USL 2013 - The 1st International workshop on Ubiquitous Social Learning

1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Social Learning (USL2013)
To be held in conjunction with The 12th International Conference on Web-based
Learning
Kenting, Taiwan, October 6-9, 2013
http://icwl2013.tajen.edu.tw/USL2013.html
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The 1st International workshop on Ubiquitous Social Learning will be jointly held with The
12th International Conference on Web-based Learning (http://icwl2013.tajen.edu.tw/) in
Kenting, Taiwan during October 6-9, 2013. This workshop aims to provide a premier
international forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to
present state-of-art advances and innovations on the latest developments in USL. In
particular, original ideas and research articles are solicited ranging from theoretical
foundations, systems, infrastructure, tools, practical applications, new communication
technologies, and experimental prototypes, in order to identify the emerging research
topics and map out the directions for future developments.
With the high development of emerging computing paradigms, such as Ubiquitous Computing,
Service Computing, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, and Internet of Things, we have been
continuously experiencing a tremendous change in the web-based learning environment.
Sharing feelings, experience, and knowledge have also become more conveniently in this
social networking revolution, which makes learning through interaction and collaboration in
a community or across a social network become increasing popular. Differing with the
traditional e-learning paradigm, social learning, which focuses more on the learning that
occurs within a social context, can be more capable to adapt the information and
communication technology and service in a rapid-changing social environment, and be more
flexible to deal with the delivering and exchanging of potential knowledge that is
dynamically generated anytime and anywhere. We welcome contributions to advance high
quality research in methods, theories, techniques and tools concerning the idea of enhanced
social learning, in order to provide a more productive and cost-effective learning and
education environment to better support both faculties and students in the next era.
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Topics of Interests
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The scopes of USL2013 will cover but not be limited to:
Ubiquitous Technology for Social Learning
Social Learning in Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing Environments
Context-aware &Situation-aware Learning Environments
Pervasive HCI for Social Learning
Ubiquitous Social Learning for Sustained Impact
Social Learning in Smart City
Theories and Models for Ubiquitous Social Learning
Big Data and Data Mining for Social Learning
Contents Recommendation for Social Learning
Information Fusion for Learning Support
Social Learning Technologies & Tools
Social Learning & Training Techniques
Social Media for Learning&Education
Social Learning: Leadership & Collaboration
Mobile and Wireless Social Networks for Learning
Social Networks /Service System Design and Architectures for Learning
Behavior/Social Pattern Analysis for Learning
Social Knowledge Organization for learning support
Web 2.0 for Enhanced Social Learning
Software Agents for Social Learning
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Paper Submission and Publication
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Authors are invited to submit full papers (maximum 10 pages) or short papers (maximum 6
pages). Papers should be written according to the Springer LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-....
All accepted papers will be published in a separate USL2013 post-proceedings volume as
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
The best ranked papers will be recommended by the program committee for possible
publication in the Special Issue of Social Computing and Social Knowledge for e-Learning,
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT), subject to further improvement and
expansion of the manuscripts by at least 30%
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Important Dates
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Paper submission due: June 17, 2013
Author notification: July 8, 2013
Camera Ready due: August 22, 2013
Conference Dates: October 6-9, 2013
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Organizing Committees
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General Co-Chairs
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Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada
PC Co-Chairs
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Xiaokang Zhou, Waseda University, Japan
Jian Chen, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
Haifeng Man, Northeast Normal University, China
Technical Program Committee
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Roman Y. Shtykh, Waseda University, Japan
Neil Y. Yen, University of Aizu, Japan
Bo Wu, Waseda University, Japan
Weimin Li, Shanghai University, China
Lei Jing, University of Aizu, Japan
Junbo Wang, University of Aizu, Japan
Yuqi Dong, Northeast Normal University, China
Yueguang Xie, Northeast Normal University, China
Yanlin Zheng, Northeast Normal University, China
Hai Zhang, Northeast Normal University, China
Xiyan Zhang, Jilin University, China
(more to be added)