Dear all, Below is a Call for Proposals that may be of interest to some of you. We’re looking for contributions to an edited volume on space and the nonhuman in narrative. Our focus will be on how the materiality of space shapes certain kinds of narratives (and readers’ imagination thereof), creating a platform for thinking beyond the human scale. The collection aims to bring narrative theory and cognitive approaches to literature into a conversation with the nonhuman turn. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch! All the best, David, Marco, and Marlene Call for Proposals…

HAI 2017 Call for Papers The Fifth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2017) Bielefeld, Germany ~ 17 – 20 October 2017 http://hai-conference.net/hai2017/ Submission Site: http://precisionconference.com/~hai/ Full paper deadline: 14 May 2017 HAI 2017 is the 5th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. It aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. The theme for HAI 2017 is “How autonomy shapes interaction”. During the last decade a large body of research has been devoted on increasing the interaction…

Call for Contributions to MobileHCI 2017 – the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 4th – 7th September, Vienna, Austria http://mobilehci.acm.org/2017/ Paper submissions: February 9th, 2017 Notification: April 12th, 2017 Camera-ready: May 29th, 2017 Welcome to MobileHCI 2017: MobileHCI seeks contributions in the form of innovations, insights, or analyses related to human interaction and experiences with mobility. The conference series has shaped research, development and practice in mobile devices and services for nearly two decades. In 2017, the Conference will seek to forge a new agenda for the decades to come.  This year we are…

ACII 2017 – Call for Papers Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction October 23-26, 2017 San Antonio, Texas http://www.acii2017.org The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in San Antonio, Texas on October 23-26, 2017. The Conference series is the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. A selection of the best articles will appear in a “Best of ACII2017” special section of…