Call for Participation CHI 2016 Workshop on Tangibles for Health San Jose, CA, USA, 7th OR 8th May 2016 http://www.tangibles4health.com The impact of HCI in Health and Wellbeing has gained prominence in the last few years.  Whilst this work has significantly pushed forward the field, most work has focused around the development and study of “apps” running on commercial smartphones. Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs), using physical objects to interact with computer systems, offer many physical and interaction qualities that have potential to benefit the eHealth community. For example, supporting physical rehabilitation through interactive tangible objects, using 3D printing to provide…

Call for Papers Games and Culture Special Issue Morality Play: The Design of Games for Ethical Engagement Guest editors: Malcolm Ryan, Rowan Tulloch and Paul Formosa Questions of morality are a pervasive topic for media and the arts. Across every medium we see artists engaging audiences with challenging moral questions concerning topics such as war, crime, corruption, fidelity and the abuse of power. Questions of morality have long been central to how we understand ourselves, our lives, and our cultural contexts; and in turn our art forms have reflected, embodied, and challenged beliefs about right and wrong. Games, however, seem…

Call for Papers The Fourth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2016) Singapore, 4 -7 October 2016 Submission Deadline: 30 April 2016 www.hai2016.org The Fourth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2016) aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. The theme for HAI 2016 is “Machine learning methods and multimodal interfaces to achieve social intelligence in robots, avatars, and virtual characters”. The conference seeks contributions from a broad range of fields spanning engineering, computer science, psychology and…

The Third International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI) 2016 Call for Proposals The conference website: http://www.liveinterfaces.org The third International Conference on Live Interfaces will be held on June 29th – July 3rd 2016 at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. The conference will bring together people working with live interfaces in the performing arts, including music, the visual arts, dance, puppetry, robotics or games. The conference scope is highly interdisciplinary but with a focus on expressive interface technologies for performance. Topics of liveness, immediacy, presence (and tele-presence), mediation, collaboration and timing or flow are engaged with and questioned in…

PERVASIVE HEALTH CONFERENCE 2016 Call for Papers: The 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare May 16-19, 2016. Cancun, Mexico http://pervasivehealth.org/ Keynote speakers: Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University, USA Prof. Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada Submission deadlines: Abstracts of Full and Short Papers: January 11th, 2016 Full and Short Papers: January 17th, 2016 Pervasive Health Conference is a premier international forum with specific focus on technologies and human factors related to the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and for wellbeing. The overall goal of the Pervasive Health Conference is to take a multidisciplinary approach to…

IEEE RO-MAN 2016 Call For Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials 25th IEEE International Symposium on Human and Robot Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016) http://ro-man2016.org/ Conference Date & Place: August 26-31, 2016, Columbia University, New York City, USA Submission Deadlines: Proposals for Special Sessions: January 15, 2016 Workshops & Tutorials: January 15, 2016 Full Papers: February 12, 2016 Interactive Session (Extended Abstracts): May 22, 2016 Demonstration Session: May 22, 2016 Video Session: May 22, 2016 This year, the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) for 2016 will be held from August 26 – 31, 2016 at Columbia University, Teachers…