CALL FOR PAPERS: Games and society: From social interaction to social change Pre-Conference to ECREA’s fifth European Communication Conference, ECC 2014 (Lisbon, Portugal) – 11 November 2014 Abstracts deadline: 15th May 2014 The awareness of digital games has evolved rapidly in recent years, recognizing an activity earlier considered a practice for narrow and specialized audiences to be mainstream media entertainment for the masses. Since the mid nineties researchers have engaged in studying games as platforms for social interaction and as unique channels for exploration, experimentation and entertainment – however, much scientific and publication attention has been paid to the risks…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014) Tsukuba, Japan, October 29-31, 2014 http://hai2014.org/ People are increasingly interacting with computerized agents. Examples include autonomous and tele-presence robots in homes, healthcare, or search and rescue, virtual characters in the expanding gaming industry or for serious games, and agents representing other people through on-line social and interactive meeting places. Although these broad areas have their own unique research challenges, there is a clear commonality to be addressed in the investigation of how people interact with agents, whether they have physical or virtual embodiments, or represent remote people or…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Deadline: Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as ‘Outsider’ CHArt 2014 conference, part of the UNDERGROUND Arts & Humanities Festival, King’s College London, Strand Saturday, 18 October 2014 Digital engagement with art is thriving. Much of it is actively subversive of the traditional frameworks that enable art to be created and responded to – whether casually or professionally. This subversion takes various forms, including notions of value, uniqueness, fixity and location. The CHArt 2014 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the underground creation, display, consumption and study…

Extended Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL’14) Workshop Website: http://adl2014.wordpress.com/ co-located with i-KNOW 2014 (http://i-know.tugraz.at/) Important Dates: Submission deadline: 4th May Notification to authors: 23rd May Camera Ready: 5th June Digital libraries are becoming increasingly important in research. Traditionally they have been used for tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, however they are increasingly being used as sources for mining information, discovering new trends and evaluating research excellence. The rapid growth in the number of documents being deposited in digital libraries requires the provision for novel approaches that are driven by the needs…

Call for Papers: Computer Speech and Language (CSL) Special Issue on Speech and Language for Interactive Robots AIMS AND SCOPE Speech-based communication with robots faces important challenges for their application in real world scenarios. In contrast to conventional interactive systems, a talking robot always needs to take its physical environment into account when communicating with users. This is typically unstructured, dynamic and noisy and raises important challenges. The objective of this special issue is to highlight research that applies speech and language processing to robots that interact with people through speech as the main modality of interaction. For example, a…