Call for Papers 17th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING (ICEC’18) co-located with IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC’18) ” explore . create . reflect . develop ” Bridging the gap between technology, HCI, business, design, and art in entertainment Date: 18-20 September, 2018 Venue: Poznan, Poland http://www.ifip-icec.org HIGHLIGHTS: breaking NEW ACTIVITIES@ICEC: art exhibition, ICEC award, new conference areas NEW AREAS@ICEC media studies, human-computer-interaction, business & information systems first DEADLINES approaching: 14th March 2018 – Workshops, 7th May 2018 – Papers IFIP ICEC Entertainment Award STAY IN TOUCH Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EntertainmentComputing/ Subscribe to our Mailinglist on ifip-icec.org Twitter: @IFIP_ICEC The IFIP…

Call for participation (tele)consequences, a networked collaborative drawing performance installation for the multidisciplinary drawing exhibition Marks Make Meaning at the University of Brighton, School of Art Grand Parade Gallery 9th to 29th March 2018. (tele)consequences is a collaborative global drawing performance that can be joined from any location in the world by simply using a networked computer or smartphone and Skype app. The drawing performance for the Marks Make Meaning exhibition will involve a large wall mounted scroll of paper, two metres wide by one and a half metres high, upon which we will project the live incoming Skype video…

Call for Papers Student Interaction Design Research (SIDeR) conference 18-19 May 2018 Helsinki, Finland http://sider18.aalto.fi Submission of papers, poster and demos: March 21, 2018 SIDeR is an international forum for showcasing papers, demos and posters from different disciplines related to interaction design. The conference will be held May 18-19, 2018 at Aalto University in Helsinki. The theme of this year’s SIDeR conference is Flux. Flux describes a state of constant movement, transformation, and change. The boundaries between disciplines such as technology, engineering, biology, arts, and design are shifting and dissolving. As practitioners and researchers, we have to embrace this uncertainty…

Call for Papers “Video Games and Museums: Educational Digital Tools for the Participatory GLAM Space” 6-7 May 2018, University of Helsinki Abstract submission deadline: 5 April 2018 Digital tools with educational content – be they video games, apps, interactive websites or others – may intensively contribute to enhance participatory and educational experiences for visitors in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) spaces. New technology such as virtual reality and augmented reality additionally extend the limits of what can be represented, played, and experienced on multiple levels. This conference’s primary aim is to provide a platform for presenting and discussing themes…

Masterclass: Designing and developing a conversational chatbot 2nd July 2018, Church House, Belfast, Cost: £150 – In conjunction with the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction conference http://hci2018.bcs.org Instructor: Professor Michael McTear (mf.mctear@ulster.ac.uk) This practical hands-on course will introduce attendees to the concepts, methods, and issues involved in the design and development of conversational chatbots. Following a brief introduction to chatbots and conversational interfaces, the course will explore relevant technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Natural Language Processing. Existing tools and developer platforms will be introduced and compared. The main part of the course will be devoted to hands-on…

Friday February 9, 2018 Greetings, For a future online event, the ELI [EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative] is very interested in exploring the teaching and learning community’s work with what one might call “3D technologies,” that is virtual, augmented, immersive, and mixed reality technologies (aka the “Rs”).  We could also toss in voice-activated technology, such as Alexa, multidimensional printing, and advanced visualization environments. For this exploration, our main interest is along these lines: how they are being actively used in the curriculum at your institution; how they are being integrated into your learning space designs and projects; how you are evaluating their…

Call for Papers PAD 2018 ‘Personification Across Disciplines’ An interdisciplinary conference at Durham University, September 17 – 19, 2018 https://padonline.org/ Confirmed Keynotes: H. PORTER ABBOTT (Narratology, University of California Santa Barbara) GUILLAUME DUMAS (Cognitive Neuroscience, Institut Pasteur) NEV JONES (Psychology and Mental Health, University of South Florida) TANYA LUHRMANN (Anthropology, Stanford University) MARJORIE TAYLOR (Developmental Psychology, University of Oregon) Extended deadline for abstracts: February 23, 2018 Humans have a flair for attributing intentions, traits, agency, emotions and mental states to beings or things – either real or imagined. Whether anthropomorphising natural or abstract shapes, playing with imaginary companions, (re) constructing…

Call for Papers Games and Learning Alliance conference (GALA 2018) 5-7 December 2018 Palermo, Italy https://conf.seriousgamessociety.org/ Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2018 The Games and Learning Alliance conference (GALA 2018) is an international conference dedicated to the science and application of serious games. The conference aims at bringing together researchers, developers, practitioners and stakeholders. The goal is to share the state of the art of research and market, analysing the most significant trends and discussing visions on the future of serious games. The conference also includes an exhibition, where developers can showcase their latest products. The conference is organized by…

Call for Papers: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2018) Berlin, 13-14 October 2018 https://sui.acm.org Paper deadline: 30 June 2018 We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction 2018 (SUI). SUI will be held on 13-14 October 2018, co-located with the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST) in Berlin, Germany. We seek original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of spatial user interaction. User interface evaluations are strongly encouraged for every publication in this venue. Specific topics of interest include: Spatial interaction techniques…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AI-2018: 38th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence Cambridge, UK, December 11th-13th 2018 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2018/ Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society). The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe. Deadline for Paper/Poster Submission: Friday 6th July 2018 AI-2018 is the thirty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2018 reviews…