Call for Participation W1. Doctoral Workshop in Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality spectrum An iLRN 2019 Doctoral Workshop At the 5th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2019) London, 24th of June 2019 https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2019/workshops/ Deadline for 4 pages paper submission: 1st of March (extended) This iLRN 2019 Doctoral Workshop (is part of the 5th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2019) and provides a platform for doctoral students undertaking research on various aspects of immersive learning, innovation in technology (Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality spectrum) to assist education and emerging theoretical models to assist…

Call for Papers CONTEXT 2019 11th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context 8-11 September 2019 Trento, Italy http://context19.disi.unitn.it/ First submission deadline: 15 April 2019 The CONTEXT conference series has brought together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and industries to present their work related to issues of context, contextual reasoning and context-awareness to discuss commonalities and diversities in the different disciplinary approaches. It is unique in focusing on context as a subject of study in its own right, and it has become one of the top venues for context-related research. CONTEXT 2019 is the…

Call for Papers, Abstracts, Demos, and Posters VRST 2019: 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Sydney, Australia 12 November to 15 November 2019 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2019/ Submission deadlines: Papers and abstracts: 19 July 2019 Posters and Demos: 15 August 2019 Dear Colleagues Western Sydney University invites you to submit papers, abstracts, demos, and posters for the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2019). VRST 2019 is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers concerned with Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality software and technology.…

Call for Papers The Second ACM PETRA Workshop on Social Robots: A Workshop on the Past, the Present and the Future of Digital Companions At PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2019 Rhodes, Greece June 5-7, 2019 http://www.petrae.org/workshops/socialrobots.html Submission deadline: February 25, 2019 Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces but also follow us into much more personal settings like home and health care. Does this imply that social robots should be able to interpret and adequately respond to human emotions? Should they simulate emotions? The workshop covers the phenomenon of social robots from the historic…

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction: “Unifying Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence” http://showhow.fxpal.com/hcij/publicInfo/cfp_hciai.pdf Special Issue Editors: Munmun De Choudhury, Min Kyung Lee, David A. Shamma, and Haiyi Zhu Timeline: March 20, 2019: Proposals Due (1,000 words) June 15, 2019: Full Papers Due MOTIVATION Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly been deployed across many domains such as transportation, retail, criminal justice, finance and health. But these very domains that AI is aiming to revolutionize may also be where human implications are the most momentous. The potential negative effects of AI on society, whether amplifying human…

First IEEE International conference on Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC 2019) September 25-27, 2019 Laguna Hills, California https://www.humanizedcomputing.org/ Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with computing technologies that allow machines to move, see, hear, talk, think, learn, behave, and connect like humans. Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC) address the ability of a computer to mimic a human in perception, conversation, behavior, and networking. The huge potential of HCC represents an exciting future for individuals and businesses. In addition, business-business, business-human, and human-human may be interconnected in a revolutionary way to stimulate tremendous amount of interesting activities.…

CALL FOR PAPERS ACM UMAP Workshop – Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2019) The 1st International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security in conjunction with the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Larnaca, Cyprus June 09-12, 2019 Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2019 IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission deadline: March 13, 2019 (23:59 AoE time) Notification: March 26, 2019 Camera-ready papers: April 03, 2019 MOTIVATION & GOALS Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in modern information systems and…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2019 6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Barcelona, Spain October 22-25, 2019 https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/ | @acmchiplay | #chiplay19 Submission deadlines: April 9, 2019:  Full papers (4-10 pages) May 2, 2019:  Workshop and Course Proposals July 5, 2019:  Rapid Communications Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, Interactivity, Works-in-Progress, and Workshop Position Papers CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to…

Call for Participation “Designing Interactive Olfactory Experience in Real Context and Applications” TEI 2019 Studio Arizona State University, USA Sunday March 17th, 2019 https://www.interactive-olfaction.com/ Deadline for one page abstracts: March 5th 2019 Dear all, Are you interested in smell interactions? Would you like to explore how olfactory experience could be integrated in real context and applications? Join our studio on TEI 2019 “Designing Interactive Olfactory Experience in Real Context and Applications“. We are calling up researchers/interaction designers who are interested in smell interactions, whose research/professional background is related but not limited to interaction design, service design, game design, interactive technology…

Call for Papers 4th Games and Natural Language Processing Workshop (GAMNLP-19) To be held at the 14th Foundations of Digital Games Conference (FDG-19) August 26 or 27, 2019 San Luis Obispo, California, USA Submission deadline: April 5, 2019 The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) ranges from theoretical studies (e.g., parsing algorithms, computational models of dialogue) to practical applications (e.g., information retrieval, conversational agents, machine translation). This workshop investigates computational and theoretical aspects of natural language research that would be beneficial for designing and building novel game experiences, or for processing texts to conduct formal game studies. NLP would benefit…

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on “Culture Games” ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage https://jocch.acm.org/culturegame.cfm Deadline: 15th December 2019 Industries, stakeholders, and the general public approach culture (both tangible and intangible) for a variety of purposes, and digital games can channel each of these purposes in different ways. In the context of a cultural experience, people may want to learn (with serious games) but also to have fun (with simple entertainment games), spend some spare time (with casual games), socialize (with social or multiplayer games), or create (with collaborative creation games). Similarly, cultural institutions wish not only to teach,…

Call for Papers 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2019) Pisa, Italy 26-29 November, 2019 http://www.mum-conf.org/2019/ Organized by the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) laboratory of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. Submission deadline: August 27, 2019 MUM 2019, the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held on 26-29 November 2019 at the CNR Area of Research in Pisa, Italy. GENERAL INFORMATION The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) is a leading annual international conference which provides a forum for presenting the…