The Real of Reality
International Conference on Philosophy and Film
2 – 6 of November 2016
ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Germany)

www.zkm.de/en/therealofreality

Submission deadline: December 31, 2015

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Film and real-image-based media in general are a ubiquitous element of our globalized world in which reality appears as contingent, mobile, and multiple, increasingly dominated by its own images becoming real. However, the ontological consequences of these post-human techno-possibilities have not hitherto been considered in their full dimension in the context of philosophy. For this conference, which will take place at the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany), we propose to regard film as representative for how apparatus-based images of reality and reality itself are correlated. More than 100 years after the invention of film and decades after the emergence of digital technology, we propose to reassess the question ‘What is film?’… read more. “Call: The Real of Reality – International Conference on Philosophy and Film”

[Among other topics here, note the presence-related “planning for perception” -Matthew]

Call for Papers

ICAPS 2016 ROBOTICS TRACK
The 26th International Conference on
Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2016)

June 12-17, 2016, London, United Kingdom

http://icaps16.icaps-conference.org
(icaps16london@gmail.com for inquiries)

Abstracts due: November 18, 2015
Papers due: November 22, 2015
Notification: January 26, 2016

In 2016 ICAPS will run a robotics track as part of the main conference. Following on from successful events in 2014 and 2015, this will again emphasize the importance and opportunities of reuniting the fields of AI planning and (autonomous) robotics. This provides an opportunity for the AI planning and scheduling community to respond to the challenges that robotics applications pose and contribute to the advance of intelligent robotics. This is also an opportunity for the robotics community to propose integrated solutions, discuss its challenges related to planning for autonomous robots (deliberative, reactive, continuous planning and execution etc.)… read more. “Call: Robotics track at 2016 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)”

PERSUASIVE 2016 (PT-16)
The 11th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
April 5-7, Salzburg, Austria

Paper submission deadline: November 13, 2015

http://persuasive2016.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Persuasive Technology (PT) is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at changing people’s attitudes or behaviors through persuasion and social influence, but not through coercion or deception.

The 11th international conference on Persuasive Technologies will be held in the heart of Europe, in the beautiful city of Salzburg, Austria. After the conference being held in Chicago in 2015 the annual conference comes back to Europe. We are proud to host Persuasive Technologies in Salzburg, following exquisite sites such as Padua, Sydney, Linköping, Columbus, Copenhagen, Claremont, Oulu, Palo Alto, and Eindhoven.

The conference will bring together researchers, colleagues and friends from industry who are working in the field of persuasive technologies.… read more. “Call: PERSUASIVE 2016 – 11th International Conference on Persuasive Technology”

Call for Participation
Workshop on Game UI Design, Evaluation, and User Research
One Day Workshop organized on October 14, 2015 at IEEE GEM 2015, Toronto, Canada (http://www.ieee-gem.org/)

Submission deadline: September 29

The community of video game researchers has been rapidly evolving for the past few years, extending and modifying existing methodologies used by the human-computer interaction (HCI) community to the environment of digital games. This one-day workshop focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of user interfaces in video games development.

TOPICS

We invite researchers in the fields of games and HCI and industry practitioners (esp. game developers) to submit position papers, case studies, or technical contributions that explore the following main topics:

• Challenges in game user research, e.g., studying gamers
• Developing effective game UIs
• Special considerations in user studies with games
• Use of commercial games in user research or controlled experiments
• Novel game UIs
• Specialized quantitative or qualitative methods involving games

Unlisted but strongly related topics are also welcome.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Game UI Design, Evaluation, and User Research at IEEE GEM 2015”

Call for Papers

Special issue on Language and Cognition
Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute a Paper on our Research Topic of Language and Cognition, in the “Frontiers in Robotics and AI” journal.

“Frontiers” is a novel venue created by EPFL in Switzerland, which is home to a number of top-notch, open access, innovative journals.

The focus of the special issue is on Language between embodied agents (humans, animals, robots etc.) and in particular the interaction of Language with other modules of Cognition, including Perception, the Motor System, Reasoning abilities, and Learning Mechanisms. By “Language” we refer to its wider sense, including natural language, sign language and other symbolic or (semi)symbolic systems of communication. We therefore, envision this Frontiers Research Topic to become a hub for research that explores language from an enactive perspective, employing experimental and computational methods, and also including robot- and avatar- based embodiments, as well as simulation-based and other innovative methodologies.… read more. “Call: Special issue of Frontiers in Robotics and AI on Language and Cognition”