Call for Participation DiGRA 2017: The 10th Digital Games Research Association Conference We are delighted to announce the Call for Participation for DiGRA 2017, to be held July 3-6 2017, at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. DiGRA 2017 will bring together a diverse international community of interdisciplinary researchers engaged in cutting edge research in the field of game studies. DiGRA 2017 is supported by Swinburne University of Technology, RMIT, The University of Sydney and The University of Melbourne. The conference welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics associated with studies of games and play, including, but not…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications During AISB 2017 Convention http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk/index.html 18-21st April 2017, Bath, UNITED KINGDOM http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~ddp/aisb17cme/ Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2017 OVERVIEW Contemporary emotion modelling includes many projects attempting to understand natural emotions or to implement simulated emotions in chatbots, avatars or robots, for practical uses of many sorts from entertainment to caring. The numerous models of affective phenomena in the literature differ in important respects. They differ in how they describe and explain a range of phenomena, including the nature and order of perceptual, cognitive and emotional mental processes and…

CALL FOR PAPERS: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2017) September 19-22, 2017, Umeå, Sweden http://www.informatik.umu.se/ecce2017/ Due date for all submissions: February 28, 2017 ECCE 2017 is the 35th annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics. This leading conference in human-technology interaction and cognitive engineering provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences from a variety of domains. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners, which address the broad spectrum of challenges and opportunities in this area. The main theme of ECCE 2017 is Transforming the everyday. The role of digital…

Call For Papers, Posters, Tutorials And Workshops Web3D 2017 The 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology Date:   5-7 June 2017 Location: Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Website:  http://web3d2017.org Papers submission deadline: 13 February 2017 2017 will be a historic year for 3D on the Web. We are seeing the explosion of WebVR and the potential of WebAR just around the corner. With WebGL now widely supported by default in modern browsers, tools such as X3D, X3DOM, Cobweb, three.js, glTF, and A-Frame VR are allowing nearly anyone to create Web3D content. Commercial game engines such as Unity and Unreal…

Dear all, Below is a Call for Proposals that may be of interest to some of you. We’re looking for contributions to an edited volume on space and the nonhuman in narrative. Our focus will be on how the materiality of space shapes certain kinds of narratives (and readers’ imagination thereof), creating a platform for thinking beyond the human scale. The collection aims to bring narrative theory and cognitive approaches to literature into a conversation with the nonhuman turn. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch! All the best, David, Marco, and Marlene Call for Proposals…

HAI 2017 Call for Papers The Fifth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2017) Bielefeld, Germany ~ 17 – 20 October 2017 http://hai-conference.net/hai2017/ Submission Site: http://precisionconference.com/~hai/ Full paper deadline: 14 May 2017 HAI 2017 is the 5th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. It aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. The theme for HAI 2017 is “How autonomy shapes interaction”. During the last decade a large body of research has been devoted on increasing the interaction…

Call for Contributions to MobileHCI 2017 – the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 4th – 7th September, Vienna, Austria http://mobilehci.acm.org/2017/ Paper submissions: February 9th, 2017 Notification: April 12th, 2017 Camera-ready: May 29th, 2017 Welcome to MobileHCI 2017: MobileHCI seeks contributions in the form of innovations, insights, or analyses related to human interaction and experiences with mobility. The conference series has shaped research, development and practice in mobile devices and services for nearly two decades. In 2017, the Conference will seek to forge a new agenda for the decades to come.  This year we are…

ACII 2017 – Call for Papers Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction October 23-26, 2017 San Antonio, Texas http://www.acii2017.org The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in San Antonio, Texas on October 23-26, 2017. The Conference series is the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. A selection of the best articles will appear in a “Best of ACII2017” special section of…

Call for Papers 19th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies https://sites.google.com/site/trustworkshop/trust2017 Co-located with AAMAS 2017 (http://www.aamas2017.org) May 8-12, 2017, Sao Paulo – Brazil Submission deadline: February 7, 2017 Trust is important in many kinds of interactions, including direct or computer- mediated human interaction, human-computer interaction and among social agents; it characterizes those elements that are essential in social reliability. It also informs the selection of partners for successful multiagent coordination (for example, in robotics applications). Trust is more than communication that is robust against repudiation or interference. The reliability of information about the status of a trade partner, for…

Call for Papers LearnXDesign 2017: Beyond the Allure of the Digital – Research in the learning and teaching of design The DRS/CUMULUS/DESIGN-ED conference 27-30 June 2017 London, at Ravensbourne on the Greenwich Peninsula http://lxd2017.london Deadline: 6th February 2017 This conference will bring together researchers and practitioners with an international reach and from a wide variety of education design settings with the intention of connecting emergent models and ideas around the digital, with the scholarship of teaching and learning. We also look to issues beyond the attraction of the digital in learning: other ways of acting, knowing and becoming in design…

Call for Chapters: Integrating Multi-User Virtual Environments in Modern Classrooms Editor: Dr. Yufeng Qian Northeastern University http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2431 Proposals Submission Deadline: December 30, 2016 Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2017 Submission Date: August 30, 2017 INTRODUCTION Since its inception in 1975 as an adventure game and dubbed as MUD (multi-user dungeon), multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) has emerged as one of the most exciting instructional platforms in education. As both an instructional tool and approach, MUVE holds great potential in engaging and challenging learners in a socially situated and distributed learning environment that simulates real-life tasks and situations. However, MUVE has long…

ICAD 2017: The 23rd International Conference on Auditory Display The Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus, June 20-23, 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, SONIFICATIONS, INSTALLATIONS, COMPOSITIONS, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Co-chairs: Mark Ballora, School of Music/School of Theatre • Jeff Rimland, College of Information Sciences and Technology Paper chair: Margaret Schedel Music chair: Rob Hamilton Worshops chair: Derek Brock ThinkTank chair: Hiroko Terasawa Please check the conference website for updates: http://icad.org/icad2017/ To submit proposals online via EasyChair, go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icad17 February 20, 2017 – deadline for rough draft submissions March 6, 2017 – deadline for final submissions (anonymized) See the Submit…