CALL FOR PAPERS GHItaly19 3rd Workshop on Games-Human Interaction http://ghi.di.unimi.it/ In Conjunction with CHITALY 2019 Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter Padova (Italy), September 23-25, 2019 https://www.chitaly2019.org/ Submission deadline: May 17, 2019 GHItaly19 aims at bringing together scholars and industry practitioners to establish a common ground on the topic. The main goal of the event is to spur discussion, exchange of ideas, and development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on games-human interaction.  The perspective that the workshop aims at investigating is the design of visual interfaces applied in the specific field of the production of video…

Call for Papers ACM Spatial User Interaction 2019 New Orleans, Louisiana October 19-20, 2019 http://sui.acm.org/2019/ Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction 2019 (SUI). SUI will be held on 19-20 October 2019, co-located with the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) in New Orleans, Louisiana. We seek original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of spatial user interaction. User interface evaluations are strongly encouraged for every publication in this venue. Specific topics of interest include: Spatial interaction…

Call for Papers Chatbots for Social Good An INTERACT 2019 Workshop September 3, 2019 Paphos, Cyprus https://sites.google.com/view/chatbotsforsocialgood2019 Extended submission deadline: May 27, 2019 Chatbots have substantial potential for social good – for example in health and wellbeing, education, and community building. But this potential is not yet realized. Researchers and practitioners with an interest in chatbot research and design are invited to a full day workshop, in conjunction with the HCI conference INTERACT 2019. Together we explore how chatbots may be designed and developed for social good, and the implications of this perspective. Workshop participants are selected on the basis…

Call for Papers and Posters SAP 2019: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 19 – 20 September, 2019 At the University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain https://sap.acm.org/2019/ Submission deadline for paper abstracts: May 14th, 2019 Submission deadline for posters: July 9th, 2019 The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate, immersive forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This explicitly includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side…

Call for Papers Special Issue of sustainability The Internet of Things in the Cultural Heritage Sector https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/iot_sus Guest Editor: Dr. Mark T Marshall Department of Computing, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard St, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK M.Marshall@SHU.AC.UK Interests: Internet of Things; smart devices; tangible interaction; heritage; personalization Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2019 Dear Colleagues, Museums and cultural heritage sites have often experimented with digital technologies as a way of providing new means of engaging with visitors. This has included a variety of different forms of interaction, whether on-site during a visit, or online before or after the visit. Ranging…