Call for Papers: DIS 2014 Workshop on Social NUI: Social Perspectives in Natural User Interfaces This one-day workshop will be held as part of the DIS 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (http://dis2014.iat.sfu.ca), held in Vancouver, Canada 21-25 June http://www.socialnui.unimelb.edu.au/dis2014workshop/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission by:  21 March 2014 Notification of acceptance:  31 March 2014 Camera Ready Copy:  20 April 2014 Workshop day:  21 or 22 June 2014 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP The term Natural User Interfaces (NUI) has come to refer to a broad collection of interactive technologies argued to draw upon existing human capabilities for communication and human capacity to…

SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014 The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog will be co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately preceding ACL 2014. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11) CALL FOR PAPERS The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences, providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research across the areas of discourse and dialog and attracting a diverse set of participants from academia and industry.…

Call for Contributions Tracés – Human sciences journal Matters of play Deadline: June the 30th, 2014 For an English version of the CfC in PDF, click here. For a French version of the CfC, click here. For a Spanish version of the CfC, click here. Abstract This issue of the Tracés journal questions the relationships between play and games, on the one hand, and materiality, on the other – i.e. materials, objects, interfaces and infrastructures, as well as bodily aspects involved in play and games. Various forms of play and games can be studied in that perspective, such as gambling,…