Call for Papers

SafePlan: ICAPS 2016 Workshop on “Planning, Scheduling and Dependability in Safe Human-Robot Interactions” to be held at the 2016 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), London, UK

http://fourbythree.eu/icaps2016/
http://icaps16.icaps-conference.org/safeplan/

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: March 4, 2016
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2016
Final paper submission: April 30, 2016
Workshop Date: June 11th or 12th 2016

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this workshop which aims to bring together experts active in the field of planning and scheduling (P&S) with those in human-robot interaction with particular emphasis on safety. The sector experiences a paradigm shift from the traditional heavy-duty robot operating separated from the human worker in a fenced area to robots that work close to the human, adapting to the movements of the human and possibly even interacting with them. In this regard, tools and methodologies for verification and validation (V&V) of P&S systems have received relatively little attention.… read more. “Call: SafePlan: “Planning, Scheduling and Dependability in Safe Human-Robot Interactions” ICAPS 2016 Workshop”

Call for papers

Mind – Media – Narrative: Exploring the Nexus of Transmedial and Cognitive Narratologies
University of Warsaw (Poland)
20-22 June 2016

http://www.konferencja.narratologia.uw.edu.pl/

Proposals deadline: 15th of March, 2016

Narrative is a universal phenomenon that shapes virtually every aspect of human life. Narrative exists across time, culture – from the cave narratives of Lascaux, to the hypertext narratives of contemporary cyberspace. And together with the proliferation of narrative forms, there are also the myriad ways of understanding and defining them. Consequently, narrative can be understood as the ‘representation of at least two real or fictive events’ (Gerald Prince), as the ‘method of recapitulating past experience’ (William Labov), as ‘the play of suspense/curiosity/surprise between represented and communicative time’ (Meir Sternberg), and a host of other theoretical and rhetorical formulations.

As suggested in the conference title, ‘Mind – Media – Narrative’, the purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of narrative – especially narrative in the context of what Marie-Laure Ryan defines as: ‘a mental construct, which can be activated by different types of signs’.… read more. “Call: Mind – Media – Narrative: Exploring the Nexus of Transmedial and Cognitive Narratologies”

4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering 2016 (i-USEr 2016)
23rd to 25th August 2016
Melaka, Malaysia

Official Website: http://fskm.uitm.edu.my/iuser2016/

DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: 15TH MARCH 2016

The 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering 2016 (i-USEr 2016) will be held in Melaka, Malaysia from 23rd to 25th August 2016. i-USEr 2016 aims to address the main issues of concern within Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with a particular emphasis on the aspects of design, development and implementation of interfaces and the generational implications for design of human and technology interaction.

This conference provides a platform for researchers, practitioners and industries to explore and discuss innovative studies of technology and its application in interfaces and welcomes completed research, work in progress and case studies. The special theme for this year’s conference is Unbounded.

Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:

• HCI and Usability
• User Experience
• HCI and IT Infrastructure
• HCI and e-services
• HCI and Urban Science
• Human-Centered Computing
• HCI for the underserved
• Human Interface and Management of Information
• HCI and Analytics
• HCI and Domestic Technologies

CALL FOR PRESENTERS

Image/Interface Symposium
University of Toronto,
Friday May 13 and Saturday May 14, 2016

Co-hosted by the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) and the Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI), University of Toronto St. George.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday, February 29, 2016.
Notification of acceptance: Mid-March 2016.

Keynote Speakers:
The Otolith Group, London-based art collective
Lisa Parks, Professor of Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Julian Stallabrass, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art

The Image/Interface symposium will explore the notion of technologies as physical objects—things, tools, apparatus, and the physically situated environment—for producing, receiving, and engaging with the increasing immateriality of imagery and visual cultures. The symposium foregrounds the materiality of technological practice while examining the reception, use, and sharing of cultural and political expression as well as the communication of embodied or situated knowledge and experiences.… read more. “Call: Image/Interface Symposium, University of Toronto”