Speech Technology and Human Computer Interaction Workshop
Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)

March 27th 2014
Edinburgh, Scotland

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/matthewa/speechHCIwshop

Speech is becoming more common as an interaction modality, through its use as the principal means of interaction for Siri, Google Now and Google Glass and other commercially available devices. Over the years significant effort has been expended developing systems and solving issues in speech recognition, synthesis, and natural language processing leading to robust solutions in these areas. Yet there is currently a lack of attention on this modality from an HCI perspective. This SICSA workshop aims to harness the expertise in Scotland and the UK in these areas by bringing together researchers, students, practitioners and technologists from diverse fields (psychologists, linguistics, computer scientists, speech technologists, HCI researchers) from academia and industry to explore the nature of speech-based human-computer interactions and opportunities for cross disciplinary collaboration on mutual challenges.… read more. “Call: SICSA Speech Technology and Human Computer Interaction Workshop”

Call for Book Chapters: Handbook on 3D3C Virtual Worlds
Applications, Technologies and Policies for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce

Editor: Prof. Yesha Sivan, JVWR Managing editor; Metaverse Labs Ltd.
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Germany

Introduction:

The field of virtual worlds / Augmented Reality / 3D / etc. is vast, interconnected and expanding. In that respect, “3D3C Worlds” is defined as a combination of four factors:

• 3D stands for the three dimensional representation of worlds as seen in Google Earth, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and the like;
• Community as in a collection of people work, play and act together. Consider Facebook and Twitter as one example, and enhance it by the dynamics of World of Warcraft guilds;
• Creation is the ability to create new artifacts, as seen for example in Second Life or in Open Source movement;
• Commerce is the ability to harness these previous factors to gain monetary real value (consider Bitcoin, exchanges, etc.)

Call for Participation: Papers & Notes
ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2014
Dresden, Germany, November 16-19
http://www.its2014.org

Sponsored by the ACM’s special interest group on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI), ITS has been established as a premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies. This year’s conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel right in the heart of beautiful Dresden, Germany from Nov. 16-19, 2014.

ITS 2014 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces (including tabletops, large displays, mobile, and mini devices). We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of interactive surfaces.… read more. “Call: ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2014”

First Call for Papers

ET4S 2014 – 2nd International Workshop on Eye Tracking for Spatial Research
September 23, 2014 in Vienna, Austria in conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2014)

http://www.spatialeyetracking.org/
et4s@spatialeyetracking.org

Eye tracking has become a popular method for investigating research questions related to geographic information science. This includes studies on how people interact with geographic information systems and studies on how space is perceived in decision situations. Knowledge of how people perceive spatial information can help us, for instance, to design better maps and other spatial representations or to decide on the optimal placement of signage in indoor and outdoor environments. Recent technological developments in the area of mobile eye trackers have opened up new perspectives for their use in spatial research by allowing for studies outside the research lab, adding the user’s position as another aspect of the data.… read more. “Call: ET4S 2014 – 2nd International Workshop on Eye Tracking for Spatial Research”

Call for Papers
Fourth International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems ( CCGIDIS 2014 )

Venice, Italy
May 22 – 23, 2014

http://www.ainci.com/CCGIDIS%202014/symposium_CCGIDIS_2014.html

ALAIPO :: Latin Association of Human-Computer Interaction :: www.alaipo.com
AInCI :: International Association of Interactive Communication :: www.ainci.com

Communicability is the cornerstone for the success of the interaction among human beings and the technological (r)evolution in scientfic visualization, hypermedia online, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc., devices in which a huge part of humankind is immersed. In these devices there is a convergence and intersection of disciplines deriving from the formal and factual sciences. The main goal is to improve the interaction process with the new technologies on a daily basis.

Since its origins computer graphics has always been involved in the global village foreseen by McLuhan and has accompanied all the stages of the technological (r)evolution in the professional computer sector and telecommunications.… read more. “Call: 4th International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems (CCGIDIS 2014)”