Call for participation in an online workgroup to develop an evaluation instrument for social agents Our vision is to create a validated standardised questionnaire instrument to evaluate human interaction with a social agent. This instrument will help researchers to make claims about people’s perceptions, attitude and beliefs towards their agent. It will allow agents to be compared across user studies, and importantly, it helps in replicating our scientific findings. This is essential for the community if we want to make valid claims about the impact that our social agents can have in domains such as health, entertainment, and education. We…

Call for Abstracts: Informed Experiences, Designing Consent Workshop, April 6, 2019 Chicago https://www.hastac.org/opportunities/cfp-informed-experiences-designing-consent Submission deadline: January 23, 2019 Informed Experiences, Designing Consent is a symposium interrogating the intersections of consent and the design of interactive media and technologies. The symposium is hosted at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and the HASTAC Scholars fellowship program on April 6, 2019. It is organized by Michael Anthony DeAnda, Elisabeth Hildt, Kelly Laas, and Leilasadat Mirghaderi. Informed Experiences, Designing Consent is a one-day event intended to bring together researchers, scholars, practitioners,…

Call for Papers Storytelling and the Body: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference 15th to 16th July 2019 Verona, Italy http://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary- projects/storytelling/storytelling-and-the-body/conferences/ Submission deadline: 22nd February 2019 We live in an era where stories about bodies – in/visible bodies, glamorous bodies, engineered bodies, trafficked bodies, dismembered bodies, persecuted bodies – are omnipresent. While bodies are literally made of flesh and blood, our understanding of bodies is constructed through fictional and non-fictional stories that shape perceptions of what constitutes the body, how a body should look, how a body should behave, how a body should experience the world and how bodies should interact…

Call for Papers Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Issue on Impact of Immersive Environments https://www.jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/94-cfp-impact To be edited by: Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK (Prime) Tuncer Can, University of Istanbul, Turkey Michael Vallance, Future University, Japan Abstracts deadline: December 20, 2018 MOTIVATION AND SCOPE Over the last two decades research on virtual worlds and immersive environments has engaged with a wide variety of stakeholders and beneficiaries across many disciplines and fields that naturally involve high stakes, engaging with participants with learning and physical disabilities to the military, citizen democracy and digital civics. In this issue we want to…

Call for Papers: Design Innovation Management Conference London 18 to 21st June 2019 https://designinnovationmanagement.com/conferences/academy-for-design-innovation-management-conference-2019/ REAL WORLD DESIGN FUTURES TRACK #RealWorldDesign John Knight, Aalto University, Finland Chirryl-Lee Ryan, Idean, US Francesca Tassistro, Avanade,Italy Arne van Oosterom, Design Thinkers Group, Netherlands Joyce Yee, University of Northumbria, UK Daniel Fitton, University of Central Lancashire, UK Louise Valentine, University of Dundee, UK Satu Miettinen, University of Lapland, Finland Track contact: john.knight@aalto.fi Submit relevant papers for double-blind peer-review by 29th January 2019 EXPLORING THE REAL WORLD OF THE DESIGN IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY This track explores current trends, collaborations, theories and practices in digital design…