Call for abstracts 2nd Digital Health & Wellbeing Conference 1-3 May 2018 The Open University campus, Milton Keynes, UK www.open.ac.uk/digital-health-wellbeing-conference Abstract submission deadline: 30 November, 2017 The 2nd Digital Health & Wellbeing Conference will be held between Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3rd May 2018 at The Open University Campus, Milton Keynes. The conference is organised by the Health & Wellbeing Priority Research Area. THEME This year’s theme is “Fusion – All things Digital Health & Wellbeing”. Due to the nature of the conference, we aim to challenge research and practitioners to explore, uncover and inspire the ethos of Digital Health &…

Call for Participation After VR: The Archaeology and Potential of Immersive Media Wednesday 1 November 2017, 13:00 – 18:00 Harvard Lecture Theatre, Winchester School of Art (WSA), University of Southampton, UK https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/news/events/2017/11/after-vr-the-archaeology-and-potential-of-immersive-media.page Taking the recent revival in commercial, popular, and academic interest in virtual reality and augmented reality technologies and applications as a prompt and a provocation, this event will present current research on the genealogies, realities, and imaginaries of immersive media in art, industry and popular culture before and after the screen. A symposium at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton on Wednesday 1st November, hosted by the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Performance Matters Special Issue on 21st-century shifts in Spectatorship and Audience Research http://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/announcement/view/6 Submission deadline: January 31, 2018 We are inviting contributions for an upcoming special issue of Performance Matters that will explore whether and how the rapid emergence and persistence of new media and technologies shifts how we conceive of and learn about spectatorship. We are interested in how the context of being a spectator may have changed spectatorship itself in the 21st century.…

Eighth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC’18 or DCC18) Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories to design research 2–4 July 2018 Politecnico di Milano, Lecco Campus (near Milan), Italy preceded by Workshops 30 June – 1 July 2018 http://dccconferences.org/dcc18/ Download Call for Papers Poster Paper abstracts due: 1 December 2017 Papers for review due: 15 December 2017 This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in design. The conference proceedings will form a continuing…

Invitation: Movement: Brain, Body, Cognition INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HARVARD UNIVERSITY 27 – 29 July 2018 http://movementis.com/invitation/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2017 Dear colleagues, We have the distinct pleasure to invite you to the 2018 world conference on Movement and Cognition to be held at Harvard University’s School of Medicine 27-29 July 2018 in Boston. Among the other institutions involved in this event include the Harvard University School of Medicine’s affiliated hospitals Spaulding Rehabilitation, McLean, and Beth Israel-Deaconess, as well as the Computational Neurosciences Laboratory at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford and the Synthetic Intelligence…

Call for Papers 4th International Congress on Visual Culture May 28-29, 2018 Rome, Italy http://onvisualculture.com/congress/call-for-papers/ Submit a proposal (a title and an abstract) by December 11, 2017 Dear colleague, We would like to inform you about the 4th International Congress on Visual Culture that will be held at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome, Italy, on May 28-29, 2018. The Congress is a forum for academics focused on the crucial challenges faced by visual culture in today’s world, bringing together local and global perspectives. It is an event that contributes to the exchange of ideas and good practices…

Call for Submissions to HRI Pioneers 2018 Workshop 05 March 2018, Chicago, Illinois (USA) Website: http://www.hripioneers.info Twitter: @HRIPioneers A submission link is live now! https://new. precisionconference.com IMPORTANT DATES Nov 3 2017 (11:59 PM PT): Submission Deadline Dec 22 2017: Notification of acceptance Jan 12 2018: Final version due ABSTRACT The 13th annual Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop will be held in Chicago, USA on Monday, March 5, 2018 in conjunction with the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Pioneers seeks to foster creativity and collaboration surrounding key challenges in human-robot interaction and empower students early in their academic careers. Each…

Call For Papers: 2nd Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring And Personalizing Interfaces (HUMANIZE) March 11, 2018, Tokyo (Japan) https://humanize2018.wordpress.com In conjunction with IUI 2018 http://iui.acm.org/2018/ Submission Deadline: 17th December MOTIVATION AND GOALS The HUMANIZE workshop aims to explore the interface between data-driven and theory-driven approaches for constructing intelligent/personalized user interfaces. Data-driven approaches for personalized user interfaces can rely on building models from observed and measured user interaction behavior that can predict future behavior from historic behavior. Theory-driven approaches rely on understanding of how certain psychological traits (e.g. personality, cognitive styles, interests) affect the experience/needs of the intended users.…

CALL FOR PAPERS COMPSAC 2018: The 42nd IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computers, Software & Applications Tokyo, Japan July 23-27, 2018 www.compsac.org Paper due date: 15 January 2018 COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging challenges, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The theme of COMPSAC 2018 is Staying Smarter in a Smartening World. Computer technologies are producing profound changes in society. Emerging developments in areas such as Deep Learning, supported by…

AISB AI, Games & Virtual Reality 2018 4th-6th April 2018 University of Liverpool, UK https://sites.google. com/site/aisbgames/aisb-ai-games-symposium Deadline for submission: Friday 15th December 2017 The longest running convention on Artificial Intelligence, AISB 2018 will be held in 2018 at the University of Liverpool. As in the past years, AISB 2018 provides a unique forum for presenting cutting edge research and burning issues around all areas of AI. The theme for this year is “AI for the Digital Society”. The AI, Games & VR Symposium acts as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners from academia, education and industry who are involved…

Call for Papers Journal of Network and Computer Applications Special issue on Emerging Networked Computer Applications for Telemedicine https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applications/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-emerging-networked-computer-applications-fo Submission deadline: December 15th, 2017 Nowadays, all over the world, the number of ICT investments in health and well-being is rapidly increasing. In this context, there is a growing interest about telemedicine that allows the provisioning of various kinds of health-related services and applications over the Internet. The benefit of telemedicine is twofold: on one hand it pushes down clinical costs and on the other hand, it improves the quality of life of both patients and their families. Telemedicine solutions are…