Call for Papers WSCG 2017 – 25 Anniversary Conference: WSCG International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision May 29 – June 2, 2017 http://www.wscg.cz, http://www.wscg.eu Venue: Primavera Congress Center, http://www.primaverahotel.cz/ Pilsen [Plzen] (City of Beer) close to Prague [Praha], Czech Republic Pilsen 2015 – European Capital of Culture Workshop and session proposals due: January 20 Papers due: February 20, 2017 MAIN TOPICS (BUT NOT LIMITED TO – SEE WEB FOR DETAILS) Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modeling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging,…

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Design Special Issue on Designing for Systems of Smart Things http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/ijdesign/announcement Full Paper Due: 15 April 2017 Systems of smart things, or IoT systems, have entered our everyday life and are shaping and enriching it in many ways. Yet design and design research have lagged behind in exploring the fascinating qualities of these systems of connected things, with their inherent complexities and emerging properties. Our next special issue of the International Journal of Design, therefore, aims at establishing a platform for design research on systems of smart things. We hope this platform will become…

Call for Participation iGBL 2017 The 7th Irish Conference on Game-Based Learning Cork City, Ireland 22nd – 23rd June 2017 http://www.igbl-conference.com/ Abstract submission deadline: 22nd of February The 7th Irish Conference on Game-Based Learning (iGBL2017) will be hosted in Cork City at the Clayton Hotel on the 22nd and 23rd June 2017. Contributions are welcomed from a wide range of topics and may be research or practitioner-based. We welcome abstracts from a wide range of stakeholders, including researchers, instructors, or students, who will have the opportunity to conduct workshops, present research results, or provide insights on how they managed to…

Call for Papers eNTERFACE’17 – 13th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces Porto, Portugal July 3rd to 28th, 2017 http://artes.ucp.pt/enterface17/ Submission deadline: 13 January 2017 Following the success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops held in Mons (Belgium, 2005), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), Istanbul (Turkey, 2007), Paris (France, 2008), Genova (Italy, 2009), Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2010), Plzen (Czech Republic, 2011), Metz (France, 2012), Lisbon (Portugal, 2013), Bilbao (Spain, 2014), Mons (Belgium, 2015), Twente (Netherlands 2016), the Digital Creativity Centre (CCD) of the Portuguese Catholics University have the pleasure to host eNTERFACE’17, the 13th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, in Porto, Portugal from July…

CHI 2017 Workshop on Designing Speech, Acoustic, and Multimodal Interactions (DSLI 2017) Sunday, May 7, 2017 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO (USA) http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/dsli2017/ Call for position papers January 25th, 2017: Submission of position papers February 8th, 2017: Notification of acceptance February 22nd, 2017: Camera-ready submissions Traditional interfaces are continuously being replaced by mobile, wearable, or pervasive interfaces. Yet when it comes to the input and output modalities enabling our interactions, we have yet to fully embrace some of the most natural forms of communication and information processing that humans possess: speech, language, gestures, thoughts. Very little HCI attention has been…

CALL FOR PAPERS VRIC 2017 19TH ACM VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Laval (France), March 22 – 24, 2017 http://www.laval-virtual.org/en/scientific-conferences/vric/vric-2017.html Sponsored by ACM Logistics partner: Laval Virtual   Partnership with international journals for special issues: IJVR & JVRB The annual VRIC – Laval Virtual conference is a global forum for researchers and engineers from industry, academia and research institutes to discuss and exchange ideas, methods and results on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things uses and technologies. The scope of the conference covers a variety of topics ranging from theoretical developments to industrial applications and case studies. IMPORTANT DATES Submission…

C&T 2017 – Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference: Technology for the Common Good 26-30 June 2017, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France http://comtech.community/ The C&T proceedings are part of the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM. Print the flyer to advertise for the conference in your network: http://comtech.community/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ct2017_flyer.pdf Deadline for papers (full and short), workshop proposals and case studies: February 1, 2017 ABOUT C&T The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies.…

Call for Papers British HCI 2017 3-6 July, 2017 University of Sunderland’s St. Peter’s Campus Full and short papers deadline: March 8, 2017 The 31st British Human Computer Interaction Conference will be held from the 3rd to the 6th of July, 2017, at the University of Sunderland’s St. Peter’s Campus. The conference is organised by the HCI research groups at the University of Sunderland and Edinburgh Napier University in conjunction with the Interaction Specialist Group of the British Computer Society. The BCS HCI 2017 conference theme is Digital Make-Believe. Make-believe refers to our expansive, “what-if” thinking, ubiquitous in HCI.…

Call for Long and Short Papers ICMI 2017, 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Glasgow, Scotland November 13-17th, 2017 Full details including Calls for Demos, Grand Challenges, Workshops and Doctoral Consortium can be found at https://icmi.acm.org/2017 Upcoming Submission Deadlines Grand Challenge proposal due on January 13th 2017 Workshop proposals on February 22nd 2017 Long and short papers on May 12th 2017 (11:59pm GMT) The 19th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference…

Call for Full Papers EICS 2017 – ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 26-29, 2017 – Lisbon, Portugal http://eics.acm.org/2017/ Abstracts due January 9, full texts due January 16 OVERVIEW EICS 2017 is the ninth international conference devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems. Work presented at EICS covers the full range of aspects that come into play when “engineering” interactive systems, such as innovations in the design, development, deployment, verification and validation of interactive systems. Topics of interest include a.o. the design and development of systems incorporating new interaction techniques and multimodal interaction, multi-device interaction, mobile and pervasive systems,…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Internet of Things for Active and Assisted Living (IoTAAL) In conjunction with IEEE Global IoT Summit 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – 6-9 June 2017 http://www.tlc.dii.univpm.it/iotaalms/iotaal2017/ Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2017 MOTIVATION AND SCOPE Increased life expectancy and decreased birth rates are challenging developed countries worldwide, with a rapidly growing elderly population, and a declining workforce. These two contextual phenomena are generating new needs, as ageing increases the probability of developing physical and cognitive impairments, requiring new and more effective ways to provide support and care. According to the United Nations, the elderly,…

Call for Papers 48th International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) Conference on Simulation Games for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures Delft, The Netherlands, close to The Hague, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam July 10 – July 14, 2017 in cooperation with Saganet – Simulation and Gaming Association, The Netherlands For updates and further information visit www.isaga2017.com Submission is OPEN, closing on February 28, 2017 Call for Papers [PDF]: http://isaga2017.com/index.php/conference/call-for-papers MAIN TOPICS (but not limited to) Methodologies for the design of games that aim for more than entertainment Methodologies for research on simulation games, for instance, measuring behaviour and learning outcomes Applications of gaming…