Call for Papers, Abstracts, Demos and Posters 1st Workshop on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITIES AI-VR-AR 2017 in conjunction with SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017 27th-30th November 2017 Bangkok, Thailand http://aivr.ambientmediaassociation.org Submission deadline: 15 August, 2017 The workshop intends to attract a broad range of contributions to develop this scholarly field during a full day venue. We invite scholars and practitioners to discuss synergies between virtual and augmented reality (VR & AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The aim is to gather a cross-disciplinary team of experts with a background in computer science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), psychology/cognitive…

CALL FOR PAPERS The international full day workshop: “Interaction with Agents and Robots: Different Embodiments, Common Challenges” In conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) (http://iva2017.org/) Stockholm, Sweden August 27, 2017 Website: http://iar.ict.usc.edu/ Submission deadline: July 15, 2017 I. AIM AND SCOPE As hardware and enabling technologies such as speech recognition improve, virtual agents and robots are increasingly able to autonomously take part in “face-to-face” interactions with people. But engaging in these types of interactions successfully requires the complex coordination of verbal and nonverbal behaviour, as well as the ability to respond to the verbal and/or…

Call for Papers: Symposium on Game Sound and Game Music University of Jyväskylä, Finland November 16th 2017 Conference website: http://r.jyu.fi/oSU Submission deadline: 11 August 2017 Who doesn’t remember the music of Super Mario or Pacman? Music and sound are an important element of game-play experience as well as an important part of game interfaces giving crucial information to the player. Some games are focused on music, or use sound as a tool of game interaction. One could even argue that other applications could learn from the way sound and music are used in games. Developing technologies such as virtual reality…

Special Issue of Philosophy and Technology on “Information Architecture and the Design of the Infosphere” Expressions of interest due: 26 July 2007 The question of what has to be done to ensure that information can be obtained, organised, and be placed in the right context is a concern that the philosophy of information shares with information architecture; the practice – and associated discipline – of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable (“What is Information Architecture?” The Information Architecture Insitute). A dialogue between these two disciplines was initiated during a workshop held at the University of…

Call for Papers Well Played Journal Special Issue: Thriving Through Gameplay Edited by iThrive Games’ team of experts and game design faculty members from various universities, in cooperation with ETC Press. http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/well-played-journal-special-issue-cfp-thriving-through-gameplay Submissions deadline: September 1, 2017 iThrive Games explores how great games can empower teens to discover and use their unique strengths, unlock their potential, and take charge of their well-being. iThrive Games, a division of Centerstone Research Institute and funded by the D.N. Batten Foundation, facilitates the development of digital games and applications that empower teens to take an active role in their own social and emotional well-being.…

Call for Papers International Research Conference Envisioning Robots in Society – Politics, Power, and Public Space Robophilosophy 2018 / TRANSOR 2018 February 14-17, 2018 University of Vienna, Austria www.robophilosophy-conference.org Deadline for submission of abstracts for papers and posters: Oct. 31, 2017 Deadline for submission of workshop and panel proposals: Sept. 15, 2017 Focus Automation is the new key strategy for productivity gain—many countries are well on their way towards the production model of “industry 4.0” where software bot and robots will appear in all industrial sectors including service industries. The core driver of this disruption complex is robotics, producing ever more intelligent,…

Call for papers Researching Digital Cultural Heritage – International Conference Manchester, UK 30 November – 1 December 2017 #digheritage17 http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/icp/connect/events/digital-heritage-conference/ Organised by The University of Manchester and Newcastle University Submission of proposals: 21 July 2017 Digital tools, approaches, platforms and experiences have become ubiquitous within cultural heritage research and practice. The diverse facets of heritage that lend themselves to both multi/interdisciplinary and focused disciplinary investigation have made heritage a fertile ground for an abundance of methodological explorations: analogue, digital and hybrid. More recently, a range of digitally mediated frameworks, methods and tools, such as data mining, crowdsourcing, social network analysis,…

Call for Abstracts SB-AI 2017: What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence? New frontiers September, 4, 2017 – Lyon, France Satellite Workshop at ECAL 2017 – The European Conference on Artificial Life September, 4-8, 2017 http://alife.org/conference/ecal-2017 Co-organized by Luisa Damiano (University of Messina, Messina, Italy) Yutetsu Kuruma (ELSI, Tokyo, Japan) Pasquale Stano (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy) Deadline for abstracts: July, 30 2017 Traditionally Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, broadly conceived as the study of intelligence through the construction of artificial models of natural cognitive systems, has been developed in the context of computer science and robotics. Today the emergence of…

Call for Papers Ethics for New and Emerging Technologies. From moral intuitions to ethical theories Annals of the University of Bucharest – Philosophy Series http://annals.ub-filosofie.ro/index.php/annals/cfp Submission deadline extended to 9th of July 2017 We invite paper submission for a special issue of the Annals of the University of Bucharest – Philosophy Series, to be published in the second part of 2017. The editors of this special issue are Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford) and Constantin Vică (University of Bucharest). The issue is entitled Ethics for New and Emerging Technologies. From moral intuitions to ethical theories. It is often contended that…

CALL FOR PAPERS 14th annual EuroVR conference 12-14 December, 2017 Laval, France http://eurovr2017.laval-virtual.org/ Submission deadlines: Scientific/Technical papers (long & short): September 29, 2017 Industrial abstracts, Poster & Demo (long abstract): October 13, 2017 After Bremen (2014), Lecco (2015) and Athens (2016), we are pleased to announce EuroVR 2017, the annual conference of a series started thanks to the INTUITION Network of Excellence in Virtual and Augmented Reality supported by the European Commission from 2004 to 2008, then imbedded within the Joint Virtual Reality Conferences (JVRC) from 2009 to 2013. As in previous years, EuroVR 2017 will bring together people from…

Call for Papers: ‘Body Movements’ Special Issue http://press-start.gla.ac.uk/index.php/press-start/announcement/view/15 Submission deadline: 31 October 2017 Press Start is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue of the journal, and to invite submissions relating to the theme of ‘Body Movements’. With the theme of ‘Body Movements’ we invite a broad range of topics within the field of digital and analogue game studies. Authors are invited to present empirical and theoretical research in which they reflect on the body in games and play. Research topics could include, but are not limited to: The virtual body in relation to the material body Digital and board-game…

Now Accepting Submissions Frameless Labs Festival Fall 2017 At Light and Sound Interactive 2017 September 12-14, 2017 Floreano Riverside Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Rochester, NY https://magic.rit.edu/?page_id=115 http://www.lightandsound.org/ Submission closing date: July 20th Submissions of 360 Film/VR/AR/Digital performance projects are now being accepted for the inaugural Frameless Labs festival at Light and Sound Interactive being held in Rochester, NY September 12-14, 2017. Light and Sound Interactive is a unique conference and expo focused on light and sound-based technologies and their applications in emerging fields such as virtual and augmented reality, games, cinema, and music. The conference is interactive, featuring talks…