Call for Papers Human-Work Interaction Design 2018 (HWID’18) – Designing Engaging Automation 5th IFIP WG 13.6 Working Conference August 20-21, 2018 Aalto University, Espoo, Finland https://blogs.aalto.fi/hwid2018 In continuation with the series of the Human Work Interaction Design working conferences, the fifth edition will take place in Espoo, Finland, on the 20th and 21st of August, 2018. The venue is the brand new School of Arts, Design and Architecture building in Aalto University, Otaniemi campus. IMPORTANT DATES: Full paper submission deadline: April 15th (extended) Poster submission deadline: April 30th Acceptance notifications: May 11th Early bird registration deadline: May 31st Conference: August…

Call for Papers Haptic Technologies for Healthcare is a one-day workshop to be held as part of the Eurohaptics 2018 conference. It will be held on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 in Pisa, Italy. Website: https://hapticsforhealthcare.wordpress.com Deadline for extended abstracts: April 30th, 2018 About the workshop: Recent technologies allow for novel classes of wearable and holdable devices that make use of forms of haptic communication and interaction that go beyond elementary uses such as simply attracting attention. This can give rise to an expanded design space that raises many research issues, as this workshop will explore. The goal of this workshop…

Call for Workshop Papers 3rd International Workshop PLAYABLE CITIES: THE CITY AS A DIGITAL PLAYGROUND This workshop will be held as part of the 7th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT 2018, Interactivity & Game Creation, October 24-26, 2018, Braga, Portugal (http://artsit.org/) Workshop Date: 24 October 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: 1 July 2018 BACKGROUND After the success of the first (Utrecht, 2016), the second (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal) we now organize the third one-day workshop on Playable Cities in the beautiful town of Braga. PLAYFULNESS AND THE (PLAYABLE) CITY The Playable City is a term, introduced a number of years ago in Bristol,…

Call for Chapters: Speculative Futures for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Inclusion Springer Nature – AICFE Future Schools 2030 book series https://jeremyknox.net/call-for-chapters-speculative-futures-for-artificial-intelligence-and-educational-inclusion/ Abstract submissions due: March 30, 2018 We are inviting experts and practitioners from around the world to write chapters for a book that will help to advance our understanding of education. The book is an outcome of the Future School 2030 research project supported by the Advanced Innovation Centre for Future Education, Beijing Normal University. The publisher for the book will be Springer Nature, an international publisher. This book seeks to bring together the fields of ‘artificial intelligence’ (often…

[Presence isn’t mentioned here but could be usefully applied in this topic area.  –Matthew] Call for Papers User Modeling for Personalized Interaction with Music Special Issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) http://www.cp.jku.at/journals/umuai_si_music.html Flyer (PDF) Submission deadline for extended abstracts: June 1, 2018 Submission deadline for full papers (for accepted abstracts): July 31, 2018 SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Music search, retrieval, and recommendation systems have experienced a boom during the past few years due to streaming services providing access to huge catalogs anywhere and anytime. These streaming services collect the user behavior in…

Call for Papers ACM UMAP Workshop on Intelligent User-adapted and Context-aware Applications and User Interfaces (IUadapt 2018) in conjunction with the 26th ACM Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization – UMAP 2018 (http://www.um.org/umap2018/) July 8-11, 2018, Singapore Workshop website: http://teldh.dibris.unige.it/iuadapt/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 20 April 2018 (23:59 AoE – Anywhere on Earth) Notification to authors: 15 May 2018 Camera-ready version due: 27 May 2018 DESCRIPTION The evolution of social semantic environments and content personalization, along with the adoption of context-aware techniques, the spread of handheld devices together with always connected IoTs, and of cloud computing are deeply changing the…

Call for Registration: thinkBIG Workshop on the Ethical and Social Challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence Location: Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, SL4 2HP, UK Date & Time: 25th June 2018, 09:30–18:00 The thinkBIG project (Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol) invites registrations for a one-day workshop on ‘The Ethical and Social Challenges Posed by Artificial Intelligence’, to be held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor. The rapid adoption of AI and data technologies in everyday life has created new opportunities but also risks that were not considered before. Among them are concerns about privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability, which arise from devolving…

[See also August 2017 call for conference submissions in ISPR Presence News. –Matthew] Call for contributions to the anthology “Emotional Machines. Perspectives from Affective Computing and Emotional Human-Machine Interaction” Accepted by Springer, Series Futures of Technology, Science and Society Editors: Catrin Misselhorn and Maike Klein Submission deadline of extended abstracts: 30 April 2018 Humans have emotions, machines do not. This seems to be a truism: Human beings are made of flesh and blood; they do not just act rationally but impulsively and emotionally. They make decisions, feel attracted to objects or subjects or repelled by them. They mourn others, are…

Call for Papers FTC 2018 – Future Technologies Conference 2018 15-16 November 2018 Vancouver, BC, Canada https://saiconference.com/FTC2018 Paper Submissions Due: 01 April 2018 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers. Join us for FTC 2018, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security and Communications. The 2017 and 2016 conferences successfully brought together technology…

Call for Papers: “Collaboration in Mixed-Reality” for Frontiers in Robotics and AI In collaboration with the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI, section Virtual Environments we are organizing an article collection on “Collaboration in Mixed-Reality” (Guest Editors: Anthony Steed, Gregory Francis Welch, Thierry Duval). The aim of this project is to bring together international experts to provide a comprehensive view of this topic. Would you like to participate as a contributing author? The full description of this project can be found here: http://www.frontiersin.org/Virtual_Environments/researchtopics/Collaboration_in_Mixed_Reality/7506. The submission deadline is Sep 30, 2018. Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and, if accepted for publication, will be…

Call for conference papers Social Experiences of Film | Film Experiences of Sociality New Approaches in Film-Philosophy 14-15 June 2018, New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study (Bucharest) Keynote speakers: Julian Hanich (Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands) Author of The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh UP, 2017) Rupert Read (Univ. of East Anglia, United Kingdom) Author of Film as Freedom: Ecology and Enlightenment in Cinema (Routledge, forthcoming) Extended deadline for abstract submission: 1 April 2018 Attempts at theorizing film have long stressed the potential of this medium to generate new forms of intersubjectivity and of sociality. In…

Call for Papers: Philosophy of Photography Panorama section of Laocoonte Laocoonte invites paper submissions on the philosophy of photography for its monographic Panorama section of volume 5, 2018. Papers may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2018. Laocoonte is the journal of the Spanish Society for Aesthetics and Art Theory (Sociedad Española de Estética y Teoría de las Artes, SEyTA): Laocoonte: https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/LAOCOONTE SEyTA: http://www.seyta.org Since its inception photography has motivated numerous reflexions about the nature of images and about their artistic modes of production. Photography has engaged thinkers both as a medium…