland, where he is an Associate Professor in the iSchool. Lin's current research focuses on scalable algorithms for data analytics, particularly on text and graph data. At Twitter, he works on services designed to surface relevant content for users and the distributed infrastructure that supports mining relevance signals from massive amounts of data.

Organizers

Arkaitz Zubiaga, City University of New York, USA
Damiano Spina, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Maarten De Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, USA

Email

Arkaitz Zubiaga

Web

http://www.ramss.ws/

When the City Meets the Citizen Workshop (WCMCW)

Full Day, June 4, 2012

Social media has played a key role in providing insights into people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. These detailed user-generated information-streams offer a unique opportunity for cities to understand and engage their citizens. The research domain of smarter cities aims to monitor disruptive events (e.g., emergencies, Olympics), analyze social behaviour, identify citizens' sentiment and understand their interactions with services. On the other side, cities can use their understanding of the citizen to foster stronger relationships with the diverse communities in their constituencies. This understanding could be applied to mobilize people on important issues such as education, health care, political engagement and community awareness. This workshop is interested in research that aims to progress both sides of this relationship, but particularly research that works towards closing the loop between the city and the citizens.

Keynote speaker

George MacKerron, Creator of Mappiness
George is a Research Associate at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and a Visiting Fellow at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. His research focuses on subjective wellbeing, sustainability and environmental quality, and non-market valuation. His methodological interests are in Geographical Information Systems (GIS), spatial analysis and visualisation, and survey and experimental techniques for mobile devices and the web. George is responsible for Mappiness, a spatial experience sampling project which explores links between immediate wellbeing and the immediate environment.

Organizers

Elizabeth Daly, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland
Giusy Di Lorenzo, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland
Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK
Michael Muller, IBM Research, Cambridge, USA

Email

Elizabeth Daly

Web

http://bit.ly/wcmcw

Workshop on the Potential of Social Media Tools and Data for Journalists in the News Media Industry (SocMedNews)

Half Day, June 4, 2012

The news media industry has recognized that there is an undeniable shift in the way content is produced, consumed and distributed, including the sharing thereof. Nowadays, there are numerous cases in which "established" news agencies and news outlets are not the first point of call for users because everybody equipped with e.g. a smartphone can capture and publish events as they unfold on a platform of their choice (e.g. on YouTube, in Facebook, via Twitter etc). For this reason, news media organizations are increasingly depending on content from and information residing in Social Networks. However, news organizations are facing one crucial question when it comes to using content from the social web: "Can I trust this source? Is the source reliable? ". The aim of this workshop is to encourage participants to discuss, share and exchange ideas and results on social media research, technologies, and applications in two essential areas: newsgathering in the social web and filtering / analyzing the available data (e.g. by relevance, reliability, accuracy etc).

Keynote speaker

Dr. Katrin Weller, University of Düsseldorf
Dr. Katrin Weller is an information scientist working at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Germany) with a research focus on Social Web and Semantic Web. She is member of the interdisciplinary research group “Science and the Internet” that investigates how novel internet technologies change scientists’ work environments. In another project she is working with partners from Queensland University of Technology Brisbane to identify and evaluate different metrics for measuring communication on the microblogging platform Twitter, for example in the context of sports news. She is co-author of a monthly column on social media trends in the German trade journal for information professionals “Password” and has organised different scientific workshops and conferences on social media usage.