FIRST CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013 Global Issues and Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement Technologies A book edited by Dr. Steven John Thompson (Johns Hopkins University, USA, and University of Maryland University College, USA) To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com Introduction Society is struggling with issues regarding rapid advancements in Human Enhancement Technologies (HET), especially in terms of definition, effects, participation, regulation, and control. These are global matters that legislators must sufficiently address at some point, as was evidenced partly by debate within the 2008 European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA), among…

Workshop on Geographic Human-Computer Interaction – CALL FOR PAPERS April 27-28, 2013 (at CHI 2013) Paris, France http://geohci2013.grouplens.org @geohci Position Statements Due: January 11, 2013 Thanks to rapid developments in mobile and spatial technologies, researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction (HCI), a large sub-field of computer science, are quickly becoming interested in geographic research questions and application areas. Similarly, geographers are exploring the impact of software and computing on space, and members of the Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Cartography communities are exploring how lessons from HCI can be integrated into their work. However, despite this rapid topical convergence, there…

CALL FOR PAPERS Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions: Users, Problems and Technologies Third IUI4DR Workshop in Conjunction with IUI 2013 Santa Monica, California March 19, 2013 Website: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/IUI4DR/ Abstract Submission Deadline:  9 Jan 2013 OVERVIEW This workshop aims to look at interaction from the viewpoint of users in developing regions.  We will identify interesting research challenges and usability obstacles experienced by this user population at the workshop. Related workshops were conducted in 2008 and 2011, and several interesting themes emerged, for example low-literacy and multimodal interfaces. In 2013, we will build on past workshops by focusing on different themes…

Call for Papers: IEEE ISTAS13 – Living in a Smart World Theme: “Wearable Computing and Augmediated Reality in Everyday Life.” ABOUT: ISTAS ’13 will be a transdisciplinary event for engineers, designers, scientists, artists, researchers in the social sciences, law and humanities, decision makers, entrepreneurs, inventors, commercializers, etc., as well as polymaths, and anyone who is a DASSTEMist (Designer, Artist, Sustainist, Scientist, Technologist, Engineer, and Mathematician). FORMAT: Consider submitting a paper or attending this conference that will touch at the very heart of some of the hottest socio-technical implications surrounding new media. This event is a transdisciplinary meeting inclusive of all…