CALL FOR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS ACE 2016 13th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference Osaka, Japan 9-12 November, 2016 ace2016.net Submissions due by: 27 May 2016 ACE has become one of the leading scientific forums for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing. Interactive entertainment is one of the most vibrant areas of interest in modern society and is amongst the fastest growing industries in the world. ACE 2016 will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their innovative work and discuss all aspects and challenges of interactive entertainment technology, in an…

Call for Papers Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots London, UK 19-20 December 2016 http://loveandsexwithrobots.org/ Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, there has been a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with artificial partners in the last few years. 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 Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots is inviting the submission of full…

Call for Papers Material, Spatial and Sensory Encounters with the Picturebook Object 9-10 June 2017 – International Workshop at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey Deadline for proposals: August 16, 2016 From hornbooks to i-pads, children’s reading experiences have been mediated via transforming book systems in ways serving to educate, to entertain, and to facilitate narrative. Material and sensory aspects of picturebooks also have the capacity to act as a third narrative system, operating beside words and images.These aspects may engage and challenge the child to comprehend a subject through the experiential handling of the picturebook, resulting in an embodied meaning-making process.…

The 3rd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2016) To be held as part of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016) New York City, USA 27 August 2016 Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2016 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The development of robots capable of interacting with humans has made tremendous progress in the last decade, leading to an expectation that in the near future, robots will be increasingly deployed in public spaces, for example as receptionists, shop assistants, waiters, or bartenders. In these scenarios, robots must necessarily deal with situations that require socially appropriate human-robot…

Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises (AmILP 2016) held at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016) Date: August 29th, 2016 The Hague, Netherlands http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/amilp2016 AmILP 2016 Submission Deadline: May 29th, 2016 (firm deadline) Special Issue of SJR- and JCR-ranked Journal ComSIS WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND AIMS In the name of the MOSI-AGIL (Social Modelling of Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises) project (http://www.gsi.dit.upm.es/mosi/ ), we would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing an original research paper to AmILP 2016, held as part of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016).…

ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2016 October 15-16, 2016 Tokyo, Japan Co-located with UIST 2016 We invite you to participate in the (SUI, rhymes with GUI, http://sui-symposium.org/), which will be co-located with UIST 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. We seek original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of spatial user interaction. User interface evaluations are strongly encouraged for every publication in this venue.…