Call for Papers, Special Sessions, and Workshops/Tutorials RO-MAN 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Pestana Palace Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal August 28 – September 1, 2017 http://www.ro-man2017.org The Call for Papers in PDF format can be downloaded here. Important Dates/Deadlines: Proposals for Special Sessions: Feb 6, 2017; Proposals for Workshops & Tutorials: March 19, 2017; Special Session Papers Submission: March 26, 2017; Regular Paper Submission: March 26, 2017; Video session contribution deadline: May 2, 2017; Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance: May 26, 2017; Final Paper Submission: June 6, 2017. Conference theme: Human-Robot Collaboration and Human Assistance…

Call for Participation Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2017 Workshop – People, Personal Data and the Built Environment Edinburgh, Scotland Saturday 10th June http://dis2017peopledataandbuildings.blogspot.co.uk Submission deadline: 27th April Organisers: Holger Schnädelbach (University of Nottingham) David Kirk (Northumbria University) Nick Dalton (Northumbria University) Nils Jäger (University of Nottingham) Elizabeth Churchill (Google) Sara Nabil (Newcastle University) 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…

Call for Papers Plug into Cultural Heritage Workshop Part of the INTETAIN 2017 conference June 20-22, 2017, Portugal http://www.intetain.org/2017/show/home Paper deadline extended to May 1 CULTURAL HERITAGE What is cultural heritage? How can society become more actively involved in cultural heritage activities, not only as an observer but also as a contributor to the definition of heritage? Cultural heritage is considered an important precondition for genuine sustainability. However, existing applications for heritage dissemination do not really create heritage communities. Adequate ICT tools are necessary to support citizens in their everyday activities in shaping cultural heritage and to be shaped by…

Call for Papers for the 5th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) Berlin, Germany (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 25-27 August 2017 https://www.vsac2017.org/ Extended deadline for abstract submission: Saturday, 29 April 2017 The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) focuses on connecting the communities of visual scientists and artists in order to deepen our understanding of aesthetic phenomena. The VSAC is an ideal venue to debate and collaborate on all topics associated with the perception and evaluation of artworks. Organized as a satellite conference to the ECVP (European Conference on Visual Perception, http://www.ecvp.org/2017/), the VSAC invites…

[See also a Call for Papers for AutoPlay. Gaming in the Age of Automation, a special issue of the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. –Matthew] Call for Papers to the 2017 workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability @ FDG Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA August 14-17 2017 (1 day, exact date TBD) http://www.npc-workshop.org/ Submission deadline: May 10 The 2017 workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability intends to be a point of interaction for researchers and game developers interested in modeling, discussing, developing systems for NPC social behavior and social affordances. This can include behaviour based on social and behavioural…

ACI2017: Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction 21-23 November 2017, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom www.aci2017.org #aci2017conf Submission deadline for papers and workshop proposals: 30th June 2017 ACI is the main international conference on Animal-Computer Interaction, a rapidly growing field that focuses on the interaction between animals and computing-enabled technology. Animals have been exposed to, and have interacted with, technology for the best part of a century; for example, in conservation studies, behavioural experiments, comparative cognition studies, precision farming and various support roles. But how does technology affect animals in their individual and social lives? How does it enable or disable…

Call for Participation – Upload your Innovative Work SimulationWeek http://www.scoop.it/t/simulation-week SimulationWeek is from Monday 1 May to Sunday 7 May 2017. SimulationWeek is an opportunity to promote the many forms of simulation in our organisations and communities to celebrate its accomplishments and future vision. SimulationWeek will be hosted online at www.simulationweek.com – open to anyone that wishes to highlight their own innovative work through a news story, video or combined image and simulation message format. Pictures are essential and this platform will provide an opportunity to display images easily, providing an exciting snapshot of simulation for the week for the…

Call for Submissions GROUP 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work January 7-10, 2018, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA http://group.acm.org First submission deadline (Papers and Notes): June 23, 2017 For over 25 years, the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) has been a premier venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Socio-Technical Studies. The conference integrates work in social science, computer science, engineering, design, values, and other diverse topics related to group work, broadly conceptualized. Group 2018 continues the tradition of being truly international and interdisciplinary in both organizational…

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & VISUAL COMPUTING 2017 (CGVC 2017) The 35th Annual Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association 14-15 September 2017 Manchester Metropolitan University, UK http://www.eguk.org.uk/CGVC2017 Submission Deadline: 16 June 2017 The annual EGUK conference is a meeting place for all those in the UK working in computer graphics and visual computing. It attracts researchers from across the country and from further afield. The 2017 conference Computer Graphics & Visual Computing will be an overnight meeting (lunchtime to lunchtime). The conference wants to focus on increasing the dialogue between academic research groups, researchers in academic and in…

Call for Papers Morality Play The Design of Games for Moral Engagement Workshop at DiGRA 2017 Melbourne, Australia July 3 2017 http://digra2017.com/workshops/ Paper submission deadline: Thursday April 13, 2017 After the success of the Morality Play workshop in 2016, we would like to announce a follow-up workshop for the 2017 Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) conference (http://digra2017.com). Questions of morality are a pervasive topic for media and the arts. Across every medium we see artists engaging audiences with challenging moral questions concerning topics such as war, crime, corruption, fidelity and the abuse of power. Questions of morality have long been central…

Call for Papers The 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2017) MobileHRI: Mobile Human-Robot Interaction To be held as part of MobileHCI 2017 4 September 2017 Vienna, Austria http://pubrob2017.pubrob.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Position paper submission deadline:  19 May 2017 Paper notification:  9 June 2017 Final camera-ready papers due:  21 July 2017 Workshop in Vienna, Austria:  4 September 2017 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW This workshop aims to bring together researchers from Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and mobile HCI to explore issues of mutual interest and act as a bridge between the two communities. The development of robots capable of interacting with humans has…

Moving Images – Static Spaces? ……….. The blurring of Architectures, Film, Animation, Digital Art, Coding and Design Dates: 12-13 April 2018 Place: Istanbul, Turkey Altinbaş Foundation / Istanbul Kemerburgaz University Website: http://architecturemps.com/istanbul/ Formats: Pre-recorded Video | Skype | In Person Publications: Book Series – The Mediated City Proceedings Series, ISSN 2398-9467 Architecture_MPS journal Special Issue, ISSN 2050-9006 Abstract deadline: 15 December 2017 The relationship between architecture, urban environments and the moving image is deep rooted. It is also mutating. Born in the City Symphony films of the early 20th it was premised on the dynamic and mobile representation of buildings,…