Call For Papers, Posters, Tutorials And Workshops Web3D 2017 The 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology Date:   5-7 June 2017 Location: Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Website:  http://web3d2017.org Papers submission deadline: 13 February 2017 2017 will be a historic year for 3D on the Web. We are seeing the explosion of WebVR and the potential of WebAR just around the corner. With WebGL now widely supported by default in modern browsers, tools such as X3D, X3DOM, Cobweb, three.js, glTF, and A-Frame VR are allowing nearly anyone to create Web3D content. Commercial game engines such as Unity and Unreal…

Dear all, Below is a Call for Proposals that may be of interest to some of you. We’re looking for contributions to an edited volume on space and the nonhuman in narrative. Our focus will be on how the materiality of space shapes certain kinds of narratives (and readers’ imagination thereof), creating a platform for thinking beyond the human scale. The collection aims to bring narrative theory and cognitive approaches to literature into a conversation with the nonhuman turn. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch! All the best, David, Marco, and Marlene Call for Proposals…

HAI 2017 Call for Papers The Fifth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2017) Bielefeld, Germany ~ 17 – 20 October 2017 http://hai-conference.net/hai2017/ Submission Site: http://precisionconference.com/~hai/ Full paper deadline: 14 May 2017 HAI 2017 is the 5th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. It aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. The theme for HAI 2017 is “How autonomy shapes interaction”. During the last decade a large body of research has been devoted on increasing the interaction…

Call for Contributions to MobileHCI 2017 – the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 4th – 7th September, Vienna, Austria http://mobilehci.acm.org/2017/ Paper submissions: February 9th, 2017 Notification: April 12th, 2017 Camera-ready: May 29th, 2017 Welcome to MobileHCI 2017: MobileHCI seeks contributions in the form of innovations, insights, or analyses related to human interaction and experiences with mobility. The conference series has shaped research, development and practice in mobile devices and services for nearly two decades. In 2017, the Conference will seek to forge a new agenda for the decades to come.  This year we are…

ACII 2017 – Call for Papers Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction October 23-26, 2017 San Antonio, Texas http://www.acii2017.org The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in San Antonio, Texas on October 23-26, 2017. The Conference series is the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. A selection of the best articles will appear in a “Best of ACII2017” special section of…

Call for Papers 19th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies https://sites.google.com/site/trustworkshop/trust2017 Co-located with AAMAS 2017 (http://www.aamas2017.org) May 8-12, 2017, Sao Paulo – Brazil Submission deadline: February 7, 2017 Trust is important in many kinds of interactions, including direct or computer- mediated human interaction, human-computer interaction and among social agents; it characterizes those elements that are essential in social reliability. It also informs the selection of partners for successful multiagent coordination (for example, in robotics applications). Trust is more than communication that is robust against repudiation or interference. The reliability of information about the status of a trade partner, for…

Call for Papers LearnXDesign 2017: Beyond the Allure of the Digital – Research in the learning and teaching of design The DRS/CUMULUS/DESIGN-ED conference 27-30 June 2017 London, at Ravensbourne on the Greenwich Peninsula http://lxd2017.london Deadline: 6th February 2017 This conference will bring together researchers and practitioners with an international reach and from a wide variety of education design settings with the intention of connecting emergent models and ideas around the digital, with the scholarship of teaching and learning. We also look to issues beyond the attraction of the digital in learning: other ways of acting, knowing and becoming in design…

Call for Chapters: Integrating Multi-User Virtual Environments in Modern Classrooms Editor: Dr. Yufeng Qian Northeastern University http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2431 Proposals Submission Deadline: December 30, 2016 Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2017 Submission Date: August 30, 2017 INTRODUCTION Since its inception in 1975 as an adventure game and dubbed as MUD (multi-user dungeon), multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) has emerged as one of the most exciting instructional platforms in education. As both an instructional tool and approach, MUVE holds great potential in engaging and challenging learners in a socially situated and distributed learning environment that simulates real-life tasks and situations. However, MUVE has long…

ICAD 2017: The 23rd International Conference on Auditory Display The Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus, June 20-23, 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, SONIFICATIONS, INSTALLATIONS, COMPOSITIONS, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Co-chairs: Mark Ballora, School of Music/School of Theatre • Jeff Rimland, College of Information Sciences and Technology Paper chair: Margaret Schedel Music chair: Rob Hamilton Worshops chair: Derek Brock ThinkTank chair: Hiroko Terasawa Please check the conference website for updates: http://icad.org/icad2017/ To submit proposals online via EasyChair, go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icad17 February 20, 2017 – deadline for rough draft submissions March 6, 2017 – deadline for final submissions (anonymized) See the Submit…

Call for Papers 2017 — Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA) May 31 – June 2 Toronto, Canada Submission Deadline: January 10, 2017 The 2017 Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA/ACÉV) annual conference will be May 31 to June 2 in Toronto, Ontario in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences. This year’s Congress theme is “From Far and Wide: The Next 150”. We invite submissions from all disciplines from researchers working on or around games including digital and non-digital games. In keeping with this year’s call for proposals, we also invite…

CALL FOR PAPERS: FDG 2017 The 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) August 14-17, 2017 Cape Cod, MA (hosted by Northeastern University) http://fdg2017.org Conference theme: Celebrating the Player The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) is a major international event that seeks to promote the exchange of information concerning the foundations of digital games, technology used to develop digital games, and the study of digital games and their design, broadly construed. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including but not limited to new game technologies,…

Call for Papers: Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games Edited by Dr Katie Ellis, Dr Mike Kent & Dr Tama Leaver Internet Studies, Curtin University Abstracts Due 15 February 2017 Video games are a significant and still rapidly expanding area of popular culture. Media Access Australia estimated that in 2012 some twenty percent of gamers were people with a disability, yet, the relationship between video gaming, online gaming and disability is an area that until now has been largely under explored. This collection seeks to fill that gap. We are looking for scholars from both disability studies and…