Call for Papers International Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction (ASSP4MI@ICMI2015) 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015) November 13, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/icmi2015-assp4mi http://icmi.acm.org/2015/ Extended Deadline: 27th Of July 2015 OVERVIEW The last decade has shown a significant increase in research in affective computing and social signal processing (SSP). This body of work is inherently multimodal (e.g. eye gaze, vocal and facial expressions) and multidisciplinary (e.g. psychology, linguistics, computer science) of nature by addressing foci that call for these approaches. Major foci are the understanding and automatic detection and interpretation of emotional…

NextMed / MMVR22 The 22nd Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference April 7 – 9, 2016 • Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown Hotel • Los Angeles, California http://www.nextmed.com/en/ Submission deadline: October 5, 2015 2016 Call for Presentations In 1992, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality first presented a daring vision of patient care and medical education transformed by computer technology. The evolving NextMed / MMVR continues to engage researchers committed to intelligent healthcare—engineers, physicians, scientists, educators, students, industry, military, and futurists—with its creative mix of unorthodox thinking and validated investigation. For our 22nd conference, the Organizing Committee welcomes presentations on: Medical simulation and modeling…

[In this case CASA can stand for “Cars Are Social Actors”! -Matthew] Workshop on the attribution of cognitive abilities to vehicles (in conjunction with The 6th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications) WEBSITE http://www.viktoria.se/automotiveui-2015-workshop-on-the-attribution-of-cognitive-abilities-to-vehicles IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: July 20 (extended) Notification of acceptance: July 27 Camera ready version due: Aug. 03 Workshop date: Sept. 1 BACKGROUND Humans tend to modulate their behaviour based on beliefs about the agent they interact with (Branigan et al., 2011), including cognitive abilities. This remains true when interacting with robots (Vollmer et al., 2013; Kopp, 2010) and interactive vehicles…

Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology‘s special issue on ONLINE ARGUMENTS: THEORETICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES GUEST EDITOR(S) Fabio Paglieri (ISTC-CNR Roma) Chris Reed (University of Dundee) Associate Editor: Giuseppe Primiero (Middlesex University) INTRODUCTION Argument and debate form cornerstones of civilized society and of intellectual life. As online interaction usurps many traditional forms of interaction and communication, we would hope to see these processes alive and well on the web. But we do not. In spite of the ever-growing volume of online interaction, its current mechanisms hamper and discourage serious debate; they facilitate poor quality argument; and they allow fuzzy…

CALL FOR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS Second International Congress on Animal Computer Interaction Legoland, Iskandar 16 November, 2015 animalcomputerinteraction.org The Second International Congress on Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) provides a forum for research which invents and investigates how animals could be more extensively part of the 21st century age of internet, games and enabling technologies. We join emerging researchers in an area that promises to be fun, useful, vibrant and very surprising. ACI 2015 is inviting the submission of full papers, short papers, video posters and postgraduate consortium to its symposium to be held in conjunction with the 12th Advances in Computer…