Workshop on Persuasive Embodied Agents for Behavior Change Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2017 (IVA2017) 27 August Stockholm, Sweden http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017 This workshop is a part of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual agents (http://iva2017.org/). The workshop will take place on the day before the main conference (27th of August 2017). Paper submission: July 19, 2017 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Persuasive embodied agents can play an active role in supporting people in changing their behavior, emotion, or attitude. These agents can be part of training systems, ehealth systems, or decision systems. They help people in establishing, reinforcing, or altering behaviors. Embodiment, such as in…

CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications (AIMA’17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 – 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: aima2017@fedcsis.org Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMA’17 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE…

Call for Chapters: Cyber-Physical Systems for Next Generation Networks Editors: Joel Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Amjad Gawanmeh, Khalifa University, UAE, and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada To be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.) http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2681 Proposal Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 INTRODUCTION The new paradigms and tremendous advances in computing, communications and control have provided and supported wide range of applications in all domains of life, in particular, bridging the physical components and the cyber space leading to the Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). The notion of CPS is to use…

Call for Papers The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction A workshop held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2017) Lisbon, Portugal August 28-31, 2017 www.mutualshapinghri.com Submission deadline for workshop papers: June 1, 2017 WORKSHOP TOPIC The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and shown great promises in different fields. After robots were introduced in industry decades ago, advancements in robotic systems have enabled them to increasingly enter and affect our everyday lives. Nowadays, we see robotic systems being introduced as assistants, team-mates, care-takers, and companions, in diverse contexts…

Call For Papers UbiTtention 2017 (2nd International Workshop on Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management) in conjunction with ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2017 Maui, Hawaii September 11 or 12, 2017 Website: https://projects.hcilab.org/ubittention2017/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ubittention/ Submission deadline: June 9, 2017 WORKSHOP THEME AND GOALS In the advancing ubiquitous computing, users are increasingly confronted with a tremendous amount of information proactively provided via notifications from versatile applications and services, through multiple devices and screens in their environment. Thus, our human’s attention have been getting a new significant bottleneck. Further, the latest computing trends with emerging new devices including versatile IoT devices, and contexts,…

CALL FOR PAPERS ESSEM@ACII 2017 3rd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2017): User Engagement and Interaction http://di.unito.it/essem17 Co-located with the seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2017 (http://acii2017.org/), San Antonio, Texas, October 23, 2017 Submission deadline: June 15, 2017 Keynote speaker: Georgios Yannakakis, Institute of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta The role of emotional intelligence is increasing at fast speed in everyday computer-mediated interactions, thanks to the integration of more or less explicit affective elements in social networks, apps, virtual assistants, etc. Expressed through emojis, color, tags or speech,…

Call for Papers, Posters, Demos & Workshops Academic MindTrek Conference 2017 September 20-21 Tampere, Finland Full details: http://www.mindtrek.org/2017/academic/ IMPORTANT DATES Call for Papers submission deadline May 21st Acceptance/Rejection notification: July 14th Copyright forms: August 14th Conference registration/Camera-ready papers: August 21st Academic Mindtrek is… A meeting place where researchers, experts and thinkers can present results from their latest work in the conference thematic areas. Special academic sessions (e.g. demonstrations, workshops and multidisciplinary sessions) held parallel to the Mindtrek conference. A real chance for media enthusiasts to think outside the box. Keynote speakers announced later. We are pleased to invite you to the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces Special Issue: Virtual Agents for Social Skills Training (VASST) Guest Editors: Merijn Bruijnes, University of Twente m.bruijnes@utwente.nl Jeroen Linssen, University of Twente j.m.linssen@utwente.nl Dirk Heylen, University of Twente d.k.j.heylen@utwente.nl Paper submission deadline: 30th October 2017 Interactive technology, such as virtual agents, to train social skills can improve training curricula. For example police officers can train for interviewing suspects or detecting deception with a virtual agent. Other examples of application areas include (but are not limited to) social workers (training for dealing with broken homes), psychiatrists (training for interviewing people with various difficulties /…

Call for Papers, Posters, and Demos VRST 2017: 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Gothenburg, Sweden, November 08-10 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2017/ First submission deadline:  June 30, 2017 The 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2017) is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers, developers, and industry concerned with virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) software and technology. VRST provides an opportunity for VR/AR researchers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging directions for the field. The event is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGGRAPH.…

Call for Abstracts Cyborg Classics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium University of Bristol, UK Friday July 7, 2017 Submission deadline: May 31, 2017 We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium, sponsored by BIRTHA (The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts) to be held at the University of Bristol, on Friday July 7, 2017. Keynote speakers: Dr Kate Devlin (Goldsmiths) Dr Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) Dr Rae Muhlstock (NYU) The aim of the day is to bring together researchers from different disciplines – scholars in Archaeology & Anthropology, Classics, English, History, and Theology as well as in AI, Robotics, Ethics,…

Call for Papers 6th Workshop Automotive HMI: Vehicles in the Transition from Manual to Automated Driving colocated with People and Computers (MuC) 2017 (http://muc2017.mensch-und-computer.de/) September 10-13, 2017 | Regensburg http://ws-automotive-hmi.human-machine-interaction.de Submission deadline: June 12, 2017 [via Google Translate: People and Computers 2017 website in English Automotive HMI workshop website in English –ML] Automotive user interfaces and especially automated vehicle technology pose a plenty of challenges to researchers, vehicle manufacturers, and third-party suppliers to support all diverse facets of user needs. To give an example, they emerge from the variation of different user groups ranging from inexperienced, thrill-seeking young novice drivers…

  Call for Papers Humans, the Enhanced, and Machines in Law Part of Science in Public 2017 University of Sheffield July 10-12 Extended deadline: April 25 Science and technology are essential ingredients of our humanity. The emergence of fruitful and diverse scholarly perspectives on the history, practice, communication, governance and impacts of scientific knowledge reflects this fact. Yet rapid scientific and technological change has also unsettled the idea of what it means to be human; for example, through new frontiers in physical and cognitive enhancement, shift to knowledge economies, and potential threats to employment from mass automation. These changes take…