CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Special Track on X-Reality & Immersive Learning Environments
Jointly organised with the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)
IEEE TALE 2018, 4-7 Dec 2018, Wollongong, Australia

Full call available at: http://tale2018.org/xreality

Deadline: 11 June 2018

The Special Track on X-Reality and Immersive Learning Environments at IEEE TALE 2018 will focus on the use of virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and related technologies for creating environments and experiences that excite, inspire and engage learners in immersive ways. Of interest are reports of both research studies and applications covering the entire spectrum of immersive platform types, including desktop, mobile, wearable and room-based (e.g., CAVE). Authors and presenters are encouraged to think creatively in terms of how they might frame their work to accommodate different conceptions of and perspectives on immersion.… read more. “Call: X-Reality & Immersive Learning Environments at IEEE TALE 2018”

Call for Papers: ACM UMAP Workshop – HAAPIE 2018

The 3nd International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments, in conjunction with the 26th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2018), Singapore, 8-11 July 2018

Full details are available online: http://haapie.cs.ucy.ac.cy

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 20 April 2018
Notification: 15 May 2018
Camera-ready: 27 May 2018

MOTIVATION & GOALS

State-of-the-art approaches in adaptation and personalization research consider user models that mostly maintain information regarding the “traditional” user characteristics (i.e., experience, knowledge, interests, context), and related contextual or technology aspects (i.e., displays, connectivity, processing power). While modeling these factors has shown significant improvements and benefits to the end-users in terms of user experience, there is an urgent need for a step change signifying the further engagement into research that will produce more holistic human-centered practices.… read more. “Call: Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments (ACM UMAP 2018 Workshop)”

Call for Papers

2018 Workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability

At Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2018
Malmö University
Sweden
August 7-10 2018)
http://fdg2018.org/

Workshop website: http://www.npc-workshop.org/cfp-2018.php

Paper submission deadline: May 21 2018

The 2018 workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability intends to be a point of interaction for researchers and game developers interested in modeling, discussing, and developing systems for Non-Player Character (NPC) social behavior and social affordances. This can include behaviour generation based on social and behavioural science theories and models, systems and approaches for social believability, social affordances when interacting with NPCs, and more. We invite participants from any discipline in order to create a broad spectrum of approaches to the area.

In the context of this workshop, NPCs in games are not limited to opponents and allies, but can play any role. From the beginning of digital games, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been part of the main idea of games containing acting entities, which is to provide the player with “worthy” opponents (NPCs).… read more. “Call: Workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability at FDG 2018”

Call for Papers

Workshop on Intelligent Conversational Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications
Held in conjunction with Federated AI Meeting (FAIM)
14th-15th of July, 2018
Stockholm
http://taln.upf.edu/pages/ica_ws/

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018

Communication is of crucial importance in home and geriatric care. Caregivers are expected not only to facilitate information, guidance and instruction, but also to interact as trustworthy companions of caretakers. In the light of the fact that more and more individuals are increasingly in need of home and geriatric care, ensuring adequate service for all has become a societal challenge. With the increasing maturity of verbal and non-verbal communication understanding and generation technologies, knowledge-based dialogue management techniques, external knowledge acquisition, and virtual character and robot design, questions regarding the use of intelligent conversational agents in home and geriatric applications has become increasingly important. At the same time, the home and geriatric care context implies specific technical and ethical challenges with respect to language, social behaviour, data and knowledge management, etc.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Intelligent Conversational Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications”

CALL FOR PAPERS, IDEAS, and PARTICIPATION

First IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (ai4i 2018)
September 26-28, 2018
The Hills Hotel
Laguna Hills, California
http://www.ai4i.org

Workshop proposals deadline: May 14, 2018
(Regular, Short, Abstract) Paper submission deadline: June 17, 2018

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with computing technologies that allow machines to see, hear, talk, think, learn, and solve problems. On one hand it allows business decisions to be driven by real-time models that enable unprecedented levels of accuracy and efficiency. On the other hand, general and domain specific problem solving can be integrated by semantic technologies. In addition, business-business, business-customer, and customer-customer may be interconnected in a revolutionary way to support new business models with elevated customer experiences.

The first International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (ai4i 2018), technically sponsored by IEEE, is an international forum focusing on incorporating artificial intelligence into business products and services that may be brought to the market in the near future.… read more. “Call: First IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (ai4i 2018)”