Call for Papers Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics: Topical Issue on Roboethics https://www.degruyter.com/page/1498 Submission deadline (extended): December 20, 2017 EDITED BY Editorial Board/Guest Editors: Fiorella Operto (lead GE), The School of Robotics, Italy (email: operto@scuoladirobotica.it) Raja Chatila, ISIR, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France Guido Nicolosi, University of Catania, Italy George Bekey, University of Southern California, USA Mariachiara Tallacchini, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy Editorial Advisory Board: Gianmarco Veruggio, CNR-IEIIT, Italy DESCRIPTION Employed by human society in numbers and applications larger than today, robotics is going to trigger widespread social and economic changes, opening new social and ethical…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Social Robots, Emotions, and Social Cognition: Conceptual, Empirical, and Ethical Perspectives Special Issue in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (Expected: Volume 23, Issue 2, 2019) Guest Editors: Johanna Seibt Raffaele Rodogno Research Unit for Robophilosophy School for Culture and Society Aarhus University, Denmark SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st, 2018 So-called ‘social robots’ are embodied artificial agents that move in the physical space of human social interaction and can be perceived as social agents or social interaction partners—due to their appearance, their movements, and their behavioral functionalities. The affordances of social robots also include the capacity to elicit…

CALL FOR PAPERS Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) 2018 Academic Summit Wednesday, June 6 Minneapolis, Minnesota https://segd.org/sites/default/files/2018-segd-academic-summit-call-for-papers.pdf Submission deadline: March 2, 2018 SEGD | Society for Experiential Graphic Design is soliciting submissions for the 2018 Academic Summit to be held on Wednesday, June 6, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Potential papers should address the educational, institutional, technological, social, and cultural issues that have relevance to the overarching discipline of Experiential Graphic Design (XGD), which encompasses environmental graphic and information design, exhibition design, wayfinding and signage design, branding, interactive and immersive environments, and technology integration. Situated the day before the 2018 SEGD…

Call for Papers MULTIMODAL CORPORA 2018: Multimodal Data in the Online World LREC 2018 Workshop 12 May 2018, Phoenix Seagaia Conference Center, Miyazaki, Japan http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/ Deadline for paper submission: 12 January 2018 INTRODUCTION The creation of a multimodal corpus involves the recording, annotation and analysis of several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, gaze, etc. An increasing number of research areas have transgressed or are in the process of transgressing from focused single modality research to full-fledged multimodality research, and multimodal corpora are becoming a core research asset and an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange of…

Call for Papers Minds & Machines special issue on “What is a computer?” GUEST EDITOR István S. N. Berkeley, Ph.D. Philosophy, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Deadline for paper submissions: 30 January 2018 INTRODUCTION Computers have become almost ubiquitous. We find them at our places of work, and even on our persons, in the form of ‘smart phones’ and tablets. Around twenty years ago, The Monist published the contributions from several philosophers on the question, “What is a computer?”. Yet a robust, philosophically adequate conception of what actually constitutes a computer still remains lacking. The purpose of this special…

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…