Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology‘s special issue on ONLINE ARGUMENTS: THEORETICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES GUEST EDITOR(S) Fabio Paglieri (ISTC-CNR Roma) Chris Reed (University of Dundee) Associate Editor: Giuseppe Primiero (Middlesex University) INTRODUCTION Argument and debate form cornerstones of civilized society and of intellectual life. As online interaction usurps many traditional forms of interaction and communication, we would hope to see these processes alive and well on the web. But we do not. In spite of the ever-growing volume of online interaction, its current mechanisms hamper and discourage serious debate; they facilitate poor quality argument; and they allow fuzzy…

CALL FOR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS Second International Congress on Animal Computer Interaction Legoland, Iskandar 16 November, 2015 animalcomputerinteraction.org The Second International Congress on Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) provides a forum for research which invents and investigates how animals could be more extensively part of the 21st century age of internet, games and enabling technologies. We join emerging researchers in an area that promises to be fun, useful, vibrant and very surprising. ACI 2015 is inviting the submission of full papers, short papers, video posters and postgraduate consortium to its symposium to be held in conjunction with the 12th Advances in Computer…

Call for Papers IE2016 – Interactive Entertainment 2016 Canberra, Australia, 2-5 February, 2016 http://www.ieconference.org/ie2016/ Interactive Entertainment is Australasia’s longest running games and digital entertainment conference. The twelfth series of the conference will be held 2-5 February 2016 as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2016) – http://cs.anu.edu.au/conf/acsw2016/. ASCW 2016 will be hosted at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. Registration for IE2016 will enable delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in ACSW. Accepted papers presented at the conference will also be published via the ACM conference publication series in addition to the ACM Digital Library.…

Call for Chapters Handbook of Research on Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society Editor: Steven John Thompson, (UMUC) Proposals Submission Deadline: August 1, 2015 Full Chapters Due: December 15, 2015 Introduction Handbook of Research on Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society lays the foundation for current research and exploration in cyborg theory and practice, and sets the stage for cyborg inquiry and participation in an academic platform. The project idea comes from my edited book on human enhancement technologies, where scientists, laymen, philosophers, and other explorers converge on the fringe of cybernetics related to…

International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies (ERM4CT 2015) 13 November 2015, Seattle (at ACM ICMI’15) http://erm4ct.cogsy.de/ Submission deadline: July 10, 2015 SCOPE: ERM4CT joins two past workshop series, “Emotion representations and modelling in Human-Computer-Interaction Systems” (ERM4HCI) and “Techniques Towards Companion Technologies” (T2CT), respectively. The major goal in human computer interaction (HCI) research and applications is to improve the interaction between humans and computers. One way of achieving a better interaction is to allow the computer to recognise and respond to the user’s natural behaviour as shown during the interaction. As user behaviour is often very specific…