CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference Human-Technology Relations: Postphenomenology and Philosophy of Technology @ DesignLab of the University of Twente, The Netherlands July 11 – 13th, 2018 https://www.utwente.nl/en/phtr/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2018 We are happy to invite you to a 3-day event around the topic of human-technology relations at the University of Twente. The conference intends to bring together scholars in philosophy of technology with the broader field of research in human-technology interaction. For this occasion, we are reaching out to philosophers, scholars, artists, designers, and engineers, in order to foster dialogue and creative collaborations around the…

Call for Papers 12th European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL 2018) Hosted by the SKEMA, Sophia Antipolis, France 4-5 October 2018 http://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/ Abstract submission deadline:  15 March 2018 Over the past decade, the way in which education and training is delivered has changed considerably with the advent of new technologies. One such technology that has increased in popularity is Game-Based Learning (GBL). ECGBL offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners interested in the issues related to GBL to share their thinking and research findings. Papers can cover a wide range of issues pertaining to GBL in education and training;…

Call for papers Assessing Agency, Moral and Otherwise: Beyond the Machine Question Part of the AISB Annual Convention 2018 University of Liverpool, UK 4-6 April 2018 The convention is organized by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). The deadline for submissions is 14 January. Submission details Program committee Easy Chair page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aa2018) Robotization and other forms of automation increasingly find themselves among the most-heard buzz words throughout the manufacturing sector and beyond. Beyond the mundane assembly-line robots, one hears about self-driving cars, “killer” battlefield robots, sex robots, prototype care robots. Laypersons and researchers…

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (i-USEr 2018) 28-30 August 2018 Selangor, Malaysia http://fskm.uitm.edu.my/iuser2018 Submission Dateline: 1st February 2018 We are pleased to inform you that the 5th International Conference on User Science and Engineering 2018 (i-USEr 2018) will be held in Selangor, Malaysia from 28th-30th August 2018. i- USEr 2018 is organized by the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group, Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. i-USEr 2018 aims to address the main issues of concern within Human Computer Interaction with a particular emphasis on the aspects of design, development and implementation…

Call for papers for a special issue on Natural Language Generation (NLG) for Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) to be published as part of the Dialogue & Discourse journal. Deadline for submissions: January 20, 2018 Language generation for dialogue requires sophistication in modeling the context of the dialogue, as well as methods that are sensitive to the rhetorical structure of a turn, and to the requirement that turns in dialogue are typically incremental and structured as oral, rather than written language. We therefore especially invite submissions which address these gaps, whether by introducing novel statistical or neural approaches or by leveraging…

Call for Contributions FDG 2018: The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 7-10 August 2018 Malmö, Sweden http://fdg2018.org Workshop Proposals due: February 12, 2018 Full and Short Papers due: March 12, 2018 The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) is a major international event. It seeks to promote the exchange of information concerning the foundations of digital games, technology used to develop digital games, and the study of digital games and their design, broadly construed. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including but not limited to…