Call for Papers

ECSCW 2017, The 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Sheffield (UK), August 28 ­ September 01 2017
https://ecscw2017.org.uk/

Papers submission deadline: 4th November 2016

The 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) will be held August 28 to September 1, 2017 in Sheffield, UK. ECSCW is a series of international conferences on computer­-supported cooperative work located in Europe and championed by EUSSET, the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies.

CSCW focuses on enhancing our understanding of the practices of cooperative work and on exploring and designing CSCW systems. The ECSCW conference is an important venue for defining and further developing the agenda for CSCW research. The conference has a longstanding interest in empirical, conceptual and theoretical contributions and has a tradition of inclusiveness. ECSCW addresses themes which include but are not limited to:

• Conceptualising practice in work and other activities, and the relationship between understanding practice and the design of computer artifacts: how can we understand work (the “W”)?

Interdisciplinary Call for Papers
ANTHROBOTICS
New Perspectives on Social Automata and Techno-social Cognitive Systems
Workshop 21 March 2017 at The University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh’s Anthrobotics Cluster, The Creation of Reality Group (CRAG), EIDYN, the Oxford Human Centred Computing Group, The Edinburgh School of Informatics, Science Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS), the Social Informatics Cluster, the Durham Centre for Humanities Innovation, and the Institut Français UK invite you to the first international interdisciplinary workshop on Anthrobotics.

According to roboticist Rodney Brooks, the distinction between us and robots is going to disappear in the next decades (Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machine, 2002). If so, are we theoretically and socially prepared for such a union? How does the ongoing development and deployment of intelligent systems and social robots induce radical changes in our lives and societies? The Anthrobotics Cluster at the University of Edinburgh was created in 2016 to reflect on the becoming of techno-human autonomous systems from an interdisciplinary perspective (humanities, social sciences, informatics, robotics, genetics, engineering, law, medicine, etc.).… read more. “Call: Workshop on Anthrobotics: New Perspectives on Social Automata and Techno-social Cognitive Systems”

2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications
December 6-9, Athens, Greece

Website: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci/cisda2016/

Organized under Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2016)
http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/

Paper submission deadline: extended to August 15, 2016

Symposium Organizers:
Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada (Symposium (Chair)
Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy (TPC co-chair)
Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada (TPC co-chair)

MOTIVATION

Given the rapidly changing and increasingly complex nature of global security, we continue to witness a remarkable interest within the defense and security communities in novel, adaptive and resilient techniques that can cope with the challenging problems arising in this domain. These challenges are brought forth not only by the overwhelming amount of data reported by a plethora of sensing and tracking modalities, but also by the emergence of innovative classes of decentralized, mass-scale communication protocols and connectivity frameworks such as cloud computing, sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems and the Internet of Things.… read more. “Call: 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications”

International Academic Conference on Meaningful Play
October 20-22, 2016
East Lansing, Michigan
http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/

Deadline: July 31, 2016

Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior.

Meaningful Play 2016 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.

The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes.

While any topic related to games for entertainment and learning is appropriate to submit to Meaningful Play 2016, topics of particular interest include:

1) Exploring meaningful applications of games

• Games to change attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors (including social impact games and health games)
• Games to stimulate creativity or innovation
• Games to build social skills
• Games to advertise and persuade
• Games to exercise specific cognitive functions
• Games to explore personal beliefs and help make decisions
• Games to build knowledge and skills (games for learning)
• Serious games for history and cultural heritage learning
• Games to promote civic, social, and humanitarian organization and participation

2) Issues in designing meaningful play

• Virtual reality and meaningful play
• Game design for specific audience segments
• Player types and play styles
• Story and storytelling in games
• Competitive and cooperative play (single player, multiplayer and massively multiplayer)
• Balancing entertainment and serious goals
• Repurposing entertainment games for serious purposes (and vice versa)
• Unintended and unexpected effects of games
• Using psychology and neuroscience to design and understand games
• Emerging design research methods to help create better games
• Measuring game impacts
• Innovative techniques and technologies for the design of meaningful play (e.g.

Call for Participation

Designing Interfaces for Creativity (DesInC) Symposium
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
November 3-4, 2016
https://desinc.mfm.sussex.ac.uk/

Submission deadline: 8^th September 2016

As computational technologies become increasingly embedded in the physical world, designers and makers of interfaces for creativity are bringing skills and expertise from progressively wider fields and practices into their work. What and how can designers of creative technologies learn from practitioners in broader design disciplines, past and present? The symposium will explore interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the design of tools, interfaces and instruments for creativity, including (but not limited to) sound, music, video, film, crafts, visual arts, software arts and gaming. Members of creative technology communities will join practitioners from wider interdisciplinary design fields and experts in historical design practices, for two days of workshops, keynote presentations, demos, discussions and performances. The event seeks to reach across and beyond academia, and welcomes contributions from industry, maker and artistic communities, and beyond.… read more. “Call: Designing Interfaces for Creativity (DesInC) Symposium”