Call for Papers Space and Place 6th Global Meeting Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net – Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: September 3-5, 2015 Deadline: May 1, 2015 Space and place affect the very way in which we experience, understand, navigate and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against marginalised individuals, groups and populations, constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement, inclusion and exclusion — whether it be in terms of ideology, nationality, culture, economic status, religious orientation, gender or sexuality. Space and place, are also the focus of…

CALL FOR PAPERS 21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London 5-6 June 2015 Abstracts due March 10, 2015 This trans-disciplinary conference aims to explore a series of themes that emerge from the understanding of contemporary photography as the basic unit of visual communication of the age of technology: online, off-line and between the lines. The aim is to bridge the gap between aesthetic, philosophical and technological approaches to the photographic image and to prompt participants from different backgrounds (fine art, critical theory, philosophy, software/hardware) to engage with each other and to open new…

CALL FOR PAPERS Cognitive Models and Emotions Detection for Ambient Intelligence (COMEDAI 2015) Special Session of the 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (http://islab.di.uminho.pt/idc2015/) 7th-9th October 2015, Guimarães, Portugal http://islab.di.uminho.pt/comedai2015/ The detection and recognition of human emotions and social signals is a key issue in the development of socially intelligent systems. This interdisciplinary field has been lastly provided some applications including marketing, autism therapy for children and at-home medical care and assistance. Given the tendency of the worldwide society, the step further would be to design Ambient Intelligence systems able to take care of elderly and disabled people.…

Call For Papers IEEE COMPSAC 2015: UCDAS: 2nd Workshop on User-Centered Design and Adaptive Systems Taichung, Taiwan – July 1-5, 2015 Submission deadline: March 18, 2015 The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on User Centered Design and Adaptive Systems, UCDAS 2015, is co-located with COMPSAC 2015, http://www.computer.org/portal/web/COMPSAC/home. The aim of this Workshop is to introduce the combination of different disciplines to build adaptive systems. Also, to discuss this approach and the state-of-the-art advances in research and development of the construction of user-centered adaptive systems. This Workshop is addressed to researchers from different disciplines in academia and industry, as well as practitioners,…

Call for Papers: Special Issue AI & Society http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/146 (2015) Editor (Kathleen Richardson) “I”Robot? Rethinking the I-You relation through dialogical philosophy in the Ethics of AI and Robotics ABSTRACTS accepted now – end of March This Special Issue: “I”Robot? Rethinking the I-You relation through dialogical philosophy in the Ethics of AI and Robotics will address issues in dialogical philosophy (Buber), concerning the nature of “I” and “You” and the relatedness between them (Buber, Stawarska, Bakhtin, Husserl, Derrida). AI robotic scientists develop embodied agents (robots) with a (potential) viewpoint to interact with humans. We will explore what kinds of “I” models…

Call for Abstracts: Games and Transgressive Aesthetics Workshop at DiGRA 2015 May 14th-17th at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany Overview: Digital games have a reputation for including excessive violence, and violent content tends to be the focal point when games become the target for public criticism. However, as interacting with the gameworld through the use of simulated violence is a convention in many games; and while game violence certainly can be experienced as unsettling, it seldom leads the game to become ”unplayable” for players. Rather, it seems that the game context contributes to reduce the offensiveness of such content. Indeed, players…