Call for participation – CHI 2015 Workshop: Leveraging and Integrating Eastern and Western Insights into Human Engagement Studies in HCI This one-day workshop will be held as part of the CHI 2015 annual ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held in Seoul, Korea, 18-23 April 2015. Important Dates: Submission by: 5th January 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13th February 2015 Workshop day: 18th or 19th April 2015 Workshop website: http://eastwest.xrenlab.com/ Human engagement is at the heart of every interactive technology. A concrete framework for synergizing the capabilities of humans and technologies to allow fully engaging interactions to happen…

‘Embodied Perception of the Human World’ (9th-10th April 2015) Over the past quarter of a century the sciences of the mind have placed increasing emphasis on the notion of an embodied agent perceiving the world around through interacting with that world. Many developments associated with this change in thinking were pre-figured within the philosophical movements of phenomenology through the course of the twentieth century. Some cognitive scientists have explicitly acknowledged this historical trend while others consider developments to have occurred in parallel. In a joint action by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology at Mary Immaculate College ~ University of…

Call for Participation Embarrassing Interactions: A CHI 2015 Workshop http://embarrassinginteractions.org CHI 2015 April 18-23 in Seoul, Korea http://chi2015.acm.org/ No matter whether mobile devices, ubiquitous computing, intercultural human-computer interaction (HCI), public interfaces, interactive art, experimental games, social computing, or robots and virtual agents: wherever new technologies disturb or merge situational norms and audiences, embarrassment is likely. Thus, (fear of) embarrassment presents a fundamental hurdle to adoption and engagement for any interactive system, but also a design space for experimental interfaces. This one-day workshop, co-located with CHI 2015 in Seoul, convenes researchers, designers, and artists to share and advance the current state…

THE COMPUTER GAMES JOURNAL CALL FOR PAPERS VOLUME 4 EDITION 1 CALL OPENED: AUGUST 2014 CALL CLOSES: DECEMBER 2014 FINAL COPY AGREED: JANUARY 2015 PUBLICATION: MARCH 2015 Following the purchase of The Computer Games Journal title by Springer Science+Business Media we are pleased to announce a general call for papers for 2015 publication. As this represents a new-start for The Computer Games Journal, authors have a singular opportunity to have their work appear quickly in a rated publication through a leading publishing house. All work published will be widely available across all relevant online research databases and will be co-distributed…

Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2015 conference Call for Participation We invite researchers and educators to submit to FDG 2015 and share insights and cutting-edge research related to game technologies and their use. FDG 2015 will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by high-profile industry and academic leaders, panels, and posters. The conference will also host a technical demo session, a Research and Experimental Games Festival, and a Doctoral Consortium. The technical demo session will include novel tools, techniques, and systems created for games. The Research and Experimental Games Festival will showcase the latest experimental and research games. The…

Call for Papers British HCI 2015 13th-17th July 2015 Lincoln, UK The 29th British Human Computer Interaction Conference (http://hci2015.bcs.org/) will be held in Lincoln (UK) from 13th-17th July 2015. The conference is organised by the University of Lincoln’s Social Computing (LiSC) research centre in conjunction with the BCS Interaction Specialist Group. The theme for HCI 2015 is digital society, and the role interactive technology plays in mediating our civic lives. This is inspired by the 800th anniversary, in 2015, of the sealing of the Magna Carta, an event viewed as an international cornerstone of liberty and that one that challenged…