Call for Papers

2nd Body as Starting Point (BAaST) Workshop on Inbodied Interaction:
Applying Inside Body Knowledge for Inbodied Design
Sunday May 5
At CHI2019, Glasgow
https://bodyasstartingpoint.tumblr.com/

Submission deadline: February 21; you’ll hear back from us by February 28

BAaST – that’s Body As a Starting Point. That starting point is for interactive technology design, and our question is: if we start designs that will touch bodies from an understanding of how those bodies operate (from macro processes like sleep to micro processes like hormonal signalling of metatonin) how might this knowledge inform/change our designs for health and wellbeing, for performance?

INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION

A growing area in HCI is the creation of tools to support health and performance. As the field moves in this domain, there is a meta-structural problem emerging; health is a holistic concept that requires an understanding of the many systems involved and their dynamic interactions, but the HCI community, at present, is producing technological artifacts that are largely fragmenting health and lack grounding in basic understanding of human physiology, neurology, etc.… read more. “Call: 2nd Body as Starting Point (BAaST) Workshop on Inbodied Interaction at CHI 2019”

Call for Papers

CHIRA 2019 – 3rd International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications
September 20 – 21, 2019
Vienna, Austria
http://www.chira.scitevents.org/

Submission Deadline: April 29, 2019

CHIRA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

CHIRA 2019 will be held in conjunction with icSPORTS 2019 and NEUROPhyCS 2019.
Registration to CHIRA allows free access to the icSPORTS and NEUROPhyCS conferences (as a non-speaker).

SCOPE

The purpose of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA) is to bring together professionals, academics and students who are interested in the advancement of research and practical applications of interaction design & human-computer interaction. Five parallel tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Computer-Human Interaction, including Interaction Design, Human Factors, Entertainment, Cognition, Perception, User-Friendly Software and Systems, Pervasive Technologies and Interactive Devices.… read more. “Call: CHIRA 2019 – 3rd International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications”

Call for Abstracts

PLAY/PAUSE Symposium
Theme: Immersion | Dissonance
22 May 2019
University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
http://playpauseuob.wordpress.com

Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2019

For our second annual symposium, PLAY/PAUSE is looking for 20-minute papers that interrogate the continuum between immersion and dissonance within videogames and virtual reality. We therefore welcome papers from any disciplinary background that relate to (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• New immersive media (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality)
• Embodiment and virtual environments
• Glitches and breaking immersion
• Flow and gaming expertise
• Identification and social gaming
• Constructed authenticity
• Queerness and the player body
• Detail, labour and the ‘crunch’
• Boredom and negative affects

Abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with a bibliography and short bio, should be sent to playpauseuob@gmail.com by Friday 15th March 2019. We particularly welcome proposals from PGRs and early career researchers.… read more. “Call: PLAY/PAUSE Symposium – Immersion | Dissonance”

Call for papers: Embodied Drawing
TRACEY Drawing Research Network Conference
18-19th July 2019
Conveners: Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University

Deadline: Friday 1st February 2019

The conference aims to explore the notion of embodied drawing. By embodied drawing we suggest that ‘embodied’ could be synonymous with the act of drawing, that drawing is an act of embodiment. As such, the making of a mark expands to become an act of mediation. Yet if all bodies are mediat(ing)ed, they too mark the skins and surfaces of other bodies in the briefest immediacies – in traces of gesture, events, at and through the borderline. A curious folding of/with materiality – a drawing. And as drawing expands there come lines of flight and queer becomings: of further technological mediations, prostheses, computer augmented realities, boundary-making practices that offer up new forms of embodiment, of bodies yet to be named, without outline.… read more. “Call: Embodied Drawing – TRACEY Drawing Research Network Conference”

Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417; impact factor 1.698)
“Ambient Assisted Living and Cognitive Assistants”
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Ambient_Assisted_Living_and_Cognitive_Assistants

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2019

INTRODUCTION

Recent studies have shown that people who stay in their homes have a higher quality of life, often better than those who are institutionalized. Another important social factor is the high cost of institutional care, which a great number of families are unable to pay, thus being the only option to keep their elderly relatives at home. To respond to these issues, the services and care available in the institutions must be replicated in the family environment. These new challenges require new solutions, technological ones.

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), and more recently, Cognitive Assistants (CAs) aim to provide technological advancements with the aim of assisting people with physical or cognitive disabilities. Their operational areas include complex platforms that include sensors, actuators, monitoring processes and decision support systems.… read more. “Call: “Ambient Assisted Living and Cognitive Assistants” issue of Applied Sciences”