Co-located with the 13th ACM Web Science Conference
June 21, 2021, Online workshop
Schedule
| Time | Session | Presenters | Affiliation |
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| 9:30 – 10:00 | Session 1: Introduction to the Workshop | Bidisha Chaudhuri / Srinath Srinivasa | IIIT Bangalore |
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| 10:00 – 11:30 | Session 2 | Discussant: Nirmal Sivaraman | LNMIIT |
| Leveraging technology to improve quality of mental health care in Karnataka (Full Paper) | T K Srikanth, Girish N Rao, Rajani Parthasarathy, Divya Raj, Suresh Bada Math, Seema Mehrotra, Jagadisha Thirthalli, C Naveen Kumar, Paulomi Sudhir and Deepak Jayarajan | 1. IIIT Bangalore, 2. National Health Mission, Dept of Health and Family Welfare Services, Govt. of Karnataka, 3.National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, | |
| AIoT: AI meets IoT and Web in Smart Health Care (Full Paper) | Asoke Talukder and Roland Haas | 1. SRIT India, 2. IIIT Bangalore | |
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| 11:30 – 11:45 | Informal Meeting/Break | ||
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| 11:45 – 13:15 | Session 3 | Discussant: Roland Haas | IIIT Bangalore |
| Assisted Telemedicine Model for Rural Healthcare Ecosystem (Full Paper) | Divya Raj and T K Srikanth | IIIT Bangalore | |
| Event Detection in Twitter using Social Synchrony and Average Number of Common Friends (Short Paper) | Nirmal Sivaraman, Jaswant Reddy Tokala, Radha Sai Rupesh Ch V and Sakthi Muthiah | LNMIIT | |
| SceVar (Scenario Variations) Database: Real World Statistics driven Scenario Variations for AV Testing in Simulation (Short Paper) | Sagar Pathrudkar, Saikat Mukherjee, Vijaya Sarathi Indla and Manish Chowdhury | Siemens India | |
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| 13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Session 4: Keynote Digital Capabilities of the Web – Not Easy and Not Automatic Although the Web is officially recognised as starting in CERN in 1989, people had been trying to build a world-wide network of communication for over a century before that. The idea that a new form of communication could underpin a new opportunity for a better society was widely understood, and the basis of UNESCO’s MacBride report in 1980. This optimism led to the development within the academic sector of agendas for Open Access, Open Source Software, Open Data, Open Education and Open Science. In this talk I will reflect on the experience of being involved in these activities, what they have achieved to date, and how we might progress the digital capabilities agenda as we develop the future of the Web. | Les Carr | University of Southampton |
| Discussant: Srinath Srinivasa | IIIT Bangalore | ||
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| 15:00 – 16:00 | Introduction to Web Science at IIITB / Informal meeting / Break | ||
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| 16:00 – 17:30 | Session 5 | Discussant: TK Srikanth | IIIT Bangalore |
| Towards Evaluating Students’ Digital Capabilities: An Analysis of UK Further Education Student Surveys (Full Paper) | Tim O’Riordan and Daniel Dennis | Plumpton College, UK | |
| Diabetes Tracker: An Information System to assist and track nutritional information (Full Paper) | Vipula Rawte, Hongyi Huang, Michael Morrison, Janine Wu, Travis Peterson and Thilanka Munasinghe | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Empowerment of individuals and communities is a critical factor for achieving several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) formulated by the UN. World over, development economics has come to define empowerment as the ability of individuals and societies to protect and enhance an abstract notion of “well-being”. This in turn, is facilitated by an abstract notion of “capability” that is sought to be enhanced with relevant interventions. Depending on the context, the terms “well-being” and “capability” can take on different definitions, and may be composed of different building blocks– be it education, health-care, safety, wealth creation, and so on.
Digital Capabilities is an emerging term that relates the development economics notion of capability with ICT– especially Web and Internet technologies, as an enabler. The idea of digital capabilities is not just concerned with developing economies, but is fast becoming center-stage worldwide, following the COVID pandemic and the resultant disruptions in the functioning of societies, economies and countries. Digital capabilities in areas like mobile payments, online learning, online political campaigns, virtual conferences, tele-medicine, remote working, and so on, have grown tremendously during the pandemic, and are likely to stay on even beyond the pandemic.
It is hence timely and relevant to develop and establish the concept of Digital Capabilities, that can give us a framework to interpret, analyze and design in the context of social empowerment and well-being. The proposed workshop aims to bring together a disparate and eclectic population of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to help build this emerging discipline.
Call for papers
Capabilities framework presents a people-centric approach to conceptualise and evaluate ideas of human development, justice and individual well-being. At the core of this approach is the idea of people’s valued functioning, that is, real opportunities to achieve what a
person values to do and to be (Sen 1993; Zheng 2007). With this primary focus on human freedom and well-being, it is considered to be an appropriate framework to assess the developmental potential of technologies – be it education, health-care, safety, wealth creation, and so on. While Information and Communication Technology (ICT), especially web and mobile technologies, has been recognised as a critical factor in improving human well-being, Capabilities framework allow us to treat them as enablers that help in formulating the real opportunities for valued functioning and also acknowledges the interpersonal and demographic variation in converting those opportunities. Moreover, without discounting the importance of technology for development, it underlines the significance of context and situated agency of users to evaluate the actual effectiveness of technologies (Dreze and Sen 2002).
We invoke the term “digital capabilities” to refer to the possibilities and potential of digital technologies for human development across varied contexts. This concept from human development literature becomes even more relevant in the promptly changing world in the wake of the pandemic. Web and mobile technologies in areas like mobile payments, online learning, online political campaigns, virtual conferences, tele-medicine, remote working, and so on, have grown tremendously during the pandemic, and are likely to stay on even beyond the pandemic.
It is hence timely and relevant to develop and establish the concept of Digital Capabilities, that can give us a framework to interpret, analyze and design web and mobile technologies in the context of socio-economic diversity, well-being and justice. The proposed workshop aims to bring together a disparate and eclectic population of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to help build this emerging interdisciplinary field of knowledge and practice.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- AI for empowerment
- Data-driven Governance
- Data privacy and security
- Digital Surveillance and its impacts
- Mobile and e-Administration
- Mobile payments
- Remote health-care
- Remote learning and literacy
- Social Cognition and worldviews
- Social media and community empowerment
- Technology for public health and epidemic response
- Technology and mental health
- Technology and social inclusion
- Technology-enhanced learning
Papers developing some concept of digital capabilities, showing either finished results or work in progress, are all welcome. Experience reports and application papers are also welcome.
Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM Submission template (single column). To create your PDF submission, you may use either Microsoft Word format or the ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf (ACM Conference Proceedings “Master” Template) using the “manuscript” option. A full description of the procedure can be found in this link (https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow). For the review process, manuscripts should be of approx. 9-13 pages length single column (inclusive of references, appendices, etc.)
Papers should be uploaded using the EasyChair portal for the workshop on this URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdc2021
Accepted papers will later be re-formatted with the sigconf style (double column) at camera-ready time. When changing to this style manuscripts may also need to be adjusted to the corresponding final page limit of between 6 and 10 pages (inclusive of references, appendices, etc.).
Proceedings of the workshop will be published as a companion volume to the ACM WebSci proceedings.
Important Dates:
April 23, 2021: Workshop paper submission deadline
April 30, 2021 May 4 2021: Acceptance Notification
May 10, 2021 May 14 2021: Final (camera-ready) submission deadline
Note: To create your PDF submission, you may use either Microsoft Word format or the ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf (ACM Conference Proceedings “Master” Template) using the “manuscript” option. A full description of the procedure can be found in this link (https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow).
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