CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Physiology in Personalized Systems User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) Submission deadline for extended abstracts: 20 September Submission deadline for full papers (for accepted abstracts): 15 December 2015 Special Issue web site: http://www.cp.jku.at/people/tkalcic/umuai_physiology.html GUEST EDITORS: Marko Tkalčič, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (marko.tkalcic@jku.at) Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom (s.fairclough@ljmu.ac.uk) Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (conati@cs.ubc.ca ) Aleksander Väljamäe, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden (aleksander.valjamae@liu.se) SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Personalization techniques, in general, build upon user models.…

Call for Papers: CMIS Workshop 3rd International Workshop on Collaboration Meets Interactive Surfaces (CMIS): Walls, Tables, Mobiles, and Wearables Workshop co-located with ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) 2015 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal November 15-18, 2015 http://sites.google.com/site/collaborationsurfaces/ Deadline extension for Submission of workshop papers: September 30, 2015 The vast screen real estate, which is provided in large-scale interaction environments presents novel ways to visualize and interact with data-rich models. In parallel to this technological revolution, interactive surfaces and devices have also become widespread in different sizes and devices ranging from large-scale walls, touch surfaces to wearable computing devices. Indeed, the ITS…

NURSE ANN DROID WILL SEE YOU NOW: Will AI care providers empower and assist independence or exploit and intensify isolation? Tuesday 15th September 2015, 2:30pm Free; registration required (see below) Council Room, One Great George Street, 1 Great George Street, Westminster, SW1P 3AA (just off Parliament Square) Followed by a drinks reception Technological and demographic change are among several drivers which are helping to shape our ever increasing globalised and developing world. We are living in unprecedented times. The increase in computational power and the explosion of devices which connect to the internet, forming the ubiquitous ‘Internet of Things’, offer…

12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems 23-27 May, 2016 Trento, Italy http://www.coop2016.unitn.it/ IMPORTANT DATES 8 November 2015 – Deadline for paper submissions 18 December 2015 – Notification of acceptance/rejection 23-27 May 2016 – COOP 2016 conference in Trento (Italy) MAKING TOGETHER COOP is one of the key European conferences on Cooperative Systems, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Collaborative Computing and is affiliated to EUSSET – the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies. COOP 2016 will be the twelfth edition of this biennial conference and will take place in Trento, Italy, organised by the department of Information…

Call for Chapters Serious Games and Edutainment Applications 2 Publisher: Springer-Verlag, UK Editors Prof. Minhua Ma, University of Huddersfield, UK Dr. Andreas Oikonomou, Nottingham Trent University, UK Prof. Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Chapter proposal due: 18 Nov 2015 BOOK DESCRIPTION Over the past two decades game technologies have been experiencing explosive growth and widespread applications in education and professional training. Many studies have identified the benefits of using serious games and gamification in a variety of edutainment applications. Following the big success of Serious Games and Edutainment Applications published in 2011, which has been heavily downloaded (over…