Call for Abstracts Phenomenology and Virtuality Conference 29-30 May 2017, KU Leuven, Belgium Deadline: 31st January 2017 What is virtuality? How do we experience it? What is its relation to perception and imagination? What is its status with regard to the real and irreal, actual and possible, present and absent? Can we give a phenomenological account of virtuality? Finally, how are present-day virtual technologies changing not only our daily lives, but perhaps even the ways we think and behave? It is such questions that this two-day international conference on Phenomenology and Virtuality seeks to address. This call for abstracts is therefore…

HCI International 2017 Vancouver, Canada, 9 – 14 July 2017 Vancouver Convention Centre http://2017.hci.international/index.php Deadline: 4 November 2016 (extended) Welcome to the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards. HCII2017 invite you to participate and contribute to the international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical, generic and applied areas of HCI, through the following modes of communication: Plenary / Keynote Presentation, Parallel…

The 10th annual International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace June 14-16, 2017 at Columbia University in New York http://www.icelw.org/index.html Proposals due: December 16, 2016, by 6:00 PM Eastern Time ICELW 2017 Call for Proposals The ICELW 2017 Call for Proposals is below. To submit a proposal, please follow the instructions on our ICELW 2017 Submissions Page. Please note that accepted ICELW papers are eligible for potential journal publication in the International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC). iJAC publishes a special ICELW-themed issue each year. WHO SHOULD PRESENT OR PARTICIPATE? Anyone with a background in online learning in the…

SPECIAL ISSUE ON: COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES FOR ARTIFICIAL MINDS Journal of Cognitive Systems Research http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-cognitive-architectures-for-artificial-mind INTRODUCTION The design and adaptation of Cognitive Architectures (CA) is a wide and active area of research in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and, more recently, in the areas of Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Robotics, and Computational Cognitive Systems. Cognitive architectures have been historically introduced i) to capture, at the computational level, the invariant mechanisms of human cognition, including those underlying the functions of reasoning, control, learning, memory, adaptivity, perception and action, ii) to form the basis for the development of cognitive capabilities through ontogeny over extended periods…

Call for Papers Context in the Home A Workshop of the Context-17 Conference Paris, France, 20-23 June 2017, http://context17.lip6.fr/ Workshop website: http://venus.inrialpes.fr/context4home/ Submission due: December 30th, 2016 DESCRIPTION This workshop will bring together researchers and professionals from different domains to discuss key issues in the implementation, evaluation and practical use of context for the development of smart objects, services, and applications that are useful, usable, and desirable in domestic settings. We welcome work on core enabling technologies such as hardware and software infrastructures that support, include or use context, open data for context benchmarking, bottom-up VS top-down approaches to context…