Call for Papers New Horizons in VR: Advances in Immersive Media for the Benefit of People International conference on the human aspects of immersive media Berlin, Germany, 14/15 December 2017 Venue: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte Jointly organized by: ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) Section “Digital Games Research” NCRC (NeuroCure Clinical Research Center) and CSB (Center for Stroke Research Berlin) Immersive media (IM) such as virtual and augmented/mixed reality (V/A/MR) present new ways of experiencing and interacting with virtual, real and hybrid environments. With consumer VR having arrived and several major technology companies preparing AR/MR products and…

AAMAS 2018, the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems July 10-15, 2018 in Stockholm http://aamas18.ifaamas.org Important Dates: Abstract Submission: 10th of November 2017 (23:59 UTC-12) Full Paper Submission: 14th of November 2017 (23:59 UTC-12) Rebuttal Phase: 9th-10th of January 2018 (23:59 UTC-12) Author Notification: 24th of January 2018 (23:59 UTC-12) AAMAS, the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is the leading scientific conference for research on autonomous agents and multiagent systems. It will be co-located with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)/European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) and the International Conference on Machine Learning…

Call for Papers The Mind-Technology Problem – Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artifacts Deadline: 31st of January, 2018 We invite chapter contributions for the volume “The Mind-Technology Problem – Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artifacts” forthcoming in the book series Studies in Brain and Mind (Springer). This book explores the relation between philosophy of mind and emerging technologies. Technologies that only recently seemed to be science fiction are becoming part of everyday life. Our life is increasingly saturated with ‘smart’ artifacts. The ubiquitous and mobile Internet amounts to a radically new epistemic and cognitive environment which we already…

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Special Issue Call for Papers: Designing with and for Users on the Autism Spectrum http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/designing-with-and-for-users-on-the-autism-spectrum Submissions due: 3 September 2017 Autism is a lifelong developmental condition that affects how a person communicates with and relates to other people, and to the world around them. It is estimated that around 1 in 68 people are autistic. Autism is also a spectrum condition, which means that it affects different people in different ways. Some autistic people have communication impairments and some also have a learning disability. However, a substantial proportion is of average or advanced intellectual ability…

Call for Papers Special Issue of Philosophy and Technology on “Information Architecture and the Design of the Infosphere” Deadline for expressions of interest: 26th of July 2017 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 Institute). A dialogue between these two disciplines was initiated during a workshop…

AAAI Fall Symposium: AI for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) November 9-11, 2017 — Arlington, Virginia, USA https://ai-hri.github.io/ Submission Deadline (Extended): July 27, 2017 AI-HRI (The AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)) seeks to bring together the subset of the HRI community focused on the application of AI solutions to HRI problems. Building on the success of the three previous years’ symposia, the central purpose of this year’s symposium is to address the statements “HRI is an AI problem” and “AI is an HRI problem”. The symposium will include current research talks and discussions both to share…

Call for Abstracts Artificial Ethics: moral and practical challenges University of Southampton | Department of Philosophy 18th and 19th December 2017 In association with the Southampton Ethics Centre and the University of Southampton Research Group in Autonomous Systems Deadline: October 23, 2017 We invite extended abstracts on the theme of machine ethics. Autonomous systems are set to become ever more integrated into human society. We have self-driving cars, pilotless aircraft. There are systems approving mortgages and offering financial advice. This symposium will explore the ethical challenges – both theoretical and practical – which surround the development and implementation of such…

Special Issue (Research Topic) on “Cognitive Aspects of Interactive Technology Use: From Computers to Smart Objects and Autonomous Agents” at Frontiers in Psychology Journal http://www.frontiersin.org/Cognitive_Science/researchtopics/Cognitive_Aspects_of_Interactive_Technology_Use_From_Computers_to_Smart_Objects_and_Autonomous_Agents/5739 Submission deadline: Nov 15, 2017 MOTIVATION Although several researchers have questioned the idea that human technology use is rooted in unique “superior” cognitive skills, it still appears that only humans are capable of producing and interacting with complex technologies. Different paradigms and cognitive models of “human-computer interaction” have been proposed in recent years to ground the development of novel devices and account for how humans integrate them in their daily life. Psychology has been involved…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Synthetic Method and Robotic Design Workshop A Focus on Morphology and Body Dynamics Facilitating Social Interaction @ICDL-Epirob 2017, Lisbon, Portugal (http://www.icdl-epirob.org) September, 18, 2017 Co-organizers: L. Damiano (University of Messina, Messina, Italy) I. Ocnarescu (Strate Design School, Paris, France) Website: http://smrd2017.weebly.com/ Deadline: August, 7, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: August, 17, 2017 Contact: [email protected]; [email protected] SMRD 2017 is a frontier cross-disciplinary workshop dedicated to discuss ways, goals, possibilities and limits of the application of the Synthetic Method to the design of body parts and dynamics for social robots that can facilitate their social interactions with humans. Since the…

Call for Papers ECCE 2017 Workshop on Robots in Contexts: Human-Robot Interaction as Physically and Socially Embedded September 19, 2017, Umeå, Sweden http://ecce2017.eace.net Submission deadline: July 31, 2017 This one-day workshop will be held as part of ECCE 2017 (the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Umeå, Sweden, September 20-22, 2017, ecce2017.eace.net) The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended papers to the Special Issue on Robots in Context (www.degruyter.com/page/1540) THEME AND AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP Robotic technologies are being increasingly integrated into real life settings. The adoption of robots by the society is transcending the initial…

Call for Participation Workshop on Decision Theory & the Future of Artificial Intelligence 28-31 July 2017 Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom http://www.decision-ai.org Attendance is free but seating is limited DESCRIPTION: There is increasing interest in the challenges of ensuring that the long-term development of artificial intelligence (AI) is safe and beneficial. Moreover, despite different perspectives, there is much common ground between mathematical and philosophical decision theory, on the one hand, and AI, on the other. The aim of this workshop – intended to be the first in a regular series organised jointly by MCMP at LMU and CFI and CSER…

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…