Call for Papers: Video Games and Virtual Ethics Conference Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London July 21-22, 2017 Essay submissions due: 1 March 2017 Is it morally wrong to play violent video games? Academics across numerous disciplines have taken an interest in these issues. Excellent work can be found in philosophy, psychology, media studies, sociology, and literary studies. However academics within these disciplines often do not talk to each other about their shared interest in games. With this conference, our aim is to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue on these issues. Papers are invited that deal with issues…

Call for Proposals Language Game[s] Chelsea College of Arts London, UK Friday 5 May 2017 http://www.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/research/events/language-games-call-out/ Deadline: 6 March 2017 Call for proposals for Language Game[s], a one-day symposium that will look at the association between language and human consciousness, and how developments in technology might affect this relationship. At present, artificial language systems such as Siri and Amazon Echo mimic forms of human speech, but cannot replicate the cognitive processes which lie behind language. As technology develops and artificial language systems become ever more autonomous, how will this affect us? What is language, when it is no longer made…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Cognitive Assistants International Journal of Human-Computer Studies ELSEVIER JCR Impact Factor: 1.476 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.815 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/call-for-papers/cognitive-assistants Manuscript submissions due: April 30, 2017 INTRODUCTION Cognitive Assistants (CA) are a relatively new concept, advancing the Cognitive Orthotics concept that is only focused on direct assistance, to people with cognitive or physical disabilities, and expanding the area to include complex platforms that include sensors, actuators, monitoring abilities and decision processes. CA is an area containing technologies such as cognitive assistants, multi-agent systems, robotics and applications (such as e-health and e-learning), among others. Essentially, CA is…

Call for Papers Wearable Robotics for Assistance and Rehabilitation (WRAR) A Special Session within the coming CLAWAR 2017 – 20th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines Oporto, Portugal, September 11-13, 2017 https://clawar.org/clawar2017/ Theme: Rehabilitation and assistive robotics Submission deadline: 01 February 2017 ABOUT THE SPECIAL SESSION: The adoption of novel active wearable devices, either for daily assistance or clinical rehabilitation, requires new approaches to ultimately enable efficient treatments and better facilitation of movement for individuals who present loss of motor abilities. In particular, since these devices interact directly with humans there are…

VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence – visum 2017 7 – 14, July 2017 Porto, Portugal visum.inesctec.pt Application deadline: 06 March 2017 VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence – visum 2017 is the fifth edition of the Summer School that aims to gather Ph.D. candidates, Post-Doctoral scholars and researchers from academia and industry with research interests in computer vision and machine intelligence. visum is organized by INESC TEC in the scope of the FourEyes project. FourEyes aims to make critical and tangible advances in the digital media sector and transform the means by which multimedia content is created, distributed and consumed.…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION MICI 2017: Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces Workshop at CHI 2017 May 7, 2017, Denver, CO http://mici2017.org Submit by Jan 31, 2017 Enabled by artificial intelligence techniques, we are witnessing the rise of a new paradigm of computational creativity support: mixed-initiative creative interfaces (MICIs) put human and computer in a tight interactive loop where both take turns suggesting, producing, evaluating, modifying, selecting creative outputs. This paradigm could broaden and amplify creative capacity for all, but is today mostly developed and studied in game AI. This one-day workshop at CHI 2017 therefore convenes CHI and game researchers to advance mixed-initiative…