CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2019 6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Barcelona, Spain October 22-25, 2019 https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/ | @acmchiplay | #chiplay19 Submission deadlines: April 9, 2019:  Full papers (4-10 pages) May 2, 2019:  Workshop and Course Proposals July 5, 2019:  Rapid Communications Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, Interactivity, Works-in-Progress, and Workshop Position Papers CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to…

Call for Participation “Designing Interactive Olfactory Experience in Real Context and Applications” TEI 2019 Studio Arizona State University, USA Sunday March 17th, 2019 https://www.interactive-olfaction.com/ Deadline for one page abstracts: March 5th 2019 Dear all, Are you interested in smell interactions? Would you like to explore how olfactory experience could be integrated in real context and applications? Join our studio on TEI 2019 “Designing Interactive Olfactory Experience in Real Context and Applications“. We are calling up researchers/interaction designers who are interested in smell interactions, whose research/professional background is related but not limited to interaction design, service design, game design, interactive technology…

Call for Papers 4th Games and Natural Language Processing Workshop (GAMNLP-19) To be held at the 14th Foundations of Digital Games Conference (FDG-19) August 26 or 27, 2019 San Luis Obispo, California, USA Submission deadline: April 5, 2019 The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) ranges from theoretical studies (e.g., parsing algorithms, computational models of dialogue) to practical applications (e.g., information retrieval, conversational agents, machine translation). This workshop investigates computational and theoretical aspects of natural language research that would be beneficial for designing and building novel game experiences, or for processing texts to conduct formal game studies. NLP would benefit…

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on “Culture Games” ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage https://jocch.acm.org/culturegame.cfm Deadline: 15th December 2019 Industries, stakeholders, and the general public approach culture (both tangible and intangible) for a variety of purposes, and digital games can channel each of these purposes in different ways. In the context of a cultural experience, people may want to learn (with serious games) but also to have fun (with simple entertainment games), spend some spare time (with casual games), socialize (with social or multiplayer games), or create (with collaborative creation games). Similarly, cultural institutions wish not only to teach,…

Call for Papers 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2019) Pisa, Italy 26-29 November, 2019 http://www.mum-conf.org/2019/ Organized by the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) laboratory of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. Submission deadline: August 27, 2019 MUM 2019, the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held on 26-29 November 2019 at the CNR Area of Research in Pisa, Italy. GENERAL INFORMATION The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) is a leading annual international conference which provides a forum for presenting the…

Call for Papers Workshop on Envisioning Next Generation Personalized Game Experiences Co-located with the 2019 Foundations of Digital Games Conference August 26-30, San Luis Obispo, California, USA August 26, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/nextpersonalizedgames/home Important Dates: Deadline for Papers and Demos/Prototypes: March 21, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2019 Camera Ready Papers: June 1, 2019 Our expectations of user experience with digital applications is shifting. The ‘one-size-fits-all’ model is gradually giving way to personalized experiences that can better accommodate users’ individual differences. Personalized search, recommendations systems, and social media feeds, for instance, are becoming the norm of our digital life. In computer…

Call for Papers Workshop on Speech Interface Interactions At CHI 2019, May 4-9, Glagow, UK http://speech-interaction.org/chi2019 2 page position papers due February 12, 2019 Speech as an interaction modality has grown through the integration of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) like Google Assistant and Siri into mobile and home-based devices. This collaborative workshop focuses on theories and methods we can use to understand user behaviours with speech interfaces. Through the workshop we will establish what theories, concepts, and paradigms are important in understanding our interaction choices with speech interfaces, and potential new theoretical frame- works required to explore them. We will…

Design Culture and Somaesthetics Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields Conference Date: 06-08. 05. 2019 Conference Venue: Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest Conference Hosted by: Design Culture Studies Doctoral Program at the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest & Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics Website: https://doktori.mome.hu/conference-2019/?lang=en Submission deadline: February 15, 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Richard Shusterman, Professor of Philosophy and English, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Director for Body, Mind and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. Initiatior of somaesthetic research. Guy Julier, Professor of Design Leadership at Aalto University, Helsinki. Former Principal Research Fellow in…

Call for Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters, and Demos 5th Immersive Learning Research Network Conference iLRN 2019 June 23th – June 27th, 2019 London, UK https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2019/ Full papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Short papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Posters and Demos submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Join the growing network of immersive learning experts and practitioners from across the disciplines in exciting London for iLRN 2019! The 5th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network will be an innovative hands-on and scholarly meeting for an emerging global network of developers, educators, and research…

Call for Submission of Papers, Extended Abstracts, Workshops, and Tutorials ICAD 2019 – 25th International Conference on Auditory Display Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 23-27 June, 2019 https://icad2019.icad.org https://twitter.com/ICAD2019 Theme/Special Focus of ICAD 2019 is “Digital Living: Sonification for Everyday Life”. First submission deadline: 15th March 2019 Digital technology and artificial intelligence are becoming embedded in the objects all around us, from consumer products to the built environment. Everyday life happens where People, Technology, and Place intersect. Our activities and movements are increasingly sensed, digitized and tracked. Of course, the data generated by modern life is a hugely important resource not…

Call for Papers Simulations Special Issue THE SOCIETAL AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF COMPUTER SIMULATIONS (S18-2) Guest Editors: Juan M. Durán (TU Delft) Jeroen van den Hoven (TU Delft) Submission deadline: June 30, 2019 Computer simulations are a fundamental method for the progress of scientific and engineering research. Jim Gray (2007) called them the third paradigm of research, along with theory, experiment and Big Data (the first, second and fourth paradigm respectively). While the specialised literature has extensively focused on epistemological, ontological and methodological issues of computer simulations (Humphreys, 2004, Winsberg, 2010, Morrison, 2015, Durán, 2018), less has been said on…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2019) Kyoto, Japan — 6-10, October 2019 http://hai-conference.net/hai2019 Full paper submissions due: 14 May 2019 HAI 2019 is the 7th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. It is a venue with an interdisciplinary nature to discuss and disseminate state-of-the-art research on topics that relate to human interactions with a range of agent systems, including physical robots, virtual agents, socially interactive agents, and artificially intelligent agents. The theme for HAI 2019 is “Human-Agent Interaction, the Heart of Artificial Intelligence.” Due to the rapid progress of deep learning, AI has reached…