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.… read more. “Call: AAAI Symposium on Turn–taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction”

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 conduct. Code is a modulating multiple signifier, in that the interpreters of the code vary from human to machine and that our understanding of the signifier changes the worldliness in itself. The conduct of both participants and administrators of these spaces influences how they flourish and then fade.… read more. “Call: “Closed Systems / Open Worlds” (book chapters)”

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 interaction, software engineering, and related undergraduate and graduate courses. The case studies can also be used by scholars and practitioners from the video game industry interested in the topic.

Writing case studies on usability should require the “coming together” of science, technology and social knowledge in an interdisciplinary fashion, since the field of usability is supported by a number of knowledge areas.… read more. “Call: “Usability testing of video games: Multidisciplinary case studies” (Chapter proposals)”

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, social theories that describe how people utilize different spatial distances to engage in different types of interactions with others, how collaborative and communication practices are employed in face-to-face environments, have been appropriated by ITS researchers to create new forms of interactive surface interactions in a variety of contexts.… read more. “Call: Theories/Applications of Social Science for Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (at ITS 2014)”