Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 40th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference February 20-23, 2019 Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.org Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2018 The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area invites papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. Proposals are welcome from any and all scholars (including graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, and emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, artists, archivists, and so forth). Unusual formats, technologies, and the like are encouraged. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION…

Call for Papers Special Issue of the journal Science and Engineering Ethics Brain-Based and Artificial Intelligence: Socio-ethical Conversations in Computing and Neurotechnology Editors: Elisabeth Hildt, Kelly Laas, Monika Sziron, Stephanie J. Bird Abstracts due: September 15, 2018 We are inviting papers to be included in a special issue of Science and Engineering Ethics that seeks to explore the convergences and disparities in approaches to intelligence in neuroscience and computer science. The topic for this special issue comes from a May 2018 workshop organized by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology,…

Call for Abstracts The Cyborg Days Workshop November 26 – 28 University of Zurich, Switzerland https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Workshops/The-Cyborg-Days.html Submission deadline: October 22, 2018 The Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at ETH Zurich are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for The Cyborg Days! The Cyborg Days is a three-day workshop that will take place from Monday November 26 to Wednesday November 28, 2018 at the University of Zurich. For detailed information, please visit our website: https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Workshops/The-Cyborg-Days.html This transdisciplinary workshop aims at exploring topical issues at…

Call For Papers Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction To be held as part of INLG 2018 (https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/) 8 November 2018 Tilburg, Netherlands http://purl.org/net/nlg-hri-workshop-2018/ Contact email: nlghri2018@easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES: September 14, 2018: Submission deadline for position papers October 15, 2018: Notification of acceptance October 29, 2018: Camera-ready due November 6–7, 2018: INLG main conference November 8, 2018: Workshop on NLG for HRI WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The research area of human–robot interaction has the goal to develop robotic agents that exhibit socially intelligent behaviour while interacting with human partners. Despite the clear relationship between social intelligence and fluent, flexible linguistic…

Call for Papers Behaviour & Information Technology Journal Special issue on Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmu06129-tbit-smart-cities-at-play Deadline for submission of paper abstracts: 1 October 2018 Smart cities can be described as places where physical environments are combined with information technology to rectify socio-economic and environmental issues. In recent years, technologies embedded with the global positioning system (GPS) have been increasingly used to shape more efficient urban spaces. Locative data, for instance, is regularly employed to determine the severity of traffic, just as it has become pivotal to ridesharing services. Likewise, such data is used…

Through Despair and Hope: The Circle of Second Life Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER) presentation in voice and discussion in text chat Presenter: Mark Childs (SL: Gann McGann) Date: 6 September 12 noon Second Life Time (which is 8pm UK time, 3pm US Eastern time) Location: Second Life http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VSTE%20Island/27/27/22 In 2009 every higher education institution in the UK had at least one practitioner exploring the use of Second Life (Kirriemuir, 2009). Since then, the number of institutions using the Second Life platform dropped markedly. Some practitioners began using other platforms, others stopped the using virtual worlds altogether (Childs, 2013). The…