Call for Participation

Where Human Computer Interaction meets Animal Computer Interaction @NordiCHI 2016
Gothenburg, Sweden
23rd October, 2016
https://hcimeetsaciblog.wordpress.com/

Submission deadline: August 25, 2016

Where HCI meets ACI is a one day workshop preceding in NordiCHI 2016  on Sunday 23rd of October.

This one day workshop aims to examine the interactions and the space between HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and ACI (Animal Computer Interaction) focusing on the transferability of methods and ideas between the fields.

Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) looks at creating interfaces and methods for animals to use technology. Whilst this is often seen as a subfield of HCI, the methodologies are often shared with growth of parallel theories and transferability becoming more apparent; in this way the two fields are in fact entwined. HCI methods are often used in a transformative way in ACI. The aim of this workshop is to specifically consider what we can learn about humans from studying non-human animals and therefore explore what, if anything, ACI can offer HCI.… read more. “Call: Where Human Computer Interaction meets Animal Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2016 Workshop)”

3rd International Workshop on
Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2016)
November 16th, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan.
A satellite workshop of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016).

http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de

Submission Deadline: August 28th, 2016

Scope:

One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Current technology is far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. Transferring the insights for analysis of human-human communication to human-machine interactions remains challenging. It requires that the multimodal inputs from the user (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2016)”

Design for Next, 12th European Academy Design (EAD) Conference
12-14 April 2017
Sapienza University of Rome
www.designfornext.org

Deadline for Abstracts: Aug 15, 2016

We are pleased to announce the CALL for ABSTRACTS is now open.

Please feel free to submit your paper proposal here:
https://www.conftool.com/ead12-rome

Full Call for Abstracts with all the details is available here:
http://www.designfornext.org/call.html

For any additional info, please email to the Conference Secretariat at:
info@designfornext.org

CONFERENCE THEME

Contemporary shifts in society, technology, production are reframing design processes, approaches and tools. While professionals, educators and researchers are questioning the next stage of innovation, design is evolving as a wide open field with many applications and meanings. More than ever it is important to investigate through design research and practice in order to tackle the societal, technological and industrial shifts of the future.

The 12th EAD Conference is hosted by Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, and it will foster discussion among designers, academics and experts about the articulated scenario of contemporary design and its perspectives, with intent to nurture diversity and interdisciplinarity.… read more. “Call: Design for Next, 12th European Academy Design (EAD) Conference”

Scholars of virtual worlds, videogames, internet studies, and related fields… please consider submitting a chapter proposal for this endeavor:

Call for book chapter proposals: Avatars, Assembled: The Sociotechnical Anatomy of Digital Bodies
Volume editor: Jaime Banks, West Virginia University

Chapter proposal deadline: July 31, 2016

Summary: Avatars, Assembled will be a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars – not as monolithic phenomena but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from embodied features like weapons and gender to logical features like algorithms and statistics. Each short chapter (~3,000 words) will account for the empirical, theoretical, and popular understandings of very discrete avatar dimensions, while the introduction and conclusion will draw on these chapters (synthesized through the lens of assemblage/actor-network theories) to argue for a more nuanced consideration of avatars-as-assemblages as we work to understand how and why they matter in individual and social experience.… read more. “Call: Book chapters for ‘Avatars, Assembled: The Sociotechnical Anatomy of Digital Bodies’”

Call for Abstracts

“Call of Duty: A Call to Action”: Video Games and Civic Engagement
National Communication Association (NCA) 2016 Pre-Conference
Wednesday, November 9
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

Submission deadline: August 31, 2016

Although commonly studied through the lens of media entertainment, digital games are more than just frivolous distractions. Games are used for action in the real world: as vehicles for health campaign messages, teaching perspective, training skills and education outcomes, and provoking players into social action are all ways that games can and have been used to move players to action – from the on-screen digital world to the physical and semantic world that they live in.

As part of the National Communication Association’s 2016 convention in Philadelphia, The Game Studies Division seeks to highlight research in games that corresponds with the 2016 theme of “Civic Callings” – focusing on the many ways that games can and do serve as calls to action (both anti-socially and pro-socially).… read more. “Call: ‘Call of Duty: A Call to Action’: Video Games and Civic Engagement – NCA 2016 Pre-Conference”