CIAWES 2008, Extended Deadline

Final CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES 2008)

http://kinshuk.athabascau.ca/ciawes2008/index.php

in conjunction with International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE)

October 27-31, 2008

Taipei, Taiwan

--- Extended Deadline: 25 August, 2008 ---

MOTIVATION

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Typically used web-based educational systems such as learning management systems provide a variety of features to support teachers and course developers to create and manage their online courses. However, at current stage, such environments provide very little, or in most cases, neither intelligent support nor adaptivity at all. The need for smart learning environments arise that offer personal services in the whole cycle of education, from counselling, to academic advising, to program planning, to collaborative learning, to tutoring, and to testing.

Considering cognitive aspects such as learning styles and cognitive traits in web-based educational systems has become a promising area with high potential to support students in learning. By providing students with environments that incorporate their cognitive abilities and their individual preferences about how they like to learn, learning materials and courses can be adapted and more accurate intelligent support can be provided, aiming at making learning easier for learners.

This workshop deals with innovative research in the area of intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, focussing on the incorporation of cognitive aspects. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting and discussing high-quality research about how cognitive aspects can be considered in intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, including the detection of cognitive aspects, the development of systems that provide adaptive and intelligent support based on cognitive aspects as well as analyses about the effectiveness of considering cognitive aspects in technology enhanced learning.

The overall goal of the workshop is to bring people from the same area together and encourage discussion about how to support learners and educators, increase learning opportunities, and improve the efficiency and quality of service by considering cognitive aspects.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Topics of interest for the workshop include cognitive aspects related to (but are not limited to):

• Adaptive collaboration support

• Adaptive curriculum sequencing

• Adaptive presentation and navigation support

• Adaptive testing

• Agent technology

• Architectures and frameworks of AIED systems

• Authoring tools for developing AIED systems

• Cognition and collaborative learning

• Cognitive aspects in mobile learning

• Data mining, log mining, and web mining for education intelligence

• Educational robots and the consideration of cognition

• Empirical studies of adaptive and intelligent systems

• E-tutor, E-secretary, E-advisor, E-counsellor

• Game-based leanring and cognition

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Integration and interoperability issues

• Instructional design and pedagogy

• Intelligent and adaptive assessment

• Language learning and the consideration of cognition

• Problem solving methods and problem-based learning

• Semantic web and education

• Student modelling

• Web 2.0 and social computing for learning

IMPORTANT DATES

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August 25, 2008 Submission deadline for workshop papers (extended)

September 10, 2008 Notification of workshop papers

September 25, 2008 Final version deadline for workshop papers

October 27-31, 2008 ICCE & CIAWES

SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION

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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

• Full papers (8 pages)

• Short papers (4 pages)

The page length includes figures, tables, references, and so on.

The format of workshop papers should follow the format of conference papers at ICCE. Please use the guidelines at: http://www.apsce.net/icce2008/cfp_author_guid.html

Please submit your paper via email to Sabine Graf at [email protected] and copy to Kinshuk [email protected] as doc- or rtf-file, using the subject line "CIAWES - Paper Submission".

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by 2-3 reviewers from the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of ICCE (with ISBN number).

Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of a journal.

REGISTRATION

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The workshop is held in conjunction with ICCE. All participants of the workshop are required to register for the main conference, but there will be no additional workshop fee. Further information regarding the registration, accommodation, and the workshop/conference venue can be found at the website of ICCE 2008.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

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Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan

Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Ingo Brunkhorst, L3S Research Center, Germany

Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Liliane Esnault, EM Lyon, France

Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada

Bob Heller, Athabasca University, Canada

Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria

Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan

Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Hong Lin, University of Houston, USA

Tzu Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan

Konrad Morgan, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada

Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

Vincenzo Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy

Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania

Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece

Jirarat Sitthiworachart, Walailak University, Thailand

/J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA

Christian Swertz, University of Vienna, Austria

Manolis Wallace, University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece

Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan