Call For Participation 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017) March 6-9, 2017, Vienna, Austria http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/ Submission Deadline: October 3, 2016 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is a premiere, highly-selective venue presenting the latest advances in Human-Robot Interaction. The 12th Annual HRI Conference theme is “Smart Interaction,” following Vienna’s “Smart City” initiative. The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction. Full papers, alt.HRI papers, Late-Breaking Reports, and abstracts from Tutorials, Workshops, Demonstrations and Videos, will be…

Call for Papers SEGAH 2017 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERIOUS GAMES AND APPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH April 2 – 4, 2017 Perth, Western Australia co-located with 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017 (http://www.www2017.com.au/) View this call online at: http://www.segah.org/2017/ Supported by: Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 30th, 2016 Dear Colleagues, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SEGAH 2017, will be held in Perth, Western Australia, from 2-4 April, 2017. The overall objectives of the conference are the discussion and sharing of…

Call for Chapter Proposals: Game Criticism Editor: Gaines S. Hubbell Proposals (500 words) due July 21, 2016 As attention to the study and criticism of games grows, attention to how games are studied and criticized must keep pace. For some time, game studies has relied on methods of criticism appropriate to previous media and developed by prior disciplines. These methods have treated games as objects for anthropological studies, textual analysis, literary analysis, user experience studies, and technology studies, among many others; however, games often require that they be treated differently because of the medial, technological, or textual constraints they place…

Call for Papers Machine Ethics and Machine Law Interdisciplinary perspectives on moral and legal issues in artificial agents November 18, 2016 – November 19, 2016 Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland WEBSITE: http://machinelaw.philosophyinscience.com/ Abstract submission: 9 September 23:59 CEST Abstract guidelines: 1000 words, prepared for blind review via website AI systems have become an important part of our everyday lives. What used to be a subject of science fiction novels and movies has trespassed into the realm of facts. Our machines are tasked with ever more autonomous decisions that directly impact on the well-being of humans. This leads directly to the question:…

Call for Presentations Fringe 30 at Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC 2016) Monday 26 September – Thursday 29 September 2016 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Victoria, Australia http://www.simulationcongress.com/ Expressions of interest due by Wednesday 20 July 2016 Simulation Australasia, the national body for those working in simulation in Australasia, will once again bring together the SimHealth and SimTecT conferences under the name of the Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC) with opportunities for a number of joint sessions of mutual interest. In 2016, it will also incorporate the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA). WHAT IS FRINGE 30? Leading for the future with…

Call for Papers IEEE ISMAR 2016 Workshop on Collaboration in Mixed Reality Environments (CoMiRe) September 22, 2016 Merida, Mexico https://comire16.wordpress.com Submission deadline: July 1, 2016 As the world becomes more complex, problem solving increasingly requires teams of experts to work together at the same location or at different ones. To support this, we need collaborative tools, and a variety of teleconferencing and telepresence technologies have been developed to address this need. However, most of them involve some variation of traditional video conferencing, which has limitations, such as not being able to effectively convey spatial cues or share the user’s task…