CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CHI PLAY 2018 – 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Melbourne, Australia
October 28-31, 2018
https://chiplay.acm.org/2018/
Twitter: #chiplay18

Submission deadlines:
April 13, 2018: Full papers (4-10 pages)
May 25, 2018: Workshop and Course Proposals
July 13, 2018: Spotlight Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, Interactivity and Works-in-Progress

CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high-quality (full paper acceptance rate has been consistently <30%) research in games and HCI, as a foundation for the future of digital play. To this end, the conference blends academic research papers, interactive play demos, and industry insights.

CHI PLAY 2018 is being held as part of Melbourne International Games Week with games events throughout the city, including PAX Australia (the only Penny Arcade Expo outside the USA) a gaming culture festival drawing tens of thousands of gamers to Melbourne each year.… read more. “Call: CHI PLAY 2018, 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play”

Call For Papers: HRI 2018 Workshop on Robots for Learning (R4L) – Inclusive Learning
March 5, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA
Website: http://r4l.epfl.ch/HRI2018/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 31, 2018
Acceptance notification: February 7, 2018
Workshop event: March 5, 2018

OVERVIEW

In recent years, research in Human-Robot Interaction has increasingly attracted interest from the field of education in particular. However, this interest is not new: the logo turtle entered schools nearly 40 years ago. Over this period, robots have changed a lot: sequentially or eventually programmable, they also integrate a wide spectrum of sensors and actuators. Hence, new applications in educational contexts can now be envisioned.

The Robots for Learning (R4L) workshop is in its 4th series, and the focus of this edition is on inclusive learning. Robots as educational agents have been studied and deployed in various forms – as tools, mediators, tutors, and peers.… read more. “Call: HRI 2018 Workshop on Robots for Learning (R4L) – Inclusive Learning”

Call for Papers:

“User Experience Design of Exploratory Systems”
A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (ISSN 2414-4088)

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/User_Experience_Design

Deadline for manuscript submissions: Although the deadline for submission of manuscripts to the Special Issue is 28 May 2018, papers will be reviewed and published as they are received. The entire set of invited papers and any others in this domain will appear online.

TOPICS:

User experience (UX) design is essential when creating products and concepts that are both pleasurable and useful. User experience designs can target to a special emotion, value, or experience and by doing so, increase the success of novel systems. This Special Issue addresses the encountered challenges as well as concepts and methods that can be used when conducting research on UX design for exploratory systems. Exploratory systems can include, e.g., futuristic, visionary interactive systems; going beyond the conventional input–output methods and form factors; and systems that reach out from the traditional use cases for interactive technology. … read more. “Call: “User Experience Design of Exploratory Systems” special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction”

Call for Papers

Special Issue on Mobile Learning in the Open Access journal Education Sciences
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/Mobile_Learning

Preliminary abstracts due January 31st 2018

Special issue editor:
Prof. Dr. Maria Uther
Department of Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester, UK
Website | E-Mail
Interests: user-interface design for mobile devices; pedagogy and mobile learning; mobile language learning; speech technologies

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, “Mobile Learning”, addresses the increasing popularity of mobile devices and their potential for developing learning. As mobile technologies are constantly changing and increased capabilities rapidly developing, it is timely to consider the technical and practical issues in implementing learning applications for mobile devices. In a changing landscape in which mobile device ownership rivals fixed PCs, it is critical that we understand and study more about their capability in education.

With these considerations in mind, articles are welcomed for inclusion in this Special Issue that: (1) provide empirical evidence on the efficacy of mobile devices for learning applications; (2) showcase novel uses or technical developments for mobile devices in learning; (3) review pedagogical and user interface design considerations and develop theories around the design of mobile learning applications; (4) interface mobile technologies with other technologies to enhance learning (e.g.,… read more. “Call: Special issue on Mobile Learning in the journal Education Sciences”

Call for Papers

Fourth IEEE VR International Workshop on 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments
at IEEE Virtual Reality 2018
Reutlingen, Germany
Sunday March 18 or Monday March 19, 2018
https://sites.google.com/site/3dcveieeevr2018/

Submission deadline: January 22, 2018 (Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2018)

Emerging technologies for multi-user 3D interaction in immersive virtual environments promise novel opportunities collocated and remote collaboration, but their development also implies new challenges. Collaborative 3D virtual environments must foster mutual awareness among participants and should support their coordinated cooperative action. This requires further research on suitable hardware setups, software architectures, and interaction techniques. Not least, the usability evaluation of collaborative systems is inherently more complex and can thus benefit from the development of novel appropriate methods.

We invite submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical topics that are related to collaboration in 3D virtual environments, including but not limited to:

• Immersive collaborative virtual reality
• Multi-user 3D interaction techniques
• Social behaviour in collaborative virtual reality
• Interaction metaphors for collaborative virtual environments
• Mutual awareness among users / workspace awareness
• Asymmetric collaboration (e.g.,