Call for Paper and Panel Proposals Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide November 15-16, 2019 Queen Mary University of London https://aestheticsfilmstudies.weebly.com/ Submission deadline: July 29, 2019. The project has received funding from the British Society for Aesthetics. Confirmed keynotes: Professor Brian Winston, Lincoln Chair, Lincoln School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln. Dr Stacie Friend, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London. The fiction/nonfiction divide is a much discussed topic in contemporary analytic aesthetics. According to classic works like Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990) and Currie’s The Nature of Fiction (1990), fiction essentially involves imagining whereas nonfiction essentially involves…

Call for Papers HCI India 2019 Agents and Agency: HCI in the age of Machine Intelligence November 1-3, 2019 Hyderabad, India https://www.indiahci.org/2019/ Submissions due: 15 June 2019 Today, the domain of HCI is being significantly shaped by intelligent, autonomous and self-learning systems and technologies. The HCI and Design communities in both academia and industry are seeking an innovative competitive edge by investing in AI-driven machine intelligence. HCI has long recognized agency, the sense of human freedom to manipulate interactions with technology. Today, as our everyday agentive interactions increase the involvement of technology there is a need to examine the possible…

Call For Papers G|A|M|E – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment ‘Would you kindly?’: Claiming Video Game Agency as Interdisciplinary Concept https://www.gamejournal.it/n-8-2019-would-you-kindly-claiming-video-game-agency-as-interdisciplinary-concept/ Deadline for extended abstracts: 19th July 2019 The new issue of G|A|M|E proposes a re-examination of the concept of agency in games. We welcome contributions that address the idea of agency from a variety of academic perspectives, taking into account its interdisciplinary history and application, in order to expand our critical understanding of the concept more broadly. We therefore invite scholars from all fields to reflect on different notions of agency, not only in relation to physical and digital…

Call for Participation The Future of Location-based Gaming Research A Workshop at DiGRA 2019: Digital Games Research Association Conference (digra2019.org/) 6 August, 09.00-15.50 Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus Kyoto, Japan Submission deadline: 4th June 2019 We are seeking participants for a one-day workshop to be held during the pre-conference program of DiGRA 2019 in Kyoto, focusing on the future of location-based games research. Interested participants should send an approx. 400 word bio, including a description of their previous or current research on location-based games and their specific interest in attending the workshop. Participants will be selected on the basis of their…

Call for Papers UPA’19 – 4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS PERSONAL ASSISTANCE in conjunction with UbiComp 2019, London, UK 09 September 2019 https://upa19.weebly.com/ upa(at)tk.tu-darmstadt.de Submission Deadline: 21 June 2019 The Fourth International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance (UPA’19) aims to share experiences of current research endeavors on digital personal assistance. We invite submissions of papers focused on advancing towards digital assistants that provide a high level of personalization, through proactive and effective support of users’ activities, in an unobtrusive manner. In particular, we wish to put forward the discussion on how digital assistants can provide unobtrusive guidance and support for…

Call for Papers The Society of Learning Algorithms Conference series: Science and Art of Simulation (SAS) High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany (HLRS) November 11-13, 2019 https://philo.hlrs.de/openconf/openconf.php Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Debates about learning algorithms quickly get on one of two tracks: Either machine learning is regarded as a statistical procedure for data analysis, then questions arise as to the traceability and reliability of these procedures. Or machine learning is placed in the context of artificial intelligence, then questions arise as to the appropriateness of the claims and visions associated with it. The link between both debates, however, lies in…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN-SYSTEMS INTERACTION Session 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference Yellowstone Conference Center Big Sky, Montana March 7-14, 2020 Abstracts due July 1, 2019 Dear all, We are now calling for abstracts for the session Human-Systems Interaction at the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana. This session consistently draws a fascinating group of innovators in our field for stimulating discussions in a fantastic setting. TOPICS Humans are the most critical element in system safety, reliability and performance. Their creativity, adaptability and problem-solving capabilities are key to resilient operations across the different aerospace applications. This session focuses on the technologies…

Call for book chapters – Springer Human Computer Interaction Series Advances in Longitudinal HCI Research: Theoretical perspectives, methods, and case studies Deadline for submission of chapter abstracts: August 1, 2019 Longitudinal studies have been traditionally seen as too cumbersome and labor-intensive to be of much use in research on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). However, recent trends in market, legislation, and the research questions we address, have highlighted the importance of studying prolonged use, while technology itself has made longitudinal research more accessible to researchers across different application domains. This book is aimed as an educational resource for graduate students and researchers…

Call for Abstracts Pretend Play and E-Cognition 19 and 20 September 2019 University of Antwerp, Belgium https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/filop/events/pretend-play-ecognition/ Abstract submission deadline:  31 May 2019 ABOUT This conference seeks to explore if and how E-Cognition theories, which aim to understand cognition through the interplay between the brain processes, bodily capacities and environmental contexts, can improve our understanding of pretend, imaginative and creative practices. E-Cognition refers to a young field of interdisciplinary research on embodied, embedded, enactive, extensive and ecological cognition, and includes ecological psychology, sensorimotor theory and dynamical systems theory. It assumes that cognition is shaped and structured by dynamic interactions between…

Call for Papers Ethics of Digital Well-Being: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Springer, Philosophical Studies) Submission deadline: 9th September 2019 This edited collection is designed to explore the new opportunities and risks for human flourishing associated with the widespread adoption of digital technologies in domains such as healthcare, education and employment, media and entertainment, and social development and governance. For example, mobile apps can help us track increasingly fine-grained features of our physical health using advanced data analytics, but can also create an endless source of distraction that may impact negatively our mental health. In the same way, information and communication technologies,…

Call for Papers 8th Workshop Automotive HMI: User Interface Research in the Age of New Digital Realities Colocated with MuC (Mensch-Computer-Interaction) 2019 (http://muc2019.mensch-und-computer.de/) September 8, 2019 (9AM-5PM) Hamburg, Germany http://www.andreasriener.com/MuC2019WS/ Submission deadline: June 6, 2019 Even though many aspects of automated driving have not yet become true, many human factors issues have already been investigated. However, recent discussions revealed common misconceptions in both research and society about vehicle automation and the levels of automation. This might be due to the fact that automated driving functions are mis-named (cf. Autopilot) and that vehicles integrate functions at different automation levels (L1 lane…

Call for papers Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS-53, held January 2020 at the Grand Wailea in Maui https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, which will host its 53rd annual conference (see HICSS-53) on January 7-10, 2020, at the Grand Wailea in Maui. Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2019 Submission: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of human communication. Mediated conversations can use text, audio, images or video, or…