CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FGE 2016: FICTIONAL GAME ELEMENTS: Critical Perspectives on Gamification Design International Workshop @ The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), October, 16-19, Austin, Texas Workshop Website: https://fge2016.wordpress.com/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop participation submissions: July 26, 2016 Workshop participation notification: August 12, 2016 Workshop day: October 16, 2016 Please submit by email to: [email protected] Motivation Scholarship in HCI on gamification is largely focused on evaluating the short-term effectiveness and usefulness of this design technique, while other, and perhaps more important aspects, are not receiving similar attention. Side-effects, long-term and systemic consequences, ethical and societal…

Call for Submissions SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications Conference: 5 – 8 December 2016 Exhibition: 6 – 8 December 2016 The Venetian Macao, Macao WEBSITE: https://sa2016.siggraph.org/en/submitters/symposium-on-mobile-graphics-and-interactive-applications SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 18 JULY 2016, 23:59 UTC/GMT The increased power, portability, and ubiquitous connectivity of mobile devices are causing a fundamental shift in how we interact with digital content. The graphics and interactivity that once was only possible with desktop computers is now in the palm of the hand, and can be experienced almost anywhere. Increasingly sophisticated development environments, easy market access through application stores, and widespread device availability…

Call for Participation Next Generation Human-Agent Interaction Workshop (NGHAI Workshop) To be Held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2016) October 4, 2016, Singapore http://nghai.net/ Submission Deadline (2-4 pages): July 8, 2016 NGHAI is the workshop, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (http://hai-conference.net/hai2016/), for next generation researchers (young researchers, students, and newcomers) in Human-Agent Interaction field. It aims to provide the opportunity for the next generation researchers to build collaborative relations internationally through presentations and discussions. The constructive relationship will lead the researchers to tackle pivotal challenges, and encourage them contribute…

Call For Participation 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017) March 6-9, 2017, Vienna, Austria http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/ Submission Deadline: October 3, 2016 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is a premiere, highly-selective venue presenting the latest advances in Human-Robot Interaction. The 12th Annual HRI Conference theme is “Smart Interaction,” following Vienna’s “Smart City” initiative. The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction. Full papers, alt.HRI papers, Late-Breaking Reports, and abstracts from Tutorials, Workshops, Demonstrations and Videos, will be…

Call for Papers SEGAH 2017 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERIOUS GAMES AND APPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH April 2 – 4, 2017 Perth, Western Australia co-located with 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017 (http://www.www2017.com.au/) View this call online at: http://www.segah.org/2017/ Supported by: Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 30th, 2016 Dear Colleagues, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SEGAH 2017, will be held in Perth, Western Australia, from 2-4 April, 2017. The overall objectives of the conference are the discussion and sharing of…

Call for Chapter Proposals: Game Criticism Editor: Gaines S. Hubbell Proposals (500 words) due July 21, 2016 As attention to the study and criticism of games grows, attention to how games are studied and criticized must keep pace. For some time, game studies has relied on methods of criticism appropriate to previous media and developed by prior disciplines. These methods have treated games as objects for anthropological studies, textual analysis, literary analysis, user experience studies, and technology studies, among many others; however, games often require that they be treated differently because of the medial, technological, or textual constraints they place…