Call for Papers Material, Spatial and Sensory Encounters with the Picturebook Object 9-10 June 2017 – International Workshop at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey Deadline for proposals: August 16, 2016 From hornbooks to i-pads, children’s reading experiences have been mediated via transforming book systems in ways serving to educate, to entertain, and to facilitate narrative. Material and sensory aspects of picturebooks also have the capacity to act as a third narrative system, operating beside words and images.These aspects may engage and challenge the child to comprehend a subject through the experiential handling of the picturebook, resulting in an embodied meaning-making process.…

The 3rd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2016) To be held as part of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016) New York City, USA 27 August 2016 Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2016 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The development of robots capable of interacting with humans has made tremendous progress in the last decade, leading to an expectation that in the near future, robots will be increasingly deployed in public spaces, for example as receptionists, shop assistants, waiters, or bartenders. In these scenarios, robots must necessarily deal with situations that require socially appropriate human-robot…

Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises (AmILP 2016) held at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016) Date: August 29th, 2016 The Hague, Netherlands http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/amilp2016 AmILP 2016 Submission Deadline: May 29th, 2016 (firm deadline) Special Issue of SJR- and JCR-ranked Journal ComSIS WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND AIMS In the name of the MOSI-AGIL (Social Modelling of Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises) project (http://www.gsi.dit.upm.es/mosi/ ), we would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing an original research paper to AmILP 2016, held as part of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016).…

ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2016 October 15-16, 2016 Tokyo, Japan Co-located with UIST 2016 We invite you to participate in the (SUI, rhymes with GUI, http://sui-symposium.org/), which will be co-located with UIST 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. We seek original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of spatial user interaction. User interface evaluations are strongly encouraged for every publication in this venue.…

Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction (Symbiotic 2016) Padua, Italy, 29-30 September 2016 http://symbiotic2016.org The Fifth International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction will take place on the 29th and 30th of September 2016 and will be hosted by the Human Inspired Technology Research center of the University of Padua (Italy). HIGHLIGHTS: extended deadline, common to all categories: 15 June doctoral consortium with prominent figures from different fields and DC award best paper award confirmed keynote speaker: Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University OVERVIEW The International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction is the primary venue to present scientific works dealing with the…

Call for Papers 2nd EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good 30 November – 1 December 2016 Venice, Italy http://goodtechs.eu/2016/show/cf-papers 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 much more. In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the…

Call For Papers CEEC 2016 Eighth Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Games 28th – 30th September 2016, University Of Essex Paper Submission deadline: 15th May 2016 Games are an ideal domain to study Computational Intelligence (CI) methods because they provide affordable, competitive, dynamic, reproducible environments suitable for testing new search algorithms, pattern-based evaluation methods, or learning concepts. They are also interesting to observe, fun to play, and very attractive to students. Additionally, there is great potential for CI methods to improve the design and development of both computer games and non-digital games such…

Call for Papers to the Social Believability in Games Workshop 2016 @ Digra/FDG Dundee, Scotland August 1, 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/socialbelievabilityingames Submission of long and short papers: May 8, 2016 The Social Believability in Games Workshop intends to be a point of interaction for researchers and game developers interested in modeling, discussing, developing systems for, and the humanistic inquiry of social believability in games. This can include behaviour based on social and behavioural science theories and models, systems for SBG frameworks, approaches, methodologies, theories, interpretations, social affordances when interacting with game worlds and more. We invite participants from a multitude of disciplines…

Call for Papers: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS): Special Issue on Multisensory Human-Computer Interaction http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-multisensory-human-computer-interaction IMPORTANT DATES Expression of interest (400 words): July 1th, 2016 Submission deadline: August 1st, 2016 First round of notifications: October 10th, 2016 Final round of notifications: April 23rd, 2017 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS Marianna Obrist (University of Sussex, UK) Nimesha Ranasinghe (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Charles Spence (University of Oxford, UK) SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Our interactions with technology are primarily limited to the senses of vision and audition, whilst increasingly involving touch. Even though there is a growing number of researchers working…

Call for Papers MHMC 2016 – International Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Industrial Human-Machine Communication In connection with the 21st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation September 6, 2016, Berlin http://etfa2016.org/images/track-cfp/MHMC_CfP.pdf Deadline for submission of workshop papers: May 20 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Nowadays, industrial environments are full of sophisticated computer-controlled machines. In addition, recent developments in pervasive and ubiquitous computing provide a further support for advanced activity control. Even if the exploitation of these technologies is very often committed to specialized workers, who have been purposely trained to use complex equipments, easy and effective interaction is a…

International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies (ERM4CT 2016) in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2016, Tokyo www.erm4ct.cogsy.de Submission deadline: August 28, 2016 The major goal in human computer interaction (HCI) research and applications is to improve the interaction between humans and computers. As interaction is often very specific for an individual and generally of multimodal nature, the current trend of multi-modal user-adaptable HCI systems arose over the past years. These systems are designed as companions capable of assisting their users based on the users’ needs, preferences, personality and affective state. Companion systems are dependent on reliable emotion…

Simulation Based Training – the Key to Military Operational Capability Tuesday, 22 November 2016 – Wednesday, 23 November 2016 Royal Aeronautical Society, London, UK http://www.aerosociety.com/FSGNOV16 Abstracts due: 6 May 2016 Military planners and policy makers, in addition to dealing with ongoing operations of various levels of intensity, face an increasingly unpredictable world which poses an unprecedented range of potential conflicts. Threats come from state and non-state actors, and emerge from breakdown and chaos in which there are not only ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’. International alliances are temporarily formed for specific campaigns and may consist of both well integrated allies…