5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (i-USEr 2018) 28-30 August 2018 Selangor, Malaysia http://fskm.uitm.edu.my/iuser2018 Submission Dateline: 1st February 2018 We are pleased to inform you that the 5th International Conference on User Science and Engineering 2018 (i-USEr 2018) will be held in Selangor, Malaysia from 28th-30th August 2018. i- USEr 2018 is organized by the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group, Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. i-USEr 2018 aims to address the main issues of concern within Human Computer Interaction with a particular emphasis on the aspects of design, development and implementation…

Call for papers for a special issue on Natural Language Generation (NLG) for Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) to be published as part of the Dialogue & Discourse journal. Deadline for submissions: January 20, 2018 Language generation for dialogue requires sophistication in modeling the context of the dialogue, as well as methods that are sensitive to the rhetorical structure of a turn, and to the requirement that turns in dialogue are typically incremental and structured as oral, rather than written language. We therefore especially invite submissions which address these gaps, whether by introducing novel statistical or neural approaches or by leveraging…

Call for Contributions FDG 2018: The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 7-10 August 2018 Malmö, Sweden http://fdg2018.org Workshop Proposals due: February 12, 2018 Full and Short Papers due: March 12, 2018 The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) is a major international event. It seeks to promote the exchange of information concerning the foundations of digital games, technology used to develop digital games, and the study of digital games and their design, broadly construed. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including but not limited to…

Call for Papers: The 11th ACM PETRA Conference June 26-29, 2018 Corfu, Greece www.petrae.org Submission deadline: January 23, 2018 The 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, biomedicine, environment and conservation, and many others. Please visit…

Call for Papers G/A/M/E: The Italian Journal of Game Studies Special Issue: “Digital Entertainment for Special Needs, Special Needs for Digital Entertainment” CFP online: https://www.gamejournal.it/n-72018-digital-entertainment-for-special-needs-special-needs-for-digital-entertainment/ Guest Editors: Dr. Enrico Gandolfi (Kent State University) (egandol1@kent.edu) Dr. Richard E. Ferdig (Kent State University) (rferdig@gmail.com) Dr. Kaybeth Calabria (Franciscan University of Steubenville) (dockbc@icloud.com) Abstracts due by: January 20, 2018 It is well known that videogames represent the driving sector of the current entertainment with an excepted business of 90 billion dollars in 2016 (NewZoo 2015). Furthermore, the supporting technology is often at the cutting edge (e.g., Oculus Rift, Microsoft Hololens, PlayStation VR) and…

Call for Papers: (Video)udic history as an alternative mode of knowing the past Workshop at XIV Conference of the Contemporary History Association (AHC) Between September 20th and 22nd, 2018 University of Alicante (Spain) Abstracts deadline: March 1st, 2018 This workshop, which is part of the XIV Conference of the Contemporary History Association (AHC), addresses the field of historical game studies, a new discipline that approaches the study of ludic cultural artefacts that make sense of the past through narratives built from the interaction between the player and the game’s set of rules. Ludic representations of the past go back to…