CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Designing Moral Technologies – Theoretical, Practical and Ethical Issues
July 10-15, 2016

LOCATION: Centro Stefano Franscini (http://www.csf.ethz.ch/)
on the Monte Verità near Ascona, Switzerland

Submission deadline: January 31, 2016

SCOPE: Many empirical disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, neuroscience and anthropology, contribute to a growing knowledge of the foundations, mechanisms, and conditions of human moral behavior in various social contexts. This knowledge provides a basis for moral technologies – interventions intended to improve moral decision-making that do not target deliberation itself, but underlying neurological or psychological processes, as well as technological mediators of human social interaction. Such technologies include pharmacological interventions (“moral enhancement”), social technologies for “nudging” people, and persuasive information technologies. This development raises important questions, such as: Are context-sensitive moral technologies possible? To what extent is it morally justifiable to bypass deliberation in pursuit of improved moral decision-making?… read more. “Call: “Designing Moral Technologies – Theoretical, Practical and Ethical Issues” (conference)”

SimHealth 2016
26-29 September 2016
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Victoria, Australia

http://simulationcongress.com/

Call for Abstracts

The SimHealth Organising Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the 12th Annual SimHealth Conference, held under the auspices of Simulation Australasia’s Health Specialist Community, the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH).

Simulation Australasia, the national body for those working in simulation in Australasia, will once again bring together the SimHealth and SimTecT conferences under the name of the Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC) with opportunities for a number of joint sessions of mutual interest. In 2016, the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) conference will be incorporated into the ASC.

Click here to DOWNLOAD the SimHealth 2016 Call for Abstracts Brochure.

The SimHealth 2016 stream within the Australasian Simulation Congress will explore the theme LEADING FOR THE FUTURE.… read more. “Call: SimHealth 2016”

CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: One-day Workshop on
Collaborative Appropriation: How Couples, Teams, Groups and Communities Adapt and Adopt Technologies

in conjunction with CSCW 2016
http://cscw.acm.org/2016/

February 27th, 2016
San Francisco, CA, USA

Workshop Website:
http://projects.hci.sbg.ac.at/cscw2016/

Important dates:

• 16th December 2015: Submission of Position Papers
• 18th January 2016: Notification of acceptance
• 25th January 2016: Camera-ready version
• 27th February 2016: Workshop at CSCW 2016

TOPIC:

Previous workshops and papers have examined how individual users adopt and adapt technologies to meet their own local needs, “completing design through use.” However, there has been little systematic study of how groups of people engage collaboratively in these activities. This workshop opens a discussion for these under-studied forms of collaborative appropriation, using a broad range of perspectives including field studies, design explorations, theoretical accounts, and critical reflections.

PARTICIPATION:

We invite scholars and practitioners with a variety of backgrounds, who share an interest in understanding collaborative appropriation and would like to reflect upon their experiences in this context, to submit a position paper on one or more of the following topics (or related to them):

• Practical experiences in design for collaborative appropriation;
• Flexible, open design and tailorability as support for collaborative appropriation;
• Design goals, guidelines, and principles for collaborative appropriation;
• Major drivers to design for collaborative appropriation;
• Emergent roles (actors) in collaborative appropriation practices;
• Characterization and differentiation of collaborative appropriation between couples, teams, groups, and communities;
• Theories and methods for studying collaborative appropriation;
• Lessons learned from other design movements and research domains to inform the design for collaborative appropriation.

CALL FOR PAPERS: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2016)
6^th – 8^th September 2016, Nottingham, UK
http://ecce2016.eace.net/

ECCE 2016 is the 34th annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics. This leading conference in cognitive ergonomics, human technology interaction and cognitive engineering provides the opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences from a variety of domains.

The main theme of ECCE 2016 is simulation, visualisation and digital technologies. We invite long and short papers, demo and poster submissions, and doctoral consortium applications. We also welcome proposals for panel sessions.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 15, 2016, 5pm (CET): Due date for all submissions
May 2, 2016: Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2016, 5pm (CET): Camera-ready version of accepted contributions
July 16, 2016, 5pm (CET): Early registration deadline
September 5, 2016: ECCE 2016 Doctoral Consortium
September 6-8, 2016: ECCE 2016 Conference

SUBMISSION TOPICS

We invite papers from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of ergonomics challenges and opportunities in the areas of simulation, visualisation and digital technologies.… read more. “Call: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2016)”

Call for Papers
The 9th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: Artificial Sexuality

AISB Convention, University of Sheffield, UK, from 4-6th April 2016

The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)

Symposium Website

OVERVIEW:

Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. It is deeply embedded in our society. With cognitive systems development being heavily influenced by human cognition, perception, and interaction, should sexual behaviour and sexuality be part of that influence? Previous research has examined what might happen to us if we form close relationships with machines and intelligent systems. We feel that this is only one aspect of what we term Artificial Sexuality, and suggest that there are multiple and equally important strands that have not yet been fully explored, including – but by no means limited to – modelling sex and cognition, embodiment, gender issues, reproduction, ethics, and law.… read more. “Call: Artificial Sexuality – 9th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy”