Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Conference Kings College, London 13th – 14th July 2017 Music in Video Games Panel Conveners: William Gibbons and Derek Matravers There has been great deal of interest in the past few years within musicology and music theory in the contribution of music to the experience of playing video games. The topic has been relatively neglected in philosophy, although it is related to several extant discussions concerning other media. We would like to invite papers from any discipline which reflect on this topic, thus contributing to developing a philosophical take on the role…

Second International Conference on Communication & Media Studies University of British Columbia – Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada 16-17 November 2017 http://oncommunicationmedia.com/vancouver-conference-2017 CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Conference on Communication & Media Studies will be held at the University of British Columbia – Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada, 16-17 November 2017. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks, virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes: Theme 1: Media Cultures Mass versus niche media ‘Audience’ and practices of participation in media Cultural representation and power in media Popular culture in the media Feminist analyses…

Call for Papers The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2017) Held in conjunction with CPSWeek 2017 (https://cpsweek2017.ece.cmu.edu/) April 18-21 Pittsburgh, PA, USA http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Full paper submission deadline: October 13th SCOPE A confluence of technological advances marks the advent of a new era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it from embedded devices. Smart cities are expected to grow, fed by millions of data points from multitudes of human and physical sources. Cyber-attacks grow more nefarious, bringing down physical systems. Social networks are becoming ubiquitous, offering information on physical things.…

Call for Abstracts (1000 words) Workshop on The Synthetic Method in Social Robotics (SMSR 2016) @ The Eight International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016) Kansas City, USA November, 1-3, 2016 Website: http://icsr2016.engr.ku.edu/ Contact: ldamiano@unime.it Important Dates: Abstract Due – September 25, 2016 Notification of Acceptance – October 05, 2016 We are interested in submissions of original HRI and Social Robotics research, or research from related fields relevant to the topic of “Artificial Sociality”. The submissions, in the form of an abstract (min 800, max 1000 words), should be related to the investigation of one or more specific aspects of…

Call for Papers IEEE Virtual Reality 2017: The 24th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference March 18-22, 2017, Los Angeles, California http://ieeevr.org/2017 Paper abstracts due: September 12, 2016 IEEE VR 2017 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and 3D user interfaces. Each paper should be classifiable as mainly covering research, applications, or systems, using the following guidelines for each: RESEARCH PAPERS should describe results that contribute to advances in state-of-the-art software, hardware, algorithms, interaction, or human factors. APPLICATION PAPERS should explain how the authors built upon existing ideas and…

Call for Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction (ASSP4MI@ICMI2016) 16 Nov 2016, Tokyo, Japan held in conjunction with the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016) http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/~truongkp/icmi2016-assp4mi http://icmi.acm.org/2016/ Extended Deadline: 2 September 2016 OVERVIEW In the last decade, an increasing need for affective and socially intelligent technology has been seen, partly caused by upcoming interactive technology that is enhancing our daily lives in our homes and at work. This has led to a significant increase of research in Social Signal Processing (SSP) in which the aims are to model, analyse,…

CALL FOR SYMPOSIA (OR OTHER) PROPOSALS Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) 2017 Convention (AISB ’17) ~19-21 April 2017, University of Bath, UK http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk DEADLINE: 15 September 2016 Contact: aisb2017@easychair.org Dear Colleagues, The world’s oldest AI society, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), sponsors the world’s longest-running annual AI convention, consisting of a collocation of themed symposia, workshops, and events in areas of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The AISB convention aims to provide a unique opportunity to promote emerging work on a timely theme spanning the…

1st Annual USC Virtual Reality Health Week Sponsored by The University of Southern California and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies September 2016 Los Angeles, California http://vrhealth.ict.usc.edu/ OVERVIEW The University of Southern California and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies are proud to announce the 1st Annual USC Virtual Reality Health Week! USC VR Health Week will host a collection of conferences on topics relevant to the use of VR and advanced technologies for a range of application areas including: Pain Management, Disabilities and Mental Health, Psychological Wounds of War, Medicine, Advanced Body Sensing, and the science of Intelligent Virtual…

Call for Papers: AAMAS 2017 Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems May 8-12, 2017 São Paulo, Brazil http://www.aamas2017.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: 11th of November 2016 (23:59 UTC-12) Full Paper Submission: 15th of November, 2016 (23:59 UTC-12) Rebuttal Phase: 9th – 10th of January, 2017 (23:59 UTC-12) Author Notification: 24th of January, 2017 ABOUT AAMAS AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures,…

CALL FOR ARTICLES IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A; www.computer.org/cga) Special Issue on Animation of Natural Virtual Characters Final submissions due: 1 November 2016 Publication date: July/August 2017 Virtual characters are used in a range of applications—from interfaces to games to tutors—where they must effectively employ human nonverbal communication. Often these characters must hold conversations with either human users or other characters and must appropriately utilize arm gestures, head movements, posture changes, and facial expressions. Building systems that can support these interactions involves both the automatic specification and generation of appropriate character motion as well as coordination across communication modes…

Call for Papers Social Internet of Things 2016 29 November 2016 Launceston, Tasmania http://designparticipation.net/2016/08/07/siot-workshop.html Deadline for proposal submissions: 26 August 2016 The Internet of Things promise is to endow all sorts of objects with sensing, computing and communication capabilities that augment their functionalities. The opportunities opened are exciting, in domains as diverse as entertainment, health, transports, the workplace. A great effort is being put in addressing the technical problems connected with deploying and handling this infrastructure, while the human side of the IoT is receiving relatively less attention. Users are often relegated at the periphery of an otherwise autonomous network…

TRAVELOGUE Curated by Matteo Bittanti September 7- 11 2016 Cantine di Vincenzo I Gonzaga Piazzetta Santa Barbara, 46100 Mantua MN Open every day from 8.15 AM until 19.15 p.m. Admission: 3 euros An official event of Festivaletteratura 2016 Official website: http://travelogue.space Festivaletteratura: http://www.festivaletteratura.it/ TRAVELOGUE is a survey of audiovisual artworks made with or inspired by video games. Using machinima and interactive installations, fifteen artists examine the virtual automobile as medium, message, technological commodity, status symbol, interface, and prosthetics. Created through a process of appropriation and remix, these works lie at the intersection of fiction and documentation, performance and simulation, video…