Call for Papers “HCI in a Sharing Society” research track at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2019 Stockholm, Sweden June 12-14, 2019 Submission deadline: November 27, 2018 Track Chairs: Mikko Rajanen, University of Oulu, Finland. (rajanen@oulu.fi) [Corresponding chair] Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, University of West London, UK. (abdelnour-nocera@uwl.ac.uk) Torkil Clemmensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. (digi@cbs.dk) Dorina Rajanen, University of Oulu, Finland. (rajanen@oulu.fi) Track Description: The socio-technical systems design approach has had a long history of influencing the systems design by considering human, social, technical and organisational factors (Trist and Bamford, 1951; Mumford, 1999; Mumford, 2000; Bjørn-Andersen & Clemmensen, 2017).…

CALL FOR PAPERS 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus June 9-12, 2019 https://www.um.org/umap2019/ Abstracts due: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) Papers due: February 1, 2019 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ACM UMAP, “User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization”, is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital…

Call for Papers Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM 19 Embodiment in Music University of Graz, Austria 26-28 September 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/cim19 Abstract submission deadline: 1st February 2019 THEME What does it mean for musical cognition to be embodied? The aim of this conference is to foster collaborations between scholars working in the humanities and the sciences to critically engage with this question, and explore the main theoretical, empirical, and performative challenges that embodiment poses in the musical domain. CIM19 provides a meeting point for those who wish to reflect upon, and interpret, the social, historical, epistemological, artistic, and even political…

Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Persuasive Systems for Behavior Change (PerPersuasion 2019) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 11-15, March 2019 https://perpersuasion.ubi-lab.com/ Submission deadline: November 10, 2018 SCOPE Recently, the technologies for changing people’s attitudes or behaviors through persuasion and social influence are focused. It is called persuasive technology or persuasive system and is expected to contribute supporting productivity, well-being, and efficiency. To realize an effective and appropriate intervention to the human behavior, various pervasive computing technologies such as a mobile sensing, activity recognition & prediction, and attention sensing have a quite important role. In this workshop, we…

Urban Play – The 15th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Seminar 15th-16th of April 2019 Tampere, Finland https://urbanplayseminar.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: January 18, 2019 Notification of acceptance: February 4, 2019 Full Paper deadline: March 25, 2019 Seminar dates: April 15-16, 2019 URBAN PLAY Urban spaces offer a rich environment for a diversity of play practices, from location-based games to parkour and from hopscotch to chess in parks. Historically, cities have offered rich affordances for games and play, but in recent years the spread of ubiquitous and pervasive technology has transformed and diversified public play. The extension of ‘smart’…

Call for Papers WiderScreen Journal Special Issue (2/2019): Sexuality & Play in Media Editors: Ashley Brown, Laura Saarenmaa, Veli-Matti Karhulahti Abstracts deadline: November 15, 2018 WiderScreen is a Finnish open-access scientific journal that centers on multimedial, digital, and audiovisual media culture. It is recognized as a quality peer-reviewed academic publication channel by the Finnish Publication Forum (Jufo). It is our pleasure to announce a call for papers to a special issue Sexuality & Play in Media, to be published in September 2019. We look forward to submissions concerning all intersections of sexuality and play(fullness) across media, both analog and digital…