Call for contributions on an edited book on Research Games: Using Game Design Elements as an Inspiration for HCI Research Methods Chapter proposal deadline: 1st September 2017 In recent years, games have increasingly received attention as a source of inspiration for areas outside of games and play itself. After a successful workshop at CHI 2016 we are preparing an edited book in the Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series explicitly aiming to reveal bridging concepts and presenting methods for introducing the application of game elements and game design principles to research in the field of HCI. This Book will focus on how…

Call for Abstracts International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information University of Porto (Portugal) December 5-7, 2017 http://aiconference.weebly.com/ Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2017 Dear all, Proposals are welcome for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto (Portugal) on December 5, 6 and 7, 2017. The official language is English. Graduate students, junior researchers and senior scholars are welcome to submit their work. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (CONFIRMED): Professor Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford) Professor Estela Bicho (University of Minho) Professor Eugénio Oliveira (University of Porto) Professor Luis Moniz…

Interdisciplinary Conference: Emotional Machines. Perspectives from Affective Computing and Emotional Human-Machine Interaction September 21-22, 2017 at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, Germany http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/philo/termine/emotionalmachines Free with registration Humans have emotions, machines do not. This seems to be a truism: Human beings are made of flesh and blood; they do not just act rationally but impulsively and emotionally. They make decisions, feel attracted to objects or subjects or repelled by them. They mourn others, are in a good mood or suffer from depression. But what about machines? At first glance machines and emotions seem to be at odds with each…

Call for Papers: Design for Health Design for Health is an international refereed journal covering all aspects of design in the context of health and wellbeing. The Journal is published twice a year and provides a forum for design and health scholars, design professionals, health-care practitioners, educators and managers worldwide. Design for Health is affiliated with the Design4Health conference, established in 2011. The Journal aims to publish thought provoking work based on rigorous research. It invites high quality, original submissions that make a contribution to knowledge and practice in the context of the design of health products, services and interventions that…

Parallel Worlds: Designing Alternative Realities in Videogames Saturday 30 September 2017 Victoria & Albert Museum, London Building on the sell-out success of last year’s Parallel Worlds Videogame Design conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, we’re excited to announce our follow up event, providing a critical and cultural platform to discuss one of the most important fields in contemporary design. Parallel Worlds will take place on Saturday 30 September 2017, bringing together an eclectic line up of leading designers, artists and thinkers whose work is connected by the worlds we build through games and play. Speakers confirmed so…

Call for Chapters: Collective Book PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE Editors: Chris Rawls (Roger Williams University), Diana Neiva (University of Porto) and Steven S. Gouveia (University of Minho) Preface: Professor Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College) Submission deadline: November 13, 2017 Topics and issues of interest include (but are not limited to): Classical and contemporary film theory (formalist, psychoanalytic, feminist, cognitive, structuralist, etc.) Definitions of cinema (essencialist – e.g. medium specificity – and nonessentialist) Philosophical themes in film (ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, epistemology, etc.) Genre(s) (the issues on film genres, avant-garde, documentary, pornography, horror, drama,…