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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121">CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121"> Workshop on Algorithmic Behavior Change Support (ALBECS-2024)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121"> Co-located with the 19<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Persuasive Technology 2024</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121"> <u>Workshop</u>: April 10<sup>th</sup>, 2024</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121"> <u>Conference</u>: April 11<sup>th</sup> – 12<sup>th</sup>, 2024</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121"> <u>Workshop website</u>:
<a href="https://albecs-workshop.github.io/">https://albecs-workshop.github.io/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9pt; line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission deadline: 22nd February 2024</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Notification deadline: 29th February 2024</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Camera Ready: 3rd April 2024</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workshop: 10th April 2024</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9pt; line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SCOPE</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This workshop brings together researchers, designers, developers, practitioners, and educators who are interested
in the concept, development, evaluation, and impact of algorithmic behavior change support. Thus, while the Persuasive Technology conference considers all forms of technology, the focus of this workshop is on algorithms (e.g., based on logistic regression,
reinforcement learning, recommender systems) that support behavior change. We are thereby interested in algorithms at both the macro level (i.e., which are part of behavior change applications) and the micro level (i.e., which support forms of behavior change
as part of a technology that has a goal other than behavior change). We explicitly invite participants from various backgrounds such as artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, psychology, medical practice, and ethics of technology to contribute
their perspectives and experiences.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The broader objective of this workshop is to strengthen the community of people working on adaptive support for
behavior change. To this end, the workshop aims to create a lively exchange of ideas that benefits both the current and future research of the individual workshop participants. Specifically, the workshop's aim is to a) learn about each other's work, b) jointly
work on problems of the workshop participants, and c) establish a vision for future work on algorithmic behavior change support.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9pt; line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">TOPICS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Below is a non-exhaustive list of possible topics in the context of algorithms for adaptive behavior change support:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Methods and guidelines that can be used when designing algorithms (e.g., accounting for ethical and societal values, augmented or hybrid
intelligence)</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Novel algorithms</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Application of algorithms in behavior change contexts (e.g., education, health, sustainability)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FAIR implementation of algorithms</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Evaluation methods for algorithms (e.g., micro-randomized trials)</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Effectiveness of (components of) algorithms in simulated, experimental, or in-the-wild settings</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you are unsure whether your topic fits the scope of the workshop, please do not hesitate to ask us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9pt; line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SUBMISSION</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submissions to this workshop are in the form of papers describing both the authors' work and a problem that they
would like to work on together with the other workshop participants. Working with other workshop participants on one's own problem is a unique opportunity to get input from a large number of experts. Examples include:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Questionnaire creation</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> -> creating question
formulations in small groups, discussing if questions measure intended constructs</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Study design</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> -> getting feedback on one's
draft experimental design for evaluating an algorithm</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Instructions for study</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> -> letting workshop
participants follow an initial instruction set to see where they get stuck, which things are unclear, or which results they would get</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Applying design guidelines</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> -> after having
developed design guidelines, asking workshop participants how they would apply the guidelines to their own research or how they (dis)agree with the guidelines</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Algorithm design</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> -> based on an initial algorithm
idea, asking workshop participants for important concepts or guidelines to account for when further developing or implementing the algorithm</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Confirming guidelines for algorithm design</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> ->
based on an initial set of guidelines one wants to use for one's algorithm design, asking workshop participants how they (dis)agree with these guidelines to establish community agreement</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Establishing codes for a thematic analysis</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> ->
based on free-text responses providing feedback on an algorithm used in a previous study, asking workshop participants to in small groups come up with codes describing the concerns of study participants</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Establishing themes for a thematic analysis</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> ->
based on codes describing the concerns of study participants about an algorithm, asking workshop participants to discuss possible themes</span>
</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The authors should clearly describe how they think that working on their problem with the workshop participants
could benefit their work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Upon acceptance, at least 1 author should attend the workshop in person and be ready to 1) present their work in
a short 7-10 minute presentation and 2) work on their problem with the workshop participants for about 30 minutes. On rejection, you are also welcome to still join our workshop. To attend the workshop, participants must be registered for the workshops/tutorials
at Persuasive Technology 2024.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All submissions should adhere to either <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw">the
CEUR Workshop Proceedings guidelines</a> or <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines">the Springer LNCS guidelines</a>. Papers describing the authors' work should be written in English and have either 2-6
(short paper) or 7-12 pages (long paper), excluding references. Workshop proceedings will be published in <a href="https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html">CEUR</a> under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This means that the
final accepted papers will be published in the CEUR format. In addition to the papers describing the authors' work, the submission should include in an appendix the description of the problem the authors would like to work on together with workshop participants.
This description does not count toward the page limit and will not be published.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please anonymize your submission.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">You can submit through easychair:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=albecs2024" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1D419F">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=albecs2024</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121">Sincerely,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#212121">The ALBECS-2024 organizers</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Nele Albers,
<i>Delft University of Technology</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Amal Abdulrahman,
<i>Delft University of Technology and Macquarie University</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Deborah Richards, <i>Macquarie University</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Caroline Figueroa<i>, Delft University of Technology</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bibhas Chakraborty, <i>National University of Singapore and Duke University</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ananya Bhattacharjee, <i>University of Toronto</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Linwei He, <i>Tilburg University</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mark A. Neerincx,
<i>Delft University of Technology and TNO</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Joseph Jay Williams, <i>University of Toronto</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Nezih Younsi, <i>Sorbonne University</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tibor Bosse, <i>Radboud University</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Annemiek Linn, <i>University of Amsterdam</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Crystal Smit, <i>Erasmus University Rotterdam</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Willem-Paul Brinkman,
<i>Delft University of Technology</i></span></p>
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