Call for Papers: The Culture of the Artificial symposium, at AISB- 50 Goldsmiths, London, 1-­‐4 April 2014 As part of the AISB-‐50 Annual Convention 2014 to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, on April 1st-4th 2014 [http://aisb50.org/] The convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk/] Overview In 1964, when AISB was founded, computing was largely associated with the repetitive operations of the large mainframe machines employed by the military, by industry and by space programmes. Alan Turing, who had died prematurely just a decade before, had formalised the…

Call for Chapters for: EMOTIONS AND TECHNOLOGY: COMMUNICATION OF FEELINGS FOR, WITH, AND THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA Editors: Sharon Tettegah (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) & Richard E. Ferdig (Kent State University, USA) Technology, learning, cognition and the social-emotional life focus on emotions and affective interactions with and through technology.  In some cases, these interactions are user to user supported by the technology.  In other situations, these interactions are between the user and the technology.  Emotions and social interactions here refer to such things as anger, love, lust, jealousy, hatred demonstrated by either the human or the technology.  These interactions might happen…