[Note the focus on medium-as-social-actor presence. –ML] Call for Papers The 10th Beyond Humanism Conference 18-21st July 2018 in Wroclaw, Poland Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism, University of Lower Silesia Cultures of the Posthuman www.beyondhumanism.org www.beyondhumanism2018.org Download the brochure of the 10th Beyond Humanism Conference Registration Deadline for abstracts: 1st of April 2018 Trans- and posthumanist reflections—as well as their meta-versions—seem to significantly undermine established definitions of culture and question a traditional division into culture and nature. These divisions are difficult to defend in the context of contemporary biotechnology, gene therapy, and easy genome modification available thanks to technologies…

Call for Participation / Submission The 31st ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium October 14-17, Berlin, Germany https://uist.acm.org/ Paper submission deadline: April 5, 2018 The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) is the premier forum for innovations in human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together people from diverse areas including graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size and intensive program make UIST an ideal opportunity to exchange…

Call for Papers SPECIAL ISSUE of iCom – Journal of Interactive Media (De Gruyter) Automated Driving: A Human-Centered Design Perspective Guest Editors: Andreas Riener, Alexander Mirnig Submission deadline: June 15, 2018 SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Automotive user interfaces and automated vehicle technology pose several challenges to support all diverse facets of user needs. These range from inexperienced, thrill-seeking, young novice drivers to elderly drivers with a mostly opposite set of preferences together with their natural limitations. Implementation-wise, the automotive industry is currently focusing on pushing in-vehicle technology towards fully automated driving, with tech companies joining these efforts to raise…

2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS (CW 2018) Singapore, 3-5 October, 2018 Organized by Fraunhofer Singapore In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics Association, and International Federation for Information Processing Conference web page: www.cyberworlds-conference.org Papers submission deadline: Monday 7 May, 2018 CW 2018 SCOPE: Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that use computer technologies to augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. CW 2018 is the 17th conference organized annually since 2002. CW 2018 will consider the following tracks and topics: GENERAL TRACK: Applications of virtual and augmented reality; Networked…