Call for Participation for CHI’13 workshop on Experiencing Interactivity in Public Spaces (EIPS) Mobile and ubiquitous systems create opportunities for new kinds of interactivity in public spaces. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers, designers, practitioners and media artists to discuss new forms of experiences with publicly used interactive systems. We will discuss a broad sample of existing systems and prototypes, and issues related to user experiences in public spaces. We will have intensive group work sessions with both analytical and creative approaches. Paper submission deadline: January 11th, 2013 Notifications: February 8th, 2013 Workshop: April 28th in Paris Please visit…

The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy “Minds, Machines and Morals” University of Maryland at College Park July 15-17 2013 This generation has borne witness to a veritable explosion in the use of computing technologies in almost every aspect of life. Philosophers, scientists, and technologists/engineers have an important role to play in addressing the foundational questions that arise on the inexorable march toward intelligent machines. This year’s theme is “Minds, Machines and Morals.” Questions regarding the status of machines as moral agents and patients press on us as we envision a future filled with self-driving cars,…

ACM CREATIVITY AND COGNITION 2013 17-18 June 2013 University of Technology, Sydney http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com Call for PAPERS, POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS Call for GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM Deadlines Approaching: 17th December 2012 for Papers and Posters 1st March 2013 for Demos and Graduate Student Symposium The University of Technology, Sydney will host the International Conference on Creativity and Cognition from the 17th to the 20th of June 2013. The organising committee would like to invite you to join us in Sydney for another conference in this very successful series. For 2013 the conference theme will be ‘Intersections and Interactions’, due to the inter-disciplinarity…

Thirteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA 2013 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/iva2013/ August 29-31st Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2013 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modelling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behaviour. In addition to presentations…

The 4th Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2013) In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI Stuttgart, Germany, March 7-8, 2013 http://hcilab.org/ah2013/ Proceedings to be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series The 4th Augmented Human (AH) International Conference in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 7-8, 2013, focusing on augmenting human capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience. As in previous years, the conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series with ISBN. TOPICS Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing Bionics, Biomechanics and Exoskeletons…