Call for Papers: Organic Experiences: (Re-)shaping Interactions with Deformable Displays — A CHI2013 workshop.

Website: www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/deformable2013
Submission deadline: January 11, 2013

The next generation user experiences will rely on visual and physical output technologies that extend beyond the rigid, flat surfaces with which we are familiar to produce devices that both users and machines can deform and shape. Such experiences will allow users to physically push, pull, bend, fold, or wrap devices to facilitate new modes of interaction and better represent content.

This workshop will provide a forum to examine the three primary themes of research in this area: prototyping and implementation, interaction and experience design, and evaluation. It will bring together an interdisciplinary group of academic and industrial researchers to define the current and future challenges of crafting organic user experiences with deformable displays.

We invite you to submit a 2-4 page position paper that describes current work, future directions and significant challenges in the domain of interactions with deformable displays to support Organic User Experiences.… read more. “Call: Organic Experiences: (Re-)shaping Interactions with Deformable Displays (CHI2013 workshop)”

2nd Interaction Design and Human Computer Interaction Workshop
within the framework of the
5th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC)

4-5 June 2013 | Department of Design & Multimedia, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Interaction Design is about designing interactive products to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives. (Rogers, Sharp and Preece, 2011)

Human computer interaction (HCI), a component of Interaction Design, is concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for the human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them (ACM SIGCHI, 1992).

Most people today spend a significant part of their lives in front of a screen, interacting with a computer, a smartphone or a tablet to get their work done, to communicate, to hold meetings, to learn, to socialize with friends, to play games, and so on.… read more. “Call: 2nd Interaction Design and Human Computer Interaction Workshop – within ICTVC”

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 EIPS workshop web site for more details:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/ihte/EIPS_workshop_CHI13/… read more. “Call: Experiencing Interactivity in Public Spaces (EIPS), a CHI 2013 workshop”

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, robotic surgeons, health-care providers, and online computational surrogates. According to what principles should they behave, if any? How much autonomy should they be granted, and how might they interact with human partners before, during, and after engaging in action accompanied by moral deliberation?… read more. “Call: “Minds, Machines and Morals” – Annual meeting of International Association for Computing and Philosophy”