Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction (Symbiotic 2016) Padua, Italy, 29-30 September 2016 http://symbiotic2016.org The Fifth International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction will take place on the 29th and 30th of September 2016 and will be hosted by the Human Inspired Technology Research center of the University of Padua (Italy). HIGHLIGHTS: extended deadline, common to all categories: 15 June doctoral consortium with prominent figures from different fields and DC award best paper award confirmed keynote speaker: Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University OVERVIEW The International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction is the primary venue to present scientific works dealing with the…

Call for Papers 2nd EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good 30 November – 1 December 2016 Venice, Italy http://goodtechs.eu/2016/show/cf-papers SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more. In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the…

Call For Papers CEEC 2016 Eighth Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Games 28th – 30th September 2016, University Of Essex Paper Submission deadline: 15th May 2016 Games are an ideal domain to study Computational Intelligence (CI) methods because they provide affordable, competitive, dynamic, reproducible environments suitable for testing new search algorithms, pattern-based evaluation methods, or learning concepts. They are also interesting to observe, fun to play, and very attractive to students. Additionally, there is great potential for CI methods to improve the design and development of both computer games and non-digital games such…

Call for Papers to the Social Believability in Games Workshop 2016 @ Digra/FDG Dundee, Scotland August 1, 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/socialbelievabilityingames Submission of long and short papers: May 8, 2016 The Social Believability in Games Workshop intends to be a point of interaction for researchers and game developers interested in modeling, discussing, developing systems for, and the humanistic inquiry of social believability in games. This can include behaviour based on social and behavioural science theories and models, systems for SBG frameworks, approaches, methodologies, theories, interpretations, social affordances when interacting with game worlds and more. We invite participants from a multitude of disciplines…

Call for Papers: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS): Special Issue on Multisensory Human-Computer Interaction http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-multisensory-human-computer-interaction IMPORTANT DATES Expression of interest (400 words): July 1th, 2016 Submission deadline: August 1st, 2016 First round of notifications: October 10th, 2016 Final round of notifications: April 23rd, 2017 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS Marianna Obrist (University of Sussex, UK) Nimesha Ranasinghe (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Charles Spence (University of Oxford, UK) SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Our interactions with technology are primarily limited to the senses of vision and audition, whilst increasingly involving touch. Even though there is a growing number of researchers working…

Call for Papers MHMC 2016 – International Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Industrial Human-Machine Communication In connection with the 21st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation September 6, 2016, Berlin http://etfa2016.org/images/track-cfp/MHMC_CfP.pdf Deadline for submission of workshop papers: May 20 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Nowadays, industrial environments are full of sophisticated computer-controlled machines. In addition, recent developments in pervasive and ubiquitous computing provide a further support for advanced activity control. Even if the exploitation of these technologies is very often committed to specialized workers, who have been purposely trained to use complex equipments, easy and effective interaction is a…