Call for Papers Special issue of teorema (International Journal of Philosophy) Body, Action and First-Person Thought Deadline for submissions: October 31st, 2017 Both neuroscience-based research on body representation and philosophical research on the constitutive conditions on first-person thought (i.e. thought involving the first-person concept) seem to point in the same direction: there are crucial links to be unveiled between body, action and first-person thought. On the one hand, the substantial amount of neurophysiological data available and patient studies suggest that body representation plays a necessary role in the production of physical action. On the other hand, philosophical reflection on the…

Call for papers PACMHCI Issue on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems http://eics.acm.org/pacm/ Submissions for Q4 due October 18, 2017 OVERVIEW Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI) is a new journal published by ACM featuring content on a broad range of research in the area of human-computer interaction. PACMHCI issues on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems contain articles covering the full range of aspects that come into play when “engineering” interactive systems, such as innovations in the design, development, deployment, verification and validation of interactive systems. Topics of interest include a.o. the design and development of systems incorporating new interaction techniques…

Call for Book Chapters Springer Series in Adaptive Environments – ISSN 2522-5529 Book: People, Personal Data and the Built Environment Editors: Dr Holger Schnädelbach, University of Nottingham Prof David Kirk, Northumbria University https://dis2017peopledataandbuildings.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/call-for-book-chapter-submissions.html Deadline: 18 December 2017 Personal data is increasingly important in our lives. We use personal data to quantify our behaviour, through health apps or for ‘personal branding’ and we are also increasingly forced to part with our data to access services. With a proliferation of embedded sensors, the built environment is playing a key role in this developing use of data, even though this remains relatively hidden.…

Call for Papers The Sixth International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction Eindhoven, The Netherlands December 18-19, 2017 Website: www.symbiotic-interaction.org/symbiotic2017 Extended Submission Deadline for all papers: October 9, 2017 Submission Deadline (DC and demo proposals): October 31, 2017 The International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction collects research and discussion on the changing nature of the relationship between computer systems and humans. Traditionally there has been a clear boundary between the user and the computing system, computers served user’s goals as tools or services, and the interaction was mostly governed by explicit input from users. However, solutions are increasingly adopted to implicitly (even subliminally)…

Call for Papers Spatial Cognition 2018 Tuebingen, Germany, 5-8 September 2018 http://sites.psu.edu/sc2018/ Submission deadlines: Workshops and tutorials: November 31st, 2017 (see website for details) Full Papers: February 2nd, 2018 The Spatial Cognition Conference 2018 (SC 2018) will be held in Tuebingen, Germany, 5-8 September 2018. Spatial Cognition is a transdisciplinary conference that will bring together researchers working on a diverse set of topics using a plethora of methods addressing, for example, biologically inspired systems, spatial learning, communication, interaction, robotics, perception or place. In the finest tradition of fostering transdisciplinary exchange, the conference is organized as a single-track. The final program…

Call for Papers: Games, Values and AI December 15, 2017 Leverhulm Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom https://philevents.org/event/show/36262 Submission deadline: October 31, 2017 This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds to explore the philosophical and social issues raised by games as inspiration, model, testbed or context for Artificial Intelligence. BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence research has been linked with games at least since Claude Shannon proposed chess playing as an ideal problem for AI researchers to tackle. More recently, companies pursuing machine learning and AI today often use videogames as “model organisms” or…

Call for Participation ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems conference 2018 9-13 June, 2018 School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University http://dis2018.org First submission deadline: 8 January, 2018 DIS 2018 invites submissions that address the following questions: Are our current models of user experience adequate in addressing diversity? What kinds of methods and processes are needed for designing for diversity? How can applications and technologies be designed to address diversity and even add to it in this era of giant global corporations? What are the ethical limits designers have to face when designing for diversity? When answering these questions, DIS…

Call for Papers Augmented Human 2018 “Augmented Experience” Feb 7-9 in Seoul, Korea http://arrc.kaist.ac.kr/AH2018/ Submission Deadline: November 1st, 2017 Human-Computer Interaction Korea and Seoul National University are hosting AH 2018, the ninth Augmented Human (AH) International Conference, Feb. 7-9, 2018. AH international conferences focus on scientific endeavors towards augmenting human capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable experiences. As in previous years, the conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series. Previous AH conferences’ information and proceedings links are archived at http://www.augmented-human.com. The topics of interest include, but…

CALL FOR PAPERS: 11th Annual International Conference on Computer Games Multimedia and Allied Technologies (CGAT 2018) 11th – 12th June 2018, Singapore http://www.cgames.com.sg/index.html Full Paper Submission Deadline: 8 January 2018 CONFERENCE THEME For the past 10 years, the annual CGAT conference has served as a platform  for researchers, scientists, IT developers and consultants to  share their research, practice, and educational initiatives on Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Technologies and Internet Applications,  Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling and Games and Mobile Communications with an international audience. Visit the following link for the list of accepted papers which have been indexed by Scopus:…

Call for Participation and Call for Posters International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing Kochi University of Technology, Japan November 10th, 2017 http://forum.chec.ren/ Poster submission deadline: September 30, 2017 Early registration deadline: October 10, 2017 The Center for Human-Engaged Computing (CHEC) has organized an international workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (HEC). The worship will be held at Kochi University of Technology in Japan on November 10th, 2017. The aim of this workshop is to rethink the relationship between humans and computers with particular attention being paid to our future as human beings. Seven distinguished speakers from around the world and from several domains…

Call for Abstracts Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology 2017 Theme of the Workshop: Epistemology, Ontology and the Philosophy of Technology Dates: 1-2 December 2017 Venue: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo 18-22, Room 5002. http://budpt.eu/ Submission deadline: 2 October 2017 The first Budapest Workshop on the Philosophy of Technology will seek to explore epistemology and ontology in the Philosophy of Technology. Abstracts are welcome in the following areas: Tacit knowledge and engineering Ontology of technological artefacts Ontological status of artificial agents Knowing artefacts Virtuality – new realities created by technology Engineering epistemology … and in any other related topics. The expected…

Call for Papers, Symposia and Posters Technology, Mind & Society April 5-7, 2018 Washington, DC http://pages.apa.org/tms/ Sponsored by The American Psychological Association In Cooperation with The Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction, and The Association For The Advancement Of Artificial Intelligence Submission deadline: October 20, 2017 The American Psychological Association will hold an interdisciplinary conference on Technology, Mind, and Society in Washington, D.C., on April 5-7, 2018. Scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and students from around the world are invited to participate in the event. The conference will provide a venue for reporting and assessing current efforts to…