Call for Participation CHI 2016 Workshop on Tangibles for Health San Jose, CA, USA, 7th OR 8th May 2016 http://www.tangibles4health.com The impact of HCI in Health and Wellbeing has gained prominence in the last few years.  Whilst this work has significantly pushed forward the field, most work has focused around the development and study of “apps” running on commercial smartphones. Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs), using physical objects to interact with computer systems, offer many physical and interaction qualities that have potential to benefit the eHealth community. For example, supporting physical rehabilitation through interactive tangible objects, using 3D printing to provide…

Call for Papers Games and Culture Special Issue Morality Play: The Design of Games for Ethical Engagement Guest editors: Malcolm Ryan, Rowan Tulloch and Paul Formosa Questions of morality are a pervasive topic for media and the arts. Across every medium we see artists engaging audiences with challenging moral questions concerning topics such as war, crime, corruption, fidelity and the abuse of power. Questions of morality have long been central to how we understand ourselves, our lives, and our cultural contexts; and in turn our art forms have reflected, embodied, and challenged beliefs about right and wrong. Games, however, seem…

Call for Papers The Fourth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2016) Singapore, 4 -7 October 2016 Submission Deadline: 30 April 2016 www.hai2016.org The Fourth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2016) 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 2016 is “Machine learning methods and multimodal interfaces to achieve social intelligence in robots, avatars, and virtual characters”. The conference seeks contributions from a broad range of fields spanning engineering, computer science, psychology and…

The Third International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI) 2016 Call for Proposals The conference website: http://www.liveinterfaces.org The third International Conference on Live Interfaces will be held on June 29th – July 3rd 2016 at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. The conference will bring together people working with live interfaces in the performing arts, including music, the visual arts, dance, puppetry, robotics or games. The conference scope is highly interdisciplinary but with a focus on expressive interface technologies for performance. Topics of liveness, immediacy, presence (and tele-presence), mediation, collaboration and timing or flow are engaged with and questioned in…

PERVASIVE HEALTH CONFERENCE 2016 Call for Papers: The 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare May 16-19, 2016. Cancun, Mexico http://pervasivehealth.org/ Keynote speakers: Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University, USA Prof. Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada Submission deadlines: Abstracts of Full and Short Papers: January 11th, 2016 Full and Short Papers: January 17th, 2016 Pervasive Health Conference is a premier international forum with specific focus on technologies and human factors related to the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and for wellbeing. The overall goal of the Pervasive Health Conference is to take a multidisciplinary approach to…

IEEE RO-MAN 2016 Call For Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials 25th IEEE International Symposium on Human and Robot Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016) http://ro-man2016.org/ Conference Date & Place: August 26-31, 2016, Columbia University, New York City, USA Submission Deadlines: Proposals for Special Sessions: January 15, 2016 Workshops & Tutorials: January 15, 2016 Full Papers: February 12, 2016 Interactive Session (Extended Abstracts): May 22, 2016 Demonstration Session: May 22, 2016 Video Session: May 22, 2016 This year, the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) for 2016 will be held from August 26 – 31, 2016 at Columbia University, Teachers…

Call for X xCoAx 2016: 4th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X Dates: 7-8 July 2016 Location: Bergamo, Italy Website: http://xcoax.org/ Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2016 xCoAx is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all. Since 2013, xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and exchange ideas, in search for interdisciplinary synergies among computer scientists, artists, media practitioners and theoreticians at the frontiers of digital arts and…

The 30th British Human Computer Interaction Conference (http://hci2016.bcs.org/) will be held in Bournemouth (UK) from 11th-15th July 2016. The conference is organised by Bournemouth University in conjunction with the BCS Interaction Specialist Group. CONFERENCE THEME This year’s theme is “Fusion! HCI across Disciplines”. We want to challenge research and practitioners to uncover ways to inspire fusion in lots of different ways; these include fusion between quality & innovation, research & practice, and between different topic areas both within and outside HCI. SUBMISSIONS We now invite submissions for full papers, position papers, works-in-progress, workshop proposals, together with submissions for the interaction…

Call for Papers / Artwork POST-SCREEN 2016: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures 17-18 November Lisbon, Portugal Extended Deadline: 30.November.2015 The Artistic Studies Research Center (CIEBA) of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon University (FBAUL) and the Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED) of the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (ULHT) invites you to submit a proposal for a paper and/ or an artwork to the upcoming POST-SCREEN 2016: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures to be held in November, in Lisbon, Portugal. SCOPE The PSF2016: Intermittence+Interference is focused in the themes of…

Call for Papers: “Communicating with Machines: The Rising Power of Digital Interlocutors in Our Lives” International Communication Association (ICA) Post-conference Fukuoka, Japan Tuesday, June 14, 2016 Submission deadline: December 15, 2015 This post-conference will take place in conjunction with the International Communication Association’s Annual Conference in Fukuoka, Japan in June 2016. Overview: Digital interlocutors are increasingly standing in for humans in communication contexts. This post-conference focuses on the power of artificial entities fostered in and through Human-Machine Communication (HMC), which encompasses Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Human-Agent Interaction (HAI). We invite scholars from across ICA’s divisions to discuss…

Call for Papers The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) Conference June 1-4, 2016 Cornell University Ithaca, NY, 14853-7601 USA http://scsmi-online.org/conference Deadline for proposals: Midnight (EST) December 15, 2015 The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) invites proposals for presentations at its annual conference to be held June 1st-4th, 2016 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. SCSMI is an interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, historical, psychological, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches to the analysis of film and other moving image media. Proposals should facilitate the society’s mission: to foster…

Call for projects eNTERFACE’16 Workshop University of Twente, DesignLab, Enschede, the Netherlands, 18 July – 12 Aug 2016 http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/enterface16 WORKSHOP FORMAT The Human Media Interaction group (HMI), University of Twente, invites project proposals for eNTERFACE’16, the 12th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces to be held in Enschede, the Netherlands from July 18th to August 12th, 2016. 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),…