CALL FOR PAPERS ICIDS 2016 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE DIGITAL STORYTELLING November 15 -18, 2016 http://icids2016.ict.usc.edu The Institute for Creative Technologies The University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA Dear colleague, This year, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2016) will take place at the Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. It also features a collaboration with the ninth edition of Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT9), a related series of gatherings that holds Artificial Intelligence as its focus. ICIDS has its origin in a series of related international conferences that ran between 2001…

Future Technologies Conference 2016 – FTC 2016 6-7 December 2016 San Francisco, United States Sponsored by HPCC Systems Conference Website: www.SAIConference.com/FTC2016 FTC attracts researchers, scientists and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world. Join us for FTC 2016, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Security, Robotics, Electronics and Communications. Click here for conference topics. The conference is predicated on the successful conferences by The Science and Information (SAI) Organization that have been held in the UK since 2013. FTC 2016 combines…

Call for Papers for SMPTE 2016 SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition Hollywood, California 24-28 October, 2016 https://www.smpte.org/ATC Deadline for Submissions of Abstracts is 22 April, 2016 The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), a leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, is seeking proposals for technical papers for the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE 2016) – Monday, 24 Oct. – Friday, 28 Oct. 2016 in Hollywood, California. The Technical Conference takes place 25-27 October. This is the year of the SMPTE centennial celebration so be part…

Call for Papers for a Special Issue “Intelligent Machines and Human Beings: Challenges of a new Relationship” Journal of Ethics and Information Technology Some scholars claim that the technological development of intelligent machines will soon outdo the human capacities in various fields of expertise within the next 50 years, for example in games such as chess, automated driving systems, the health sector, and war robots. Very complex artificial systems will become a socio-political milestone concerning the relationship between human beings and machines. This includes new forms of alterity and otherness: long gone are the days when the term “robot” mainly…

MetaPlastic Arts&Design Virtual Worlds 2016 Special Session of THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS (CW2016) Chongqing, China, 28-30 September, 2016 In-cooperation with International Federation for Information Processing and Eurographics Association WEB: www.cyberworlds-conference.org CALL FOR PAPERS ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25 April 2016 OBJECTIVE Special Session on Arts, Design and Virtual Worlds will analyze and trace the advancements of new art and design theories and practices in virtual worlds. TOPICS include but are not limited to:…

OzCHI 2016: The 28th Australian National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 29 – December 2 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia http://www.ozchi.org/2016/ Submission deadlines: 24 June 2016 Long Papers 1 July 2016 Workshop Proposals 26 August 2016 Doctoral Consortium, Short Papers OzCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, a non-profit event. It is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OzCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software…

CALL FOR PAPERS Morality Play The Design of Games for Moral Engagement Workshop at DiGRA/FDG 2016 http://mp.digra-fdg2016.org/ Paper submission: 25 April, 2015 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 to have long existed…

ACM ISS 2016 Interactive Surfaces and Spaces November 6-9, 2016 Niagara Falls, Canada http://iss2016.acm.org/ WELCOME! We welcome you to the 2016 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, taking place from November 6 to 9 in Niagara Falls, Canada. As the 11th event in an annual series starting in 2006, ACM ISS (formerly known as ACM ITS) is the premier venue for research addressing the design, development and use of new and emerging tabletop, digital surface, interactive spaces and multi-surface technologies. Over the years ISS has been a venue for research and applications of interactive surfaces as well as…

Call for Proposals: Distance Education http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ed/distance-education-call-for-proposals Deadline: 15 April 2016 The journal Distance Education is calling for EOIs from individuals and teams for the development of a guest-edited themed issue to go to press in May 2017. The journal publishes research and scholarly content in the field of open, flexible, distance and elearning. It is owned by the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Inc., and published by the Taylor and Francis Group. It was first published in 1980, and as such it is the oldest of all journals currently being published in the field. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS Guest…

Call for Papers Audio Mostly 2016 “Multisensory Interaction Design” October 4-6 2016 Norrköping, Sweden Deadline for paper submission ­ May 6, 2016 The Audio Mostly organising committee would like to welcome researchers, interaction designers, engineers, composers or anyone interested in sound as a medium of interaction, to the Audio Mostly 10-year anniversary conference (2006 – 2016). Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its annual gatherings bring together thinkers and doers from academia and industry that share an interest in sonic interaction and…

Call for Papers 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://iui.acm.org/2017 OVERVIEW ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast…

Call for Papers The 4th European and 7th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication University of Copenhagen 29-30 September 2016 http://mmsym.org/ Deadline for abstract submissions: 6 June DESCRIPTION The 4th European and 7th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines who study multimodality in human communication as well as in human-computer interaction. The multimodal communication symposium is organised by the Centre for Language Technology (CST), Department of Nordic Research, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. At CST we have a strong group in the research area of multimodal communication, with a strong…