Call for Papers ISMAR 2019: 18th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality October 14-18, 2019 Beijing, China http://www.ismar19.org/ Submission Deadline: 15th March 2019 (23:59 AoE) ISMAR, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), will come to China for the first time in its history of more than 20 years. ISMAR 2019 will be held on October 14-18 in Beijing, China. ISMAR is responding to the recent explosion of commercial and research activities related to AR and MR and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope over the past several years. ISMAR…

Call for Papers Workshop on the Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies and Novel Interaction Paradigms At INTERACT 2019 – 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 2-6, 2019 Paphos, Cyprus http://interact2019.org/ Workshop website: https://www.socialacceptabilityworkshop.uol.de Submission deadline: April 19th, 2019 Human-computer interfaces have spread into all aspects of our lives increasing the range and scale of potential issues with social acceptance. In consequence, attending to social acceptability issues with emerging technologies and novel interaction paradigms has become increasingly relevant and interesting to the HCI community. ‘ #SociallyAcceptableHCI – INTERACT’19 Workshop on the Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies and Novel…

CALL FOR PAPERS Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes (edited book) Edited by Christina Lee and Erik Champion (Curtin University) Proposals due by: April 5, 2019 We are soliciting contributions for an edited book that will explore the affective landscapes – both real and imaginary – in screen tourism. Screen tourism is a burgeoning global industry whereby tourists visit locations that are featured in or are associated with film and television texts (e.g. filming locations, theme parks, the creator’s former abode). This simultaneously niche yet mainstream market has now extended the bucket list of travel destinations to include the likes of…

Call for Papers OzCHI 2019 – 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction Theme: “Experience Design Across Asia Pacific” Perth/Fremantle, WA, AUSTRALIA 3-5 December 2019 W. http://www.ozchi.org F. https://www.facebook.com/ozchi2019/ T. https://twitter.com/OzchiWA | #Quokka_CHI IMPORTANT DATES 24 May 2019:  Long Paper Due 19 July 2019:  Short Paper Due 6 September 2019:  Demos and Work-in-Progress Due 24 May 2019:  Workshops and Student Design Challenge Due 24 June 2019:  Industry Paper and Doctoral Consortium Due We listen to YOUR voice and want to make OzCHI’19 even better – submit your conference ideas! The best ideas are awarded during the conference closing session. OzCHI ‘Idea Box’: https://goo.gl/forms/0XceZlmoP0XSV5RO2…

Call for Papers / Projects / Artworks / Performances IEEE Games Entertainment and Media (GEM) 2019 June 18-22, 2019 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut https://www.ieee-gem.space/ Extended deadline: March 10, 2019 Continuing the grand tradition & broadening the scope of the IEEE International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC, 2009 – 2013), IEEE Games Entertainment & Media (GEM, 2014 – 2016), and last year’s event held at the National University of Ireland Galway, we are excited to announce the 2019 IEEE GEM conference will be hosted at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, at Yale University. This year’s conference will include a…

Call for Participation W1. Doctoral Workshop in Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality spectrum An iLRN 2019 Doctoral Workshop At the 5th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2019) London, 24th of June 2019 https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2019/workshops/ Deadline for 4 pages paper submission: 1st of March (extended) This iLRN 2019 Doctoral Workshop (is part of the 5th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2019) and provides a platform for doctoral students undertaking research on various aspects of immersive learning, innovation in technology (Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality spectrum) to assist education and emerging theoretical models to assist…

Call for Papers CONTEXT 2019 11th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context 8-11 September 2019 Trento, Italy http://context19.disi.unitn.it/ First submission deadline: 15 April 2019 The CONTEXT conference series has brought together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and industries to present their work related to issues of context, contextual reasoning and context-awareness to discuss commonalities and diversities in the different disciplinary approaches. It is unique in focusing on context as a subject of study in its own right, and it has become one of the top venues for context-related research. CONTEXT 2019 is the…

Call for Papers, Abstracts, Demos, and Posters VRST 2019: 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Sydney, Australia 12 November to 15 November 2019 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2019/ Submission deadlines: Papers and abstracts: 19 July 2019 Posters and Demos: 15 August 2019 Dear Colleagues Western Sydney University invites you to submit papers, abstracts, demos, and posters for the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2019). VRST 2019 is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers concerned with Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality software and technology.…

Call for Papers The Second ACM PETRA Workshop on Social Robots: A Workshop on the Past, the Present and the Future of Digital Companions At PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2019 Rhodes, Greece June 5-7, 2019 http://www.petrae.org/workshops/socialrobots.html Submission deadline: February 25, 2019 Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces but also follow us into much more personal settings like home and health care. Does this imply that social robots should be able to interpret and adequately respond to human emotions? Should they simulate emotions? The workshop covers the phenomenon of social robots from the historic…

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction: “Unifying Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence” http://showhow.fxpal.com/hcij/publicInfo/cfp_hciai.pdf Special Issue Editors: Munmun De Choudhury, Min Kyung Lee, David A. Shamma, and Haiyi Zhu Timeline: March 20, 2019: Proposals Due (1,000 words) June 15, 2019: Full Papers Due MOTIVATION Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly been deployed across many domains such as transportation, retail, criminal justice, finance and health. But these very domains that AI is aiming to revolutionize may also be where human implications are the most momentous. The potential negative effects of AI on society, whether amplifying human…

First IEEE International conference on Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC 2019) September 25-27, 2019 Laguna Hills, California https://www.humanizedcomputing.org/ Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with computing technologies that allow machines to move, see, hear, talk, think, learn, behave, and connect like humans. Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC) address the ability of a computer to mimic a human in perception, conversation, behavior, and networking. The huge potential of HCC represents an exciting future for individuals and businesses. In addition, business-business, business-human, and human-human may be interconnected in a revolutionary way to stimulate tremendous amount of interesting activities.…

CALL FOR PAPERS ACM UMAP Workshop – Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) The 1st International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security in conjunction with the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Larnaca, Cyprus June 09-12, 2019 Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission deadline: March 13, 2019 (23:59 AoE time) Notification: March 26, 2019 Camera-ready papers: April 03, 2019 MOTIVATION & GOALS Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in modern information systems and…