SPECIAL ISSUE of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments Virtual and Augmented Reality for Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Vehicles Submission deadline: October 15, 2017 SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE It is forecasted that augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) automotive applications will increase road safety, bring intuitive activities to driving, and finally enhance driving experience. AR/VR technology may also help on the transition towards automated driving. AR head-up-displays (HUDs) may soon overlay 3D navigation instructions onto road geometry and moving obstacles like vulnerable road users (pedestrians, bikers, wheel-chair users) and other vehicles may be highlighted to calm down the driver-passenger and…

Call for (unpublished) works for a meta-analysis of emotional expressiveness in virtual agents and robots From: Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 Dear colleagues, For a meta-analysis of emotional expressiveness in virtual agents and robots we are seeking (unpublished) papers and (unpublished) data-sets. In addition to our literature search queries in different online libraries, we are writing the community in the attempt to gather papers that were presented in workshops without proceedings and unpublished works. We are interested in any kind of experimental study comparing different emotional displays or behaviors of virtual agents or robots (be it facial,…

Call for Papers LSR 2017 Third International Congress on Love and Sex With Robots 19-20 December, 2017 Goldsmiths, University of London, UK http://loveandsexwithrobots.org/ Submission Deadline: 1 August 2017 Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with these artificial partners. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community. The International Congress on Love and Sex…

Call for Papers 11th Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games Kraków, Poland November 29-December 1, 2017 2017.gamephilosophy.org and gamephilosophy.org Deadline for submissions is Midnight GMT, September 01, 2017 ACTION IN COMPUTER GAMES We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 11th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Kraków, Poland, November 29-December 1, 2017. The notion of action connects central topics in the study of games to philosophical problems such as questions of will, intentionality and the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Goodtechs 17 3rd EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good Including Special Session on Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life Pisa, Italy 29th November – 1st December 2017 http://goodtechs.eu/2017/show/home Deadline for submitting papers: 1st July 2017 SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE: By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and…

“The Place of Memory and Memory of Place” International Conference 14 October 2017 – Cambridge, UK Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Interdisciplinary Research Foundation Paper proposals due 30 June 2017 Memory is a major theme in contemporary life, a key to personal, social and cultural identity. Scholars have studied the concept from different perspectives and within different disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban design, and the interdisciplinary “place studies”. According to Pierre Nora, places of memory or lieux de mémoire refer to those places where “memory crystallizes and secretes itself”; the places where the exhausted capital…