Call for Papers: Video Games and Virtual Ethics Conference Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London July 21-22, 2017 Essay submissions due: 1 March 2017 Is it morally wrong to play violent video games? Academics across numerous disciplines have taken an interest in these issues. Excellent work can be found in philosophy, psychology, media studies, sociology, and literary studies. However academics within these disciplines often do not talk to each other about their shared interest in games. With this conference, our aim is to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue on these issues. Papers are invited that deal with issues…

Call for Proposals Language Game[s] Chelsea College of Arts London, UK Friday 5 May 2017 http://www.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/research/events/language-games-call-out/ Deadline: 6 March 2017 Call for proposals for Language Game[s], a one-day symposium that will look at the association between language and human consciousness, and how developments in technology might affect this relationship. At present, artificial language systems such as Siri and Amazon Echo mimic forms of human speech, but cannot replicate the cognitive processes which lie behind language. As technology develops and artificial language systems become ever more autonomous, how will this affect us? What is language, when it is no longer made…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Cognitive Assistants International Journal of Human-Computer Studies ELSEVIER JCR Impact Factor: 1.476 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.815 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/call-for-papers/cognitive-assistants Manuscript submissions due: April 30, 2017 INTRODUCTION Cognitive Assistants (CA) are a relatively new concept, advancing the Cognitive Orthotics concept that is only focused on direct assistance, to people with cognitive or physical disabilities, and expanding the area to include complex platforms that include sensors, actuators, monitoring abilities and decision processes. CA is an area containing technologies such as cognitive assistants, multi-agent systems, robotics and applications (such as e-health and e-learning), among others. Essentially, CA is…

Call for Papers Wearable Robotics for Assistance and Rehabilitation (WRAR) A Special Session within the coming CLAWAR 2017 – 20th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines Oporto, Portugal, September 11-13, 2017 https://clawar.org/clawar2017/ Theme: Rehabilitation and assistive robotics Submission deadline: 01 February 2017 ABOUT THE SPECIAL SESSION: The adoption of novel active wearable devices, either for daily assistance or clinical rehabilitation, requires new approaches to ultimately enable efficient treatments and better facilitation of movement for individuals who present loss of motor abilities. In particular, since these devices interact directly with humans there are…

VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence – visum 2017 7 – 14, July 2017 Porto, Portugal visum.inesctec.pt Application deadline: 06 March 2017 VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence – visum 2017 is the fifth edition of the Summer School that aims to gather Ph.D. candidates, Post-Doctoral scholars and researchers from academia and industry with research interests in computer vision and machine intelligence. visum is organized by INESC TEC in the scope of the FourEyes project. FourEyes aims to make critical and tangible advances in the digital media sector and transform the means by which multimedia content is created, distributed and consumed.…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION MICI 2017: Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces Workshop at CHI 2017 May 7, 2017, Denver, CO http://mici2017.org Submit by Jan 31, 2017 Enabled by artificial intelligence techniques, we are witnessing the rise of a new paradigm of computational creativity support: mixed-initiative creative interfaces (MICIs) put human and computer in a tight interactive loop where both take turns suggesting, producing, evaluating, modifying, selecting creative outputs. This paradigm could broaden and amplify creative capacity for all, but is today mostly developed and studied in game AI. This one-day workshop at CHI 2017 therefore convenes CHI and game researchers to advance mixed-initiative…

Call for Submissions to HRI 2017: 3rd Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction Growing-Up Hand in Hand with Robots: Designing and Evaluating Child-Robot Interaction from a Developmental Perspective 06 March 2017, Vienna, Austria Website: https://childrobotinteraction.org/ Twitter: #workshopCRI Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CRIresearch/ Please send your paper through the following submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpcri2017 IMPORTANT DATES Jan 31st 2017: Submission deadline Feb 6th 2017: Notification of acceptance Feb 20th 2017: Final version due Mar 6th 2017: Workshop in Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT Robots are becoming part of children’s care, entertainment, education, social assistance, and therapy. A steadily growing body of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research shows that child-robot…

CHI PLAY 2017 | CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 4th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Amsterdam, The Netherlands October 15 – 18, 2017 CHIPLAY.org | #chiplay17 CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high quality research in games and HCI, as foundations for the future of digital play. To this end, the conference blends academic research papers, interactive demos,…

Call for Submissions 2017 Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC) Monday 28 August – Thursday 31 August 2017 International Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia http://www.simulationcongress.com/ Online submissions close: Wednesday 22 March 2017 The Organising Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Submissions for the 2nd Annual Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC), hosted by Simulation Australasia (SimAust), the national body for those working in simulation throughout Australasia. The ASC will once again bring together the SimHealth, SimTecT and Serious Games streams, along with opportunities for a number of joint sessions of mutual interest. The 2017 Australasian Simulation Congress will explore the theme of People…

Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media (Penn State Univ Press) Penn State University Press will publish issue 1 of the newly established “Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media” in 2017. The initial 2 issues will include invited papers only. It is already possible to submit your papers, which you can do via the following website: http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JPHS.html The “Journal of Posthuman Studies” will be presented officially during the 9th Beyond Humanism Conference which will take place at John Cabot University in Rome [on the 20th of July until the 22nd of July 2017; abstracts due April 1 –ML]. It…

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media Special Issue Call for Papers: Bodily Extensions and Performance (Avatars, Prosthetics, Cyborgs, Posthumans) Guest editors: Sita Popat and Sarah Whatley EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31st January 2017 Full manuscripts should be submitted by email to s.popat@leeds.ac.uk Publication: Autumn 2017 in Volume 13, Issue 2 The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media is seeking contributions for a special issue on Bodily Extensions and Performance. Bodily extensions are becoming everyday occurrences for many people, e.g. contact lenses, digital avatars, prosthetic limbs. Bodily extensions attach to or connect with bodies to adjust, change, or augment…

Call for Papers GFF 2017: Realities and World Building University of Vienna, September 20th-23rd 2017 Bio and abstracts due: February 28th 2017 The creation and experience of “new” worlds is a central appeal of the fantastic. From Middle Earth to variations of the Final Frontier, the fantastic provides a seemingly infinite number of fantastic “worlds” and world concepts. It develops and varies social and cultural systems, ideologies, biological and climatic conditions, cosmologies and different time periods. Its potential and self-conception between the possible and the impossible offer perspectives to nearly every field of research. The plurality and concurrent existence of…