Call for Papers Cognitive, Affective, and Conversational HCI Mini-track at the Americas Conference on Information System (AMCIS) 2020 Track: Human-Computer Interaction (SIGHCI) Salt Lake City, Utah August 13-15, 2020 https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-13 Deadline for paper submissions: February 28, 2020 Understanding and adapting to the cognitive and affective states of users can enable systems to interact more effectively, and creates new possibilities for information systems. Emerging systems are able to incorporate information from these sensors to create more humanlike responses, to improve decision processes, and to gain a deeper understanding of how the user is thinking or feeling. The cross-disciplinary nature of the…

Call for Papers ACM UMAP 2020 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: “Responsible Personalization” Genoa (Italy) July 14-17, 2020 https://www.um.org/umap2020/ Abstracts due: January 31, 2020 (mandatory) Papers due: February 7, 2020 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. as the core Steering Committee, extended with…

Call for Papers SALENTO AVR 2020: 7th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics “Where the digital world is blended with the real world“ June 8 – 11, 2020 Lecce, Italy http://www.salentoavr.it/ Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2020 The 7th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (SALENTO AVR 2020) intends to bring together the community of researchers and scientists in order to discuss key issues, approaches, ideas, open problems, innovative applications and trends on virtual and augmented reality, 3D visualization and computer graphics in the areas of medicine, cultural heritage, arts, education, entertainment,…

Call for Papers First Pacific Asia Workshop on Game Intelligence & Informatics (GII) To be held in conjunction with The 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (https://www.pakdd2020.org/) 11-14 May 2020 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre https://web.northeastern.edu/guii/gii/ Important Dates: Submission deadline: January 22, 2020 Camera-ready copies: March 6, 2020 Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2020 SCOPE AND TOPICS Understanding the game state and player action is a fundamental objective for any game researcher, because it sheds light on various aspects about the players and the game, such as skills, strategies, engagement, intention, retention, difficulty level and decision-making.…

Call for Submissions International Academic Conference on Meaningful Play 2020 October 1-3, 2020 East Lansing, Michigan, USA http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2020 Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Meaningful Play 2020 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference…

Call for Contributions 8th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2020) 15-18 June 2020 Oldenburg, Germany http://ichi2020.de/ We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2020) that will take place June 15-18, 2020 in Oldenburg, Germany. ICHI 2020 is a premier community forum concerned with the application of computer science, information science, data science, and informatics principles, as well as information technology, and communication science and technology to address problems and support research in healthcare, medicine, life science, public health, and everyday wellness. The conference highlights the most novel…

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2020) March 13-15, 2020 Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China http://iasle.net/icsle-2020/ Main conference paper ABSTRACT enter on EasyChair: January 10, 2020 Main conference paper submission: January 17, 2020 Workshop/Panel proposal submission: January 17, 2020 The International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2020) will be held during March 13-15, 2020 at the Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. It aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss issues related to the optimization of learning environments to enhance learning. The focus is on the interplay of pedagogy, technology and…

Call for Papers Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2020 3-4 September 2020 Amsterdam, The Netherlands https://saiconference.com/IntelliSys Submission Deadline: 15 December 2019 IntelliSys 2020 will focus in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and how it applies to the real world. IntelliSys provides a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence. It is part of the conference series started in 2013. The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and…

Call for Abstracts Conference on Social Robots in Institutional Interaction: Exploring HRI in Service, Healthcare or Educational Contexts 2-3 April 2020 Bielefeld University https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/soziologie/entry/call_for_papers_for_conference Organizers: Indra Bock & Florian Muhle Submission deadline: 10 January 2020 Humanoid robots and virtual agents are expected to interact with humans in a natural and sociable way. However, for many years humanoid technical systems were mainly used as research platforms in laboratories and HRI was investigated dominantly with experimental methods. That is, for a long time humans could only encounter robotic systems under artificial and controlled laboratory conditions, but not in natural situations. This has…

CALL FOR PAPERS QoMEX 2020 The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience May 26th – 28th 2020 Athlone, Ireland Conference website: www.QoMEX2020.ie Follow us for weekly updates on: www.twitter.com/QoMEX2020 https://www.facebook.com/Qomex2020 https://www.instagram.com/qomex_conference/ PDF: Call for Papers: http://qomex2020.ie/downloads/QoMEX2020CallforPapers.pdf PDF: Call for Special Session proposals: http://qomex2020.ie/downloads/QoMEX2020CallforSpecialSessions.pdf Paper submission deadline: 29th January, 2020 The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience will be held from May 26th to 28th, 2020 in Athlone, Ireland. QoMEX 2020 will provide a warm welcome to leading experts from academia and industry to present and discuss current and future research on multimedia quality, quality of experience…

Call for Papers: “Pretense and Imagination from the Perspective of 4E Cognitive Science” Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences https://philevents.org/event/show/78442 Guest Editors: Zuzanna Rucińska, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, Belgium https://www.zuzannarucinska.com/ Martin Weichold, Institute for Philosophy, University of Regensburg, Germany https://www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-kunst-geschichte-gesellschaft/praktische-philosophie/personen/martin-weichold/ Submission deadline: August 1, 2020 4E Cognitive Science understands cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended, though the list of “E”’s can be extended to conceiving of cognition as ecological, enculturated and emotional as well. While there are important differences between these approaches, they all agree that there is more to cognition than what goes…

Call for exemplar projects for the 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report [From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), a “collaborative community committed to advancing learning through IT innovation,” via the ELICOURSES e-list. –ML] Submission deadline:  December 4, 2019 As you know, EDUCAUSE has been working closely with the expert panel to prepare the 2020 Horizon Report. We have recently concluded the voting for the six most important emerging technologies and practices for teaching and learning in higher ed. For 2020, we will continue the long-standing tradition of reaching out to the community for projects that illustrate these technologies and practices in action.…