Call for Papers and Posters SAP 2019: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 19 – 20 September, 2019 At the University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain https://sap.acm.org/2019/ Submission deadline for paper abstracts: May 14th, 2019 Submission deadline for posters: July 9th, 2019 The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate, immersive forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This explicitly includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side…

Call for Papers Special Issue of sustainability The Internet of Things in the Cultural Heritage Sector https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/iot_sus Guest Editor: Dr. Mark T Marshall Department of Computing, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard St, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK M.Marshall@SHU.AC.UK Interests: Internet of Things; smart devices; tangible interaction; heritage; personalization Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2019 Dear Colleagues, Museums and cultural heritage sites have often experimented with digital technologies as a way of providing new means of engaging with visitors. This has included a variety of different forms of interaction, whether on-site during a visit, or online before or after the visit. Ranging…

Call for Papers AIC 2019 – 7th Edition of the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition Manchester, UK September 10-11 2019 http://di.unito.it/AIC2019 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIC_Workshop hashtag: #aic2019ws Paper submission deadline: May 20, 2019 MOTIVATION The research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been based, from a historical standpoint, on a strong collaboration with Cognitive Science. This collaboration has produced – along the years – mutual benefits. In AI this partnership has driven to the realization of intelligent systems based on plausible models of human cognition. In turn, in cognitive science, this partnership allowed the development of cognitive models…

Call for Papers Audio Mostly 2019: A Journey in Sound 18-20 September 2019 University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK https://audiomostly.com/2019 Submission Deadline: 24th May 2019 The Audio Mostly (www.audiomostly.com) conference series is interested in sound Interaction Design & Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in general. Audio Mostly will take place from the 18th to 20th of September 2019 at the University of Nottingham in the city of Nottingham in the UK. The conference provides a space to reflect on the role of sound/music in our lives and how to understand, develop and design systems which relate to sound and music. The special theme…

Call for Papers Characters and Figurines – Ropecon 2019 Academic Track July 26, 2019 Helsinki, Finland https://2019.ropecon.fi/eng/program/academic-program/ Important dates: Abstract deadline: May 05, 2019 Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2019 Full Paper deadline: July 15 2019 Throughout the history characters and figurines have had diverse roles in playful practices from rituals to role-playing games, and from dollhouses to Warhammer 40,000. In contemporary play culture tabletop game miniatures offer visual and tangible pleasure while acting also as objects of collection and enabling other hobby practices like painting and sculpting. In role-playing games characters provide value as tools for self-representation and instruments…

Call for Submissions Love and Affection in Games: A Design Primer http://book.affectiongames.com/ Extended abstract deadline: April 30th, 2019 Authors are invited to submit contributions for an edited volume on love and affection in games. This volume will be published by Taylor and Francis press in 2020 and edited by Lindsay Grace at the University of Miami School of Communication. The book takes substantial research in the design of affection games and provides a collection of examples, practical design patterns and instructions on how to integrate affection play in games and play. Affection games themselves range from simple casual games where…

Call for Chapters Game User Experience and Player-Centered Design Editor: Barbaros Bostan, Bahcesehir University, Game Design Department, Turkey. Planned to be published by Springer Long Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019 User Experience (UX) is a branch of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) interested in improving the quality of the interaction between the user and the product. When applied to the rapidly growing billion dollar game industry, it becomes the Game User Experience or Player Experience (PX) that focus on the relationship between the player and the game. Game User Experience, the individual and personal experience of playing games, is a…

Call for Papers International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2019 November 19-23, 2019 Snowbird, Utah, USA Conference website: https://icids.eae.utah.edu Paper & Poster submission deadline: July 12th, 2019 ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied design lenses. The annual conference is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. With this 12th edition of the conference, ICIDS continues into its second decade. The field of interactive narrative has now coalesced into a…

Call for Papers Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Special Issue: Uses and Effects of Smart Media: How AI Impacts User Experience Submission Deadline: November 15, 2019 The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into digital media technologies has provided additional affordances and altered the nature of user experience, providing new audience engagement and gratification opportunities that meet human needs for information, communication and entertainment in a variety of innovative ways. These AI-driven smart media have helped usher in a new media environment where social bots are used to spread false information, a 360-degree view provides a panoramic look of…

Call for Papers Workshop: Designing Speech Synthesis for Intelligent Virtual Agents At ACM IVA 2019 (https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org) 2nd July 2019 Paris, France http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/matthewa/speechIVA2019wshop Extended submission deadline: April 26, 2019 OVERVIEW In this workshop we will look at the elements in an artificial voice that support an embodied (either digital or tangible) and dis-embodied form of an intelligent virtual agent (IVA). In this context the agent can be seen to perform, or act a role, where naturalness of the voice may be subservient to appropriateness, and communicating the character of the agent can be as important as the information it presents.…

Call for Abstracts UCD Workshop on Implementing Machine Ethics School of Computer Science, University College Dublin 2-3 July, 2019 https://aristotle.ucd.ie/ Confirmed keynote: Prof. Alan Winfield, Bristol Robotics Lab, University of West of England Deadline for abstract submission: 12 May 2019 The School of Computer Science at UCD would like to invite you to submit abstracts for the first UCD Workshop on Implementing Machine Ethics. The contemplation of intelligence and/or agency among machines, in popular discourse, seems to settle on a future technological dystopia or conversely, a machine-led utopia. While the media creates these dichotomous futures, there needs to be deeper…