Call for Papers “Geographies of Digital Games” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting April 3-7 2019 Washington DC https://annualmeeting.aag.org/AAGAnnualMeeting Organisers: Nick Rush-Cooper (Newcastle University, UK) and Emma Fraser (Manchester University, UK) Abstracts due by Thursday October 18th, 2018 Computer, video, mobile and digital games are fundamentally geographical: They are sites of social relation, spaces of exploration and agency, cultural and political representations of places, affective experiences and are developed through globalised and globalising technologies and networks. This session welcomes geographers, digital scholars, creative practitioners, and others who are approaching games as spatial phenomena. Though games have been used as geographical…

Call for Papers 12th ACM conference on Creativity & Cognition June 23-26, 2019 San Diego, CA http://cc.acm.org/2019 Paper Abstract & Title Submissions Due: February 5th, 2019 The 12th ACM conference on Creativity & Cognition will be held in San Diego, CA at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay on June 23-26, 2019, and will be co-located with the conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2019). Conference website: http://cc.acm.org/2019 C&C 2019 invites papers, pictorials, posters, demonstrations, workshops, artworks, and graduate student symposium submissions investigating how interactive computing systems and socio-technical processes affect creativity. Of particular interest are contributions that relate to this…

Call for Papers 3rd Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2019 April 8-10, 2019 Levi, Lapland, Finland Conference website: http://gamifinconference.com/ Full CFP: http://gamifinconference.com/cfp2019/ IMPORTANT DATES December 10, 2018: Submissions deadline January 21, 2019: Notifications of acceptance sent to authors January 31, 2019: Registration deadline for paper authors March 29, 2019: Deadline for camera-ready April 8-10, 2019: Conference THEMES Gamification is a multi-faceted phenomenon that affects multiple domains of human life. Therefore, we welcome submissions related to this ludic transformation of our reality under several domains and related (but not limited) to e.g. the following keywords: Users: e.g. Engagement, experience, user types Education:…

Call for Papers Focus section on Beyond Computers: Wearables, Humans, And Things – WHAT! to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) Since 2012 also in Scopus Since 2015 also in Emerging Sources Citation Index and Web of Science IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7CQ3GKSSG CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call39fs Guest Editors: Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Achim Ebert, University…

[There is also a Call for Project Demos to be presented as part of a VR/AR for Learning Showcase that will take place at IEEE TALE 2018 in Wollongong, Australia on 4–7 December 2018, in conjunction with the Special Track on XR and Immersive Learning Environments (https://tale2018.org/xr). The submission deadline is October 22 and more information and the submission form are at https://goo.gl/forms/z6zqJcKhnJ1gOSLX2 –Matthew] Call for Papers Special Issue of Virtual Reality on XR (VR, AR, MR) and Immersive Learning Environments https://bit.ly/2vdyKEL Guest Editors: Dennis Beck, Minjuan Wang, Mark J. W. Lee Submission deadline: 14 December 2018 Manuscript submissions are…

Call for Papers: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Workshop 2019 10-12 April 2019, University of Amsterdam http://realitiesfantasies.wordpress.com Keynotes: Jonathan Culler (Cornell University), Annabelle Dufourcq (RU Nijmegen), Nkiru Nzegwu (SUNY Binghamton), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku). Extended Deadline: 15 November The world of fantasy often serves as an escape from reality, its limitations, and its many social, economic, and corporeal restrictions. Reality, in turn, is often desired amidst the delusions of the fantastic. In this workshop, we take on the continuous and renewed interest in the real in its relation to fantasy, illusion, and…

Call for Papers International Journal of Social Robotics – VIRTUOUS ROBOTICS: ARTIFICIAL AGENTS AND THE GOOD LIFE https://dhrg.uws.edu.au/robots-ai-confr/international-journal-of-social-robotics-cfp/ Full paper submission deadline: 1 March 2019 GUEST EDITORS Massimiliano Cappuccio (UAE University and University of New South Wales) Omar Mubin (Western Sydney University) Mohammad Obaid (University of New South Wales) Eduardo Benitez Sandoval (University of New South Wales) Mari Velonaki (University of New South Wales) THEME Can robotics play a moral role in the life of humans? In addition to providing practical benefits to the users, can interaction with social robots fortify the users’ moral dispositions and instill new ethical principles?…

Call for Participation London Aesthetics Forum: Immersion in Film 2 November 2018 Senate House / Birkbeck Cinema London, UK Free with registration On November 2nd there will be two events exploring the experience of narrative immersion in film from both a philosophical and empirical perspective: a morning workshop and an afternoon film screening and discussion about Shadow of a Doubt (1943), which Hitchcock sometimes called his ‘favourite’ of his oeuvre. Though registration for the two events is separate, they are related and everyone is welcome to attend both. The widespread experience of ‘being lost in a narrative’ (Nell 1988)-sometimes called…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Aging between Participation and Simulation Ethical Dimensions of Socially Assistive Technologies International Conference for Young Scholars 4th – 8th February 2019 Bochum, Germany Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2018 In future, an increasing number of elderly people will be reliant on the healthcare system. The emerging resource crisis will affect the right to social participation, wellbeing and autonomy of older or impaired people. Social assistive technologies such as robot companions or smart screen assistants promise to preserve individual rights by supporting their users in their daily environment. They offer emotional as well as physical care and support.…

Call for Papers Workshop on supporting collocated participation in large events At CSCW 2018 – The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (http://cscw.acm.org/2018/) November 4th, Jersey City, USA https://hybridevent.wordpress.com/ Position paper deadline: October 10th How can technology transform how people assemble and interact in-person for learning, work, and fun? Nowadays, backchannels and audience interaction systems, have provided the audience with a mediated channel to support their participation. We are seeing conferences, seminars, classes, festivals transform the audience experience through technologies that allow spectators to participate in the creation of the event’s content. Such settings have a…

Call for Participation Multi-Cultural Human-Robot Interaction Workshop December 4, 2018 Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia https://culturaldrones.wixsite.com/welcome Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2018 We are pleased to invite you to participate in this one-day workshop on Multi-Cultural Human-Robot Interaction, held on December 4th, 2018 as part as the AfriCHI conference in Windhoek Namibia. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: This hands-on workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the cultural aspects of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) design. Recent work shows that the one fits all model of interaction might be obsolete, especially when considering natural interactions where people use gesture and…

Call for Papers Revista de Bioética y Derecho of the University of Barcelona Monographic issue dedicated to artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of things http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/RBD/announcement/view/369 Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2018 Revista de Bioética y Derecho of the University of Barcelona announces a call for papers for a monographic issue dedicated to artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of things. There is a growing interest in the bioethical, social and legal implications of new technological developments, bringing us closer to a world that seemed to be only science fiction. We invite submissions on all areas related to these topics,…