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…

Call for Papers Social Emotions – Theories and Models (SE-THEMOS19) Tues September 3rd, 2019 Cambridge, UK http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/se-themo19.html A workshop at Affective Computing and Intelligent Interfaces ACII2019 (http://acii-conf.org/2019/) Submission deadline: May 31st, 2019 Social agents with both graphical and robotic embodiments are being researched on an increasing scale, with applications in public interaction, education, health and therapeutic areas. This raises quite sharply both a requirement for the detection of social emotions – whether emotion that is socially and culturally regulated or emotion in group settings – and the modelling and expressing of such emotions on the social agent side. The aim…

Call for Papers Philosophy & Technology special issue on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Guest Editor: Josh Cowls (Alan Turing Institute & University of Oxford) Deadline for paper submissions: October 1, 2019 Abstract We seek submissions of roughly 8,000 words in length, on the ethical, political, design-related, policy-based or cultural considerations surrounding AI4SG in theory and practice. While the motivating questions should be of a philosophical nature, we welcome high-quality submissions regardless of philosophical tradition, research methodology, school of thought, and disciplinary background. Given the diverse contexts in which AI is already being deployed, we particularly encourage submissions from perspectives…

Call for Papers: GAMIFICATION at HICSS 2020 Part of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science” track 53rd annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2020) 7-10 January 2020 Grand Wailea, Maui https://www.tut.fi/Gamification/2019/02/26/hicss2020_cfp/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2019 Interaction with games is considered to have positive effects on our cognitive, emotional, social abilities and motivation (5, 9, 10, 13, 15, 22, 30). It isn’t surprising, then that our reality and lives are increasingly becoming game-like (6). This is not limited to the fact that digital games have become a pervasive part of our lives, but perhaps most prominently…

Call for Papers ICHMI 2020 – Seventh International Conference on Human Machine Interaction 03-04 January, 2020 New Delhi, Republic of India https://confintl.org/ichmi Paper Submission Deadline: 30 November 2019 SCOPE ICHMI 2020 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in Human Machine Interaction. This Conference provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of Human Machine Interaction. Furthermore, we expect that the conference and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. The goal of this conference is to…

Call for Papers CogInfoCom 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive InfoCommunications 23-24-25 October 2019 Naples, Italy http://scitope.com/coginfocom19/ Submission deadline:  1 June, 2019 The CogInfoCom 3D space is available on the public site of MaxWhere (download here) SCOPE Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom, CogInfoCom.hu) investigates the link between the research areas of infocommunications and cognitive sciences, as well as the various engineering applications which have emerged as the synergic combination of these sciences. The primary goal of CogInfoCom is to provide a systematic view of how cognitive processes can co-evolve with infocommunications devices so that the capabilities of the human brain may not…

Call for Papers TIE 2019 – The 3rd EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Education 16-18 October 2019 Braga, Portugal http://educateinnovate.org Submissions Deadline:  20 May 2019 The central theme of the TIE 2019 Conference is innovation, with a special focus on emerging technologies for education, creativity, entertainment, well-being, arts, and business development. In addition, it aims at promoting new venture creation opportunities that emerge from these innovations, as well as innovation methods that target these core subjects. The conference aims to provide a platform where academics and practitioners from cross-disciplinary fields such as education, artistic creation, creative industries,…

Call for Papers The 15th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden September 9-10, 2019 www.yrrsds.org Submission deadline:  2 June 2019 The 15th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) will be held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (collocated with SIGdial 2019) on September 9th and 10th, 2019. YRRSDS (www.yrrsds.org) is an annual workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior researchers working on spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The workshop serves as an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues…

CALL FOR PAPERS GHItaly19 3rd Workshop on Games-Human Interaction http://ghi.di.unimi.it/ In Conjunction with CHITALY 2019 Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter Padova (Italy), September 23-25, 2019 https://www.chitaly2019.org/ Submission deadline: May 17, 2019 GHItaly19 aims at bringing together scholars and industry practitioners to establish a common ground on the topic. The main goal of the event is to spur discussion, exchange of ideas, and development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on games-human interaction.  The perspective that the workshop aims at investigating is the design of visual interfaces applied in the specific field of the production of video…

Call for Papers ACM Spatial User Interaction 2019 New Orleans, Louisiana October 19-20, 2019 http://sui.acm.org/2019/ Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction 2019 (SUI). SUI will be held on 19-20 October 2019, co-located with the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) in New Orleans, Louisiana. We seek original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of spatial user interaction. User interface evaluations are strongly encouraged for every publication in this venue. Specific topics of interest include: Spatial interaction…

Call for Papers Chatbots for Social Good An INTERACT 2019 Workshop September 3, 2019 Paphos, Cyprus https://sites.google.com/view/chatbotsforsocialgood2019 Extended submission deadline: May 27, 2019 Chatbots have substantial potential for social good – for example in health and wellbeing, education, and community building. But this potential is not yet realized. Researchers and practitioners with an interest in chatbot research and design are invited to a full day workshop, in conjunction with the HCI conference INTERACT 2019. Together we explore how chatbots may be designed and developed for social good, and the implications of this perspective. Workshop participants are selected on the basis…