[See also the Call for Papers for AIIDE 2015, with fast approaching deadlines. –Matthew] 1st Call for Papers to the Social Believability in Games Workshop 2015 @ AIIDE Paper and demo submission: July 3, 2015 The Social Believability in Games Workshop of 2015 (SBG2015) is organised in cooperation with the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE’15). The workshop will be held on the 15th of November 2015 at the University of California Santa Cruz, California. The Social Believability in Games Workshop intends to be a point of interaction for researchers and game developers interested in different…

[Members of the presence community have often commented on the ability of animals to experience spatial and social presence; note especially the second bullet point below…  -Matthew] Call for Contributions: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: Special Issue on Animal-Computer Interaction SUBMISSION: Manuscript should be prepared according to the IJHCS Guide for authors. Please select SI: ACI when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/. TIMELINES: Submission Deadline: 30 June 2015 Final Paper Due: 31 December 2015 GUEST EDITORS: Clara Mancini, The Open University, c.mancini@open.ac.uk Oskar Juhlin, Stockholm University, oskarj@dsv.su.se Adrian David Cheock, City University London,…

​Call for Papers “Virtual Environments and Advanced Interfaces” (VEAI’2015) http://sites.google.com/a/my.westminster.ac.uk/veai2015/​ Workshop within the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2015) Liverpool, 26-28 October 2015 http://cse.stfx.ca/~iucc2015/index.html OVERVIEW The workshop on “Virtual Environments and Advanced Interfaces” within the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2015) that will be held on 26-28 October 2015 in Liverpool, UK aims to promote the discussion about ways of enhancing human computer interaction and communication in Immersive Virtual Environments. To address relevant challenges, VR software and hardware need to be adopted in embedded environments to allow intuitive interaction between users and/or…

Call for Papers Yearbook of Moving Image Studies: Image Embodiment: New Perspectives of the Sensory Turn Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2015 Deadline for Articles: January 11, 2016 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting articles from scientists, scholars, artists and film makers for the second issue entitled “Image Embodiment: New Perspectives of the Sensory Turn.” YoMIS will be enriched by disciplines like media and film studies, image science, (film) philosophy, art history, game studies and other research areas related to the moving image in general. Theories addressing the embodiment of the human mind discuss…

Designing Digital Creative Commons for the Performing Arts 14th July 2015, Lincoln, UK The workshop will run as part of the British HCI 2015 conference held 15-17th July 2015 at Lincoln, UK. This workshop aims to bring together HCI designers, creative technologists, Performing Arts practitioners and theorists to discuss issues and opportunities in designing digital tools for communication, artistic collaboration, sharing and co-creation between artists, and between artists and actively involved creative audiences. There are numerous existing online platforms that provide immediate and easy access to a vast range of tools for creative collaboration, yet their majority create and maintain…