Call for Papers 4th Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2020 April 1-3, 2020 Levi, Lapland, Finland Conference website: http://gamifinconference.com/ Full CFP: http://gamifinconference.com/cfp2020/ IMPORTANT DATES October 20, 2019: Submissions deadline for papers December 20, 2019: Notifications of acceptance sent to authors of papers January 15, 2020: Submissions deadline for posters and doctoral consortium January 31, 2020: Acceptance for posters and doctoral consortium entries February 28, 2020: Registration deadline for authors March 8, 2020: Deadline for camera-ready April 1-3, 2020: Conference THEMES Gamification is a multi-faceted phenomenon that affects many domains of human life. Therefore, we welcome submissions related to this ludic transformation…

Call for Participation Study about adult media and sexual health for VR users Hello! I am a graduate student at Michigan State University conducting research on attitudes about adult media (pornography) and sexual health for virtual reality users. If you are 18 years old, have consumed adult media through a virtual reality format – in the past six months, and feel comfortable answering questions about adult media use, would you please consider completing our study? If you agree to participate in the research, you will be asked to answer some survey questions and watch an adult media video. The entire…

Call for Papers Workshop on Designing Serious Location-based Augmented Reality Games Held as part of the IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing & Joint Conference on Serious Games (ICEC-JCSG 2019, http://ucsp.edu.pe/icec-jcsg-2019) Arequipa, Perú November 11-15th 2019 https://seriouslocationbasedargames2019.wordpress.com/ Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2019 1 INTRODUCTION In recent years, the popularity of location-based Augmented Reality (AR) games has increased significantly. For example, 2013 Ingress generated a hype that was surpassed by 2016 Pokémon GO with an even larger player base. From a didactical perspective, location-based AR games, which encompass Ingress and Pokémon GO, have a number of characteristics that make their…

Call for Emerging Technologies (E-Tech) Demonstrations SIGGRPAH Asia 2019 Brisbane, AUSTRALIA 17-20 November https://sa2019.siggraph.org/submissions/emerging-technologies Deadline: 17 June 2019 Experience the Future! Interactive technology is one of the most important and exciting parts of the SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia conferences, and the Emerging Technologies program plays a vital role in driving the development of research communities to pursue technological innovations and to make a great impact on the public. The Emerging Technologies program presents demonstrations of research from a wide range of fields, including displays, virtual and augmented reality, input devices, and robotics. These technologies may include, but are not limited…

Call for Papers VJ 2019: 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts 27-29 November 2019 Aveiro, Portugal http://videojogos2019.web.ua.pt/ Submission deadline: July 31, 2019 SCOPE Ten years, and ten years more. The 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts will be held on November 27-29, organised by the Departament of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, and the Society of Video Games Sciences (SPCV). The annual conferences of the SPCV promote the scientific gathering of researchers in Portugal. These conferences are attended by researchers and professionals in the expanded field of videogames – Multimedia, Communication, Technology, Education, Psychology and…

Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on the Applications of Knowledge Representation and Semantic Technologies in Robotics (AnSWeR19) Co-located with the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2019) Dates: November 4/8 (tbd), 2019 Venue: The Venetian Macao, Macau, China (co-located with IROS2019) Site: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Answer-Robotic-SemanticWeb-IoT-Workshop-IROS2019 Hashtag: #answer2019 Twitter: @answerworkshop Deadline for submission: June 30th, 2019 Submissions page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=answer19 ORGANISERS Ilaria Tiddi – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Amelie Gyrard – Wright State University, US Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri – Örebro University, Sweden Emanuele Bastianelli – Heriot-Watt University, UK DESCRIPTION Autonomous mobile agents and robotics, in general, are experiencing a growing interest…

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide November 15-16, 2019 Queen Mary University of London https://aestheticsfilmstudies.weebly.com/ Submission deadline: July 29, 2019. The project has received funding from the British Society for Aesthetics. Confirmed keynotes: Professor Brian Winston, Lincoln Chair, Lincoln School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln. Dr Stacie Friend, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London. The fiction/nonfiction divide is a much discussed topic in contemporary analytic aesthetics. According to classic works like Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990) and Currie’s The Nature of Fiction (1990), fiction essentially involves imagining whereas nonfiction essentially involves…

Call for Papers HCI India 2019 Agents and Agency: HCI in the age of Machine Intelligence November 1-3, 2019 Hyderabad, India https://www.indiahci.org/2019/ Submissions due: 15 June 2019 Today, the domain of HCI is being significantly shaped by intelligent, autonomous and self-learning systems and technologies. The HCI and Design communities in both academia and industry are seeking an innovative competitive edge by investing in AI-driven machine intelligence. HCI has long recognized agency, the sense of human freedom to manipulate interactions with technology. Today, as our everyday agentive interactions increase the involvement of technology there is a need to examine the possible…

Call For Papers G|A|M|E – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment ‘Would you kindly?’: Claiming Video Game Agency as Interdisciplinary Concept https://www.gamejournal.it/n-8-2019-would-you-kindly-claiming-video-game-agency-as-interdisciplinary-concept/ Deadline for extended abstracts: 19th July 2019 The new issue of G|A|M|E proposes a re-examination of the concept of agency in games. We welcome contributions that address the idea of agency from a variety of academic perspectives, taking into account its interdisciplinary history and application, in order to expand our critical understanding of the concept more broadly. We therefore invite scholars from all fields to reflect on different notions of agency, not only in relation to physical and digital…

Call for Participation The Future of Location-based Gaming Research A Workshop at DiGRA 2019: Digital Games Research Association Conference (digra2019.org/) 6 August, 09.00-15.50 Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus Kyoto, Japan Submission deadline: 4th June 2019 We are seeking participants for a one-day workshop to be held during the pre-conference program of DiGRA 2019 in Kyoto, focusing on the future of location-based games research. Interested participants should send an approx. 400 word bio, including a description of their previous or current research on location-based games and their specific interest in attending the workshop. Participants will be selected on the basis of their…

Call for Papers UPA’19 – 4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS PERSONAL ASSISTANCE in conjunction with UbiComp 2019, London, UK 09 September 2019 https://upa19.weebly.com/ upa(at)tk.tu-darmstadt.de Submission Deadline: 21 June 2019 The Fourth International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance (UPA’19) aims to share experiences of current research endeavors on digital personal assistance. We invite submissions of papers focused on advancing towards digital assistants that provide a high level of personalization, through proactive and effective support of users’ activities, in an unobtrusive manner. In particular, we wish to put forward the discussion on how digital assistants can provide unobtrusive guidance and support for…

Call for Papers The Society of Learning Algorithms Conference series: Science and Art of Simulation (SAS) High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany (HLRS) November 11-13, 2019 https://philo.hlrs.de/openconf/openconf.php Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Debates about learning algorithms quickly get on one of two tracks: Either machine learning is regarded as a statistical procedure for data analysis, then questions arise as to the traceability and reliability of these procedures. Or machine learning is placed in the context of artificial intelligence, then questions arise as to the appropriateness of the claims and visions associated with it. The link between both debates, however, lies in…