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DEADLINE EXTENDED due to frequent request</span>
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Last chance to submit a 2-4 page position paper to this exciting CHI workshop</span>
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A Short Workshop on Next Steps Towards Long Term Self Tracking </span>
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Call for Position Papers</span>
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CHI 2018 - April 21, 2018 - Montreal, Canada</span>
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Submission deadline: Thursday February 8, 2018 (midnight AoE)</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Background</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">In recent years,
we have seen an overwhelming development in sensors of personal health
and wellbeing, enabling the technical and medical layperson to monitor
parameters of health in real life. Now it is more and more understood that
there are considerable potential opportunities from long term tracking
covering periods of not just weeks or months, but years or decades, and
ultimately lifelong use. There are already numerous ways of tracking large
amounts of long term data, using dedicated tracking and logging tools,
deploying the sensors in our smart phones and smart watches, or analyzing
the digital traces that everybody leaves behind in social networks and
online systems.  Such long and very long term data should be able
to facilitate uses cases beyond behavior change, e.g. discovering long
term trends in behavior, monitoring progress against a long term target,
reflecting on long term trends and patterns, supporting decision making,
giving a lifelong health support, or discovering the impact of N-of-1 experiments.
However, the current state of the art leaves people facing barriers that
many people find insurmountable for making such uses of self tracking data.
It has become clear that considerable work is needed to turn tracking from
a toy to a tool.  </span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Contributions</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">We seek contributions
investigating challenges and opportunities arising from long term use of
self tracking tools, covering not just weeks or months, but potentially
years or decades. Topics include, but are not restricted to:</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">* Use and abandonment</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">* Understanding
incompleteness of data</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">* Designing interventions</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">* Use of tracking
data by medical professionals</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">* New individual
and community applications</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">* Challenges of
interdisciplinary and long term research</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Submission</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">==========</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Submissions can
be position papers, presenting – potentially controversial – points of
view or perspectives. Or they can present scientific work, also work in
progress or in an early stage. Submissions must use the CHI Extended Abstract
template and be 2-4 pages in length. They must relate to the overall theme
of the workshop, long term self tracking beyond weeks and months. The submissions
must not be anonymized. </span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Submissions must
be made to </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=longtermtracking2018"><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=longtermtracking2018</span></a>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Important dates</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Submission: February
2, 2018</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Notification of
acceptance: February 22, 2018</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Workshop: April
21, 2018 </span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Participants are
selected based on relevance of the submission to the workshop's topic of
long term self tracking, the potential to stimulate discussion, and the
overall quality of the submission. At least one author of each accepted
paper must attend the workshop. All participants must register for both
the workshop and at least one day of the conference.</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">For further information
see</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">   
    </span><a href=https://longtermtracking.offis.de/><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:sans-serif">https://longtermtracking.offis.de</span></a>