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…

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…