Call for Papers “HCI in a Sharing Society” research track at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2019 Stockholm, Sweden June 12-14, 2019 Submission deadline: November 27, 2018 Track Chairs: Mikko Rajanen, University of Oulu, Finland. (rajanen@oulu.fi) [Corresponding chair] Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, University of West London, UK. (abdelnour-nocera@uwl.ac.uk) Torkil Clemmensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. (digi@cbs.dk) Dorina Rajanen, University of Oulu, Finland. (rajanen@oulu.fi) Track Description: The socio-technical systems design approach has had a long history of influencing the systems design by considering human, social, technical and organisational factors (Trist and Bamford, 1951; Mumford, 1999; Mumford, 2000; Bjørn-Andersen & Clemmensen, 2017).…

CALL FOR PAPERS 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus June 9-12, 2019 https://www.um.org/umap2019/ Abstracts due: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) Papers due: February 1, 2019 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ACM UMAP, “User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization”, is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital…

Call for Papers Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM 19 Embodiment in Music University of Graz, Austria 26-28 September 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/cim19 Abstract submission deadline: 1st February 2019 THEME What does it mean for musical cognition to be embodied? The aim of this conference is to foster collaborations between scholars working in the humanities and the sciences to critically engage with this question, and explore the main theoretical, empirical, and performative challenges that embodiment poses in the musical domain. CIM19 provides a meeting point for those who wish to reflect upon, and interpret, the social, historical, epistemological, artistic, and even political…

Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Persuasive Systems for Behavior Change (PerPersuasion 2019) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 11-15, March 2019 https://perpersuasion.ubi-lab.com/ Submission deadline: November 10, 2018 SCOPE Recently, the technologies for changing people’s attitudes or behaviors through persuasion and social influence are focused. It is called persuasive technology or persuasive system and is expected to contribute supporting productivity, well-being, and efficiency. To realize an effective and appropriate intervention to the human behavior, various pervasive computing technologies such as a mobile sensing, activity recognition & prediction, and attention sensing have a quite important role. In this workshop, we…

Urban Play – The 15th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Seminar 15th-16th of April 2019 Tampere, Finland https://urbanplayseminar.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: January 18, 2019 Notification of acceptance: February 4, 2019 Full Paper deadline: March 25, 2019 Seminar dates: April 15-16, 2019 URBAN PLAY Urban spaces offer a rich environment for a diversity of play practices, from location-based games to parkour and from hopscotch to chess in parks. Historically, cities have offered rich affordances for games and play, but in recent years the spread of ubiquitous and pervasive technology has transformed and diversified public play. The extension of ‘smart’…

Call for Papers WiderScreen Journal Special Issue (2/2019): Sexuality & Play in Media Editors: Ashley Brown, Laura Saarenmaa, Veli-Matti Karhulahti Abstracts deadline: November 15, 2018 WiderScreen is a Finnish open-access scientific journal that centers on multimedial, digital, and audiovisual media culture. It is recognized as a quality peer-reviewed academic publication channel by the Finnish Publication Forum (Jufo). It is our pleasure to announce a call for papers to a special issue Sexuality & Play in Media, to be published in September 2019. We look forward to submissions concerning all intersections of sexuality and play(fullness) across media, both analog and digital…

Call for Abstracts The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) 2019 Conference June 5-7, 2019 Mexico City, Mexico http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2019 Deadline from Paper Abstracts: February 15, 2019 Deadline for Symposia Proposals: February 1, 2019 The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.iacap.org/] is delighted to announce that submissions are now being accepted for its 2019 annual meeting [http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2019] June 5-7, to be held at and sponsored by the Institutes of Mathematics and Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The meeting is being organized by, Sergio Rajsbaum: Institute of Mathematics, UNAM. (http://www.matem.unam.mx/~rajsbaum/) Luis Estrada González: Institute of Philosophy, UNAM.…

Call for Abstracts Interdisciplinary Workshop on ROBOTS & AI IN SOCIETY Socio-psychological, cultural-economic, and ethico-political aspects of living with artificial autonomous agents Western Sydney University (Parramatta 1PSQ) 8-9 November 2018 The workshop is co-located with the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents https://iva2018.westernsydney.edu.au/ EXTENDED submission deadline: 29 October 2018 HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE FUTURE-READY Autonomous agents and artificial intelligences promise to soon play a central role in our lives: not only will they assist us as social companions and co-workers, but they will also stimulate deep cultural and political transformations in our civilization. Artificial…

CALL FOR PAPERS TOWARDS CONSCIOUS AI SYSTEMS AAAI Spring Symposium Stanford, CA March 25 – 27, 2019 http://diid.unipa.it/roboticslab/consciousai/ DEADLINE: November 2, 2018 SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss19 (look for this symposium) The study of consciousness remains a challenge that spans multiple disciplines. Consciousness has a demonstrated, although poorly understood, role in shaping human behavior. The processes underpinning consciousness may be crudely replicated to build better AI systems. Such a ‘top-down’ perspective on AI readily reveals the gaps in current data-driven approaches and highlights the need for ‘better AI’. At the same time, the process of designing AI systems creates an opportunity to better explain…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications February 25 – 27, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.hucapp.visigrapp.org/ New Submission Deadline: October 22, 2018 HUCAPP is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication. In Cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction European Association for Computer Graphics French Association for Computer Graphics With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers: Daniel McDuff, Microsoft, United States Diego Gutierrez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic Dima Damen, University…

Call for Papers Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) Special issue on philosophical issues raised by the use of existing and emerging military and civilian forms of technologies in armed conflict Expressions of interest (prospective title and 100 word proposal) due: November 1, 2019 The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) welcomes contributions concerning the philosophical issues raised by the use of existing and emerging military and civilian forms of technologies in armed conflict. The special issue is guest edited by Dr. Alexander C. Leveringhaus (University of Surrey). The selected articles will be published by Trivent Publishing in…

CALL for ICIDS 2018 WORKSHOP Submissions: “Authoring for Interactive Storytelling” December 8, 2018 Dublin, Ireland http://narrativeandplay.org/ais/call.html 3-6 page papers due: October 22 This call for participation is seeking submitted papers and attendance at the Authoring for Interactive Storytelling workshop held at the International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2018 in Dublin (https://icids2018.scss.tcd.ie/). This workshop seeks to provide a venue for researchers in the area of interactive digital narrative authoring and narrative systems to share early work, new ideas, and identify challenges facing the field, with a view to fostering collaboration and the formation of a coherent research community in…