Call for Abstracts The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) 2019 Conference June 5-7, 2019 Mexico City, Mexico http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2019 Deadline from Paper Abstracts: February 15, 2019 Deadline for Symposia Proposals: February 1, 2019 The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.iacap.org/] is delighted to announce that submissions are now being accepted for its 2019 annual meeting [http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2019] June 5-7, to be held at and sponsored by the Institutes of Mathematics and Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The meeting is being organized by, Sergio Rajsbaum: Institute of Mathematics, UNAM. (http://www.matem.unam.mx/~rajsbaum/) Luis Estrada González: Institute of Philosophy, UNAM.…

Call for Abstracts Interdisciplinary Workshop on ROBOTS & AI IN SOCIETY Socio-psychological, cultural-economic, and ethico-political aspects of living with artificial autonomous agents Western Sydney University (Parramatta 1PSQ) 8-9 November 2018 The workshop is co-located with the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents https://iva2018.westernsydney.edu.au/ EXTENDED submission deadline: 29 October 2018 HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE FUTURE-READY Autonomous agents and artificial intelligences promise to soon play a central role in our lives: not only will they assist us as social companions and co-workers, but they will also stimulate deep cultural and political transformations in our civilization. Artificial…

CALL FOR PAPERS TOWARDS CONSCIOUS AI SYSTEMS AAAI Spring Symposium Stanford, CA March 25 – 27, 2019 http://diid.unipa.it/roboticslab/consciousai/ DEADLINE: November 2, 2018 SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss19 (look for this symposium) The study of consciousness remains a challenge that spans multiple disciplines. Consciousness has a demonstrated, although poorly understood, role in shaping human behavior. The processes underpinning consciousness may be crudely replicated to build better AI systems. Such a ‘top-down’ perspective on AI readily reveals the gaps in current data-driven approaches and highlights the need for ‘better AI’. At the same time, the process of designing AI systems creates an opportunity to better explain…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications February 25 – 27, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.hucapp.visigrapp.org/ New Submission Deadline: October 22, 2018 HUCAPP is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication. In Cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction European Association for Computer Graphics French Association for Computer Graphics With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers: Daniel McDuff, Microsoft, United States Diego Gutierrez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic Dima Damen, University…

Call for Papers Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) Special issue on philosophical issues raised by the use of existing and emerging military and civilian forms of technologies in armed conflict Expressions of interest (prospective title and 100 word proposal) due: November 1, 2019 The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) welcomes contributions concerning the philosophical issues raised by the use of existing and emerging military and civilian forms of technologies in armed conflict. The special issue is guest edited by Dr. Alexander C. Leveringhaus (University of Surrey). The selected articles will be published by Trivent Publishing in…

CALL for ICIDS 2018 WORKSHOP Submissions: “Authoring for Interactive Storytelling” December 8, 2018 Dublin, Ireland http://narrativeandplay.org/ais/call.html 3-6 page papers due: October 22 This call for participation is seeking submitted papers and attendance at the Authoring for Interactive Storytelling workshop held at the International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2018 in Dublin (https://icids2018.scss.tcd.ie/). This workshop seeks to provide a venue for researchers in the area of interactive digital narrative authoring and narrative systems to share early work, new ideas, and identify challenges facing the field, with a view to fostering collaboration and the formation of a coherent research community in…

Call for Papers “Geographies of Digital Games” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting April 3-7 2019 Washington DC https://annualmeeting.aag.org/AAGAnnualMeeting Organisers: Nick Rush-Cooper (Newcastle University, UK) and Emma Fraser (Manchester University, UK) Abstracts due by Thursday October 18th, 2018 Computer, video, mobile and digital games are fundamentally geographical: They are sites of social relation, spaces of exploration and agency, cultural and political representations of places, affective experiences and are developed through globalised and globalising technologies and networks. This session welcomes geographers, digital scholars, creative practitioners, and others who are approaching games as spatial phenomena. Though games have been used as geographical…

Call for Papers 12th ACM conference on Creativity & Cognition June 23-26, 2019 San Diego, CA http://cc.acm.org/2019 Paper Abstract & Title Submissions Due: February 5th, 2019 The 12th ACM conference on Creativity & Cognition will be held in San Diego, CA at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay on June 23-26, 2019, and will be co-located with the conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2019). Conference website: http://cc.acm.org/2019 C&C 2019 invites papers, pictorials, posters, demonstrations, workshops, artworks, and graduate student symposium submissions investigating how interactive computing systems and socio-technical processes affect creativity. Of particular interest are contributions that relate to this…

Call for Papers 3rd Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2019 April 8-10, 2019 Levi, Lapland, Finland Conference website: http://gamifinconference.com/ Full CFP: http://gamifinconference.com/cfp2019/ IMPORTANT DATES December 10, 2018: Submissions deadline January 21, 2019: Notifications of acceptance sent to authors January 31, 2019: Registration deadline for paper authors March 29, 2019: Deadline for camera-ready April 8-10, 2019: Conference THEMES Gamification is a multi-faceted phenomenon that affects multiple domains of human life. Therefore, we welcome submissions related to this ludic transformation of our reality under several domains and related (but not limited) to e.g. the following keywords: Users: e.g. Engagement, experience, user types Education:…

Call for Papers Focus section on Beyond Computers: Wearables, Humans, And Things – WHAT! to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) Since 2012 also in Scopus Since 2015 also in Emerging Sources Citation Index and Web of Science IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7CQ3GKSSG CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call39fs Guest Editors: Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Achim Ebert, University…

[There is also a Call for Project Demos to be presented as part of a VR/AR for Learning Showcase that will take place at IEEE TALE 2018 in Wollongong, Australia on 4–7 December 2018, in conjunction with the Special Track on XR and Immersive Learning Environments (https://tale2018.org/xr). The submission deadline is October 22 and more information and the submission form are at https://goo.gl/forms/z6zqJcKhnJ1gOSLX2 –Matthew] Call for Papers Special Issue of Virtual Reality on XR (VR, AR, MR) and Immersive Learning Environments https://bit.ly/2vdyKEL Guest Editors: Dennis Beck, Minjuan Wang, Mark J. W. Lee Submission deadline: 14 December 2018 Manuscript submissions are…

Call for Papers: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Workshop 2019 10-12 April 2019, University of Amsterdam http://realitiesfantasies.wordpress.com Keynotes: Jonathan Culler (Cornell University), Annabelle Dufourcq (RU Nijmegen), Nkiru Nzegwu (SUNY Binghamton), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku). Extended Deadline: 15 November The world of fantasy often serves as an escape from reality, its limitations, and its many social, economic, and corporeal restrictions. Reality, in turn, is often desired amidst the delusions of the fantastic. In this workshop, we take on the continuous and renewed interest in the real in its relation to fantasy, illusion, and…