Social Informatics can be broadly defined as interdisciplinary research areas of social studies, human dynamics, computing science, and industrial engineering technologies that consider social context. Social informatics has recently become one of the emerging themes across a number of information and communication technology fields and attracted significant interest from not only researchers in computing and social sciences, but also software and online game vendors, web entrepreneurs, political analysts, digital government practitioners. The First ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics provides a key forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of social informatics.
Scope and Interests

The conference will be articulated into two tracks and the topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Computational Social Science
Human Dynamics
Social Signal Processing
Social Behavior Modeling
Social Informatics Theories
Social Intelligence and Social Cognition
Social media analytics and social media intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design
Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
Data Mining and Machine Learning in Social Contexts
Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts

Electronic Submission

Prepare your manuscripts with the following conference paper styles not more than 10 pages in PDF file.(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Submit your paper(s) at the SocialInformatics-2012 submission site: http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialinformatics/2012/paper_submission.html Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the ACM Digital Library.

Paper Publications

Top 5% accepted papers will be published ASE Human Journal. The rest of accepted papers will be in the ACM Digital Library.

Workshop Proposal

In conjunction with the SocialInformatics-2012 conference, workshops will be held. Please submit a workshop proposal including call for papers, organizing committee, important dates, short bio of the organizers to the SocialInformatics-2012 workshop chairs (justinzzhan@gmail.com) before June 30, 2012. Proceedings of SocialInformatics-2012 workshops will be included the conference proceedings and ASE Human Journal. The workshops with more than 15 papers will be granted with a free complimentary registration for the leading workshop organizer.

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal: June 30, 2012
Notification of Workshop Acceptance: July 15, 2012
Paper Submission Deadline: September 15, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2012
Final Manuscript Due: November 15, 2012