Call for Chapter Proposals Emerging Identities in the Future of Places: Neo-cultures, Place Multi-mediation and Intersubjectivities Abstract submission deadline: 1 Nov 2017 How is the development of future places in cities shaping new place-based identities, defined by the intertwined and entangled nature of socio-cultural, technical and spatial practices of people? Comprehending the resultant complexities of place-related identity demands the need to identify new directions that evolve progressively by embracing a renewed understanding of identity. The proposed book aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach towards unravelling emerging place- related identities that are caught in a labyrinth created by contemporary urban spatialities.…

Call for Papers: When HCI Meets Data Analytics Special issue of Advances in Human-Computer Interaction https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/si/706320/cfp/? Submission Deadline: Friday, 26 January 2018 Human computer interaction (HCI), with the focus on improving the interaction between humans and machines, is one of the fastest growing fields in nowadays’ computing era. It is an interdisciplinary field situated at the intersection of computer science, human factors, psychology, sociology, behavioural sciences, cognitive science, visualisation, design, and arts. In the recent years, the rapid development of digital technologies has generated huge amounts of data which could be used to enable and recognise human values. Data analytics…

Call for Papers Socially Interactive Agents Track (formerly Virtual Agents) AAMAS 2018, the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems July 10-15, 2018 in Stockholm (http://aamas18.ifaamas.org) http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/sociallyInteractiveAgentsTrack/ Submissions of abstracts: November 10 2017 Submissions of full papers: November 17, 2017 Dear all, Stacy Marsella and I are co-chairing the Socially Interactive Agents Track (formerly Virtual Agents) at AAMAS 2018 that will be held in Stockholm, July 10-15 co-located with IJCAI and ICML. Our goal in taking on this task is to strengthen and significantly broaden the participation at AAMAS of researchers working on social agents. To that end, we…

Eleventh International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies St John’s University, Manhattan Campus, New York, USA 2–3 March 2018 http://ubi-learn.com/NewYork2018 Proposal deadline: 2 December 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS The Eleventh International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies will be held at St John’s University, Manhattan Campus, New York, USA , 2–3 March 2018. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks, virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes: Theme 1: Pedagogies Theme 2: Institutions Theme 3: Technologies Theme 4: Social Transformations 2018 Special Focus: Digital Pedagogies for Social Justice SCOPE & CONCERNS First…

Call for Workshop Participation Bringing Together Interactive Digital Storytelling with Tangible Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities To be held within the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2017; http://icids2017.m-iti.org/) 14th November, Madeira, Portugal https://www.utwente.nl/ewi/hmi/cobotnity/icids2017tangibleworkshop Abstract submission deadline: September 20th The workshop aims to explore challenges and potential opportunities in bringing interactive digital storytelling into the realm of tangible and embodied interaction. Experts from both fields are invited to present and discuss their ideas. Besides fostering discussion and potential collaborations, the goal is to come up with new and suitable computational storytelling models and define design guidelines/strategies. We are especially interested…