Call for papers: Workshop CVE3D @ IEEE VR 2014 International Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Environments At IEEE Virtual Reality 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USA Sunday, March 30, 2014 http://sites.google.com/site/3dcveieeevr2014/ We need to improve interaction and collaboration in immersive virtual environments. Indeed, frameworks for the design of immersive and collaborative virtual environments are now mature enough to allow researchers to focus on higher-level description of immersion and collaboration rather than on low-level system features. However, we still have to improve both the immersion of the users and the ability of distant users to collaborate efficiently when they are sharing a virtual environment,…

CALL FOR PAPERS HCSE 2014 – 5th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering IFIP Working Group 13.2: Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design September 16-18, 2014 – Paderborn, Germany Submission deadline: April 07, 2014 http://www.hcse-conference.org HCSE is a working conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen human-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes.…

Call for Participation IDC 2014 – Interaction Design & Children June 17 – 20, 2014 Aarhus, Denmark http://idc2014.org/ We live in a global society where digital artefacts are an integral part of the everyday lives of children. Be it education, recreation, social interaction, or healthcare, interactive technology has come to play an important role in the way children relate to their physical, social, and cultural surroundings. IDC 2014 invites researchers and practitioners to share their work on how technology can be designed to improve children’s well being in a global context and how children, their parents, teachers and peers can…

Announcement / Call for registration Symposium on mediating morality: Using unmanned aerial systems for decision making in moral situations. Tuesday 21 January 2014, Eindhoven University of Technology Time:  10:00 – 17:00 Location:  TU/e campus, Traverse building, Dorgelo Room (1.52) Program:  http://p-e.ieis.tue.nl/node/132 Following the increasing civil and military deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, an intense public debate on the positive and negative effects of drones has emerged. The ECIS symposium “Mediating morality: Using unmanned aerial systems for decision making in moral situations” focuses on how the use of drones affects decision-making in moral situations. Current research in moral philosophy and moral…