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 of submitted position papers (3-6 pages, Springer LNCS format), addressing one or more of the workshop topics. Accepted position papers are published in an adjunct conference proceedings.

WORKSHOP MOTIVATION

Over the last few years there has been a marked increase in the interest in chatbots, that is, conversational user interfaces to data and services.… read more. “Call: Chatbots for Social Good – INTERACT 2019 Workshop”

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 to name just a few!

The interdisciplinary focus of this conference explicitly acknowledges that the various scientific disciplines in perception research and computer science research use different but complementary methods to address fundamentally similar questions. As such, combinations of knowledge, methods, and/or insights from the different fields can help to advance all of the applied perception fields.… read more. “Call: SAP 2019: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception”

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 from mobile apps, through interactive tables, tangible interaction and on-line post-visit experiences, these technologies have aimed to engage visitors in new and interesting ways and to promote interaction with heritage in a different way to the more traditional museum text label.… read more. “Call: “The Internet of Things in the Cultural Heritage Sector” – Special issue of Sustainability”