Call for Papers SPECIAL ISSUE of iCom – Journal of Interactive Media (De Gruyter) Automated Driving: A Human-Centered Design Perspective Guest Editors: Andreas Riener, Alexander Mirnig Submission deadline: June 15, 2018 SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Automotive user interfaces and automated vehicle technology pose several challenges to support all diverse facets of user needs. These range from inexperienced, thrill-seeking, young novice drivers to elderly drivers with a mostly opposite set of preferences together with their natural limitations. Implementation-wise, the automotive industry is currently focusing on pushing in-vehicle technology towards fully automated driving, with tech companies joining these efforts to raise…

2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS (CW 2018) Singapore, 3-5 October, 2018 Organized by Fraunhofer Singapore In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics Association, and International Federation for Information Processing Conference web page: www.cyberworlds-conference.org Papers submission deadline: Monday 7 May, 2018 CW 2018 SCOPE: Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that use computer technologies to augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. CW 2018 is the 17th conference organized annually since 2002. CW 2018 will consider the following tracks and topics: GENERAL TRACK: Applications of virtual and augmented reality; Networked…

Call for Papers Social Simulation 2018 (SSC 2018) 14th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) August 20-24, 2018 Stockholm, Sweden http://ssc2018.dsv.su.se/ Submission deadline: 30 March, 2018 Social Simulation 2018 is the 14th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). The conference is one of ESSA’s key activities to promote social simulation and computational social science. Looking in the mirror is the theme of this conference. As the relatively young field/society enters puberty some critical self-reflection is sought by looking in the mirror ourselves, with relevant others. With high potential of having identity crisis as well…

Call for Papers International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2019) Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, California USA, February 7-10, 2019 http://ihsint.org Abstract Submission Deadline (500 words): 10 September 2018 IHSI 2019 OBJECTIVE AND AREAS OF INTEREST You are cordially invited to participate in the 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration: Integrating People and Intelligent Systems (IHSI 2019) which will be held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, California USA, February 7-10, 2019. IHSI 2019  Conference aims to provide a global forum for presenting and discussing novel approaches, design tools, methodologies, techniques, and solutions for integrating…

CALL FOR PAPERS GET 2018 – 11th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies 2018 Madrid, Spain, 18- 20 July 2018 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/) Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2018) Madrid, Spain, 17 – 20 July 2018 (http://www.mccsis.org) Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society Deadline for submissions: 19 March 2018 CONFERENCE SCOPE The GET 2018 conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on design, development and evaluation of games, entertainment technologies and…

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2018) November 5-8, 2018, Sydney, Australia http://iva2018.westernsydney.edu.au Sponsored By Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGAI Full Papers Due: May 15, 2018 Workshop Proposals Due: April 20, 2018 Demos, Industry Track Submissions and Extended Abstracts Due: May 15, 2018 GALA Video Submissions: October 29, 2018 IVA 2018 is the 18th meeting of an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. IVAs are interactive digital characters…

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…