Call for papers Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media Conference 29-31 May 2014 Department of Cinematography and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Television, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Deadline: February 15, 2014 The conference is an inter-disciplinary forum for academics and practitioners working in the fields or at the intersection of cinema, performing arts, visual arts and media. The conference aims to explore the role of the body in articulating and reflecting the changes in contemporary arts and media practices as well as the theoretical discourses they generate. In this sense, the body is seen…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting December 27-30, 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) invites papers to be presented at its divisional meeting held in conjunction with the Eastern divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Papers may address any topic that involves the connection between philosophy and the visual arts: film, photography, video, or other aesthetic media. Presentations should be 20-25 minutes (10-12 pages in length; 2500-3000 words). Presenters must be currently…

Call for Papers: IACAP 2014 The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece July 2-4, 2014 http://www.pt-ai.org/iacap/2014/ This year’s meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece. Computing technologies both raise philosophical questions and elucidate traditional philosophical problems. IACAP meetings emphasise this two-way relationship, providing an opportunity for researchers in multiple fields to share new work in an interdisciplinary setting. We invite both abstract submissions and symposium proposals in areas at the intersection of computing and philosophy. This year’s meeting will have a…

Call For Papers: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2014 (Paris, France) http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/ala2014/ Paper deadline: JANUARY 22, 2014 Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) encompasses diverse fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biology, as well as Cognitive and Social Sciences. The ALA workshop will focus on agents and multiagent systems which employ learning or adaptation. This workshop is a continuation of the long running AAMAS series of workshops on adaptive agents, now in its fourteenth year. The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in…

Special Issue on Intelligent Environments in Education and Culture of the journal Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments Deadline for indication to submit (abstract): January 16th As the world moves steadily to become a knowledge-based economy, education and learning have never been more important. Technology is playing an increasingly crucial role in the delivery of education, which in turn is driving research into the search for ever better technological solutions. The age of intelligent environments is bringing such pedagogical advances as smart classrooms, intelligent campuses, immersive reality, affective learning, mobile learning, intelligent learning clouds and personalized intelligent avatar-like tutors to…

CFP: HCI Research in Healthcare: Evidence to Practice Workshop at CHI 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Healthcare presents a challenging domain for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research.  The complexity of work, variability of work practices, richness of, and reliance on information, and continuous collaborative activity, provide opportunities to explore new forms of interaction and to advance theory. Theory has an important place in HCI research in healthcare. However, resources are spread far and wide in different multidisciplinary journals. It is timely for the community to reflect on the classic, modern and contemporary theories they use, to map where strengths and weaknesses…