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 interaction, in practice few interactive robots employ anything beyond a simple template-based process when generating output. Developers of robot systems often do not take advantage of the flexibility afforded by natural language generation when generating output in interactive settings and dynamic environments or when output must be generated in different contexts or multiple target languages.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (at INLG 2018)”

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 to better understand human mobilities, monitor crowds during large gatherings, and theorise the spatial behaviours of tourists.

At the same time, the application of locative data extends beyond simply better-organising space. GPS enabled smartphones and the mobile web have been instrumental in developing location-based social networking sites (LBSNs) and hybrid reality games (HRGs), both of which explicitly involve the technological mediation of playful practices and encounters.… read more. “Call: “Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness” issue of Behaviour & Information Technology Journal”

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 question of why this occurred will be addressed and what this meant for those individuals professionally and personally.

These experiences will be assessed in order to answer broader questions concerning the role of deploying creative technologies in learning and teaching? What are the general barriers and motivators for experimenting with new technologies, and what is the impact on us as practitioners?… read more. “Call: “Through Despair and Hope: The Circle of Second Life” Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable Sept. 6 in SL”

CALL FOR PAPERS

DiGRA 2019: Digital Games Research Association Conference
‘Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo Mix’
Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan
August 6 – 10, 2019
http://www.digra2019.org/

Submission deadlines:

• Full Papers, Abstracts, Panels, and Doctoral Consortium: February 5, 2019
• Workshops: April 8, 2019

Media mix (wasei-eigo, メディアミックス or ‘media mikkusu’) bears a particular meaning in Japanese popular culture originating from anime production and consumption in the 1960s. Similarly to cross-media, media convergence, and transmediality, it refers to ways of presenting, representing, and sharing content on different platforms and media allowing dynamic communication between them. Media mix is best seen as a commercial approach as it was conceived to improve advertising strategies through heavy reliance on characters. Of particular importance for media mix are Intellectual Properties that link together various media products and entertainment services across technologies and platforms from TV to toys and game arcades.… read more. “Call: DiGRA 2019: Digital Games Research Association Conference”