Call for Papers Material, Spatial and Sensory Encounters with the Picturebook Object 9-10 June 2017 – International Workshop at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey Deadline for proposals: August 16, 2016 From hornbooks to i-pads, children’s reading experiences have been mediated via transforming book systems in ways serving to educate, to entertain, and to facilitate narrative. Material and sensory aspects of picturebooks also have the capacity to act as a third narrative system, operating beside words and images.These aspects may engage and challenge the child to comprehend a subject through the experiential handling of the picturebook, resulting in an embodied meaning-making process.…

The 3rd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2016) To be held as part of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016) New York City, USA 27 August 2016 Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2016 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The development of robots capable of interacting with humans has made tremendous progress in the last decade, leading to an expectation that in the near future, robots will be increasingly deployed in public spaces, for example as receptionists, shop assistants, waiters, or bartenders. In these scenarios, robots must necessarily deal with situations that require socially appropriate human-robot…

Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises (AmILP 2016) held at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016) Date: August 29th, 2016 The Hague, Netherlands http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/amilp2016 AmILP 2016 Submission Deadline: May 29th, 2016 (firm deadline) Special Issue of SJR- and JCR-ranked Journal ComSIS WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND AIMS In the name of the MOSI-AGIL (Social Modelling of Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises) project (http://www.gsi.dit.upm.es/mosi/ ), we would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing an original research paper to AmILP 2016, held as part of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016).…

ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2016 October 15-16, 2016 Tokyo, Japan Co-located with UIST 2016 We invite you to participate in the (SUI, rhymes with GUI, http://sui-symposium.org/), which will be co-located with UIST 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. We seek original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of spatial user interaction. User interface evaluations are strongly encouraged for every publication in this venue.…

Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction (Symbiotic 2016) Padua, Italy, 29-30 September 2016 http://symbiotic2016.org The Fifth International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction will take place on the 29th and 30th of September 2016 and will be hosted by the Human Inspired Technology Research center of the University of Padua (Italy). HIGHLIGHTS: extended deadline, common to all categories: 15 June doctoral consortium with prominent figures from different fields and DC award best paper award confirmed keynote speaker: Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University OVERVIEW The International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction is the primary venue to present scientific works dealing with the…

Call for Papers 2nd EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good 30 November – 1 December 2016 Venice, Italy http://goodtechs.eu/2016/show/cf-papers SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more. In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the…