Research Through Design 2015 conference 21st Century Makers and Materialities 25th-27th March 2015, Cambridge UK. Website: http://researchthroughdesign.org Twitter: @RTD2015 <http://twitter.com/RTD2015> 1st Call for Submissions We are excited to invite submissions for the second bi-annual Research Through Design (RTD) conference, to be held in Cambridge, UK, between the 25th and 27th of March 2015. RTD supports the dissemination of practice-based research through a novel and experimental conference format, comprising a curated exhibition of design research accompanied by round-table discussions in ‘Rooms of Interest’. The exhibition will be used as a platform for presenting and demonstrating research processes and outputs, and for…

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction Intelligenza Artificiale, the official journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2014 Paper submission deadline: 1 August 2014 Special Issue Web site: http://aihci.di.unito.it/special_issue.html Journal Web site: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligenza-artificiale/ SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) aims at improving the symbiosis between humans and computers by merging two research fields: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This may involve including intelligent capabilities in the interface in order to improve performance, usability and experience in critical ways. It may also involve designing an interface…

The Fifth International Conference on Serious Games Development & Applications (SGDA 2014) Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014 www.sgda-conf.org Submission deadline: 12 May 2014 SGDA 2014 will be held in Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014, as a satellite conference to European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2014). Both conferences are hosted by University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. Registered participants will have access to both conferences. The recent re-emergence of serious games since 2002 has put the spotlight on the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Games and society: From social interaction to social change Pre-Conference to ECREA’s fifth European Communication Conference, ECC 2014 (Lisbon, Portugal) – 11 November 2014 Abstracts deadline: 15th May 2014 The awareness of digital games has evolved rapidly in recent years, recognizing an activity earlier considered a practice for narrow and specialized audiences to be mainstream media entertainment for the masses. Since the mid nineties researchers have engaged in studying games as platforms for social interaction and as unique channels for exploration, experimentation and entertainment – however, much scientific and publication attention has been paid to the risks…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014) Tsukuba, Japan, October 29-31, 2014 http://hai2014.org/ People are increasingly interacting with computerized agents. Examples include autonomous and tele-presence robots in homes, healthcare, or search and rescue, virtual characters in the expanding gaming industry or for serious games, and agents representing other people through on-line social and interactive meeting places. Although these broad areas have their own unique research challenges, there is a clear commonality to be addressed in the investigation of how people interact with agents, whether they have physical or virtual embodiments, or represent remote people or…