TEI’16: OUR BODY IS OUR MANUAL

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF ACM TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED AND EMBODIED INTERACTION (TEI)
2016 February 14-17, 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
http://tei-conf.org/

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

• Papers: 02 August 2015
• Studio/Workshops: 16 August 2015
• Arts Track: 25 October 2015
• Student Design Challenge: 25 October 2015
• Graduate Student Consortium: 25 October 2015
• Work in Progress: 25 October 2015

TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED AND EMBODIED INTERACTION

The work presented at TEI focuses on physical interaction with computing technology and addresses theories, design, user experience, interfaces and interaction, and technical development. The TEI conference has gained substantial visibility and activity over the past decade. It brings together researchers, practitioners, designers, businesses, artists and students from various disciplines, including tangible computing, physical computing, IT product design, appliance design, whole body interaction, speculative design, gestural interaction, embodied interaction, responsive architecture, and responsive and interactive environments and spaces. Application areas are diverse, including: learning; planning; automotive, fashion, furniture and architectural design; music and sound creation; public art and performance; games; as well as productivity and creativity tools in a wide range of domains.

The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks and demonstrations, participating in hands-on studio/workshops, and through posters, art installations and performances. We invite submissions from all of these perspectives: theoretical, conceptual, technical, applied, or artistic.

Accepted submissions of all types will be included in the ACM digital library proceedings.

TEI’16

At TEI’16 we celebrate the conference’s 10th anniversary. We see this moment as a perfect opportunity for recalling some of our founding values and complementing these with contemporary values, for re-emphasizing the relationship between interactive products and systems and the body, and for learning from each other’s approaches and rationales. At TEI’16 we wish to celebrate our trans-disciplinarity by creating a setting where all of us can learn not only from our similarities, but perhaps even more from our variety. Through a wide palette of work ranging from highly technical to highly artistic, and from highly applied to highly conceptual or theoretical, we wish to trigger discussion and reflection, with the aim of emphasizing what binds us.

To do this we have established the theme ‘Our Body Is Our Manual’. Our main motivations for this are:

1. By reemphasizing our embodiment we can have a unique perspective in the HCI and related communities on contemporary developments including social design, systems design, sustainability and more.
2. As the interactions we propose in our products and systems are aimed to inform our embodied selves, we should also allow ourselves to be informed by our bodies when designing and researching these interactions.
3. Focusing on our embodiment allows us a perspective on our work other than ‘field of application’.

At TEI’16 we aim for a conference that stimulates our signature transdisciplinary dialog on multiple levels, providing a conference that is more than the sum of its parts. This means that at TEI’16, the different aspects (e.g., the papers track, the studios, etcetera) will not be experienced in isolation but rather as an integrated experience.

Through this we can take the next step into TEI’s second decade. Read more on Call: Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2016…

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
on Wearable Technologies and the Internet of Things in Education and Training

Guest Editor: Mark J. W. Lee, Senior Member IEEE

http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~malee/cfp/TLT_Wearables&IoT_SpecialIssueCFP.pdf

The Internet of Things (IoT) is being touted as “the next technological revolution” and one that will be “the most potentially disruptive ” we will see in our lifetime, surpassed only by the World Wide Web and universal mobile connectivity [1, p. 24]. It involves real – world, physical objects with embedded computational and networking capabilities communicating and interacting with one another, with other computing devices, as well as with users on the global Internet. With the advent and growth of the IoT, homes, workplaces, and educational institutions – even entire cities and countries – are becoming increasingly ” smart ” and interconnected, which promises to substantially enhance or change the ways in which we live, play, work, and learn.

Amid the rise of the IoT, we have also been witnessing advances in wearable computing and electronic technologies that have made possible the creation of the “Internet of Me” [2]. Such technologies have now entered the mainstream [3] and products powered by them are becoming increasingly available on the mass market, with consumer – level devices like smart glasses (e.g., Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens), smart watches (e.g., Apple Watch), smart clothes, fitness bands/activity trackers (e.g., Fitbit, Nike+ FuelBand), and head – mounted cameras (e.g., GoPro) regularly dominating the technology news headlines of late. These technologies and devices along with others still being developed are able to augment human cognition, behavior, and interactions in powerful ways that were previously inconceivable.

It is clear that wearable technologies and the IoT hold much potential for and have many possible applications in education and training [4], [5]. While they have garnered considerable attention and interest in this sector [6] – [9] , however, there continues to be a dearth of real scholarship surrounding their use for learning, teaching, and assessment, the majority of published work to date consisting largely of anecdotal reports or being focused primarily on the technology. This themed special issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies will seek to address this gap by publishing a combination of theoretical/conceptual and empirical articles that contribute to the building of a rigorous evidence base aimed at guiding and supporting practice in addition to inspiring and informing future research and development in this rapidly emerging and evolving area. Submissions that go beyond technical descriptions or “show and tell” to engage deeply with pertinent questions and issues relating to pedagogical and learning design as well as those that systematically examine the efficacy of tools, methods, and approaches in improving learning are especially encouraged. Multidisciplinary studies are particularly welcome.

SUGGESTED TOPICS

The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: Read more on Call: Wearable Technologies and the Internet of Things in Education and Training (Special issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies)…

The First Creative Gaming Conference (CG2015)

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission: 12 May 2015
Notification: 15 June 2015
Conference: 8 September 2015
Full papers submitted for peer review: 14 September 2015
Notification: 10 October 2015
Submission of revised papers: 30 October 2015
Publication: 30 November 2015

Creative Gaming (CG2015) is an academic conference exploring creative gaming, playful interactivity and serious games which will be held at the Auckland University of Technology on 8 September 2015. CG2015 is being hosted by The School of Art and Design, PIGsty (The Play, Interaction and Games Lab) and Colab Creative Technologies Research Institute at AUT.

The conference will address the following questions: What is creative gaming? What are the trends in creative gaming? How can games be used to promote creativity or allow playful activities that encourage critical thinking? How is creative gaming being used to support wellbeing? How can we encourage creativity through game production?

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction. The goal of this first conference is to highlight and foster discussion about current high quality research in creative gaming as foundations for the future of playful interactivity and serious games.

Submission types:

1. an abstract up to a maximum of 300 words outlining the scope of a paper to be presented at the conference
2. a 100 word abstract for a poster
3. a 100 word proposal for a game or installation to be presented at the conference.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Abstracts must be submitted no later than Tuesday 12 May 2015, by email, to britta.pollmuller@aut.ac.nz.

CONFERENCE THEMES

The conference encourages multidisciplinary papers, including (but not restricted to) the following themes: Read more on Call: The First Creative Gaming Conference (CG2015)…

CALL FOR PAPERS

Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots
Iskandar, Malaysia
16 November, 2015
loveandsexwithrobots.org/

Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, there has been a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with artificial partners in the last few years. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community.

The Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots is inviting the submission of full papers or extended abstract to its symposium to be held in conjunction with the 12th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) conference in Iskandar, Malaysia.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

• Full Papers: 17 July 2015
• Extended Abstracts: 17 July 2015

We solicit submissions on the following topics, inter alia:

• Robot Emotions
• Humanoid Robots
• Clone Robots
• Entertainment Robots
• Robot Personalities
• Teledildonics
• Intelligent electronic sex hardware
• Gender Approaches
• Affective Approaches
• Psychological Approaches
• Sociological Approaches
• Roboethics
• Philosophical Approaches

Final edited and corrected papers will be published together with ACE proceedings on ACM Digital Library and available through ACM Digital Library. Read more on Call: Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots…