Call for Papers eNTERFACE’17 – 13th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces Porto, Portugal July 3rd to 28th, 2017 http://artes.ucp.pt/enterface17/ Submission deadline: 13 January 2017 Following the success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops held in Mons (Belgium, 2005), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), Istanbul (Turkey, 2007), Paris (France, 2008), Genova (Italy, 2009), Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2010), Plzen (Czech Republic, 2011), Metz (France, 2012), Lisbon (Portugal, 2013), Bilbao (Spain, 2014), Mons (Belgium, 2015), Twente (Netherlands 2016), the Digital Creativity Centre (CCD) of the Portuguese Catholics University have the pleasure to host eNTERFACE’17, the 13th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, in Porto, Portugal from July…

CHI 2017 Workshop on Designing Speech, Acoustic, and Multimodal Interactions (DSLI 2017) Sunday, May 7, 2017 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO (USA) http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/dsli2017/ Call for position papers January 25th, 2017: Submission of position papers February 8th, 2017: Notification of acceptance February 22nd, 2017: Camera-ready submissions Traditional interfaces are continuously being replaced by mobile, wearable, or pervasive interfaces. Yet when it comes to the input and output modalities enabling our interactions, we have yet to fully embrace some of the most natural forms of communication and information processing that humans possess: speech, language, gestures, thoughts. Very little HCI attention has been…

CALL FOR PAPERS VRIC 2017 19TH ACM VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Laval (France), March 22 – 24, 2017 http://www.laval-virtual.org/en/scientific-conferences/vric/vric-2017.html Sponsored by ACM Logistics partner: Laval Virtual   Partnership with international journals for special issues: IJVR & JVRB The annual VRIC – Laval Virtual conference is a global forum for researchers and engineers from industry, academia and research institutes to discuss and exchange ideas, methods and results on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things uses and technologies. The scope of the conference covers a variety of topics ranging from theoretical developments to industrial applications and case studies. IMPORTANT DATES Submission…

C&T 2017 – Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference: Technology for the Common Good 26-30 June 2017, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France http://comtech.community/ The C&T proceedings are part of the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM. Print the flyer to advertise for the conference in your network: http://comtech.community/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ct2017_flyer.pdf Deadline for papers (full and short), workshop proposals and case studies: February 1, 2017 ABOUT C&T The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies.…

Call for Papers British HCI 2017 3-6 July, 2017 University of Sunderland’s St. Peter’s Campus Full and short papers deadline: March 8, 2017 The 31st British Human Computer Interaction Conference will be held from the 3rd to the 6th of July, 2017, at the University of Sunderland’s St. Peter’s Campus. The conference is organised by the HCI research groups at the University of Sunderland and Edinburgh Napier University in conjunction with the Interaction Specialist Group of the British Computer Society. The BCS HCI 2017 conference theme is Digital Make-Believe. Make-believe refers to our expansive, “what-if” thinking, ubiquitous in HCI.…

Call for Long and Short Papers ICMI 2017, 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Glasgow, Scotland November 13-17th, 2017 Full details including Calls for Demos, Grand Challenges, Workshops and Doctoral Consortium can be found at https://icmi.acm.org/2017 Upcoming Submission Deadlines Grand Challenge proposal due on January 13th 2017 Workshop proposals on February 22nd 2017 Long and short papers on May 12th 2017 (11:59pm GMT) The 19th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference…

Call for Full Papers EICS 2017 – ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 26-29, 2017 – Lisbon, Portugal http://eics.acm.org/2017/ Abstracts due January 9, full texts due January 16 OVERVIEW EICS 2017 is the ninth international conference devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems. Work presented at EICS covers the full range of aspects that come into play when “engineering” interactive systems, such as innovations in the design, development, deployment, verification and validation of interactive systems. Topics of interest include a.o. the design and development of systems incorporating new interaction techniques and multimodal interaction, multi-device interaction, mobile and pervasive systems,…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Internet of Things for Active and Assisted Living (IoTAAL) In conjunction with IEEE Global IoT Summit 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – 6-9 June 2017 http://www.tlc.dii.univpm.it/iotaalms/iotaal2017/ Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2017 MOTIVATION AND SCOPE Increased life expectancy and decreased birth rates are challenging developed countries worldwide, with a rapidly growing elderly population, and a declining workforce. These two contextual phenomena are generating new needs, as ageing increases the probability of developing physical and cognitive impairments, requiring new and more effective ways to provide support and care. According to the United Nations, the elderly,…

Call for Papers 48th International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) Conference on Simulation Games for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures Delft, The Netherlands, close to The Hague, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam July 10 – July 14, 2017 in cooperation with Saganet – Simulation and Gaming Association, The Netherlands For updates and further information visit www.isaga2017.com Submission is OPEN, closing on February 28, 2017 Call for Papers [PDF]: http://isaga2017.com/index.php/conference/call-for-papers MAIN TOPICS (but not limited to) Methodologies for the design of games that aim for more than entertainment Methodologies for research on simulation games, for instance, measuring behaviour and learning outcomes Applications of gaming…

Call for Participation DiGRA 2017: The 10th Digital Games Research Association Conference We are delighted to announce the Call for Participation for DiGRA 2017, to be held July 3-6 2017, at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. DiGRA 2017 will bring together a diverse international community of interdisciplinary researchers engaged in cutting edge research in the field of game studies. DiGRA 2017 is supported by Swinburne University of Technology, RMIT, The University of Sydney and The University of Melbourne. The conference welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics associated with studies of games and play, including, but not…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications During AISB 2017 Convention http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk/index.html 18-21st April 2017, Bath, UNITED KINGDOM http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~ddp/aisb17cme/ Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2017 OVERVIEW Contemporary emotion modelling includes many projects attempting to understand natural emotions or to implement simulated emotions in chatbots, avatars or robots, for practical uses of many sorts from entertainment to caring. The numerous models of affective phenomena in the literature differ in important respects. They differ in how they describe and explain a range of phenomena, including the nature and order of perceptual, cognitive and emotional mental processes and…

CALL FOR PAPERS: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2017) September 19-22, 2017, Umeå, Sweden http://www.informatik.umu.se/ecce2017/ Due date for all submissions: February 28, 2017 ECCE 2017 is the 35th annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics. This leading conference in human-technology interaction and cognitive engineering provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences from a variety of domains. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners, which address the broad spectrum of challenges and opportunities in this area. The main theme of ECCE 2017 is Transforming the everyday. The role of digital…