Call for Chapters Game User Experience and Player-Centered Design Editor: Barbaros Bostan, Bahcesehir University, Game Design Department, Turkey. Planned to be published by Springer Long Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019 User Experience (UX) is a branch of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) interested in improving the quality of the interaction between the user and the product. When applied to the rapidly growing billion dollar game industry, it becomes the Game User Experience or Player Experience (PX) that focus on the relationship between the player and the game. Game User Experience, the individual and personal experience of playing games, is a…

Call for Papers International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2019 November 19-23, 2019 Snowbird, Utah, USA Conference website: https://icids.eae.utah.edu Paper & Poster submission deadline: July 12th, 2019 ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied design lenses. The annual conference is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. With this 12th edition of the conference, ICIDS continues into its second decade. The field of interactive narrative has now coalesced into a…

Call for Papers Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Special Issue: Uses and Effects of Smart Media: How AI Impacts User Experience Submission Deadline: November 15, 2019 The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into digital media technologies has provided additional affordances and altered the nature of user experience, providing new audience engagement and gratification opportunities that meet human needs for information, communication and entertainment in a variety of innovative ways. These AI-driven smart media have helped usher in a new media environment where social bots are used to spread false information, a 360-degree view provides a panoramic look of…

Call for Papers Workshop: Designing Speech Synthesis for Intelligent Virtual Agents At ACM IVA 2019 (https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org) 2nd July 2019 Paris, France http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/matthewa/speechIVA2019wshop Extended submission deadline: April 26, 2019 OVERVIEW In this workshop we will look at the elements in an artificial voice that support an embodied (either digital or tangible) and dis-embodied form of an intelligent virtual agent (IVA). In this context the agent can be seen to perform, or act a role, where naturalness of the voice may be subservient to appropriateness, and communicating the character of the agent can be as important as the information it presents.…

Call for Abstracts UCD Workshop on Implementing Machine Ethics School of Computer Science, University College Dublin 2-3 July, 2019 https://aristotle.ucd.ie/ Confirmed keynote: Prof. Alan Winfield, Bristol Robotics Lab, University of West of England Deadline for abstract submission: 12 May 2019 The School of Computer Science at UCD would like to invite you to submit abstracts for the first UCD Workshop on Implementing Machine Ethics. The contemplation of intelligence and/or agency among machines, in popular discourse, seems to settle on a future technological dystopia or conversely, a machine-led utopia. While the media creates these dichotomous futures, there needs to be deeper…

Call for Participation Ethics Oversight and Committees for AI: Towards a Future Research Agenda A Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) workshop Friday, May 10, 2019, 10am to 6pm Big Data Institute, University of Oxford https://www.weh.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-events/workshop-ethics-oversight-and-committees-for-ai-towards-a-future-research-agenda Participation deadline: May 5, 2019 Ethox and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities are based at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7FZ. This workshop will take place in the BDI, Level 1 Ax Meeting Room. ABSTRACT Increasingly, concerns are being raised about the lack of ethics…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS Transdisciplinary AI 2019 (TransAI 2019) September 25-27, 2019 Laguna Hills, California http://www.TransAI.org Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with computing technologies that allow machines to see, hear, talk, think, learn, and solve problems even above the level of human beings. On the one hand it allows data to be analyzed by real-time models that enable unprecedented levels of accuracy and efficiency. On the other hand it enables domain specific problem solving and knowledge discovery that cannot be easily done by humans. Transdisciplinary AI 2019 (TransAI 2019), technically sponsored by the IEEE…

Call for Papers The International Conference of Experience Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (XD2019GoldCoast) 14 – 16 August 2019 Gold Coast, Australia https://www.griffith.edu.au/centre-design-innovation/XD2019GoldCoast Submission deadline: April 19, 2019 The International Conference of Experience Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (XD2019GoldCoast) will be hosted by the Griffith Centre for Design and Innovation Research (CDAIR) at Griffiths Gold Coast campus. The three-day conference brings together an international community of scholars and practitioners around the 2019 theme of “Exploring and Enhancing Experience” in relation to design, innovation and entrepreneurship in: Architecture | Artificial Intelligence | Brand | Business | Communication | Computing | Data Science |…

Call for Workshop Papers + Keynote 4th International Workshop PLAYABLE CITIES: THE INTERNET OF PLAY IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS https://sites.google.com/view/playablecities2019/home This workshop will be held as part of the 5th IEEE International Conference on the Internet of People (IoP 2019; http://www.smart-world.org/2019/iop/), August 19-23, 2019, Leicester, UK. Paper submission deadline: 26th April 2019 BACKGROUND Following the success of the first (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2016), the second (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 2017), and the third (Braga, Portugal, 2018) workshops on Playable Cities we are pleased to announce the 4th Playable Cities Workshop to be held on 19th August 2019 as part of the 5th…

Workshop: Image, Imagination and Virtual Reality University of Antwerp, Center for European Philosophy Friday 3rd of May, City Campus, room D 014 https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/center-for-european-philosophy/activities/expert-seminar-image-virtuality/ CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION Virtual and augmented reality technologies are rapidly becoming part of our daily lives. While VR technologies let their users enter into and interact with virtual worlds, be it renderings of real, far off places or fictional ones, AR technologies brings virtual objects into the real world, allowing people to chase after Pokémon in real-life cities. But how to describe and explain our experiences of virtual objects and environments? Is our experience of the virtual a…

Workshop at IVA 2019 Brain correlates for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction At ACM International Conference of Virtual Agents, https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org July 2nd 2019 Paris-6 University, Paris, France Submission deadline: 8th May Keywords: cerebral activities in human-human and human-machine interaction, neurophysiological data, brain-computer interfaces, virtual agents. OVERVIEW There is a longstanding tradition of research on the relationships between language, cognition and the human brain. Until recently, however, investigations in this domain were limited to studying language production or comprehension in talkers individually exposed to highly controlled linguistic material. Over the last few years, major advances have been simultaneously accomplished in language sciences, computer…