CALL FOR PAPERS VS-GAMES 2014 University of Malta Valletta, Malta 9-12 September 2014 Supported by IEEE. Conference proceedings will also be published by IEEE. http://www.um.edu.mt/events/vs-games2014 Important dates: Full and Work-in-Progress Papers:  15 March 2014 Doctoral Consortium Papers:  30 April 2014 Posters and Demos:  30 April 2014 Industry Expo:  30 June 2014 Notification of acceptance:  30 April 2014 VS-Games now running in its 6th year, is a conference that targets cross-disciplinary communities interested in virtual worlds and games for serious applications. The conference promotes efforts in all areas of research involving the advancement of technologies, design, and applications of virtual worlds…

CALL FOR PAPERS GAMEON’2014 The 15th annual Simulation and AI in Games Conference University of Lincoln Lincoln, United Kingdom September 9-11, 2014 Games Development Methodology Game Theory/Multi-Agent Systems Artificial Intelligence Learning and Adaptation Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems Opponent Modelling Physics and Simulation/Graphical Simulation 3D Scalability Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation AI and Simulation Tools for games design Game Design Rendering Techniques Voice Interaction Artistic input to game and character design Storytelling and Natural Language Processing Online Gaming – Security Issues in Online Gaming MMOG’s Serious gaming Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc…. Games for training Games…

Call for Papers: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE (HAI’14) URL: http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI14/ Warsaw, Poland, August 11, 2014 Workshop at the International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT’14) (Proceedings will be published by Springer in their LNCS series) BACKGROUND Recent developments within Ambient Intelligence provide new possibilities to contribute to personal care. For example, our car may monitor us and warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or take measures when we are too drunk to drive. As another example, an elderly person may wear a device that monitors his or her wellbeing and offers support…

Fifth conference on Games for Health Europe 27 & 28 October 2014, Utrecht, the Netherlands Submission deadline: May 1th, 2014 http://www.gamesforhealtheurope.org/call-for-submissions-2014 1.  Background Founded in 2004, the Games for Health Project supports community, knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Games for Health Conference brings together researchers, medical professionals and game developers to share information about the impact of games, playful interaction and game technologies on health, health care and health policy. Over three days, more than 400 attendees will participate in over 60 sessions provided by an…

CALL FOR PAPERS Child-Robot Interaction @ Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2014 Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction: Social bonding, Learning, and Ethics http://www.childrobotinteraction.emote-project.eu/ In Cooperation with FP7 EU-project EMOTE Aarhus, Denmark 17 June, 2014 SCOPE Children are an especially interesting target group for Human-Robot Interaction research since they are often more willing than adults to interact and engage with robots. Therefore, children are likely to easily form a bond with a robot.  Since research has suggested that when empathy or support is provided (from a human or artificial source) learning is improved, it is a logical step to use robots as…

Speech Technology and Human Computer Interaction Workshop Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) March 27th 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/matthewa/speechHCIwshop Speech is becoming more common as an interaction modality, through its use as the principal means of interaction for Siri, Google Now and Google Glass and other commercially available devices. Over the years significant effort has been expended developing systems and solving issues in speech recognition, synthesis, and natural language processing leading to robust solutions in these areas. Yet there is currently a lack of attention on this modality from an HCI perspective. This SICSA workshop aims to harness the…