Call for Papers ICIDS 2017: 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE DIGITAL STORYTELLING 14-17, November, 2017 Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) Funchal, Madeira, Portugal http://icids2017.m-iti.org/ Submission deadlines: Papers: June 23rd, 2017 Workshops: July 7th, 2017 Demos, Posters and Doctoral Consortium (DC): August 4th, 2017 Art Exhibitions: August 4th, 2017 This year, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2017) will take place in Funchal, Madeira Islands, Portugal and be hosted by the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute. ICIDS has its origin in a series of related international conferences that ran between 2001 and 2007. Since 2008, ICIDS became the premier annual…

Call for Papers GHItaly17 – 1st Workshop on Games-Human Interaction In Conjunction with The 12th Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter http://sites.unica.it/chitaly2017/ghitaly/ Deadline for submitting papers: May 28 CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st Workshop on Games-Human Interaction (GHItaly 2017) aims at bringing together scholars and industry practitioners to establish a common ground on the topic. Main goal of the event is to spur discussion, exchange of ideas, and development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on HCI applied to design and production of video games. The application range of video games has to…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CCW 2017: Co-Creation Workshop Workshop at ICCC 2017, the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity June 19, Atlanta, GA Workshop website: sites.google.com/view/cocreationworkshop Submit by April 21, 2017 THE WORKSHOP The first Co-Creation Workshop (CCW 2017) will be hosted in Atlanta, GA at the International Conference on Computational Creativity on June 19, 2017. Co-creation is a new interdisciplinary research topic that asks questions related to human-computer interaction, computational creativity, and cognitive science. It investigates how two or more agents interact to produce emergent meaning and artifacts in a participatory process of meaning building (i.e. participatory sense-making). Collaboration is…

Call for Papers Special Session – SS07. Safe Human-Robot Collaboration 22nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies And Factory Automation (ETFA 2017) September 12-15, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.etfa2017.org Deadline for submission of special sessions papers: April 9, 2017 The special session is promoted within the FourByThree project (http://www.fourbythree.eu/ – FoF H2020) and is organized in synergy within the “Track 7 – Intelligent Robots & Systems” of ETFA 2017. Industrial robots have previously demonstrated their excellence in industrial applications requiring dexterity, accuracy and efficiency. This is especially the case for large production batches, repetitive operations, and risky or unpleasant working conditions.…

Call for Posters and Demos – PervasiveHealth 2017 23 – 26 May 2017, Barcelona, Spain http://pervasivehealth.org/2017/show/cf-exhibits-and-demos Important Dates Submission deadline: 31st March 2017 (5:00pm PST) Notification of acceptance: 21st April 2017 Camera-ready deadline: 1st May 2017 OVERVIEW The 11th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2017, invites proposals that address innovative and important topics related to the application of pervasive technologies in the field of healthcare. This call is divided into two categories: Posters and Demos. POSTERS aim at reporting on the progress of ongoing research and insights into the lessons learned from current (industrial, practitioners, government,…

Call for Papers AIIDE-17 – Thirteenth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainments October 5-9, 2017 Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah http://www.aiide.org/ CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/aiide2017/home/call-for-papers Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiide2017 Submission Deadlines: May 1 (Workshop / Tutorial Proposals), May 25 (Papers / Demos / Doctoral Consortium / Playable Experiences) Hello everyone! I am writing on behalf of this year’s AIIDE organizing committee to invite y’all to participate in the Thirteenth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainments, to be held in Snowbird, Utah, October 5 – 9. AIIDE-17 provides a meeting place for academic AI…

Call for Papers DESIGNING HUMOR IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HUMIC 2017) Mumbai, India, 25 or 26 September 2017 http://workshop.colips.org/humic/ Workshop organized in conjunction with INTERACT 2017 Mumbai, India, 25-29 September 2017 https://www.interact2017.org/about Paper Submission Deadline: 26 April 2017 INTRODUCTION Humour is pervasive in human social relationships and one of the most common ways to produce a positive affect in others. Research studies have shown that innocent humour increases likeability, boosts friendship, alleviates stress, encourages creativity and improves teamwork. Humour embraces various types of expression – both verbal and non-verbal – and can be used to enhance the interaction outcome while being…

Call for Participation Altered Minds | Virtual Futures Salon Tuesday 21 March 2017 18:30 – 21:00 GMT The Hospital Club, London (UK) This event is almost SOLD OUT, but you can join us on YouTube for our livestream in 360 degree video. We will be taking questions from the online audience and would love if you could help us spread the message through Thunderclap. FINAL FEW TICKETS WATCH THE 360 DEGREE LIVESTREAM ON YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION Virtual Futures presents a panel discussion on virtual reality with an artist who will live a simulated life in VR for 28 days, an academic…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics (AIMaViG’17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 – 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: aimavig2017@fedcsis.org Papers due May 10, 2017 (strict deadline) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMaViG’17 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE…

Call for Participation Hacking Flavour Perception: Design, Technology & Gastrophysics by Charles Spence and Yi-Chuan Chen (AHRC, Rethinking the Senses) Monday 27th March 2017, 10:00 – 17:00 Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College, Oxford Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD, UK Free tickets and more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hacking-flavour-perception-design-technology-gastrophysics-tickets-32602544087 While enjoying a meal, our brain is continuously combining information about what is detected by the tongue with what we smell, not to mention the expectations set by what we see, hear, and feel. Traditionally, the sensory cues that are combined in the perception of flavour would all have originated from the food and drink itself.…

Call for Papers COGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN A Workshop at IJCAI 2017 – 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Melbourne, Australia – Aug 19-25 2017 Co-Chairs: Mehul Bhatt \ Antonio Lieto University of Bremen \ University of Turin, and ICAR-CNR http://hcc.uni-bremen.de/codesign2017/workshops/melbourne/ Title and abstracts due April 18 onwards ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design will bring together interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on human-centred design particularly focussing on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Cognitive Systems supported next-generation design technologies. The workshop addresses cognitive technology assisted human-centred design conception, analysis,…

FTC 2017 – Future Technologies Conference 2017 29-30 November 2017 Vancouver, BC, Canada Conference Website: http://saiconference.com/FTC2017 Early Bird Submission (Opportunity to save $100): 15 March 2017 Regular Submission: 15 April 2017 Join us for FTC 2017, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security & Communications. The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers. Researchers, academics and technologists from…