<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues:<br></span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace,'Courier New',Courier,monospace;font-size:medium">Due to several requests from the submission authors, we have decided to extend the submission deadline for the workshop until June 15.</span> </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best Regards,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Program co-Chairs</div>
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<b><span style="font-family:Times"><font color="#112451">Call for Papers: WICSOC 2014 - Social Media, Crowdsourcing, and Public Health</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:Times">DEADLINE :</span></b><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Times">• Submission: June 15, 2014 • Acceptance: July 1st, 2014 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Times">• Camera Ready: TBA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Times">• Workshop Date: August 13, 2014</span></p>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">Program co-Chairs: Mohd Anwar, North Carolina A&T State University and Bernard Fuemmeler, Duke University Medical Center</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">The 3rd International Workshop on Issues and Challenges in Social Computing </span><span style="font-family:Times">(WICSOC 2014) will take place in conjunction with</span><span style="font-family:Times"> </span><span style="font-family:Times;color:blue">IEEE IRI 2014</span><span style="font-family:Times">, August 13</span><span style="font-family:Times">th </span><span style="font-family:Times">-15</span><span style="font-family:Times">th</span><span style="font-family:Times">. The aim of this workshop is to discuss and exchange ideas on the opportunities and challenges in social computing systems as they relate to healthcare and public health. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in any aspect of social computing with research focus on health, healthcare, or public health.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">Social Computing Technologies (SCT) offers users opportunities for connectedness, participation, engagement, collaboration, and opportunities for offering/receiving social support. These applications/systems gather abundance of information that when mined and analyzed will further enrich their services or help researchers understand many different things including social dynamics of people, wisdom of crowd, social construction and sharing of knowledge, etc. As a result, SCT can be leveraged to empower both health professional and citizens. Online Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, QuitNet are increasingly being used for health-related purposes. A 2013 online survey suggests that 59.9% patients used Twitter for increasing knowledge and exchanging advice and 52.3% used Facebook for social support and exchanging advice. Novel techniques for information analysis, reuse, and integration are critical to make sense of health- related information. Systematic approaches, design principles, and evaluation strategies need to be researched for developing effective health-related social computing applications. Other challenges in social computing include accommodating privacy, security, and trust expectations of users or separating good information from noise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">We invite research or position papers from researchers and practitioners working in any aspect of social computing with research focus on health, healthcare, or public health.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Times">Example topics</span></b><span style="font-family:Times">, but not limited to, include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Design, modeling, and simulation of socially aware health technology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Demonstration cases of using existing social media platforms (e.g., twitter, facebook) for health research</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Social network analysis for the purpose of understanding or intervening upon health related outcomes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Behavioral intervention implemented through social media platforms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Disease & health management using social media applications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Crowdsourcing health or biomedical research</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• Public health resource sensing or crowdsourcing of public health resources</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• In-time, in-place healthcare information through social media</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• Design and evaluation of online patient communities with social network features</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• Healthcare/mHealth Social Networks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Data protection (Privacy, Security, Trust) in healthcare social networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Empowerment of patients and healthcare professionals</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• Design and evaluation of social game for health education & awareness</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• Classification and categorization of health information in social media</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• Mining of big Data for population health monitoring or intervention</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">• Social computing application for health & wellness management</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times">All contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least three experts. <b>Papers should be 4-6 pages (English) in IEEE format</b>, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. Accepted papers will be published as workshop papers in the IEEE IRI conference proceedings. Manuscript template and formatting resources are available in: <span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">The extended versions of the best papers from the workshop will be considered for journal publication.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Times">CONTACT INFORMATION</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Times"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Web: <a href="http://wicsoc.ncat.edu/" target="_blank">wicsoc.ncat.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times">• Email: manwar (at) ncat (dot) edu</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<b><span style="font-family:Times">Submission Page: </span></b><span style="font-family:Times"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wicsoc2014" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wicsoc2014</a></span></p>
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