CALL FOR PAPERS You are cordially invited to participate in IADE/UNIDCOM’s 8th International Conference: Senses & Sensibility in Lisbon – Design as a Trade. http://www.iade.pt/unidcom/senses2015/participate/ Extended deadline: June 30, 2015 The conference aims to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of information which embraces the theoretical, applied, and/or related areas of design and marketing, and can be grouped into nine strands or categories (see information below). Such a discussion shall be accomplished through both keynote presentations, presentations by invitation, or parallel sessions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent referees from the conference’s international scientific…

Invitation for Submissions TRACEY Journal – Theme issue on Drawing and ‘presence’ Submission deadline: September 4, 2015 TRACEY Journal is a fully peer reviewed electronic journal dedicated to drawing and visualisation. It is varied and diverse with a fast growing readership of academics, students and practitioners representing a wide range of drawing interests including fine art, architectural design, product design and visual communication – ideally any activity in which drawing and visualisation is essential. You can see us at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/ In this next invitation for submissions, we are focusing on the theme of Drawing and ‘presence’, particularly in relation to…

Workshop on Playful Experiences and Game Concepts for Multi-Screen Environments http://soc.kuleuven.be/cuo/ICEC at ICEC 2015 – IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing http://icec2015.idi.ntnu.no/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 10th, 2015 NOTIFICATION: August 14th, 2015 WORKSHOP: September 29th, 2015 WORKSHOP GOAL In this workshop at the ICEC 2015 Conference we will focus on how to design for playful experiences in multi-screen environments (smartphone, tablet, PC and TV), how existing gaming concepts can or cannot be transferred to the design of novel multi-screen formats, and how current insights in sociability, genres and attention can inspire new game concepts. These insights should ultimately lead to novel…

Call for Papers AI 2015: 28th AUSTRALASIAN JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Canberra, Australia, 30 November – 4 December 2015 http://ai2015.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ Submission Deadline: Jul 1, 2015 Notification Due: Sep 1, 2015 Final Version Due: Sep 15, 2015 Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence has become the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. In 2015, the 28th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Canberra, Australia. AI 2015 will be collocated…

FILM-PHILOSOPHY: PROSPECTS, DIRECTIONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES January 5-7, 2016 Film and Television Department Tel Aviv University Abstract deadline: August 1, 2015 Much has been learned from, and many interesting avenues for rethinking the interconnections between and among film studies and philosophy have been opened by, the burst of interest in “film-philosophy” over the past two decades. Calling upon philosophical and critical resources culled from both disciplines, this vibrant and still-emerging field presents an agenda for the kind of work for which we hope to provide a platform here: research that combines a careful and astute critique of objects of profound…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS eLEARNING 2.0 “The Paradigm Shift: Refocusing on the Student” Brunel University London, UK July 29, 2015 www.elearning2.org Submission of title and abstract DEADLINE: June 19, 2015 eLearning 2.0 is a lively international conference exploring technology-enhanced learning and social media technologies. The conference is a collaborative space for educators, students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to share their eLearning classroom successes, as well as new developments in their research and workplace. The main theme of this year’s conference is “The Paradigm Shift: Refocusing on the Student”. This educational paradigm shift is fuelled by the unprecedented access that students…