Call for Participation: CHI 2015 Workshop on Ethical Encounters in HCI: Research in Sensitive Settings Seoul, Republic of South Korea 18th April 2015 This one-day workshop will be held as part of the CHI 2015 annual ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held in Seoul, Korea between 18 and 23 April 2015. Important Dates: Submission by: 5th January 2015 Notification of acceptance: 6th February 2015 Workshop day: 18th or 19th April 2015 Workshop website: http://ethicalencountershci.wordpress.com/ Research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is moving into increasingly sensitive and challenging settings. New technologies are now being designed and evaluated with…

Call for Abstracts/Short Papers Workshop on “Behavior Coordination between Animals, Humans and Robots” http://www.icub.org/other/HRI2015-workshop.html part of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction March 2nd, 2015 Portland, Oregon, USA Deadline: 15.01.2015 ORGANIZERS: Hagen Lehmann, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, iCub Facility, Genoa, Italy Luisa Damiano, Research Centre on Complex Systems / Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy Lorenzo Natale, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, iCub Facility, Genoa, Italy OBJECTIVES: This workshop intends to bring together researchers investigating one or more aspects of behavior coordination in three different research domains: human-human interaction, human-animal interaction, human-robot interaction.…

Announcement and Call for Papers UBICOMP 2015 The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing September 7-11, 2015, Osaka, Japan http://www.ubicomp.org The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015) invites submission of full papers and notes describing original research. UbiComp is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. This includes the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technologies and the understanding of human experiences and social impacts…

Call for Papers: Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2015) Zurich, May 4, 2015 Co-located with the 36th annual conference of the European Association of Computer Graphics http://wiced2015.inria.fr Deadline for submission: February 28, 2015. The expressive use of virtual cameras, mise-en-scene, lighting and editing (montage) within 3D synthetic environment shows great promise to extend the communicative power of film and video into the artificial environments of games and virtual worlds. Cinematics produced in virtual worlds play a role not just for entertainment, but also for training, education, health-care communication, simulation, visualization and many other contexts. The automatic creation…

CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE ON Reimagining Interfaces for Older Adults INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (IJMHCI) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/IJMHCI Guest Editors: Emma Nicol, Mark D Dunlop, Jutta Treviranus http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1549 SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 23.01.2015 INTRODUCTION: Many countries have an increasingly ageing population. In recent years, mobile and related technologies have had a massive impact on social and working life. As the older adult population rises, many people will want to continue professional, social and lifestyle usage of such technologies into their 70s and beyond. Mobiles support community involvement and personal independence, but…