Final Call for Papers

3rd Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments

AI@IE – http://2014.ai4ie.de

(in conjunction with ECAI 2014 in Prague)

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline:  25. May 2014 (slightly extendable on request)
• Notification of acceptance:  23. June 2014
• Final version deadline:  7. July 2014
• Workshop date:  18. August 2014 (during ECAI 2014)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Researchers in the area of intelligent environments try to embed intelligence into everyday working and living spaces. To reach this goal they investigate options to integrate smart technologies into ordinary objects within the environment or by controlling the available infrastructure in some clever way. The scale of tackled environments ranges from single rooms up to complete houses and whole cities. The ultimate goal is the creation of environments which support their users proactively and optimise themselves, for example with respect to energy usage.… read more. “Call: 3rd Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments”

Re-imagining Commonly Used Mobile Interfaces for Older Adults

September 23, 2014, Toronto, Canada

http://www.olderadults.mobi
workshop@olderadults.mobi

Call for Papers

Many countries have an increasingly ageing population. In recent years, mobile technologies have had a massive impact on social and working life. As the older adult population rises, many people will want to continue professional, social and lifestyle usage of mobiles into their 70s and beyond. Mobiles support community involvement and personal independence, but the ageing process can interfere considerably with their usage, e.g. through changes in vision, attention, and motor control. This workshop will bring together researchers who are re-imagining mobile interfaces so that they are more suited for use by older adults.

Position papers are sought related to topics including, but not limited to:

• Multimodal interaction with older adults
• Mobile input and visual interaction with older adults
• Older adults and ubiquitous computing
• Participatory design process for older adults
• Mobile interface evaluation with older adults
• Novel physical interaction for older adults
• The effect and implications for mobile design of the ageing process
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on mobile design for older adults

Research Through Design 2015 conference

21st Century Makers and Materialities

25th-27th March 2015, Cambridge UK.

Website: http://researchthroughdesign.org

Twitter: @RTD2015 <http://twitter.com/RTD2015>

1st Call for Submissions

We are excited to invite submissions for the second bi-annual Research Through Design (RTD) conference, to be held in Cambridge, UK, between the 25th and 27th of March 2015. RTD supports the dissemination of practice-based research through a novel and experimental conference format, comprising a curated exhibition of design research accompanied by round-table discussions in ‘Rooms of Interest’. The exhibition will be used as a platform for presenting and demonstrating research processes and outputs, and for generating debate about the role of the design practitioner and their work in a research context. Building on the success of inaugural RTD conference held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2013, the second conference, RTD 2015, is to be hosted at Microsoft Research¹s new European lab in the centre of Cambridge, which promises to be an exciting venue for exploring what design practice means in the early-21st Century.… read more. “Call: Research Through Design 2015 conference”

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction

Intelligenza Artificiale, the official journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA)

Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2014
Paper submission deadline: 1 August 2014

Special Issue Web site: http://aihci.di.unito.it/special_issue.html
Journal Web site: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligenza-artificiale/

SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) aims at improving the symbiosis between humans and computers by merging two research fields: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This may involve including intelligent capabilities in the interface in order to improve performance, usability and experience in critical ways. It may also involve designing an interface that effectively leverages human skills and capabilities, so that human performance with an application improves. Examples of application domains in which this synergism is necessary for improving the interaction experience are Recommender Systems, Adaptive Interfaces, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence, Affective Computing, Information Visualization, etc.… read more. “Call: Special issue on AI for HCI – Intelligenza Artificiale”

The Fifth International Conference on Serious Games Development & Applications (SGDA 2014)
Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014
www.sgda-conf.org

Submission deadline: 12 May 2014

SGDA 2014 will be held in Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014, as a satellite conference to European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2014). Both conferences are hosted by University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. Registered participants will have access to both conferences.

The recent re-emergence of serious games since 2002 has put the spotlight on the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games include engineering, education, health care, military applications, city planning, production, crisis response, and training. Serious games have primarily been used as a tool that gives players a novel way to interact with games in order to promote physical activities, to learn skills and knowledge, to support social-emotional development, to treat different types of psychological and physical disorders, etc.… read more. “Call: Fifth International Conference on Serious Games Development & Applications (SGDA 2014)”