Call for Participation Designing Interfaces for Creativity (DesInC) Symposium University of Sussex Brighton, UK November 3-4, 2016 https://desinc.mfm.sussex.ac.uk/ Submission deadline: 8th September 2016 As computational technologies become increasingly embedded in the physical world, designers and makers of interfaces for creativity are bringing skills and expertise from progressively wider fields and practices into their work. What and how can designers of creative technologies learn from practitioners in broader design disciplines, past and present? The symposium will explore interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the design of tools, interfaces and instruments for creativity, including (but not limited to) sound, music, video, film, crafts,…

Call for Participation Where Human Computer Interaction meets Animal Computer Interaction @NordiCHI 2016 Gothenburg, Sweden 23rd October, 2016 https://hcimeetsaciblog.wordpress.com/ Submission deadline: August 25, 2016 Where HCI meets ACI is a one day workshop preceding in NordiCHI 2016  on Sunday 23rd of October. This one day workshop aims to examine the interactions and the space between HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and ACI (Animal Computer Interaction) focusing on the transferability of methods and ideas between the fields. Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) looks at creating interfaces and methods for animals to use technology. Whilst this is often seen as a subfield of HCI,…

3rd International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2016) November 16th, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. A satellite workshop of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016). http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de Submission Deadline: August 28th, 2016 Scope: One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Current technology is far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. Transferring…

Design for Next, 12th European Academy Design (EAD) Conference 12-14 April 2017 Sapienza University of Rome www.designfornext.org Deadline for Abstracts: Aug 15, 2016 We are pleased to announce the CALL for ABSTRACTS is now open. Please feel free to submit your paper proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/ead12-rome Full Call for Abstracts with all the details is available here: http://www.designfornext.org/call.html For any additional info, please email to the Conference Secretariat at: info@designfornext.org CONFERENCE THEME Contemporary shifts in society, technology, production are reframing design processes, approaches and tools. While professionals, educators and researchers are questioning the next stage of innovation, design is evolving as…

Scholars of virtual worlds, videogames, internet studies, and related fields… please consider submitting a chapter proposal for this endeavor: Call for book chapter proposals: Avatars, Assembled: The Sociotechnical Anatomy of Digital Bodies Volume editor: Jaime Banks, West Virginia University Chapter proposal deadline: July 31, 2016 Summary: Avatars, Assembled will be a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars – not as monolithic phenomena but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from embodied features like weapons and gender to logical features like algorithms and statistics. Each short chapter (~3,000 words) will account for the empirical, theoretical, and popular understandings of…

Call for Abstracts “Call of Duty: A Call to Action”: Video Games and Civic Engagement National Communication Association (NCA) 2016 Pre-Conference Wednesday, November 9 Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA Submission deadline: August 31, 2016 Although commonly studied through the lens of media entertainment, digital games are more than just frivolous distractions. Games are used for action in the real world: as vehicles for health campaign messages, teaching perspective, training skills and education outcomes, and provoking players into social action are all ways that games can and have been used to move players to action – from the on-screen digital world…