Call for Papers 4th Games and Natural Language Processing Workshop (GAMNLP-19) To be held at the 14th Foundations of Digital Games Conference (FDG-19) August 26 or 27, 2019 San Luis Obispo, California, USA Submission deadline: April 5, 2019 The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) ranges from theoretical studies (e.g., parsing algorithms, computational models of dialogue) to practical applications (e.g., information retrieval, conversational agents, machine translation). This workshop investigates computational and theoretical aspects of natural language research that would be beneficial for designing and building novel game experiences, or for processing texts to conduct formal game studies. NLP would benefit…

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on “Culture Games” ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage https://jocch.acm.org/culturegame.cfm Deadline: 15th December 2019 Industries, stakeholders, and the general public approach culture (both tangible and intangible) for a variety of purposes, and digital games can channel each of these purposes in different ways. In the context of a cultural experience, people may want to learn (with serious games) but also to have fun (with simple entertainment games), spend some spare time (with casual games), socialize (with social or multiplayer games), or create (with collaborative creation games). Similarly, cultural institutions wish not only to teach,…

Call for Papers 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2019) Pisa, Italy 26-29 November, 2019 http://www.mum-conf.org/2019/ Organized by the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) laboratory of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. Submission deadline: August 27, 2019 MUM 2019, the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held on 26-29 November 2019 at the CNR Area of Research in Pisa, Italy. GENERAL INFORMATION The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) is a leading annual international conference which provides a forum for presenting the…

Call for Papers Workshop on Envisioning Next Generation Personalized Game Experiences Co-located with the 2019 Foundations of Digital Games Conference August 26-30, San Luis Obispo, California, USA August 26, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/nextpersonalizedgames/home Important Dates: Deadline for Papers and Demos/Prototypes: March 21, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2019 Camera Ready Papers: June 1, 2019 Our expectations of user experience with digital applications is shifting. The ‘one-size-fits-all’ model is gradually giving way to personalized experiences that can better accommodate users’ individual differences. Personalized search, recommendations systems, and social media feeds, for instance, are becoming the norm of our digital life. In computer…

Call for Papers Workshop on Speech Interface Interactions At CHI 2019, May 4-9, Glagow, UK http://speech-interaction.org/chi2019 2 page position papers due February 12, 2019 Speech as an interaction modality has grown through the integration of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) like Google Assistant and Siri into mobile and home-based devices. This collaborative workshop focuses on theories and methods we can use to understand user behaviours with speech interfaces. Through the workshop we will establish what theories, concepts, and paradigms are important in understanding our interaction choices with speech interfaces, and potential new theoretical frame- works required to explore them. We will…

Design Culture and Somaesthetics Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields Conference Date: 06-08. 05. 2019 Conference Venue: Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest Conference Hosted by: Design Culture Studies Doctoral Program at the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest & Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics Website: https://doktori.mome.hu/conference-2019/?lang=en Submission deadline: February 15, 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Richard Shusterman, Professor of Philosophy and English, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Director for Body, Mind and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. Initiatior of somaesthetic research. Guy Julier, Professor of Design Leadership at Aalto University, Helsinki. Former Principal Research Fellow in…