Call for Papers Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 2018 Nov 25 – Nov 28, 2018 Cairo, Egypt http://www.mum-conf.org Submission deadline: August 17, 2018 MUM 2018, the 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia will be held in Cairo, Egypt, November 25th – 28th. MUM is a distinguished and inter-disciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements in this broad field from diverse perspectives: interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, devices and hardware, etc. This year’s conference continues the tradition of…

Call for Papers PhyCS 2018: 5th International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems Seville, Spain 19-21 September, 2018 http://www.phycs.org/CallForPapers.aspx PhyCS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication PhyCS 2018 will be held in conjunction with WEBIST 2018, icSPORTS 2018, NEUROTECHNIX 2018, IJCCI 2018, CHIRA 2018 and IC3K 2018. Regular Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2018 SCOPE Physiological data in its different dimensions, either bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical, and collected through specialized biomedical devices, video and image capture or other sources, is opening new boundaries in the field of human-computer interaction into what can…

Call for Submissions MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Designing Speech and Language Interactions for Mobiles and Wearables September 3rd, 2018 MobileHCI 2018, Barcelona, Spain Workshop URL: http://speech-interaction.org/dsli2018/ Submission of position papers: May 17th, 2018 Traditional interfaces are continuously being replaced by mobiles and wearables. Yet when it comes to the modalities enabling our interactions, we have yet to fully embrace the most natural one: speech. Very little HCI attention has been dedicated to designing and developing spoken language or multimodal interaction techniques, especially for mobiles and wearables. In addition to the enormous, recent engineering progress in processing such modalities, there is…

Call for chapter proposals for the edited book: “New Technology for Health-Related Cognitive and Behavioral Change” Editors: Jihyun Kim, Ph.D., University of Central Florida, U.S.A. Hayeon Song, Ph.D., Gachon University, South Korea Chapter proposal deadline: May 15, 2018 DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK We are currently seeking contributions to an edited book under contract with Elsevier titled “New Technology for Health-Related Cognitive and Behavioral Change.” New technologies are shaping our lives from how we communicate to how we obtain and process information. In particular, scholars and health practitioners have attempted to use new technologies for various health inventions. This book is…

Call for Book Chapters Proposals THE SERIOUS STORYTELLING HANDBOOK Storytelling outside the Entertainment Context to Engage, Enlighten, and Explain in Serious Games, Data Storytelling, User-Experience, AI, Health, eLearning, Science, Digital Media, and Business/Management. The handbook is transdisciplinary and should address technology, human, storytelling, and business issues in the fields of entertainment computation, human-computer-interaction, media technology and design, information systems research, multimedia, data science, digital games, eLearning, eHealth, and digital media scholars. Editors: Artur Lugmayr, Helmut Hlavacs, and Calkin Suero Montero The book will be the pilot book for the new Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation, published by Chapman&Hall/CRC…

Call for Papers Journal of Somaesthetics: Somaesthetics and Technology https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/JOS/announcement Submission deadline: June 30, 2018 While the digital technology spreads to almost all societal and private domains and arenas, the value of the living, sensing, feeling, acting, vibrant and intelligent body, that is, the soma itself becomes increasingly the subject of the human-computer interaction (HCI) studies.  Somaesthetics — an interdisciplinary project that works directly with soma has been informing HCI in the last decade, with its theoretical and epistemological values, and from analytical, practical, and pragmatic points of view. The Journal of Somaesthetics now invites articles that deal with the…

AN EVENING AT THE TECHNICOLOR EXPERIENCE CENTER Tuesday May 08, 2018 Los Angeles, CA http://la.siggraph.org/events/title/evening-technicolor-experience-center Tour the new Technicolor Experience Center, where artists and scientists collaborate to realize the full potential of immersive media. The TEC enables partnerships that discover how stories can be told and delivered in new and more immersive ways. 3237 South La Cienega Blvd. DESCRIPTION: Come explore the world of immersive experiences curated and collaborated within the Technicolor Experience Center. The TEC is where artists and scientists from across the industry come together to realize the full potential of immersive media. By uniting talent from Technicolor…

Call for Papers AutomotiveUI’18: The 10th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Toronto, Canada, September 23-25, 2018 http://www.auto-ui.org/18 Author information: http://www.auto-ui.org/18/authors/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.auto-ui.org/18/newsletter-signup The conference will be preceded by the doctoral colloquium on September 22nd. IMPORTANT DATES: Papers: Submission deadline (EXTENDED): May 07, 2018 (Submissions are accepted until 11:59 p.m AoE (Anywhere on Earth)) Decision notification: June 29, 2018 Workshop proposals: Submission deadline: June 4, 2018 Decision notification: June 22, 2018 Works in Progress, Interactive Demos, Videos and Doctoral Colloquium: Submission deadline: July 11, 2018 Decision notification: August 3, 2018 AutomotiveUI,…

VR/AR Conference 2018: Virtual & Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Higher Education September 12th, 2018 Swansea University Swansea, UK http://www.swansea.ac.uk/vr-in-teaching/ http://www.swansea.ac.uk/vr-in-teaching/vr-conference/ Submission deadline: June 8, 2018 Swansea will be hosting our first VR/AR conference on September 12th 2018. The theme will be Virtual and Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. We hope to bring together the many HE professionals who are using VR/AR in their teaching, learning and research, alongside those with an interest who have not yet started to do so. More details of keynote speakers, planned itineraries and partners will be…

Call for Papers When Robots Think. Interdisciplinary Views on Intelligent Automation November 14–16, 2018 Münster, Germany http://iasymposium.rwth-aachen.de/ Submission deadline for talk abstracts: July 31st Submission deadline for poster abstracts: August 15th In Western societies, we are surrounded by artificially intelligent systems. Most of these systems are embedded in online platforms like Facebook. But embodiment of AI, be it by voice (Siri, Alexa, Cortana) or by actual physical embodiment (as in the case of robots) give artificially intelligent systems another dimension in terms of their impact on how we perceive these systems, how they shape our communication with them and with…

Call for Papers “Human Computer Interaction in Education” a special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (ISSN 2414-4088) Guest Editors: Dr. Omar Mubin, Western Sydney University, Australia Dr. Mohammad Obaid, Uppsala University, Sweden Submission Deadline: 28th June, 2018 OVERVIEW: Technology-enabled education and pedagogy has, in recent times, gained ascendancy due to the advancements in digitisation and the overall acceptance of blended forms of learning. Learning mechanisms driven by technology (MOOCs, tablets, smart devices, social media, intelligent artefacts) provide a number of overarching benefits to the learner’s experience (such as engagement, proficiency, ease of use, profiling and customisation). Gradually, the mediation…