Special issue call for papers from Journal of Enabling Technologies Design, technology and engineering for long term care http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=7519 Submission deadline: 31st December 2017 FOCUS The Journal of Enabling Technologies invite manuscripts for a themed edition focused on technology and its relationship to environmental design. The aim of this edition is to publish research papers and review articles which address recent advances in the design and use of enabling technologies used in aged care facilities such as residential and nursing homes, sheltered and very sheltered housing and other forms of supported living arrangement for older people. We are interested in…

Call for Papers DiGRA 2018: The 11th Digital Games Research Association Conference The Game is the Message July 25-28, 2018 Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy Lungo Dora Siena, 100 A, 10153 Turin, Italy http://digra2018.com (soon) Conference chairs: Riccardo Fassone and Matteo Bittanti Submission deadline: January 31st, 2018 Games have long since moved out of the toy drawer, but our understanding of them can still benefit from seeing them in a wider context of mediated meaning-making. DiGRA 2018 follows Marshall McLuhan, and sees games as extensions of ourselves. They recalibrate our senses and redefine our social relationships. The environments…

Call for Papers: International Journal of Role-Playing (Open Submission) http://journalofroleplaying.org/ The International Journal of Role-Playing (IJRP) editorial board invites scholars of all disciplines to submit articles for publication. The IJRP is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal that examines all facets of role-playing for an audience of academics, developers, and role-players themselves. Issues appear online once or twice annually, with a rolling deadline for submission of new content. Founded over a decade ago, the IJRP continues to serve as a platform for documentation and analysis of role-playing games as a global cultural phenomenon that straddles the traditional and the transgressive,…

Call For Papers PervasiveHealth 2018 – 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare May 21-24, 2018 New York, United States http://pervasivehealth.org/ Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018 PervasiveHealth Conference will be held in Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, May 21 – 24, 2018. The overall goal of the Pervasive Health Conference is to take a multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and development. The Pervasive Healthcare Conference aims to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures. We welcome contributions from…

Call: Chapters/Papers for book “Philosophy and Moving Image” Submission deadline: November 13, 2017 Dear All, A call for chapters/papers is open for a collective book on Philosophy and Moving Image. The book will be edited by Chris Rawls (Roger Williams University), Diana Neiva (University of Porto) and Steven S. Gouveia (University of Minho). Confirmed contributors: Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo; Malcolm Turvey; Dina Mendonça; Noël Carroll; Tom McClelland; Chris Falzon; Paisley Livingston; Christopher Grau; Robert Sinnerbrink; Hunter Vaughan; David Davies; Deborah Knight; Trevor Ponech. TOPICS: Topics and issues of interest include (but are not limited to): Classical and contemporary film theory (formalist,…

Call for Abstracts and Pre-Registration ‘The Science of Consciousness’ Conference April 2-7, 2018 Loews Ventana Canyon Resort – Tucson, Arizona http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/ General Conference Abstracts Deadline: December 15 The Science of Consciousness (‘TSC’) is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to all aspects of the study and understanding of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation, altered states, machine consciousness, the nature of reality, culture and experiential phenomenology. Held annually since 1994, the conference is hosted by the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly between Tucson, Arizona and…

Call for Papers The Fourth British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference: Movement and Aesthetics 27 – 28 April 2018 University of Durham, UK Keynote Speakers: Associate Professor Barbara Gail Montero, CUNY Dr Jenny Judge, NYU Deadline for abstracts: January 7th 2018 We are pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the Fourth BSA Postgraduate Conference, Movement and Aesthetics. This two-day conference will provide an opportunity for postgraduates to present their work in a supportive and stimulating environment, and to interact with each other and with established members of the academic community. The aim of this postgraduate conference is to examine…

CALL FOR PAPERS British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018) 2-6 July, 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland http://hci2018.bcs.org/ twitter: @HCI_2018 Due date for all paper submissions: 31 March, 2018 This is the 32nd Annual Conference of the British Human Computer Interaction Conference in association with the British Computer Society (ACM Proceedings). In 2018, it will be held in the atmospheric city centre of Belfast in Northern Ireland. (“Belfast, one of the top ten World Class conference locations” – Financial Times; See the Belfast video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNDto-iGgXI) This leading HCI conference is well established and has been running for over 30 years attracting…

Call for Submissions EVA London 2018 10 -12 July http://www.eva-london.org/ Submission deadline: 15th January 2018 We are excited to announce that the EVA London 2018 conference will take place from Tuesday 10th July – Thursday 12th July 2018. In addition, there will be a Pre-Conference Symposium on Monday 9th July 2018 and a further event on Friday 13th July 2018, to be announced in the coming weeks. We will once again bring together artists, designers, researchers, technologists from all over the world, to discuss electronic visualisation technologies in art, design, music, dance, theatre, the sciences and more. EVA London 2018…

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.…