First International Workshop on Educational Robots (WONDER)
Paris, 26th October 2015
http://icsrwonder2015.wordpress.com/

Satellite event of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)
http://www.icsoro.org/icsr2015/

Social robots are increasingly being studied as companions supporting and helping humans in different applications (e.g., home, healthcare, work spaces, public spaces, education, etc.). The study of robots acting as educational agents is an emerging field of social robotics. The last few years have seen the emergence, worldwide, of collaborative projects studying the role of robots in educational applications, for example, robots acting as tutors to support teachers and students, tools for therapy of children with autism, instructors in the factory, and learning companions in healthcare applications.

This workshop will bring together for the first time researchers interested in the design, development and evaluation of robots acting as educational agents. We anticipate the main outcome of the workshop to be the identification and investigation of open issues for educational robots, ranging from usability and personalization to long-term autonomy in real world environments.… read more. “Call: First International Workshop on Educational Robots (WONDER)”

Call for workshop submissions
Ageing Playfully: Advancing Research on Games for Older Adults Beyond Accessibility and Health Benefits
Half-day Workshop at CHI PLAY 2015

Submission deadline August 31st 2015

Workshop to be held October 4^th 2015 in London, UK

This workshop aims to shift perspectives on games for older adults beyond benefits they provide, exploring challenges and opportunities in the design and development of games for older adults that primarily focus on entertainment to provide empowering and engaging experiences.

Submissions are available in two categories. We would like to invite participants with a background in human-computer interaction, game design, and/or games research, who are encouraged to submit two-page position papers in SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format addressing at least one of the following questions:

• What picture of older adults is currently propagated in games research, what are the challenges, and what are the opportunities?

Call For Papers
11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016)

http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/

Conference: March 7-10, 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand
Submission Deadline: October 2, 2015.

The 11th Annual ACM/IEEE HRI Conference theme is “Natural Interaction.” The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction. Full papers and Tutorial/Workshop abstracts will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Full details of the submission types is provided on http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/authors/.

FULL PAPERS:

Full papers are eight camera-ready pages, including figures. Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings and be presented in an oral session.

To facilitate quality interdisciplinary reviewing, authors will be required to select a theme for their full paper submission. These themes represent different types of contributions to human-robot interaction and thus involve different criteria for evaluating what constitutes a significant contribution to the field.… read more. “Call: HRI 2016 -11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction”

Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area
37th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference
February 10-13, 2016
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
Albuquerque, NM

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submission deadline: November 1, 2015

The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area welcomes papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. The Area is also offering a three hour workshop titled “Making the Makerspace: A Look Into the Creation of the iSpace” on the first day of the conference.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

Possible topics include (but are in no way limited to):

• Advertising (both in-game and out)
• Alternative reality games
• Archiving and artifactual preservation
• Competitive/clan gaming
• Design and development
• Economic and industrial histories and studies
• Educational games and their pedagogies
• Foreign language games and culture
• Game art/game-based art (including game sound)
• Game streaming
• Haptics and interface studies
• Histories of games
• Localization
• Machinima
• MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming
• Performance
• Pornographic games
• Religion and games
• Representations of race and gender
• Representations of space and place
• The rhetoric of games and game systems
• Serious games
• Strategy games
• Table-top games and gaming
• Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence
• Theories of play
• Wireless and mobile gaming

For paper proposals: Please submit a 250 word abstract and brief biographical sketch to the conference event management site: http://conference2016.southwestpca.org/… read more. “Call: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) 2016 Conference”