Call for Papers Inaugural issue of Journal of Games, Self, and Society Submission deadline August 31, 2018 iThrive Games, in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press, has released a call for submissions to the inaugural issue of iThrive’s peer-reviewed Journal of Games, Self, and Society. Our team of highly respected game scholars, education experts, and mental health specialists recruited from around the United States will review papers submitted to kelli.dunlap@ithrivegames.org by Aug. 31, 2018. Journal of Games, Self, and Society aims to encourage and advance interdisciplinary scholarship on games, players, and how their interactions impact society. Of particular interest is…

Call for Papers ICIDM 2018 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Media 11 – 12 December 2018 Liverpool, UK http://magicx.my/icidm18/ Due date for paper submission: 12 August 2018 Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in collaboration with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) are pleased to announce the 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Media (ICIDM 2018) to be held on 11 – 12 December 2018 at Redmond Building, LJMU, Liverpool, United Kingdom. ICIDM 2018 brings an opportunity to invite new innovative inventions on Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Image Processing, Human Computer Interaction, Animal Computer Interaction, Animation, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Web and Mobile…

Call for Papers: INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING WITH MULTIMODAL INTERFACES a special issue of the journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Manuscript submission deadline: 1 November 2018 Interactive digital storytelling aims at using digital media to create narrative experiences that can be influenced by the user. It is an interdisciplinary field that combines research in artificial intelligence, computer science, narrative, drama, and interactive technologies. The expressive media that have been most commonly used in interactive digital storytelling include text and various forms of virtual reality, but recent advances in multimodal technologies have opened up the potential for creating narrative experiences that also address…

Call for BOOK PROPOSALS, EDITED BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, and HANDBOOKS …to be published in the new…. Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Press SUBMISSION DEADLINE 30th September 2018 for the first batch of proposals, however, we also accept book proposals on a continuous basis SERIES WEBSITE http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com CONTACT INFORMATION artur.lugmayr@artur-lugmayr.com?subject=CRC%20Book%20Proposals We are especially searching for brave new ideas in media technology, emerging media, visualization, user-experience computation and interaction design! The Chapman & Hall/CRC Emerging Media and User-Experience Computation Series presents cross-disciplinary research, case studies, and insights into media technology, media business, and media design. The series…

Call for (Fictional) Abstracts The Futures of Computing and Wisdom A Design Fiction workshop in conjunction with the NordiCHI’18 conference, Oslo, Norway Full-day workshop on Saturday September 29, 2018 https://futuresnordichi.wordpress.com Submission deadline: August 10, 2018 There has been an increasing interest in discussing the consequences of the technologies we invent and study in HCI research, including non-technical dimensions (societal, ethical, normative) (Mankoff et al. 2013, Pargman et al. 2017). This is also apparent in the surge of interest in Design Fiction during the last 10 years (Bleecker 2009, Tanenbaum et al. 2013, Dunne and Raby 2013). Design Fictions have traditionally…