Call for Papers:
Design Innovation Management Conference
London 18 to 21^st 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 both now and in the future. We welcome full paper submissions from practitioners and academics on the following topics:

• Reflections on current industry practice, including real-world examples of applied design methods, methodologies, agile and lean ways of working and cross-disciplinarity between digital designers and other disciplines;
• Understanding industry’s needs in terms of current and future digital design skills, capabilities and competencies including the adoption, use and trajectory of digital tools;
• Theoretical and practice-based accounts and challenges to existing digital practices in the broadest sense and specifically relating to user experience and service design;
• Explorations on the role that design plays, within tactical and strategic end-to-end digital product and service production and consumption; and
• Studies relating to the digital economy, with a specific focus on opportunities and threats to design theory and practice; and
• Future oriented studies that provide insights into how digital data might transform practice, outcomes and methods within the digital economy.

Call for Abstracts

Conference: (Clinical) Neurotechnology meets AI: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
May 8-10, 2019
Munich, Germany
www.bit.ly/neurotechmeetsai

Deadline for submission: January 15, 2019

Organized by the project INTERFACES at the Institute for Ethics, History and Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. Project partners are located in Hamburg, Granada and Montreal. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, as part of the ERANET Neuron program.

Imagine the coffee machine starts to brew your urgently needed morning coffee as soon as you think the command “start the coffee machine” while still in bed. Is that realistic? Is it desirable?

Neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are no longer a futuristic dream or, depending on the viewpoint, a nightmare. They are subject of many research projects and their usability improves rapidly. Today, BCIs represent an important tool for a wide range of medical applications.… read more. “Call: “(Clinical) Neurotechnology meets AI: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications” (Conference)”

Call for Chapters: Teaching, Learning, and Leading With Computer Simulations

https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3542

Editors:
Dr. Yufeng Qian
Louisiana State University

Proposals Submission Deadline: January 11, 2019
Full Chapters Due: March 22, 2019
Submission Date: June 17, 2019

INTRODUCTION

Computer simulation is becoming increasingly popular in education, especially in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and healthcare and medical disciplines. There has also been growing interest in social sciences and humanities to use computer simulations to facilitate students’ understanding and exploration of abstract and complex systems in social- and human-related disciplines.

Decades of research on computer simulations have evidenced that computer simulation, as a powerful technological tool and research-proven pedagogical technique, holds great potential to enhance and transform teaching and learning in education and is therefore a viable tool to engage students in deep learning and higher-order thinking. With the advancement of simulation technology (e.g., virtual reality, extended reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning) and the expanded disciplines where computer simulation is being used (e.g.,… read more. “Call: Chapters for “Teaching, Learning, and Leading With Computer Simulations””

Call for Book Chapters

Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI, Algorithms, and Equity

Abstracts and bios due 1 April 2019

This collection will explore a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues, such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability and citizenship.

Some call it the 4th industrial revolution (Brinded, 2016; Kaplan, 2015). Robots, AI, and algorithms have grown from their early uptake in some industries (such as robots in manufacturing) to an accelerating presence in other spheres ranging from customer service roles (for example, reception, check-outs, food service, driving) to professional and creative roles previously unheard-of and un-thought-of (for example, expert legal and medical systems, automated journalism, musical and artistic production (Kaplan, 2016; Ramalho, 2017; Hirsch, 2017)). The World Economic Forum warns that “this will lead to a net loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerging economies by 2020” (Brinded, 2016), a serious challenge to ethical labour practices, and potential looming crisis leading some to consider alternative societal models-such as Universal Basic Income (Frase, 2016), or a robot tax (Walker, 2017)-to compensate.… read more. “Call: Chapters for “Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI, Algorithms, and Equity””

Call for Papers

13th European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL 2019)
3 – 4 October 2019
The University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark

This call will close on 14th of March 2019.

The way in which education and training is delivered has changed considerably with the development of Game-Based Learning (GBL). The European Conference on Game-Based Learning offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners interested in the issues related to GBL to share their thinking and research findings. Papers can cover a wide range of issues pertaining to GBL in education and training; technology and implementation issues associated with the development of GBL; use of mobile and MMOGs for learning; pedagogical issues associated with GBL; social and ethical issues in GBL; GBL best cases and practices, etc.

The conference committee welcomes contributions using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods.… read more. “Call: 13th European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL 2019)”