Call for Papers ICRESS 2017: The International Conference on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards Lisbon, Portugal 20-21 October 2017 https://www.icress2017.org Submission of initial papers: 30 June, 2017 The International Conference on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the most pressing safety, ethical, legal and societal issues related to the distinct contexts where robotic technology applies. Following the pathway opened by the International Conference on Robot Ethics-ICRE 2015, the present conference will discuss how ethical and safety concerns can be shared by different stakeholders and translated into legal frameworks where technology contributes to a…

Workshop on Interaction-based Knowledge Sharing (WINKS) This workshop will take place at the 3rd Joint Ontology Workshop (JOWO) in Bolzano, Italy between 21 and 23 September 2017 Website: http://www.iiia.csic.es/winks/ Deadline for ALL submissions: Monday 17 July 2017 SCOPE This first Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing (WINKS) collocated with the third Joint Ontology Workshops (http://iaoa.org/jowo/JOWO-2017/) is fully dedicated to challenges and solutions to knowledge sharing in interaction-based environments, ranging from the Internet of Things to multi-agent systems. Gradually expanding, distributed systems heighten the need of a dynamic interactive knowledge sharing process, while at the same time an increasing heterogeneity of resources…

ACM SUI 2017 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction October 16-17, 2017 Brighton, UK http://www.sui2017.org/authors/ Twitter: @ACM_SUI FB: SpatialUserInteraction Full and Short papers deadline: June 30th 2017 We have some exciting news for SUI 2017. The best full and short papers will be granted the possibility to present again at ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2017 (ISS), which will be held immediately after SUI (also in Brighton). This year, Alex Schwartz, CEO of Owlchemy Labs, of Job Simulator fame, will give a keynote titled “Intuitive Spatial Interactions in VR”. More info at: http://www.sui2017.org/keynote/ We invite you to participate in the…

Call for Participation Realities360 – The Enhanced Realities Conference July 26-28, 2017 San Jose, California At Realities360 Conference, July 26 – 28 in San Jose, California, you can choose from a variety of sessions that will enable you to get up close and personal with enhanced reality technologies and gain the insight to put these technologies into your own training and development work. Peruse over 30 hands-on sessions where peers and industry leaders are sharing best practices, how-tos, case studies, and emerging trends: http://bit.ly/2rC4lzI. Learn more about Realities360: http://bit.ly/2qDXlgO. APPLY AR, VR, AND EXPANDED REALITIES IN YOUR CONTEXT Here’s a…

Call For Registrations Philosophy of Virtual and Augmented Reality Workshop University of Glasgow, 26th – 27th June 2017 The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience is pleased to announce the Philosophy of Virtual and Augmented Reality Workshop to be held at the University of Glasgow on Monday 26th & Tuesday 27th June. Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) devices are rapidly becoming part of our everyday lives. This emerging technology lets users experience wholly virtual environments (like distant places, times, or even fantasy worlds) in VR, or virtual objects in the real world (Pokemon in your garden, a virtual engine…

Call for Book Chapters: Cases on Immersive Virtual Reality Techniques To be published by IGI Global http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2768 Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017 Currently, we’re in the early stages of editing “Cases on Immersive Virtual Reality Techniques” to be published by IGI Global (www.igi-global.com) scheduled for release in April/May 2018. In order to strengthen the overall quality of this important publication, we’re looking for possible proposals, reviewers, and the editorial advisers for this valuable reference. Hence, I would like to invite experts from both industry and academia. If this invitation is agreeable to you and does not conflict with your…

SPECIAL ISSUE of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments Virtual and Augmented Reality for Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Vehicles Submission deadline: October 15, 2017 SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE It is forecasted that augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) automotive applications will increase road safety, bring intuitive activities to driving, and finally enhance driving experience. AR/VR technology may also help on the transition towards automated driving. AR head-up-displays (HUDs) may soon overlay 3D navigation instructions onto road geometry and moving obstacles like vulnerable road users (pedestrians, bikers, wheel-chair users) and other vehicles may be highlighted to calm down the driver-passenger and…

Call for (unpublished) works for a meta-analysis of emotional expressiveness in virtual agents and robots From: Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 Dear colleagues, For a meta-analysis of emotional expressiveness in virtual agents and robots we are seeking (unpublished) papers and (unpublished) data-sets. In addition to our literature search queries in different online libraries, we are writing the community in the attempt to gather papers that were presented in workshops without proceedings and unpublished works. We are interested in any kind of experimental study comparing different emotional displays or behaviors of virtual agents or robots (be it facial,…

Call for Papers LSR 2017 Third International Congress on Love and Sex With Robots 19-20 December, 2017 Goldsmiths, University of London, UK http://loveandsexwithrobots.org/ Submission Deadline: 1 August 2017 Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with these artificial partners. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community. The International Congress on Love and Sex…

Call for Papers 11th Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games Kraków, Poland November 29-December 1, 2017 2017.gamephilosophy.org and gamephilosophy.org Deadline for submissions is Midnight GMT, September 01, 2017 ACTION IN COMPUTER GAMES We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 11th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Kraków, Poland, November 29-December 1, 2017. The notion of action connects central topics in the study of games to philosophical problems such as questions of will, intentionality and the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Goodtechs 17 3rd EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good Including Special Session on Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life Pisa, Italy 29th November – 1st December 2017 http://goodtechs.eu/2017/show/home Deadline for submitting papers: 1st July 2017 SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE: By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and…

“The Place of Memory and Memory of Place” International Conference 14 October 2017 – Cambridge, UK Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Interdisciplinary Research Foundation Paper proposals due 30 June 2017 Memory is a major theme in contemporary life, a key to personal, social and cultural identity. Scholars have studied the concept from different perspectives and within different disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban design, and the interdisciplinary “place studies”. According to Pierre Nora, places of memory or lieux de mémoire refer to those places where “memory crystallizes and secretes itself”; the places where the exhausted capital…