Call for Papers Workshop on Envisioning Next Generation Personalized Game Experiences Co-located with the 2019 Foundations of Digital Games Conference August 26-30, San Luis Obispo, California, USA August 26, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/nextpersonalizedgames/home Important Dates: Deadline for Papers and Demos/Prototypes: March 21, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2019 Camera Ready Papers: June 1, 2019 Our expectations of user experience with digital applications is shifting. The ‘one-size-fits-all’ model is gradually giving way to personalized experiences that can better accommodate users’ individual differences. Personalized search, recommendations systems, and social media feeds, for instance, are becoming the norm of our digital life. In computer…

Call for Papers Workshop on Speech Interface Interactions At CHI 2019, May 4-9, Glagow, UK http://speech-interaction.org/chi2019 2 page position papers due February 12, 2019 Speech as an interaction modality has grown through the integration of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) like Google Assistant and Siri into mobile and home-based devices. This collaborative workshop focuses on theories and methods we can use to understand user behaviours with speech interfaces. Through the workshop we will establish what theories, concepts, and paradigms are important in understanding our interaction choices with speech interfaces, and potential new theoretical frame- works required to explore them. We will…

Design Culture and Somaesthetics Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields Conference Date: 06-08. 05. 2019 Conference Venue: Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest Conference Hosted by: Design Culture Studies Doctoral Program at the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest & Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics Website: https://doktori.mome.hu/conference-2019/?lang=en Submission deadline: February 15, 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Richard Shusterman, Professor of Philosophy and English, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Director for Body, Mind and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. Initiatior of somaesthetic research. Guy Julier, Professor of Design Leadership at Aalto University, Helsinki. Former Principal Research Fellow in…

Call for Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters, and Demos 5th Immersive Learning Research Network Conference iLRN 2019 June 23th – June 27th, 2019 London, UK https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2019/ Full papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Short papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Posters and Demos submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Join the growing network of immersive learning experts and practitioners from across the disciplines in exciting London for iLRN 2019! The 5th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network will be an innovative hands-on and scholarly meeting for an emerging global network of developers, educators, and research…

Call for Submission of Papers, Extended Abstracts, Workshops, and Tutorials ICAD 2019 – 25th International Conference on Auditory Display Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 23-27 June, 2019 https://icad2019.icad.org https://twitter.com/ICAD2019 Theme/Special Focus of ICAD 2019 is “Digital Living: Sonification for Everyday Life”. First submission deadline: 15th March 2019 Digital technology and artificial intelligence are becoming embedded in the objects all around us, from consumer products to the built environment. Everyday life happens where People, Technology, and Place intersect. Our activities and movements are increasingly sensed, digitized and tracked. Of course, the data generated by modern life is a hugely important resource not…

Call for Papers Simulations Special Issue THE SOCIETAL AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF COMPUTER SIMULATIONS (S18-2) Guest Editors: Juan M. Durán (TU Delft) Jeroen van den Hoven (TU Delft) Submission deadline: June 30, 2019 Computer simulations are a fundamental method for the progress of scientific and engineering research. Jim Gray (2007) called them the third paradigm of research, along with theory, experiment and Big Data (the first, second and fourth paradigm respectively). While the specialised literature has extensively focused on epistemological, ontological and methodological issues of computer simulations (Humphreys, 2004, Winsberg, 2010, Morrison, 2015, Durán, 2018), less has been said on…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2019) Kyoto, Japan — 6-10, October 2019 http://hai-conference.net/hai2019 Full paper submissions due: 14 May 2019 HAI 2019 is the 7th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. It is a venue with an interdisciplinary nature to discuss and disseminate state-of-the-art research on topics that relate to human interactions with a range of agent systems, including physical robots, virtual agents, socially interactive agents, and artificially intelligent agents. The theme for HAI 2019 is “Human-Agent Interaction, the Heart of Artificial Intelligence.” Due to the rapid progress of deep learning, AI has reached…

Call for Papers “Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI” A half-day, hands-on Workshop at HRI 2019, the 14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Daegu, Korea 11 March 2019 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Date: 25 February 2019 Notification Date: 28 February 2019 Workshop Date: 11 March 2019 More information: https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-social-good-hri19 Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsg2019 INVITED SPEAKERS Selma Sabanovic, Associate Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) Chi Hyung Jeon, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, KAIST (Korea) Ana Paiva, Full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and coordinator of the Intelligent and Social…

Call for Papers CHI 2019 Workshop: The Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People Workshop at CHI 2019 in Glasgow Saturday 4th May 2019 Workshop website: http://www.ittgroup.org/about-workshop IMPORTANT INFORMATION Submission Deadline: (on or before) 12 February 2019 Notification of acceptance: (on or before) 1 March 2019 Workshop day: Saturday, 4th May, 2019, Glasgow UK Submission template: CHI Extended Abstracts. Please use the appropriate template, available for both LaTeX and Word (Windows and Mac). Submission format: All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirchi2019 Review process: Submissions will be peer reviewed based on their quality, relevance,…

Call for Papers 2nd Body as Starting Point (BAaST) Workshop on Inbodied Interaction: Applying Inside Body Knowledge for Inbodied Design Sunday May 5 At CHI2019, Glasgow https://bodyasstartingpoint.tumblr.com/ Submission deadline: February 21; you’ll hear back from us by February 28 BAaST – that’s Body As a Starting Point. That starting point is for interactive technology design, and our question is: if we start designs that will touch bodies from an understanding of how those bodies operate (from macro processes like sleep to micro processes like hormonal signalling of metatonin) how might this knowledge inform/change our designs for health and wellbeing, for…

Call for Papers CHIRA 2019 – 3rd International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications September 20 – 21, 2019 Vienna, Austria http://www.chira.scitevents.org/ Submission Deadline: April 29, 2019 CHIRA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication CHIRA 2019 will be held in conjunction with icSPORTS 2019 and NEUROPhyCS 2019. Registration to CHIRA allows free access to the icSPORTS and NEUROPhyCS conferences (as a non-speaker). SCOPE The purpose of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA) is to bring together professionals, academics and students who are interested in the advancement…

Call for Abstracts PLAY/PAUSE Symposium Theme: Immersion | Dissonance 22 May 2019 University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK http://playpauseuob.wordpress.com Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2019 For our second annual symposium, PLAY/PAUSE is looking for 20-minute papers that interrogate the continuum between immersion and dissonance within videogames and virtual reality. We therefore welcome papers from any disciplinary background that relate to (but are not limited to) the following topics: New immersive media (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality) Embodiment and virtual environments Glitches and breaking immersion Flow and gaming expertise Identification and social gaming Constructed authenticity Queerness and the player body Detail,…