CALL FOR PAPERS Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer Science, SCI-indexed, IF: 1.924) Special Issue on Virtual and Mixed Reality in Culture and Heritage https://www.syros.aegean.gr/users/dgavalas/SI_PUC_VR_MR.pdf Submission deadline: July 31, 2019 The rapid advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has profoundly impacted the cultural industry, among others. Cultural institutions are commonly on the forefront of technological innovations, persistently exploring compelling ways to address new audiences and introduce novel means of interaction with cultural assets, thus transforming, enriching and enhancing the perceived cultural experience. The potentials of the new tools trigger new transdisciplinary perspectives for presentation, representation, management, interpretation, personalization and effective…

Call for Papers: FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming 2019 13th Vienna Games Conference Theme: Mixed Reality October 18th -20th 2019 Vienna City Hall, Vienna, Austria http://www.frogvienna.at/ Submission deadline: September 6, 2019 Video games allow us to immerse ourselves in worlds that are reflective of cultural phenomena. They provide spaces to socialise with other players and enable us to actively engage in creative processes of co-creation. It is this characteristic that makes games equally enthralling and critically compelling. The future of games aspires to be an oscillation of virtual and concrete. Recent trends showcase that this process also works…

Call for Posters Exploring the Mind’s Eye: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Imagination October 25-26, 2019 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey http://www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr/index.php/2019/05/06/call-for-poster-proposals-exploring-the-minds-eye-conference/ Submission deadline: July 12, 2019 We are pleased to invite submissions to Exploring the Mind’s Eye: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Imagination for poster presentations. The conference will be held at Bilkent University, Ankara on October 25-26, 2019 and it is organized by the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience. The deadline for poster submissions is Friday, July 12, 2019 (midnight, GMT). Poster proposals should be between 500-1000 words and they should be submitted as a PDF file at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=img2019 Travel…

Call for Papers PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING Theme issue on Everyday Automation Experiences https://www.facebook.com/notes/personal-and-ubiquitous-computing/theme-issue-on-everyday-automation-experiences-cfp/10156023570570458/ Submission deadline: 31 October 2019 AIM AND SCOPE Automation is now part of our lives. Homeowners orchestrate their appliances in their smart homes, drivers negotiate control with their cars, public transport passengers use autonomous buses, shoppers use self-checkout, and factory workers see themselves in the role of monitoring rather than controlling. The emergent role of automation has an impact on the way how people can be supported in perceiving, monitoring and configuring technologies in a variety of situations. The design, creation, and evaluation of (semi-)automated everyday…

Call for Papers: Futures Thinking Inaugural Conference 1-3 October 2019 University of Oxford, Wolfson College Abstract deadline (extended): 1 July 2019 Ubiquitous technologies have resulted in unprecedented access to media for many but have also altered the way humans engage with and consume content, specifically the way in which we read. For example, recommender systems automatically filter content, based on an intelligent machines’ expectations about our preferences; and digital platforms allow us to share, alter, manipulate, and understand content in myriad ways that were not possible with traditional forms of media. Although humans may now read more than ever before,…

Call for Papers Fourteenth International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction February 9-12, 2020 Sydney, OZ https://tei.acm.org/ IMPORTANT DATES August 3, 2019, 17pm AEST Papers submission deadline October 19, 2019 Notification of acceptance February 9-12, 2020 TEI conference in Sydney, OZ RELATED DATES May 1, 2019 SIGCHI Student Travel Award December 15, 2019 ACM-W Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences GENERAL INFO TEI2020 is the 14th annual conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. The ACM-TEI conference has gained substantial visibility and activity over the past decade. It brings together researchers, practitioners,…