[Please consider submitting an abstract, paper, poster or demo, and help us spread the word about this next ISPR event: ICA’s a great conference, Kyoto was just ranked the World’s Best City by Travel + Leisure magazine, and we have a very cool program planned. Join us in Japan this June! -Matthew] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PARTICIPATION The Power of Presence: Using Telepresence Theory, Research and Applications to Enhance Mediated Communication Experiences in the 21st Century A preconference of the 2016 conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) Co-sponsored by the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) June 8, 2016…

Call for papers HRI 2016 workshop: 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Child Robot Interaction Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Important Dates: Position Papers submission deadline (extended): 1st February 2016 Notification of acceptance: 7th February 2016 Camera Ready: 15th   February 2016 Workshop Date: 7th March 2016 (Full-day workshop) Website: https://evaluatingchildrobotinteraction.wordpress.com/ Submissions should be mailed to c.zaga@utwente.nl Social Media: Twitter hashtag: #evaluatingCRI Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CRIresearch/ ABSTRACT AND MOTIVATION Many researchers have started to explore natural interaction scenarios for children. No matter if these children are normally developing or have special needs, evaluating Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) is a challenge. To find methods that work well…

CALL FOR PAPERS – GET 2016 – Deadline for submissions: 8 February 2016 9th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies 2016 Madeira, Portugal, 2 – 4 July 2016 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/) Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2016) Madeira, Portugal, 1 – 4 July 2016 (http://www.mccsis.org) CONFERENCE SCOPE The GET 2016 conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on design, development and evaluation of games, entertainment technologies and the nature of play. Topics for this conference…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS ACM Symposium on Applied Perception – SAP 2016 July 22-23, 2016, Anaheim, USA Paper submission deadline: March 25 Poster submission deadline: May 10 http://sap.acm.org/2016/cfp.php The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) aims to advance and promote research that crosses the boundaries between perception and disciplines such as graphics, visualization, computer vision, haptics and acoustics. These fields can benefit from the exchange of ideas. The scope of the conference includes applications and algorithms in any area of research that incorporates elements of perception and computer science. Our thirteenth annual event provides an intimate, immersive forum…

CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE WHAT SOCIAL ROBOTS CAN AND SHOULD DO Robophilosophy 2016 / TRANSOR 2016 October 17-21, 2016 Aarhus University, Denmark www.robo-philosophy.org FOCUS The “robotic moment” (Turkle 2011) is no longer on the horizon—we are living it now. Given the rapid development in social robotics, we are now at that potential turning point in human cultural history during which we need to react to concrete visions, by the robotics research industry, of placing artificial ‘social’ agents ubiquitously into the public and private spaces of human social interactions. How shall we respond? And who is to respond?…

Call For Participation: The IEEE Virtual Reality 2016 Workshop on K-12 Embodied Learning through Virtual & Augmented Reality (KELVAR) Organized in conjunction with the IEEE Virtual Reality 2016 conference which takes place March 19th to 23rd in Greenville, USA. http://ieeevr.org/2016/ Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/vrkelvar/ DESCRIPTION K-12 education is currently undergoing a technological revolution creating opportunities for Virtual-, Augmented-, and Mixed-Reality based learning. An increasing number of classrooms are being equipped with interactive whiteboards, tablet devices, and personal student computers. This technology integration will continue to increase as mobile devices penetrate into all socioeconomic strata, and as new VR/AR/MR technologies become affordable…