CALL FOR PAPERS: 11th Annual International Conference on Computer Games Multimedia and Allied Technologies (CGAT 2018) 11th – 12th June 2018, Singapore http://www.cgames.com.sg/index.html Full Paper Submission Deadline: 8 January 2018 CONFERENCE THEME For the past 10 years, the annual CGAT conference has served as a platform  for researchers, scientists, IT developers and consultants to  share their research, practice, and educational initiatives on Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Technologies and Internet Applications,  Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling and Games and Mobile Communications with an international audience. Visit the following link for the list of accepted papers which have been indexed by Scopus:…

Call for Participation and Call for Posters International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing Kochi University of Technology, Japan November 10th, 2017 http://forum.chec.ren/ Poster submission deadline: September 30, 2017 Early registration deadline: October 10, 2017 The Center for Human-Engaged Computing (CHEC) has organized an international workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (HEC). The worship will be held at Kochi University of Technology in Japan on November 10th, 2017. The aim of this workshop is to rethink the relationship between humans and computers with particular attention being paid to our future as human beings. Seven distinguished speakers from around the world and from several domains…

Call for Abstracts Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology 2017 Theme of the Workshop: Epistemology, Ontology and the Philosophy of Technology Dates: 1-2 December 2017 Venue: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo 18-22, Room 5002. http://budpt.eu/ Submission deadline: 2 October 2017 The first Budapest Workshop on the Philosophy of Technology will seek to explore epistemology and ontology in the Philosophy of Technology. Abstracts are welcome in the following areas: Tacit knowledge and engineering Ontology of technological artefacts Ontological status of artificial agents Knowing artefacts Virtuality – new realities created by technology Engineering epistemology … and in any other related topics. The expected…

Call for Papers, Symposia and Posters Technology, Mind & Society April 5-7, 2018 Washington, DC http://pages.apa.org/tms/ Sponsored by The American Psychological Association In Cooperation with The Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction, and The Association For The Advancement Of Artificial Intelligence Submission deadline: October 20, 2017 The American Psychological Association will hold an interdisciplinary conference on Technology, Mind, and Society in Washington, D.C., on April 5-7, 2018. Scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and students from around the world are invited to participate in the event. The conference will provide a venue for reporting and assessing current efforts to…

Call for Chapter Proposals Emerging Identities in the Future of Places: Neo-cultures, Place Multi-mediation and Intersubjectivities Abstract submission deadline: 1 Nov 2017 How is the development of future places in cities shaping new place-based identities, defined by the intertwined and entangled nature of socio-cultural, technical and spatial practices of people? Comprehending the resultant complexities of place-related identity demands the need to identify new directions that evolve progressively by embracing a renewed understanding of identity. The proposed book aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach towards unravelling emerging place- related identities that are caught in a labyrinth created by contemporary urban spatialities.…

Call for Papers: When HCI Meets Data Analytics Special issue of Advances in Human-Computer Interaction https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/si/706320/cfp/? Submission Deadline: Friday, 26 January 2018 Human computer interaction (HCI), with the focus on improving the interaction between humans and machines, is one of the fastest growing fields in nowadays’ computing era. It is an interdisciplinary field situated at the intersection of computer science, human factors, psychology, sociology, behavioural sciences, cognitive science, visualisation, design, and arts. In the recent years, the rapid development of digital technologies has generated huge amounts of data which could be used to enable and recognise human values. Data analytics…