Call for Participation Study about adult media and sexual health for VR users Hello! I am a graduate student at Michigan State University conducting research on attitudes about adult media (pornography) and sexual health for virtual reality users. If you are 18 years old, have consumed adult media through a virtual reality format – in the past six months, and feel comfortable answering questions about adult media use, would you please consider completing our study? If you agree to participate in the research, you will be asked to answer some survey questions and watch an adult media video. The entire…

Call for Papers Workshop on Designing Serious Location-based Augmented Reality Games Held as part of the IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing & Joint Conference on Serious Games (ICEC-JCSG 2019, http://ucsp.edu.pe/icec-jcsg-2019) Arequipa, Perú November 11-15th 2019 https://seriouslocationbasedargames2019.wordpress.com/ Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2019 1 INTRODUCTION In recent years, the popularity of location-based Augmented Reality (AR) games has increased significantly. For example, 2013 Ingress generated a hype that was surpassed by 2016 Pokémon GO with an even larger player base. From a didactical perspective, location-based AR games, which encompass Ingress and Pokémon GO, have a number of characteristics that make their…

Call for Emerging Technologies (E-Tech) Demonstrations SIGGRPAH Asia 2019 Brisbane, AUSTRALIA 17-20 November https://sa2019.siggraph.org/submissions/emerging-technologies Deadline: 17 June 2019 Experience the Future! Interactive technology is one of the most important and exciting parts of the SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia conferences, and the Emerging Technologies program plays a vital role in driving the development of research communities to pursue technological innovations and to make a great impact on the public. The Emerging Technologies program presents demonstrations of research from a wide range of fields, including displays, virtual and augmented reality, input devices, and robotics. These technologies may include, but are not limited…

Call for Papers VJ 2019: 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts 27-29 November 2019 Aveiro, Portugal http://videojogos2019.web.ua.pt/ Submission deadline: July 31, 2019 SCOPE Ten years, and ten years more. The 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts will be held on November 27-29, organised by the Departament of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, and the Society of Video Games Sciences (SPCV). The annual conferences of the SPCV promote the scientific gathering of researchers in Portugal. These conferences are attended by researchers and professionals in the expanded field of videogames – Multimedia, Communication, Technology, Education, Psychology and…

Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on the Applications of Knowledge Representation and Semantic Technologies in Robotics (AnSWeR19) Co-located with the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2019) Dates: November 4/8 (tbd), 2019 Venue: The Venetian Macao, Macau, China (co-located with IROS2019) Site: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Answer-Robotic-SemanticWeb-IoT-Workshop-IROS2019 Hashtag: #answer2019 Twitter: @answerworkshop Deadline for submission: June 30th, 2019 Submissions page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=answer19 ORGANISERS Ilaria Tiddi – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Amelie Gyrard – Wright State University, US Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri – Örebro University, Sweden Emanuele Bastianelli – Heriot-Watt University, UK DESCRIPTION Autonomous mobile agents and robotics, in general, are experiencing a growing interest…

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide November 15-16, 2019 Queen Mary University of London https://aestheticsfilmstudies.weebly.com/ Submission deadline: July 29, 2019. The project has received funding from the British Society for Aesthetics. Confirmed keynotes: Professor Brian Winston, Lincoln Chair, Lincoln School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln. Dr Stacie Friend, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London. The fiction/nonfiction divide is a much discussed topic in contemporary analytic aesthetics. According to classic works like Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990) and Currie’s The Nature of Fiction (1990), fiction essentially involves imagining whereas nonfiction essentially involves…