Call for Papers Haptic Technologies for Healthcare is a one-day workshop to be held as part of the Eurohaptics 2018 conference. It will be held on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 in Pisa, Italy. Website: https://hapticsforhealthcare.wordpress.com Deadline for extended abstracts: April 30th, 2018 About the workshop: Recent technologies allow for novel classes of wearable and holdable devices that make use of forms of haptic communication and interaction that go beyond elementary uses such as simply attracting attention. This can give rise to an expanded design space that raises many research issues, as this workshop will explore. The goal of this workshop…

Call for Workshop Papers 3rd International Workshop PLAYABLE CITIES: THE CITY AS A DIGITAL PLAYGROUND This workshop will be held as part of the 7th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT 2018, Interactivity & Game Creation, October 24-26, 2018, Braga, Portugal (http://artsit.org/) Workshop Date: 24 October 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: 1 July 2018 BACKGROUND After the success of the first (Utrecht, 2016), the second (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal) we now organize the third one-day workshop on Playable Cities in the beautiful town of Braga. PLAYFULNESS AND THE (PLAYABLE) CITY The Playable City is a term, introduced a number of years ago in Bristol,…

Call for Chapters: Speculative Futures for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Inclusion Springer Nature – AICFE Future Schools 2030 book series https://jeremyknox.net/call-for-chapters-speculative-futures-for-artificial-intelligence-and-educational-inclusion/ Abstract submissions due: March 30, 2018 We are inviting experts and practitioners from around the world to write chapters for a book that will help to advance our understanding of education. The book is an outcome of the Future School 2030 research project supported by the Advanced Innovation Centre for Future Education, Beijing Normal University. The publisher for the book will be Springer Nature, an international publisher. This book seeks to bring together the fields of ‘artificial intelligence’ (often…

[Presence isn’t mentioned here but could be usefully applied in this topic area.  –Matthew] Call for Papers User Modeling for Personalized Interaction with Music Special Issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) http://www.cp.jku.at/journals/umuai_si_music.html Flyer (PDF) Submission deadline for extended abstracts: June 1, 2018 Submission deadline for full papers (for accepted abstracts): July 31, 2018 SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Music search, retrieval, and recommendation systems have experienced a boom during the past few years due to streaming services providing access to huge catalogs anywhere and anytime. These streaming services collect the user behavior in…

Call for Papers ACM UMAP Workshop on Intelligent User-adapted and Context-aware Applications and User Interfaces (IUadapt 2018) in conjunction with the 26th ACM Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization – UMAP 2018 (http://www.um.org/umap2018/) July 8-11, 2018, Singapore Workshop website: http://teldh.dibris.unige.it/iuadapt/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 20 April 2018 (23:59 AoE – Anywhere on Earth) Notification to authors: 15 May 2018 Camera-ready version due: 27 May 2018 DESCRIPTION The evolution of social semantic environments and content personalization, along with the adoption of context-aware techniques, the spread of handheld devices together with always connected IoTs, and of cloud computing are deeply changing the…

Call for Registration: thinkBIG Workshop on the Ethical and Social Challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence Location: Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, SL4 2HP, UK Date & Time: 25th June 2018, 09:30–18:00 The thinkBIG project (Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol) invites registrations for a one-day workshop on ‘The Ethical and Social Challenges Posed by Artificial Intelligence’, to be held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor. The rapid adoption of AI and data technologies in everyday life has created new opportunities but also risks that were not considered before. Among them are concerns about privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability, which arise from devolving…