[See also a Call for Papers for AutoPlay. Gaming in the Age of Automation, a special issue of the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. –Matthew]

Call for Papers to the 2017 workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability @ FDG

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
August 14-17 2017 (1 day, exact date TBD)
http://www.npc-workshop.org/

Submission deadline: May 10

The 2017 workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability intends to be a point of interaction for researchers and game developers interested in modeling, discussing, developing systems for NPC social behavior and social affordances. This can include behaviour based on social and behavioural science theories and models, systems for social believability frameworks, approaches, methodologies, theories, interpretations, social affordances when interacting with NPCs, and more. We invite participants from a multitude of disciplines in order to create a broad spectrum of approaches to the area.… read more. “Call: Non-Player Characters and Social Believability – FDG 2017 workshop”

ACI2017: Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction
21-23 November 2017, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
www.aci2017.org
#aci2017conf

Submission deadline for papers and workshop proposals: 30th June 2017

ACI is the main international conference on Animal-Computer Interaction, a rapidly growing field that focuses on the interaction between animals and computing-enabled technology.

Animals have been exposed to, and have interacted with, technology for the best part of a century; for example, in conservation studies, behavioural experiments, comparative cognition studies, precision farming and various support roles. But how does technology affect animals in their individual and social lives? How does it enable or disable their natural or learned behaviours? How does it influence their experience? And how does is impact upon their welfare?

At the crossroad between interaction design, on the one hand, and animal behavioural and welfare science, on the other, researchers have begun to address these questions, with a focus on the usability and experience of technology from the perspective of animal users, and on the design processes that inform animal-computer interactions.… read more. “Call: ACI2017: Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction”

Call for Participation – Upload your Innovative Work

SimulationWeek

http://www.scoop.it/t/simulation-week

SimulationWeek is from Monday 1 May to Sunday 7 May 2017. SimulationWeek is an opportunity to promote the many forms of simulation in our organisations and communities to celebrate its accomplishments and future vision.

SimulationWeek will be hosted online at www.simulationweek.com – open to anyone that wishes to highlight their own innovative work through a news story, video or combined image and simulation message format. Pictures are essential and this platform will provide an opportunity to display images easily, providing an exciting snapshot of simulation for the week for the world to see.

For further information and to view examples, please visit www.simulationweek.com. For information on how you can contribute online, go to http://tiny.cc/pj82ay. For information on how you can contribute offline, go to http://tiny.cc/o582ay and for a Media involvement template, go to http://tiny.cc/3282ay… read more. “Call: SimulationWeek, curated by Simulation Australasia”

Call for Submissions

GROUP 2018
ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
January 7-10, 2018, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
http://group.acm.org

First submission deadline (Papers and Notes): June 23, 2017

For over 25 years, the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) has been a premier venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Socio-Technical Studies. The conference integrates work in social science, computer science, engineering, design, values, and other diverse topics related to group work, broadly conceptualized. Group 2018 continues the tradition of being truly international and interdisciplinary in both organizational structure as well as participants.

Key goals for the program are to encourage and facilitate researchers within CSCW and HCI to interact across disciplinary boundaries. We encourage high-level research contributions from interdisciplinary groups to present work that might be difficult to place within one simple category.… read more. “Call: GROUP 2018 – ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work”

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & VISUAL COMPUTING 2017 (CGVC 2017)
The 35th Annual Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association
14-15 September 2017
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
http://www.eguk.org.uk/CGVC2017

Submission Deadline: 16 June 2017

The annual EGUK conference is a meeting place for all those in the UK working in computer graphics and visual computing. It attracts researchers from across the country and from further afield.

The 2017 conference Computer Graphics & Visual Computing will be an overnight meeting (lunchtime to lunchtime). The conference wants to focus on increasing the dialogue between academic research groups, researchers in academic and in industrial developments. In order to facilitate such dialogue, we are seeking contributions mainly in the form of extended abstract and industrial demonstrations. However, we also welcome submissions of full papers.

FULL PAPERS – a paper of 4 to 8 pages describing completed research.… read more. “Call: Computer Graphics & Visual Computing 2017 (CGVC 2017)”