Special Issue of Philosophy and Technology on “Information Architecture and the Design of the Infosphere” Expressions of interest due: 26 July 2007 The question of what has to be done to ensure that information can be obtained, organised, and be placed in the right context is a concern that the philosophy of information shares with information architecture; the practice – and associated discipline – of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable (“What is Information Architecture?” The Information Architecture Insitute). A dialogue between these two disciplines was initiated during a workshop held at the University of…

Call for Papers Well Played Journal Special Issue: Thriving Through Gameplay Edited by iThrive Games’ team of experts and game design faculty members from various universities, in cooperation with ETC Press. http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/well-played-journal-special-issue-cfp-thriving-through-gameplay Submissions deadline: September 1, 2017 iThrive Games explores how great games can empower teens to discover and use their unique strengths, unlock their potential, and take charge of their well-being. iThrive Games, a division of Centerstone Research Institute and funded by the D.N. Batten Foundation, facilitates the development of digital games and applications that empower teens to take an active role in their own social and emotional well-being.…

Call for Papers International Research Conference Envisioning Robots in Society – Politics, Power, and Public Space Robophilosophy 2018 / TRANSOR 2018 February 14-17, 2018 University of Vienna, Austria www.robophilosophy-conference.org Deadline for submission of abstracts for papers and posters: Oct. 31, 2017 Deadline for submission of workshop and panel proposals: Sept. 15, 2017 Focus Automation is the new key strategy for productivity gain—many countries are well on their way towards the production model of “industry 4.0” where software bot and robots will appear in all industrial sectors including service industries. The core driver of this disruption complex is robotics, producing ever more intelligent,…

Call for papers Researching Digital Cultural Heritage – International Conference Manchester, UK 30 November – 1 December 2017 #digheritage17 http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/icp/connect/events/digital-heritage-conference/ Organised by The University of Manchester and Newcastle University Submission of proposals: 21 July 2017 Digital tools, approaches, platforms and experiences have become ubiquitous within cultural heritage research and practice. The diverse facets of heritage that lend themselves to both multi/interdisciplinary and focused disciplinary investigation have made heritage a fertile ground for an abundance of methodological explorations: analogue, digital and hybrid. More recently, a range of digitally mediated frameworks, methods and tools, such as data mining, crowdsourcing, social network analysis,…

Call for Abstracts SB-AI 2017: What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence? New frontiers September, 4, 2017 – Lyon, France Satellite Workshop at ECAL 2017 – The European Conference on Artificial Life September, 4-8, 2017 http://alife.org/conference/ecal-2017 Co-organized by Luisa Damiano (University of Messina, Messina, Italy) Yutetsu Kuruma (ELSI, Tokyo, Japan) Pasquale Stano (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy) Deadline for abstracts: July, 30 2017 Traditionally Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, broadly conceived as the study of intelligence through the construction of artificial models of natural cognitive systems, has been developed in the context of computer science and robotics. Today the emergence of…