Call for Papers

LONG(ER)-TERM DESIGN THINKING
NSF-Sponsored Workshop
29-31 May 2018
Seattle, WA

Rolling submission deadline for 1-2 page position papers; we will begin to review papers on March 10

Design thinking and approaches to problems that are long(er) term – on the order of 20, 50, or 100 years — have a distinct cast. With this workshop, we seek to enable a conversation at the intersection of long(er) timeframes and the role of design thinking and practice. Increasingly, researchers and designers of technology are investigating both individual and societal problems that require a long(er)-term design thinking approach to grapple with their complex, emergent, and dynamic nature. Yet, embracing a long(er)-term approach to intentionally designing the role, place, and pace of information technologies and systems that might operate over long, indeterminate amounts of time has received less attention in the human-computer interaction, design, and related communities.… read more. “Call: Long(Er)-Term Design Thinking, an NSF Sponsored Workshop”

Call for Papers, Special Sessions, Tutorials and Industry Contributions

IEEE Games, Entertainment, & Media (GEM) 2018
National University of Ireland Galway, August 15^th –  17^th
http://sites.ieee.org/ieeegem/calls-for-papers/

Submission deadlines: 31^st March 2018

Continuing the grand tradition & broadening the scope of the IEEE International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC, 2009-2013) and IEEE Games Entertainment & Media (GEM, 2014- 2016) we introduce IEEE GEM 2018 located in the Alice Perry Engineering Building, National University of Ireland Galway, August 15^th –  17^th.

INTRODUCTION

The Games, Entertainment and Media (GEM) Conference began in London 2009, and moved to venues in the US and Canada until 2016. For 2018 the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society will re-boot GEM outside of North America for the first time in a decade at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG).

Situated on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the West of Ireland was the site of the first trans-Atlantic air-flights and many historic links exist between Ireland, the US & Canada stretching back to the Irish famine.… read more. “Call: IEEE Games, Entertainment, & Media (GEM) 2018”

Call for Papers

Special Issue of Journal of Interaction Studies:
Groups in Human-Agent Interaction

Submissions due: 1 May 18

As robots and artificial agents become more prominent in human lives, they also increasingly become parts of groups and teams. Group interaction of humans and agents include applications as diverse as: a digital assistant for the home, a social robot operating in a mall, a group of robots and artificial agents supporting first responders. Research on group interactions between multiple humans, artificial agents and robots is important and poses novel challenges as compared to studying dyadic interaction. However, most research on human-agent interaction still focuses on one human interacting with one agent.

This special issue of Interaction Studies aims to bring together conversation on these topics will be critical as robots increasingly become a part of our society. The issue extends topics addressed at Groups in Human-Robot Interaction at RO-MAN 2016 and 2017, Robots in Groups and Teams at CSCW 2017, and Human-Agent Groups at the AAAI Fall 2017 Symposium.… read more. “Call: “Groups in Human-Agent Interaction” – Journal of Interaction Studies special issue”

[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 such as CRISPR-Cas9 system, technological and pharmacological expansions of human cognitive capacities, or overcoming physical and cognitive disabilities. The extent of technological interference in Stelarc’s “obsolete body” is currently so large that it is difficult to talk about it in terms of nature.… read more. “Call: The 10th Beyond Humanism Conference”

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 research results and ideas. Join us in Berlin!

UIST 2018 Submission Deadlines (12:00 PDT):

Papers: April 5, 2018
Posters: July 11, 2018
Demonstrations: July 11, 2018
Doctoral Symposium: July 11, 2018
Student Volunteers: TBA
Student Innovation Contest: TBA

Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:

• Significantly novel enabling technologies such as innovative input devices, new interaction techniques, or new media that extend the boundaries of traditional interaction, such as natural user interfaces, augmented reality, mobile interaction, haptics and tactile interfaces, ubiquitous computing (including wearables), social software, and computer-supported collaborative work.