Call for Papers Ethics of Digital Well-Being: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Springer, Philosophical Studies) Submission deadline: 9th September 2019 This edited collection is designed to explore the new opportunities and risks for human flourishing associated with the widespread adoption of digital technologies in domains such as healthcare, education and employment, media and entertainment, and social development and governance. For example, mobile apps can help us track increasingly fine-grained features of our physical health using advanced data analytics, but can also create an endless source of distraction that may impact negatively our mental health. In the same way, information and communication technologies,…

Call for Papers 8th Workshop Automotive HMI: User Interface Research in the Age of New Digital Realities Colocated with MuC (Mensch-Computer-Interaction) 2019 (http://muc2019.mensch-und-computer.de/) September 8, 2019 (9AM-5PM) Hamburg, Germany http://www.andreasriener.com/MuC2019WS/ Submission deadline: June 6, 2019 Even though many aspects of automated driving have not yet become true, many human factors issues have already been investigated. However, recent discussions revealed common misconceptions in both research and society about vehicle automation and the levels of automation. This might be due to the fact that automated driving functions are mis-named (cf. Autopilot) and that vehicles integrate functions at different automation levels (L1 lane…

Call for papers Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS-53, held January 2020 at the Grand Wailea in Maui https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, which will host its 53rd annual conference (see HICSS-53) on January 7-10, 2020, at the Grand Wailea in Maui. Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2019 Submission: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of human communication. Mediated conversations can use text, audio, images or video, or…

Call for Papers Social Emotions – Theories and Models (SE-THEMOS19) Tues September 3rd, 2019 Cambridge, UK http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/se-themo19.html A workshop at Affective Computing and Intelligent Interfaces ACII2019 (http://acii-conf.org/2019/) Submission deadline: May 31st, 2019 Social agents with both graphical and robotic embodiments are being researched on an increasing scale, with applications in public interaction, education, health and therapeutic areas. This raises quite sharply both a requirement for the detection of social emotions – whether emotion that is socially and culturally regulated or emotion in group settings – and the modelling and expressing of such emotions on the social agent side. The aim…

Call for Papers Philosophy & Technology special issue on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Guest Editor: Josh Cowls (Alan Turing Institute & University of Oxford) Deadline for paper submissions: October 1, 2019 Abstract We seek submissions of roughly 8,000 words in length, on the ethical, political, design-related, policy-based or cultural considerations surrounding AI4SG in theory and practice. While the motivating questions should be of a philosophical nature, we welcome high-quality submissions regardless of philosophical tradition, research methodology, school of thought, and disciplinary background. Given the diverse contexts in which AI is already being deployed, we particularly encourage submissions from perspectives…

Call for Papers: GAMIFICATION at HICSS 2020 Part of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science” track 53rd annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2020) 7-10 January 2020 Grand Wailea, Maui https://www.tut.fi/Gamification/2019/02/26/hicss2020_cfp/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2019 Interaction with games is considered to have positive effects on our cognitive, emotional, social abilities and motivation (5, 9, 10, 13, 15, 22, 30). It isn’t surprising, then that our reality and lives are increasingly becoming game-like (6). This is not limited to the fact that digital games have become a pervasive part of our lives, but perhaps most prominently…