SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014 The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog will be co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately preceding ACL 2014. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11) CALL FOR PAPERS The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences, providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research across the areas of discourse and dialog and attracting a diverse set of participants from academia and industry. The…

Call for Contributions Tracés – Human sciences journal Matters of play Deadline: June the 30th, 2014 For an English version of the CfC in PDF, click here. For a French version of the CfC, click here. For a Spanish version of the CfC, click here. Abstract This issue of the Tracés journal questions the relationships between play and games, on the one hand, and materiality, on the other – i.e. materials, objects, interfaces and infrastructures, as well as bodily aspects involved in play and games. Various forms of play and games can be studied in that perspective, such as gambling,…

CALL FOR PAPERS VS-GAMES 2014 University of Malta Valletta, Malta 9-12 September 2014 Supported by IEEE. Conference proceedings will also be published by IEEE. http://www.um.edu.mt/events/vs-games2014 Important dates: Full and Work-in-Progress Papers:  15 March 2014 Doctoral Consortium Papers:  30 April 2014 Posters and Demos:  30 April 2014 Industry Expo:  30 June 2014 Notification of acceptance:  30 April 2014 VS-Games now running in its 6th year, is a conference that targets cross-disciplinary communities interested in virtual worlds and games for serious applications. The conference promotes efforts in all areas of research involving the advancement of technologies, design, and applications of virtual worlds…

CALL FOR PAPERS GAMEON’2014 The 15th annual Simulation and AI in Games Conference University of Lincoln Lincoln, United Kingdom September 9-11, 2014 Games Development Methodology Game Theory/Multi-Agent Systems Artificial Intelligence Learning and Adaptation Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems Opponent Modelling Physics and Simulation/Graphical Simulation 3D Scalability Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation AI and Simulation Tools for games design Game Design Rendering Techniques Voice Interaction Artistic input to game and character design Storytelling and Natural Language Processing Online Gaming – Security Issues in Online Gaming MMOG’s Serious gaming Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc…. Games for training Games…

Call for Papers: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE (HAI’14) URL: http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI14/ Warsaw, Poland, August 11, 2014 Workshop at the International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT’14) (Proceedings will be published by Springer in their LNCS series) BACKGROUND Recent developments within Ambient Intelligence provide new possibilities to contribute to personal care. For example, our car may monitor us and warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or take measures when we are too drunk to drive. As another example, an elderly person may wear a device that monitors his or her wellbeing and offers support…

Fifth conference on Games for Health Europe 27 & 28 October 2014, Utrecht, the Netherlands Submission deadline: May 1th, 2014 http://www.gamesforhealtheurope.org/call-for-submissions-2014 1.  Background Founded in 2004, the Games for Health Project supports community, knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Games for Health Conference brings together researchers, medical professionals and game developers to share information about the impact of games, playful interaction and game technologies on health, health care and health policy. Over three days, more than 400 attendees will participate in over 60 sessions provided by an…