Call for Submissions

2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care
March 24-27
Chicago, Illinois
https://www.hfes.org/ContentCMS/ContentPages/?Id=Fb11tr2KH1E=
Flyer: http://cms.hfes.org/Cms/media/CmsImages/HCS2019-Flyer.pdf

Deadline for lectures and panels: Monday, October 8, 2018
Deadline for posters: Monday, October 15, 2018

View the 2018 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care page here.

The 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care will take place March 24–27 at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

The call for proposals is now open.

The symposium offers cutting-edge presentations, posters, and workshops on emerging issues in health-care human factors and the challenges facing us in the near future. Expand your knowledge of human factors/ergonomics applied to health-care devices, environments, and end-users in a format that allows for interaction and exchange of knowledge among participants and presenters.

• Get insights on the latest science and best practices
• Understand innovations in the safety of health-care providers and patients
• Sharpen the focus of your HF/E initiatives
• Improve your regulatory approaches

Program Tracks

• Clinical and Consumer Health-Care IT
• Hospital Environments
• Medical and Drug-Delivery Devices
• Patient Safety Research and Initiatives

The symposium offers leading human factors experts, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, biomedical engineers, health-care providers, FDA representatives, and patient safety researchers the opportunity to discuss real-world examples and experiences, and find solutions for issues and challenges in health-care.… read more. “Call: 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care”

Call for Abstracts

User Experience Design in Archaeology and Heritage
Roundtable Session at the 2019 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA)
Kraków, Poland
23-27 April, 2019
https://saraperry.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/user-experience-design-in-archaeology/

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 October 2018

• Are you designing digital resources for different archaeological users – specialists and wider audiences alike?
• Do you deploy – or do you want to deploy – methods from the UX (user experience) and participatory design fields?
• What workflows do you follow in iteratively developing your digital outputs? How are end users and stakeholders involved throughout these workflows?
• What evaluation methodologies are you using to assess the successes and failures of your digital work with diverse audiences?

Please join us to explore these questions (and more!) in our Roundtable Session #S36 on User Experience Design in Archaeology & Cultural Heritage at the CAA International Conference in Kraków, Poland, 23-27 April, 2019.… read more. “Call: “User Experience Design in Archaeology and Heritage” Roundtable at 2019 CAA International Conference”

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

Possible topics include (but are in no way limited to):

• Advertising (both in-game and out)
• Archiving and artifactual preservation
• Design and development
• Economic and industrial histories and studies
• Educational games and their pedagogies
• E-Sports and competitive gaming
• Fan studies
• Foreign language games and culture
• Game art/game-based art (including game sound)
• Game development education
• Game engines and entertainment
• Game genres/types
• Game streaming
• Games and health
• Gender and sexual identity
• Haptics and interface studies
• Hardware/platforms
• Histories of games
• Industry studies
• International/non-US game studies
• Localization
• MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming
• Performance
• Pornographic games
• Religion and games
• Representations of race and gender
• Representations of space and place
• The rhetoric of games and game systems
• Serious games
• Table-top games and gaming
• Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence
• Theories of play
• Transmedia and games
• Wireless and mobile gaming

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, that reflected on how brain-based intelligence is similar to artificial intelligence (AI) and also how both can be combined in neurotechnology. Papers submitted for this special issue should explore the ethical and social implications that arise in AI and neurotechnology. Here the term “brain-based” intelligence encompasses both human and non-human animal intelligence.… read more. “Call: Brain-Based and Artificial Intelligence: Socio-ethical Conversations in Computing and Neurotechnology (issue of Science and Engineering Ethics)”

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 the interface between humans and machines. It will feature contributions from the fields of philosophy,

anthropology, sociology, gender studies, computer science, medicine, and neuroscience, among others, to help understand what it means to be human in the digital age.

Contributions are expected to address the following topics:

• The human as a critical actor in the human-technology dynamics.