CALL FOR PAPERS 20th IEEE Haptics Symposium http://hapticssymposium.org Call for Participation: The IEEE Haptics Symposium, founded in 1992, is a vibrant forum where psychophysicists, engineers and designers of applications and interactions come together to share advances, spark new collaborations and envision a future that benefits from rich physical interactions between computers and human operators, generated through haptic (force and tactile) devices. In 2014, the Haptics Symposium will take place February 23-26 at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Houston, Texas, USA. This Haptics Symposium will be a standalone IEEE-sponsored conference, featuring a full day of tutorials and workshops (February 23), followed…

Call for papers and demos 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (#artel13) to be held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013, Paphos (Cyprus). September 17, 2013. Extended submission deadline: 14.07.2013 Short URL: http://teleurope.eu/artel13 Twitter hashtag: #artel13 Introduction Awareness and Reflection are important aspects of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) and have to be adequately supported to enable learners to tap the potential of learning tools. The concepts awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines informing TEL (CSCW, CSCL, psychology, educational sciences, computer science, …). ARTEL13 aims to push forward the discussion and research on these concepts in TEL.…

International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film: Thinking reality and time through film http://sites.google.com/site/philosophyandfilmlisbon2014 7-10 May of 2014 Organized by CFUL – Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (www.centrodefilosofia.com) Hosted by Faculty of Letters and GoetheInstitut Lisbon CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 The deadline for abstract submission is 31st October, 2013 During the last two decades film has been increasingly recognized as a medium of philosophical reflection, in an ontological and epistemological perspective. But what does it mean to understand film as philosophizing? Can we access specific, reliable knowledge of the world and our relation to it through the aesthetic…

Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013) 12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy Organizers: Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo) & Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford) Website: http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013 Online Registration: http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013/registration-participants Extended deadline (see below): 07.07.2013 In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely on procedures directed to exploring life and cognition in a “synthetic” way, i.e. through modeling in artificial systems. Research on biological and cognitive processes is thus been increasingly based on implementations in “software” (simulations), “hardware” (robots) and “wetware” (chemical systems) used as scientific models…