Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second call for papers for Eurohaptics 2016. The conference will run from 4-7 July and will be hosted in London at Imperial College. Technical papers can now be submitted to the Springer OCS system either via https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/EUROHAPTICS2016 or using the ‘submissions’ tab of www.eurohaptics2016.org. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email (m.diluca@bham.ac.uk). Deadline for technical papers and workshop proposals is the 1st February 2016 The conference seeks to cover all aspects of haptics, including Perception and psychophysics in real and simulated environments, Engineering and computing to provide effective haptic interactions, Neuroscience Creative…

Call for Abstracts/Articles Yearbook of Moving Image Studies Image Temporality: The Relation of Time, Space and Reception of Visual Media Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2016 Deadline for Articles: January 9, 2017 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting abstracts from scientists, scholars, artists and film makers for the third issue entitled »Image Temporality: The Relation of Time, Space and Reception of Visual Media«. YoMIS will be enriched by disciplines like media and film studies, image science, (film) philosophy, art history, game studies and other research areas related to the moving image in general.…

International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO’16) July 5-6 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece University of Macedonia, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Organized by MINES ParisTech, France In cooperation with Paris 8 University, France http://moco16.movementcomputing.org/ Following on from the two previous successes of the International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO’14) at IRCAM (Paris, France) in 2014, as well as MOCO’15 at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) in 2015, we are pleased to announce MOCO’16, which will be hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece. MOCO’16 will be organized by MINES ParisTech, (France) in co-operation with the Paris 8 University (France), the University of…

Call for Papers Fifth International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction A two-day symposium at AISB 2016, 5th – 6th April 2016, Sheffield, United Kingdom http://www.mahasalem.net/AISB2016/HRI-AISB2016-Symposium.html Submission Deadline: Monday, 11 January 2016 MOTIVATION Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a growing research field with many application areas that could have a big impact not only economically, but also on the way we live and the kind of relationships we may develop with machines. Due to its interdisciplinary nature different views and approaches towards HRI need to be nurtured. The first symposium on “New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction” was held as part…

Call For Papers: Usage of Simulations, Educational Games and Gamification in Education (Minitrack) IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases (SIGED) (Track) (http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/track-list#SIGEDanchor) 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 11 – 13, 2016, San Diego (http://amcis2016.aisnet.org) The Usage of Simulations, Educational Games and Gamification in Education minitrack solicits studies that examine the usage of serious games, simulations, or gamification in education. Although the focus is on studies on information systems education, studies from other fields are also welcome especially if the results can be used across different educational settings. This track invites both research papers and teaching…