Call for Papers, Abstracts, Demos, and Posters VRST 2019: 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Sydney, Australia 12 November to 15 November 2019 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2019/ Submission deadlines: Papers and abstracts: 19 July 2019 Posters and Demos: 15 August 2019 Dear Colleagues Western Sydney University invites you to submit papers, abstracts, demos, and posters for the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2019). VRST 2019 is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers concerned with Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality software and technology.…

Call for Papers The Second ACM PETRA Workshop on Social Robots: A Workshop on the Past, the Present and the Future of Digital Companions At PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2019 Rhodes, Greece June 5-7, 2019 http://www.petrae.org/workshops/socialrobots.html Submission deadline: February 25, 2019 Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces but also follow us into much more personal settings like home and health care. Does this imply that social robots should be able to interpret and adequately respond to human emotions? Should they simulate emotions? The workshop covers the phenomenon of social robots from the historic…

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction: “Unifying Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence” http://showhow.fxpal.com/hcij/publicInfo/cfp_hciai.pdf Special Issue Editors: Munmun De Choudhury, Min Kyung Lee, David A. Shamma, and Haiyi Zhu Timeline: March 20, 2019: Proposals Due (1,000 words) June 15, 2019: Full Papers Due MOTIVATION Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly been deployed across many domains such as transportation, retail, criminal justice, finance and health. But these very domains that AI is aiming to revolutionize may also be where human implications are the most momentous. The potential negative effects of AI on society, whether amplifying human…

First IEEE International conference on Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC 2019) September 25-27, 2019 Laguna Hills, California https://www.humanizedcomputing.org/ Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with computing technologies that allow machines to move, see, hear, talk, think, learn, behave, and connect like humans. Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC) address the ability of a computer to mimic a human in perception, conversation, behavior, and networking. The huge potential of HCC represents an exciting future for individuals and businesses. In addition, business-business, business-human, and human-human may be interconnected in a revolutionary way to stimulate tremendous amount of interesting activities.…

CALL FOR PAPERS ACM UMAP Workshop – Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) The 1st International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security in conjunction with the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Larnaca, Cyprus June 09-12, 2019 Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission deadline: March 13, 2019 (23:59 AoE time) Notification: March 26, 2019 Camera-ready papers: April 03, 2019 MOTIVATION & GOALS Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in modern information systems and…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2019 6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Barcelona, Spain October 22-25, 2019 https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/ | @acmchiplay | #chiplay19 Submission deadlines: April 9, 2019:  Full papers (4-10 pages) May 2, 2019:  Workshop and Course Proposals July 5, 2019:  Rapid Communications Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, Interactivity, Works-in-Progress, and Workshop Position Papers CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to…