NetGames 2015 Call for Papers

The 14th International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games
December 3-4, 2015, Zagreb, Croatia

http://netgames2015.fer.hr/

In co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMM
Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society

IMPORTANT DATES

Long/Short paper deadline: September 6, 2015, 23:59 CET (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
Demo submission deadline: September 18, 2015
Notification of decisions: October 12, 2015
Registration/ Final Paper Due: October 26, 2015

OVERVIEW

The 14th International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames 2015) will be held at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia on December 3-4, 2015. NetGames brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry across the globe to present their latest research on the challenges of today’s networked games, and to further understand the requirements and explore the possibilities of future generations of networked games. NetGames will also have a keynote and panel discussions with participants (or invited talks) from both academia and industry.… read more. “Call: NetGames 2015 – 14th International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games”

[This Call doesn’t specifically mention VR, AR and other presence-evoking technologies on the horizon, but they’d obviously be relevant. -Matthew]

Call for Papers
The Turkish Journal of Business Ethics
Special Issue: New Media and Ethics

Deadline for Article Submission: September 30, 2015

The Turkish Journal of Business Ethics, a biannual journal published by the Turkish Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics Association, will publish a special issue in Autumn 2015, focusing on “New Media and Ethics.”

New media has come to the forefront subsequent to various changes in traditional media, such as news professionalism, institutionalization, and most importantly, the changing form of production and consumption. The limited interaction between media producers and consumers has yielded an interactive content generated by individuals in conjunction with new media. The issues relating to personal data security have been increasing due to new media and digital surveillance.… read more. “Call: New Media and Ethics – Special issue of The Turkish Journal of Business Ethics”

Call for Papers:

Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments
Special Issue on Human–Technology Choreographies: Body, movement, and space

Guest Editors:
Antti Pirhonen (University of Jyväskylä, FI)
Kai Tuuri (University of Jyväskylä, FI)
Cumhur Erkut (Aalborg University, DK)

Submissions by August 28, 2015

In interaction design and related disciplines, the focus of research tends toward technological objects rather than the movements relating to interacting with the objects. Even when movements are considered, the emphasis is placed on their instrumental value, that is, how movements have direct effect on the functions of technology. However, the emphasis of this special issue rests upon technological objects and how they are used. In other words, the editors of this special issue seek submissions that emphasize intentional human movement in the physical and social “life-world” in which humans encounter technological and virtual artifacts.… read more. “Call: Human–Technology Choreographies: Body, Movement, and Space (Special issue of HT)”

Call for Papers – Ecoplay: Digital Games and Environmental Rhetoric

The University of Florida’s TRACE journal publishes online peer-reviewed collections in ecology, posthumanism, and media studies. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, we focus on the ethical and material impact of technology. TRACE Innovation Initiative’s second call for papers, “Ecoplay: Digital Games and Environmental Rhetoric,” focuses on digital games and asks how play contributes to ecological thought.

Building on M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer’s Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America as well as Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey’s Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature, this issue proposes “Ecoplay” as a rhetorical framework for investigating the intersection of gameplay and ecocriticism. Both Ecospeak and Ecosee explore how rhetorical forms encourage support and sympathy for environmental movements. Specifically, Ecospeak identifies rhetorical patterns in writing about environmental politics and argues that discourse is a fundamental part of the environmental problem.… read more. “Call: Ecoplay: Digital Games and Environmental Rhetoric – TRACE journal issue”

Call for Papers: Robot Ethics 2.0 (MIT Press)

Abstract deadline: 10 Sept 2015 (and ongoing)
Paper deadline: 1 Feb 2016

We are putting together an edited book on robot ethics, to be published by MIT Press.

This is a follow-up to our previous volume, Robot Ethics, and will cover more recent developments in the field, including:

• Autonomous cars
• Space, underwater, other environments
• Entertainment and sports
• Cyborgization and enhancement
• Personal/gender identity
• Security, crime, and abuse
• Environment
• Risk and uncertainty
• Programming and design strategies
• Privacy and other law
• Sex and psychology
• Deception and artificial emotions
• Human-robot interactions
• Medical, health, and personal care
• Labor and unemployment
• Internet of Things
• Artificial intelligence and robotics
• Religion
• Other related topics.

As with our first volume, we already have several prominent roboticists and technology ethicists as prospective contributors, but we’re always happy to hear about new research.… read more. “Call: Robot Ethics 2.0 (MIT Press)”