Call For Papers: HRI 2018 Workshop on Robots for Learning (R4L) – Inclusive Learning March 5, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA Website: http://r4l.epfl.ch/HRI2018/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 31, 2018 Acceptance notification: February 7, 2018 Workshop event: March 5, 2018 OVERVIEW In recent years, research in Human-Robot Interaction has increasingly attracted interest from the field of education in particular. However, this interest is not new: the logo turtle entered schools nearly 40 years ago. Over this period, robots have changed a lot: sequentially or eventually programmable, they also integrate a wide spectrum of sensors and actuators. Hence, new applications in educational…

Call for Papers: “User Experience Design of Exploratory Systems” A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (ISSN 2414-4088) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/User_Experience_Design Deadline for manuscript submissions: Although the deadline for submission of manuscripts to the Special Issue is 28 May 2018, papers will be reviewed and published as they are received. The entire set of invited papers and any others in this domain will appear online. TOPICS: User experience (UX) design is essential when creating products and concepts that are both pleasurable and useful. User experience designs can target to a special emotion, value, or experience and by doing so, increase the success…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Mobile Learning in the Open Access journal Education Sciences http://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/Mobile_Learning Preliminary abstracts due January 31st 2018 Special issue editor: Prof. Dr. Maria Uther Department of Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester, UK Website | E-Mail Interests: user-interface design for mobile devices; pedagogy and mobile learning; mobile language learning; speech technologies Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue, “Mobile Learning”, addresses the increasing popularity of mobile devices and their potential for developing learning. As mobile technologies are constantly changing and increased capabilities rapidly developing, it is timely to consider the technical and practical issues in…

Call for Papers Fourth IEEE VR International Workshop on 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2018 Reutlingen, Germany Sunday March 18 or Monday March 19, 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/3dcveieeevr2018/ Submission deadline: January 22, 2018 (Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2018) Emerging technologies for multi-user 3D interaction in immersive virtual environments promise novel opportunities collocated and remote collaboration, but their development also implies new challenges. Collaborative 3D virtual environments must foster mutual awareness among participants and should support their coordinated cooperative action. This requires further research on suitable hardware setups, software architectures, and interaction techniques. Not least, the usability evaluation of…

Call for Papers Focus section on “Human Work Interaction Design meets International Development” to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call36fs Guest Editors Pedro Campos – Madeira-ITI, Univ. of Madeira, Portugal Barbara Rita Barricelli – Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Jose Abdelnour-Nocera – University of West London, United Kingdom IMPORTANT DATES Deadline: January 31, 2018 Notification to the authors: February 28, 2018 Camera ready paper: March 15, 2018 Publication of the special issue:…

Call for Papers Scalable Computing and Communications Special Issue on Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1608722/application/pdf/scalable+algorithms+and+behavior.pdf Deadline: March 31, 2018 AIMS AND SCOPE Due to the emerging computing paradigm, the physical, social, and mental world are increasingly integrating and merging into the cyberspace. In this emerging but significant field, it is necessary to model the human individual information processing along with their corresponding behaviors, in order to build systematic knowledge about new phenomena, behaviors, properties and practices across the broad applications in cyber-enabled world. Specifically, studies related to scalable algorithm and behavioral analysis are conducted in terms…

Invitation and International Call for Presentations 3RD JOINT UAE SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL ROBOTICS (JSSR2018) 4-7 February 2018 New York University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates University Registration: SocialRoboticsUAE@uaeu.ac.ae Updates: http://conferences.uaeu.ac.ae/jssr2018/en Submission deadline: December 30, 2018 THE FUTURE IS HERE A future in which robots will be our social companions and will assist us in many of our activities is quickly approaching. To get ready for tomorrow, a new kind of integrated research is gaining unprecedented traction: the study of interactions between humans inspires the development of more sophisticated autonomous agents, scaffolding the creation of the next generation of social robots.…

Call for Proposals Connected Learning Summit August 1-3, 2018 MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Learn More & Apply: http://clsummit.news/CLScfpGRN Application Deadline: January 5, 2018 We are proud to announce the First Annual Connected Learning Summit (CLS) to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. On alternating years, it will be held at the University of California, Irvine. The mission of the CLS is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. It represents a merger between three community events with this shared…

Call for Chapters: Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Technologies in Foreign and Second Language Instruction Editor Mariusz Kruk (University of Zielona Góra, Poland) https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3054 Proposals Submission Deadline: January 30, 2018 Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2018 Submission Date: August 30, 2018 INTRODUCTION Over the last few years there has been a quite specific interest in using virtual technologies in education, including foreign/second language education. This is because virtual technologies, such as virtual worlds, are particularly relevant to language teaching/learning in view of the fact that, among other things, they present language learners with situations similar to these found in the…

Call for Papers International Journal of Social Robotics Special Issue: The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction Submission deadline: January 31, 2018 TOPIC OVERVIEW The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and has shown great promises in different fields. Robots were introduced in industry decades ago, and nowadays, robotic systems support humans as assistants, team-mates, caretakers, and companions, in diverse contexts such as education, health and eldercare, the home, retail, and in search and rescue. Discussions of the emotional, psychological, ethical, and societal consequences of these developments have emerged alongside technical advances. Studies in human-robot interaction have…

Call for Papers Post-cinema – VR and AR: a Postcinematic Modernity II Film Forum – XVI Magis International Film Studies Spring School Gorizia, Università degli studi di Udine-Italy March 3rd-7th 2018 Deadline for 1-page proposals: November 30th, 2017 Address questions and proposals to: (goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com) Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), as well as establishing new identities and expanding the perceptions of existing users and the technologies they use, also represent two cardinal points in the (re)definition of participative and political practices in current media landscape. In this sense the Postcinema section would like to explore the “community/knowledge/power”…

Call for Papers What’s Next? The Future of Digital Entertainment A Special Issue of Communication Research Reports https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xLQnZftTONP7oE6OktwZHulBN0caFNN_OjLUynDjPQ/mobilebasic Guest Editors: Allison Eden (Michigan State University) Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (University of Georgia) Editor-in-Chief Nicholas D. Bowman (West Virginia University) Priority submission deadline: January 15, 2018 In the past years, with the advent of technology such as streaming media services, combined with market penetration of smartphones, tablets, and highly interactive platforms, such as immersive virtual environments (popularly known as “virtual reality”) and augmented reality, there has been a dramatic uptick in the number of hours per day we spend with digital…