AAAI Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction March 23-25th, 2015 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA The AAAI Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction will bring together researchers across multiple disciplines–including multimodal systems, human-robot interaction, embodied conversational agents, and spoken dialogue systems–to address a topic of common interest: the modeling, realization, and evaluation of turn-taking and real-time action coordination between humans and artificial interactive systems. This symposium will serve to build common ground for researchers from these disparate backgrounds to share their perspectives, methodologies, and results from their own investigations into the problem of multimodal coordination.…

Call for Chapters: Closed Systems / Open Worlds Contact:  ClosedandOpenBook@gmail.com Deadline for précis:  15 September 2014 (extended) Edited by:  Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Usability Testing of Video Games: Multidisciplinary Case Studies A book edited by Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada To be published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis:  http://www.crcpress.com/ Introduction Usability Testing of Video Games: Multidisciplinary Case Studies will present case studies describing academic research and practicing hands-on experience on usability testing methodologies and techniques, with the aim of improving the human-computer interfaces of video games and players’ user experience (UX). The usability experiences will be presented as comprehensive case studies to be used as learning and teaching materials in video game design and development, usability, human-computer…

CALL FOR PAPERS Social ITS: Tutorial and Workshop on Theories and Applications of Social Science for Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces In conjunction with ACM ITS 2014 Dresden, Germany November 16, 2014 http://its2014socialscienceforis.weebly.com Important Dates Submission Deadline:  September 5, 2014, 5pm PDT Notification to Authors:  September 23, 2014 NEW EVENT FORMAT:  Tutorial (½ day) + Workshop (½ day):  November 16, 2014 Social ITS Tutorial + Workshop Theme There is an increasing trend in the human-computer interaction (HCI) and interactive tabletop and surfaces (ITS) communities towards the application of social theories describing human and social behaviour into our technology designs. For example,…

Call For Papers IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications Special Issue on Practical Virtual Reality Technologies and Applications Final submissions due:  1 Jan. 2015 Publication date:  1 Sep. 2015 VR research received much attention in the ’80s. It then became quiet for many years owing to the expensive hardware, including sensing, rendering, and display equipment. It has been receiving more attention since 2000 owing to the availability of inexpensive graphics cards and sensors, and the popularity of applications in such areas as gaming and virtual worlds. Recently, many augmented-reality applications have been developed, exploiting the popularity of mobile devices, which contain…

Call for Papers 20th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2015) Emerging Experiences in the Past, Present, and Future of Digital Architecture May 20-23, 2015 Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, Republic of Korea http://www.caadria2015.org 500-Word Abstract Due September 26, 2014 The adoption of computational processes in architecture has transformed the way we think, design and make, thereby enhancing our understanding, skills and performance in architectural design and research. Since 1996, CAADRIA has contributed to the exchange of information relating to studies and technologies in architecture and design by promoting dialogue, collaboration, and the…