Call for Papers AIIDE-17 – Thirteenth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainments October 5-9, 2017 Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah http://www.aiide.org/ CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/aiide2017/home/call-for-papers Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiide2017 Submission Deadlines: May 1 (Workshop / Tutorial Proposals), May 25 (Papers / Demos / Doctoral Consortium / Playable Experiences) Hello everyone! I am writing on behalf of this year’s AIIDE organizing committee to invite y’all to participate in the Thirteenth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainments, to be held in Snowbird, Utah, October 5 – 9. AIIDE-17 provides a meeting place for academic AI…

Call for Papers DESIGNING HUMOR IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HUMIC 2017) Mumbai, India, 25 or 26 September 2017 http://workshop.colips.org/humic/ Workshop organized in conjunction with INTERACT 2017 Mumbai, India, 25-29 September 2017 https://www.interact2017.org/about Paper Submission Deadline: 26 April 2017 INTRODUCTION Humour is pervasive in human social relationships and one of the most common ways to produce a positive affect in others. Research studies have shown that innocent humour increases likeability, boosts friendship, alleviates stress, encourages creativity and improves teamwork. Humour embraces various types of expression – both verbal and non-verbal – and can be used to enhance the interaction outcome while being…

Call for Participation Altered Minds | Virtual Futures Salon Tuesday 21 March 2017 18:30 – 21:00 GMT The Hospital Club, London (UK) This event is almost SOLD OUT, but you can join us on YouTube for our livestream in 360 degree video. We will be taking questions from the online audience and would love if you could help us spread the message through Thunderclap. FINAL FEW TICKETS WATCH THE 360 DEGREE LIVESTREAM ON YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION Virtual Futures presents a panel discussion on virtual reality with an artist who will live a simulated life in VR for 28 days, an academic…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics (AIMaViG’17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 – 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: aimavig2017@fedcsis.org Papers due May 10, 2017 (strict deadline) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMaViG’17 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE…

Call for Participation Hacking Flavour Perception: Design, Technology & Gastrophysics by Charles Spence and Yi-Chuan Chen (AHRC, Rethinking the Senses) Monday 27th March 2017, 10:00 – 17:00 Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College, Oxford Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD, UK Free tickets and more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hacking-flavour-perception-design-technology-gastrophysics-tickets-32602544087 While enjoying a meal, our brain is continuously combining information about what is detected by the tongue with what we smell, not to mention the expectations set by what we see, hear, and feel. Traditionally, the sensory cues that are combined in the perception of flavour would all have originated from the food and drink itself.…

Call for Papers COGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN A Workshop at IJCAI 2017 – 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Melbourne, Australia – Aug 19-25 2017 Co-Chairs: Mehul Bhatt \ Antonio Lieto University of Bremen \ University of Turin, and ICAR-CNR http://hcc.uni-bremen.de/codesign2017/workshops/melbourne/ Title and abstracts due April 18 onwards ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design will bring together interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on human-centred design particularly focussing on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Cognitive Systems supported next-generation design technologies. The workshop addresses cognitive technology assisted human-centred design conception, analysis,…

FTC 2017 – Future Technologies Conference 2017 29-30 November 2017 Vancouver, BC, Canada Conference Website: http://saiconference.com/FTC2017 Early Bird Submission (Opportunity to save $100): 15 March 2017 Regular Submission: 15 April 2017 Join us for FTC 2017, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security & Communications. The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers. Researchers, academics and technologists from…

Call for papers (long and short papers), posters, workshops mLearn 2017 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning 30 October – 1 November Larnaca Cyprus http://iamlearn.org/mlearn The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world’s largest international…

Purposeful 2: VR with Purpose Thursday 30th March at 6pm @ Century Club Soho, London More info and RSVP here: http://preloaded.com/purposeful2/ Spaces are limited, but hope to see as many of you as possible. Last year Preloaded (preloaded.com) launched an event series called Purposeful with the aim of bringing together like-minded creators, content experts and curators (amongst others!) to explore pertinent topics relating to purposeful play. Join us for Purposeful 2 when we will explore the potential for VR to deliver transformational experiences for audiences and organisations through a set of ‘micro talks’ followed by a showcase of emerging technology…

Call for Papers Workshop on Serious Moral Games at the 48th International Simulation and Gaming Association conference (ISAGA 2017) Delft, the Netherlands, 10-14 July 2017 Extended deadline for submission – papers:  20 March 2017 Deadline for submission – game demo:  31 March 2017 Dear All, If you are interested in the use of video games for purposes of ethics training / moral education, we’d like to make you aware of a thematic workshop on Serious Moral Games, which we are organizing at the ISAGA Conference in Delft (10.-14.07.2017). The purpose of this thematic session is to bring together experts from…

[NOTE: I wasn’t able to find this journal via Google searches. –Matthew]   CALL FOR PAPERS FOR La valle dell’Eden/East of Eden, 31/2017 Game studies and the humanities History, critique, and perspectives on a dialogue Edited by Ricardo Fassone, Ph.D Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università degli Studi di Torino http://unito.academia.edu/RiccardoFassone Deadline for abstracts: April 17, 2017 The study of video games has historically been at the centre of an interdisciplinary dialogue aimed at addressing the technological nature of the medium, its social and discoursive practices, and its stylistic, asethetic, and visual traits. Disciplines such as design studies, HCI, and computer…

Call for Papers Second International Conference “DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & GLOBAL SOCIETY” (DTGS’17) June 21-23, 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia Website: http://dtgs.ifmo.ru Paper Submission Deadline: 20 March 2017 DTGS’17 is co-organized by the by ITMO University and Higher School of Economics (HSE), St. Petersburg, held during the Information Society Week. The mission of the DTGS is to serve as a common platform for scholars and practitioners to discuss the transformative impact of digital technology on the way we work and live, with special emphasis on socio-technical aspects of cyberspace. DTGS’17 is focused on the ICT-enabled and ICT-transformed behavior in different spheres of…