Call for Participation ISMAR 2015: Augmentation Without Boundaries The 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 29 September – 3 October 2015, Fukuoka, Japan http://ismar.vgtc.org/ ISMAR 2015, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), will be held in beautiful Fukuoka, Japan. The theme of this year’s conference is “Augmentation Without Boundaries”. ISMAR is responding to the recent explosion of commercial and research activities related to AR, MR, and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope that started last year. ISMAR 2015 will cover the full range of technologies encompassed by the…

Call for participation – CHI 2015 Workshop: Leveraging and Integrating Eastern and Western Insights into Human Engagement Studies in HCI 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, 18-23 April 2015. Important Dates: Submission by: 5th January 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13th February 2015 Workshop day: 18th or 19th April 2015 Workshop website: http://eastwest.xrenlab.com/ Human engagement is at the heart of every interactive technology. A concrete framework for synergizing the capabilities of humans and technologies to allow fully engaging interactions to happen…

‘Embodied Perception of the Human World’ (9th-10th April 2015) Over the past quarter of a century the sciences of the mind have placed increasing emphasis on the notion of an embodied agent perceiving the world around through interacting with that world. Many developments associated with this change in thinking were pre-figured within the philosophical movements of phenomenology through the course of the twentieth century. Some cognitive scientists have explicitly acknowledged this historical trend while others consider developments to have occurred in parallel. In a joint action by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology at Mary Immaculate College ~ University of…

Call for Participation Embarrassing Interactions: A CHI 2015 Workshop http://embarrassinginteractions.org CHI 2015 April 18-23 in Seoul, Korea http://chi2015.acm.org/ No matter whether mobile devices, ubiquitous computing, intercultural human-computer interaction (HCI), public interfaces, interactive art, experimental games, social computing, or robots and virtual agents: wherever new technologies disturb or merge situational norms and audiences, embarrassment is likely. Thus, (fear of) embarrassment presents a fundamental hurdle to adoption and engagement for any interactive system, but also a design space for experimental interfaces. This one-day workshop, co-located with CHI 2015 in Seoul, convenes researchers, designers, and artists to share and advance the current state…