UBISS 2017 – 8th International UBI Summer School 2017 Oulu, Finland, June 12-17, 2017 Hosted by the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu Registration fee: 250 EUR Accommodation: 30 EUR/day Credits: 5 ECTS http://ubicomp.oulu.fi/UBISS Application deadline: March 13, 2017 UBISS 2017 invites researchers, students, and industry and public sector professionals to gain theoretical insights and personal hands on experience on selected topics under the tutelage of distinguished experts. UBISS 2017 builds on the legacy of the previous seven successful UBI Summer Schools hosted by us in Oulu in 2010-2016. UBISS 2017 comprises of four parallel 6-day “hands…

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.…