Call for Participation Ethics Oversight and Committees for AI: Towards a Future Research Agenda A Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) workshop Friday, May 10, 2019, 10am to 6pm Big Data Institute, University of Oxford https://www.weh.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-events/workshop-ethics-oversight-and-committees-for-ai-towards-a-future-research-agenda Participation deadline: May 5, 2019 Ethox and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities are based at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7FZ. This workshop will take place in the BDI, Level 1 Ax Meeting Room. ABSTRACT Increasingly, concerns are being raised about the lack of ethics…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS Transdisciplinary AI 2019 (TransAI 2019) September 25-27, 2019 Laguna Hills, California http://www.TransAI.org Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with computing technologies that allow machines to see, hear, talk, think, learn, and solve problems even above the level of human beings. On the one hand it allows data to be analyzed by real-time models that enable unprecedented levels of accuracy and efficiency. On the other hand it enables domain specific problem solving and knowledge discovery that cannot be easily done by humans. Transdisciplinary AI 2019 (TransAI 2019), technically sponsored by the IEEE…

Call for Papers The International Conference of Experience Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (XD2019GoldCoast) 14 – 16 August 2019 Gold Coast, Australia https://www.griffith.edu.au/centre-design-innovation/XD2019GoldCoast Submission deadline: April 19, 2019 The International Conference of Experience Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (XD2019GoldCoast) will be hosted by the Griffith Centre for Design and Innovation Research (CDAIR) at Griffiths Gold Coast campus. The three-day conference brings together an international community of scholars and practitioners around the 2019 theme of “Exploring and Enhancing Experience” in relation to design, innovation and entrepreneurship in: Architecture | Artificial Intelligence | Brand | Business | Communication | Computing | Data Science |…

Call for Workshop Papers + Keynote 4th International Workshop PLAYABLE CITIES: THE INTERNET OF PLAY IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS https://sites.google.com/view/playablecities2019/home This workshop will be held as part of the 5th IEEE International Conference on the Internet of People (IoP 2019; http://www.smart-world.org/2019/iop/), August 19-23, 2019, Leicester, UK. Paper submission deadline: 26th April 2019 BACKGROUND Following the success of the first (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2016), the second (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 2017), and the third (Braga, Portugal, 2018) workshops on Playable Cities we are pleased to announce the 4th Playable Cities Workshop to be held on 19th August 2019 as part of the 5th…

Workshop: Image, Imagination and Virtual Reality University of Antwerp, Center for European Philosophy Friday 3rd of May, City Campus, room D 014 https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/center-for-european-philosophy/activities/expert-seminar-image-virtuality/ CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION Virtual and augmented reality technologies are rapidly becoming part of our daily lives. While VR technologies let their users enter into and interact with virtual worlds, be it renderings of real, far off places or fictional ones, AR technologies brings virtual objects into the real world, allowing people to chase after Pokémon in real-life cities. But how to describe and explain our experiences of virtual objects and environments? Is our experience of the virtual a…

Workshop at IVA 2019 Brain correlates for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction At ACM International Conference of Virtual Agents, https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org July 2nd 2019 Paris-6 University, Paris, France Submission deadline: 8th May Keywords: cerebral activities in human-human and human-machine interaction, neurophysiological data, brain-computer interfaces, virtual agents. OVERVIEW There is a longstanding tradition of research on the relationships between language, cognition and the human brain. Until recently, however, investigations in this domain were limited to studying language production or comprehension in talkers individually exposed to highly controlled linguistic material. Over the last few years, major advances have been simultaneously accomplished in language sciences, computer…

Call for Papers SaM (Signals and Multimedia) Special session at CBMI 2019 – International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing 4-6 September 2019 Dublin, Ireland http://cbmi2019.org/ Submissions deadline: May 04, 2019 SaM (Signals and Multimedia) is a special session at CBMI 2019 that aims to bring together researchers who use signals (of any kind) as a means to enrich multimedia data and support access. In our viewpoint, signals represent any form of metadata that accompanies multimedia content, such as locations with photos, annotations with video, etc. The SaM special session welcomes contributions relating to all aspects of signals and multimedia, and…

Call for Papers: Language Games issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac https://www.leoalmanac.org/language-games-call/ Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2019 Language Games is the title of a forthcoming issue with LEA edited by Lanfranco Aceti, Sheena Calvert, and Hannah Lammin. We invite a range of submissions initially in the form of abstract. The description of the issue is below with all the related information for submission. Language is a technology, as theorists including Martin Heidegger and Marshall McLuhan have argued, and yet its manifestation in both speech and writing is fundamentally human-centred: anthropological. However, speech and writing are rapidly becoming an interface not…

Open call: The (Virtual) Reality Museum of Immersive Experiences The (Virtual) Reality Museum of Immersive Experiences showcases projects originally designed for large-scale immersive environments in a VR simulation that is true to the physical manifestation of these systems. These systems include 360 degree panoramic and hemispherical projection screens, stereoscopic 3D multi-view installations and a number of spatial and experimental video installations. Situated in a large warehouse, the 3D museum is freely navigable and its many exhibits are open for interactive exploration. Immersive display and interaction environments and systems have been utilised in simulation, visualisation, entertainment, the arts and museological context…

Call for Papers ICTS4eHealth 2019 – 4th edition of the IEEE International Workshop on ICT Solutions for e-Health in conjunction with the Twenty-Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Hotel Catalonia Barcelona Plaza, Barcelona, Spain June 29 -July 3, 2019 www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it Submission deadline: April 12, 2019 MISSION: e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers. The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods…

Call for Papers, Posters, Project Demos International conference on Designing for Children with focus on Play and Learn Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th of December 2019 IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India http://www.designingforchildren.net First submission deadlines: May 1, 2019 Aim: This international event is aimed at exchange of viewpoints, deliberations and discussions concerning design and research issues related to children. The event is expected to throw light on the role of Designing for children as related to design of objects, media and environment with focus on play + learn. Participants: The events are centered around the interests of students, educationists,…

Call for Papers GOODTECHS 2019 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good September 25-27, 2019 Valencia, Spain http://goodtechs.eu Submissions due: April 10, 2019 [extended] SCOPE By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more. In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined…