CALL FOR PAPERS 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2019) 10-13 September, 2019, Belfast, Northern Ireland http://ecce2019.eace.net Due date for all paper submissions: 22 February 2019 ECCE 2019 is the 31st annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE). This leading conference in human-computer interaction, human factors design and cognitive engineering offers an unparalleled opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences from a variety of domains. In addition to ACM proceedings, best papers will be published in the Behaviour & Information Technology Journal (Impact Factor =1.380). Our special theme for ECCE…

Call for Papers Envisioning Social Robotics: Current Challenges and New Interdisciplinary Methodologies Special issue of Interaction Studies Guest Editors: Glenda Hannibal & Astrid Weiss Submission Deadline: November 1st, 2018 We find in social robotics many so-called “wicked problems” – problems that are extremely complex and resist complete definition and resolution. To work out these problems, it is necessary to critically discuss the underpinning logic, or line of reasoning, that motivates social robotics and to develop new interdisciplinary methods to make social robots more “socially robust”. This special issue aims to address current challenges in social robotics by bringing methodological discussions…

Call for Participation 3rd Annual Frameless Symposium 2018 November 29-30th MAGIC, Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York framelesslabs@rit.edu Submission Due Date: October 15, 2018 Acceptance Notifications: November 2, 2018 Frameless Labs is a faculty led partnership at RIT that brings together research, innovation, and artistic creations surrounding XR (VR/AR/MR) mediums and is housed under the umbrella of the MAGIC Center. This free annual symposium is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. Additionally, the symposium aims to create a rich environment for academic-industry partnerships in the technological development and application…

Call for Papers Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) 2019 Conference May 20-22, 2019 College Station, Texas (USA spt2019.org Track Proposals deadline: November 1, 2018 Paper deadline: December 1, 2018 The 21st Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology will be held May 20-22, 2019 at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas (USA). We invite papers, poster presentations, and panel proposals that investigate all areas of philosophy and technology, especially those that have to do with the conference theme, technology and power. To give but a few examples, technology can amplify, modify, and extend the power of human…

Call for Papers for a Theme Section on Trust and AI ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) http://toit.acm.org/ Submission deadline: November 1, 2018 Trust is critical in building effective AI systems. It characterizes the elements that are essential in social reliability, whether this be in human-agent interaction, or how autonomous agents make decisions about the selection of partners and coordinate with them. Many computational and theoretical trust models and approaches to reputation have been developed using AI techniques over the past twenty years. However, some principal issues are yet to be addressed, including bootstrapping; causes and consequences of trust; trust…

Call for Submissions 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care March 24-27 Chicago, Illinois https://www.hfes.org/ContentCMS/ContentPages/?Id=Fb11tr2KH1E= Flyer: http://cms.hfes.org/Cms/media/CmsImages/HCS2019-Flyer.pdf Deadline for lectures and panels: Monday, October 8, 2018 Deadline for posters: Monday, October 15, 2018 View the 2018 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care page here. The 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care will take place March 24–27 at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The call for proposals is now open. The symposium offers cutting-edge presentations, posters, and workshops on emerging issues in health-care human factors and the challenges…

Call for Abstracts User Experience Design in Archaeology and Heritage Roundtable Session at the 2019 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA) Kraków, Poland 23-27 April, 2019 https://saraperry.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/user-experience-design-in-archaeology/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 October 2018 Are you designing digital resources for different archaeological users – specialists and wider audiences alike? Do you deploy – or do you want to deploy – methods from the UX (user experience) and participatory design fields? What workflows do you follow in iteratively developing your digital outputs? How are end users and stakeholders involved throughout these workflows? What evaluation methodologies are you…

Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 40th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference February 20-23, 2019 Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.org Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2018 The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area invites papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. Proposals are welcome from any and all scholars (including graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, and emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, artists, archivists, and so forth). Unusual formats, technologies, and the like are encouraged. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION…

Call for Papers Special Issue of the journal Science and Engineering Ethics Brain-Based and Artificial Intelligence: Socio-ethical Conversations in Computing and Neurotechnology Editors: Elisabeth Hildt, Kelly Laas, Monika Sziron, Stephanie J. Bird Abstracts due: September 15, 2018 We are inviting papers to be included in a special issue of Science and Engineering Ethics that seeks to explore the convergences and disparities in approaches to intelligence in neuroscience and computer science. The topic for this special issue comes from a May 2018 workshop organized by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology,…

Call for Abstracts The Cyborg Days Workshop November 26 – 28 University of Zurich, Switzerland https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Workshops/The-Cyborg-Days.html Submission deadline: October 22, 2018 The Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at ETH Zurich are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for The Cyborg Days! The Cyborg Days is a three-day workshop that will take place from Monday November 26 to Wednesday November 28, 2018 at the University of Zurich. For detailed information, please visit our website: https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Workshops/The-Cyborg-Days.html This transdisciplinary workshop aims at exploring topical issues at…

Call For Papers Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction To be held as part of INLG 2018 (https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/) 8 November 2018 Tilburg, Netherlands http://purl.org/net/nlg-hri-workshop-2018/ Contact email: nlghri2018@easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES: September 14, 2018: Submission deadline for position papers October 15, 2018: Notification of acceptance October 29, 2018: Camera-ready due November 6–7, 2018: INLG main conference November 8, 2018: Workshop on NLG for HRI WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The research area of human–robot interaction has the goal to develop robotic agents that exhibit socially intelligent behaviour while interacting with human partners. Despite the clear relationship between social intelligence and fluent, flexible linguistic…

Call for Papers Behaviour & Information Technology Journal Special issue on Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmu06129-tbit-smart-cities-at-play Deadline for submission of paper abstracts: 1 October 2018 Smart cities can be described as places where physical environments are combined with information technology to rectify socio-economic and environmental issues. In recent years, technologies embedded with the global positioning system (GPS) have been increasingly used to shape more efficient urban spaces. Locative data, for instance, is regularly employed to determine the severity of traffic, just as it has become pivotal to ridesharing services. Likewise, such data is used…