MSM 2011 - International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: User Interface Modeling in Social Media

Continuing the success of MSM 2010, we would like to address the user interface aspects of modeling social media. Much, if not all, interaction is done through some sort of user interface, however how to model social media through the user interface has still not been standardized. For example, people interact with their Facebook friends through the Facebook interface or perhaps another SNS interface like Seesmic. How do we model this user interface, and can this model be replicated to other social media and other form factors like new pad-based devices like the Apple iPad and to more recent high graphics-oriented smartphones like the Apple iPhone 4?
The goal of this workshop is to continue our vibrant discussion on modeling social media, focusing on the user interface modeling.
The workshop aims to attract and discuss various aspects of user interface modeling in social media using a wide range of modeling perspectives (such as justificative, explanative, descriptive, formative, predictive, etc models) and approaches (statistical modeling, conceptual modeling, temporal modeling, etc).
We want to bring together social networking researchers and user interface designers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling complex social media phenomena and systems through the user interface, 2) the different purposes and applications that models of social media can serve, and 3) issues of integrating and validating user interfaces in social media systems.

Topics of Interest
Topics may include, but are not limited to:

New modeling techniques and approaches for user interfaces in social media
Application design for user interfaces of social media (phone, pad-based, PC, web)
modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
Modeling user behaviour in social media
User-centered design for social media
Models of user cooperation and collaboration in social media
Trust and user-acceptance of social media
Integrating user interface design with social media
Testing user interface models and social media applications
Usability in social media interfaces (is usability not much of a concern since connectivity is more important?)
We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics.

Workshop Organizers
Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China
Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
Denis Helic, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Program Committee
Ed Chi, PARC, USA
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
Jordi Cabot, INRIA, France
Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany
Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Italy
Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
Else Nygren, Uppsala University, USA
Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel
Pranam Kolari, Yahoo Research, USA
Submission and Proceedings
We intend to publish proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and include them on the conference CD.

We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 papers) in the IEEE conference paper style. Information about the submission system will be released on the workshop website soon.