Call for Submissions ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents September 9-12th 2020 University of Glasgow, Scotland https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] SUBMISSION DATES Papers: 5th April 2020 Extended Abstracts: 24th May 2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allows…

Call for Papers Cognitive, Affective, and Conversational HCI Mini-track at the Americas Conference on Information System (AMCIS) 2020 Track: Human-Computer Interaction (SIGHCI) Salt Lake City, Utah August 13-15, 2020 https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-13 Deadline for paper submissions: February 28, 2020 Understanding and adapting to the cognitive and affective states of users can enable systems to interact more effectively, and creates new possibilities for information systems. Emerging systems are able to incorporate information from these sensors to create more humanlike responses, to improve decision processes, and to gain a deeper understanding of how the user is thinking or feeling. The cross-disciplinary nature of the…

Call for Papers ACM UMAP 2020 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: “Responsible Personalization” Genoa (Italy) July 14-17, 2020 https://www.um.org/umap2020/ Abstracts due: January 31, 2020 (mandatory) Papers due: February 7, 2020 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with…

Call for Papers SALENTO AVR 2020: 7th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics “Where the digital world is blended with the real world“ June 8 – 11, 2020 Lecce, Italy http://www.salentoavr.it/ Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2020 The 7th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (SALENTO AVR 2020) intends to bring together the community of researchers and scientists in order to discuss key issues, approaches, ideas, open problems, innovative applications and trends on virtual and augmented reality, 3D visualization and computer graphics in the areas of medicine, cultural heritage, arts, education, entertainment,…

Call for Papers First Pacific Asia Workshop on Game Intelligence & Informatics (GII) To be held in conjunction with The 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (https://www.pakdd2020.org/) 11-14 May 2020 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre https://web.northeastern.edu/guii/gii/ Important Dates: Submission deadline: January 22, 2020 Camera-ready copies: March 6, 2020 Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2020 SCOPE AND TOPICS Understanding the game state and player action is a fundamental objective for any game researcher, because it sheds light on various aspects about the players and the game, such as skills, strategies, engagement, intention, retention, difficulty level and decision-making.…

Call for Submissions International Academic Conference on Meaningful Play 2020 October 1-3, 2020 East Lansing, Michigan, USA http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2020 Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Meaningful Play 2020 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference…