HCOMP 2016 - Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016)

HCOMP is the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While organized under the aegis of AAAI, HCOMP believes strongly in inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary research. This field is particularly unique in the diversity of disciplines it draws upon, and contributes to, ranging from human-centered qualitative studies and HCI design, to computer science and artificial intelligence, economics and the social sciences, all the way to law and policy. The HCOMP conference is aimed at promoting the exchange of scientific advances in human computation and crowdsourcing among not only researchers, but also engineers and practitioners, to encourage dialog across a spectrum of disciplines and communities of practice.
HCOMP 2016 builds on a successful history of past meetings: three AAAI HCOMP conferences (2013-2015) and four earlier workshops, held in conjunction with the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2011-2012), and the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2009-2010). Proceedings from past HCOMP conferences are available online in the HCOMP Conference Digital Archive.
Call for Papers
HCOMP strongly believes in inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary research. We therefore invite submissions across the broad spectrum of crowdsourcing and human computation, across fields and specific application areas. Submissions are invited on principles, studies, and applications of systems that rely on programmatic access to human intellect to perform some aspect of computation, or where human perception, knowledge, reasoning, or physical activity and coordination contributes to the operation of larger computational systems, applications, and services.
To ensure relevance, submissions are encouraged include research questions and contributions of broad interest to crowdsourcing and human computation, as well as discuss relevant open problems and prior work in the field. When evaluation is conducted entirely within a specific domain, authors are encouraged to discuss how findings might generalize to other communities and application areas using crowdsourcing and human computation.
The theme for HCOMP 2016 is Interaction:
between people and technology that is foundational to human computation
between theoretical foundations, experimental work, and engineering
between the computational, scientific, and social applications of human computation
between diverse disciplines and perspectives, within the HCOMP community and beyond
Full Papers
Full papers of up to 10 pages may be submitted. Full papers must represent original work, not previously published or under simultaneous peer-review for any other peer-reviewed, archival conference or journal.
All papers must be anonymized (include no information identifying the authors or their institutions) for double-blind peer-review and formatted according to the conference's style guidelines.
Accepted papers will be published in the HCOMP conference proceedings and included in the HCOMP Conference's Digital Archive.
Important Dates:
May 17, 2016: Papers due
June 15, 2016: Reviews released to authors
June 21, 2016: [Optional] Author rebuttals due
July 11, 2016: Notification of acceptance decisions
August 1, 2016: Camera-ready papers due