Live Stream: HOW CAN VR TRANSFORM THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE? Thursday 8th Feb 10:30-11:30 CT / 16:30-17:30 GMT https://preloaded.com/can-vr-transform-visitor-experience/ Join Tate’s Hilary Knight (Head of Digital Content) and Preloaded’s Phil Stuart (Creative Director) and Hattie Foster (Head of Strategy) to discuss the potential for VR in museums, and how it can be used to enhance a visit and transform museum engagement. There is no doubt that the thoughtful and appropriate use of VR has the potential to revolutionise the museum experience. But in such an innovative and fast-changing space, there can also be plenty of obstacles. In this Livestream, we’ll take…

Call for Papers Gaming and the Arts of Storytelling Symposium and Special Issue Symposium (Abertay University – 9th May 2018). Keynote: Professor Espen Aarseth, Centre for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen. Symposium deadline (500 word abstract): 5th March 2018. Special Issue of the journal Arts deadline (5000-8000 word article): 31st May 2018.…

Call for Papers for MobileHCI 2018 – “The next 20 years: beyond mobile” The 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 3th – 6th September, Barcelona, Spain http://mobilehci.acm.org/2018/ Important deadlines for the main paper track (due not later than 17:00 hrs PST on the dates indicated.): Submissions: February 9th, 2018 Notification: April 25th, 2018 Camera-ready: May 29th, 2018 Early July 2018: Early registration ends In 2018 we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the conference. Mobile HCI seeks contributions in the form of innovations, insights, or analyses related to human computer interaction and experiences with mobility.…

CALL FOR PAPERS RECONCEIVING COGNITION Antwerp, June 27-29 https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/rg/filop/reconceiving/ Deadline for abstracts: February 13, 2018 The cognitive sciences, including its neural branches, continue to flourish. But what exactly is cognition? Recent developments in Embodied, Embedded and Enactive approaches to cognition, or E-cognition, have drawn attention to the numerous ways in which embodied situated interaction might be more intimately related to cognition than previously acknowledged. E-cognition is often taken to raise concerns about the tenability of a conception of cognition according to which in-the-head representational and/or computational mechanisms breathe cognitive life into organismic activities that would otherwise be mere bodily motion.…

CALL FOR PAPERS ISMAR 2018 17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) in Munich (Germany) October 16-20, 2018 http://ismar2018.org/ ISMAR 2018, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), will be held in Munich, Germany. ISMAR is responding to the recent explosion of commercial and research activities related to AR and MR and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope over the past several years. ISMAR 2018 will cover the full range of technologies encompassed by the MR continuum, from interfaces in the real world to fully immersive experiences. This range…

Call for papers ECCE 2018 – European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics Theme: Modeling, simulation, and games 4-7 September 2018, Utrecht, The Netherlands http://ecce2018.eace.net IMPORTANT DATES: February 15, 2018, 5 pm (CET): Deadline submission long and short papers, including workshop proposals, doctoral consortium papers, posters and demonstrations. May 2, 2018: Reviews of submissions are sent June 15, 2018, 5 pm (CET): Camera-ready version of accepted contributions July 16, 2018, 5 pm (CET): Early registration deadline September 4, 2018: ECCE 2018 Doctoral Consortium and Workshops September 5-7, 2018: ECCE 2018 Main conference GENERAL INFORMATION: ECCE 2018 is the 30st annual conference of…

Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology‘s special issue (online first) on Social Robots and Recognition Socio-Ontological, (Machine-)Ethical, and Socio-Political Trajectories Guest Editors: Marco Nørskov (Aarhus University & Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories) Sladjana Nørskov (Aarhus University) Deadline for paper submission: June 1, 2018 INTRODUCTION: Social robotic solutions are currently being developed and tested on a large scale. From workspace collaborators to caretakers of our children and elderly to intimate companions-social robots are imagined to enter into virtually all spheres of social interaction. They are heralded as solutions as well as cautioned against with respect to a variety of socio-political problems such as…

Call for Submissions 5th International Conference on Movement and Computing – MOCO 2018 28-30 June 2018, Genoa, Italy Casa Paganini – InfoMus, DIBRIS – University of Genoa http://moco18.movementcomputing.org Extended deadlines: Abstract and metadata submission: 12 February 2018 Submission deadline: 19 February 2018 We would like to invite submissions to the 5th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO’18), Genoa, Italy, June 28-30, 2018. Contributions can be submitted to three different tracks: Papers and Posters, Practice Works, and Doctoral Consortium. MOCO is an interdisciplinary conference that explores how computer science and technology can contribute to a deeper understanding of human movement…

Call for Papers 8th Workshop on Applications of Software Agents – WASA 2018 (https://perun.pmf.uns.ac.rs/events/wasa2018/index.html) in conjunction with 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics – WIMS 2018 (https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/) Novi Sad, Serbia, June 25-27, 2018 Submission of papers to WASA: February 7, 2018 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Software agent technologies reached a certain level of maturity that allows development of applications spanning from lab prototypes to mature real-life systems, in domains that could have not been imagined before. Furthermore, software agent technologies proved their usefulness in synergy with methods of intelligent computing and artificial intelligence. The aim of the WASA workshop…

Call for Papers Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) Special Issue: Re-Examining Cognitive Tools: New Developments, New Perspectives, and New Opportunities for Educational Technology Research http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~malee/cfp/AJET_CognitiveTools_CFP.pdf Submission deadline: 1 August 2018 GUEST EDITORS Christopher Drew, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law, Teesside University, UK Mark J. W. Lee, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia and Visiting Faculty, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, USA FOCUS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Submissions are invited for a forthcoming special issue of AJET to be published in early 2019, entitled Re-examining cognitive tools: New developments,…

Call for Applications New Agents and Agencies: Science, Technology, and Subjectivity 2018 Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Summer School July 8-12 2018 Tel Aviv University http://www.vanleer.org.il/en/content/call-applications-new-agents-and-agencies-science-technology-and-subjectivity Deadline for submission: February 15, 2018 Dear all, We are pleased to invite applications for the 2018 Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Summer School on New Agents & Agencies: Science, Technology & Subjectivity. With the rise of new technology-centered environments – such as social media, virtual worlds, online marketing, gaming, smart homes, and city surveillance – we face the growing presence of nonhuman agents and new forms of human agencies. We invite doctoral students and postdoctoral…

Call for Papers CHI 2018 Workshop – Reshaping Touch Communication: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda Submission deadline: 2/2/2018 Notification: 22/2/2018 Workshop date: 21/4/2018 Workshop website: https://intouchchi.wordpress.com CHI 2018, April 21-26, Montréal, Canada https://chi2018.acm.org INTRODUCTION This one-day workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and designers to examine new forms of touch communication enabled by digital touch technologies, address key social questions and challenges for HCI, reshape future research agendas, and build a cross disciplinary community that fosters subsequent collaboration. The workshop will focus on three themes: touch and sensory embodiment; affective communication; and ethical and methodological challenges in HCI design,…