[A (free) ‘deep dive’ into philosophical issues of reality/fiction. -Matthew] British Society of Aesthetics Conference on Fictional Characters University of Southampton, 15th and 16th December 2015 http://bsafictionalcharacters.weebly.com/ Fictional characters have received unprecedented philosophical attention in last few years including the publication of the following monographs: Thomasson’s (1999) Fiction and Metaphysics, Priest’s (2005) Towards Non-Being, Azzuoni’s (2010) Talking About Nothing, Crane’s (2013) The Objects of Thought, Everett’s (2013) The Nonexistent, and the long awaited release of Kripke’s (2013) Reference and Existence. Despite the progress made by the above authors, there is still no consensus as to the best approach to the…

Call-for-Papers for AUIC 2016 17th Australasian User Interface Conference 2nd – 5th of February 2016 Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia http://auic2016.massey.ac.nz/ Overview The Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC) is the forum for user interface researchers and practitioners at the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2016). AUIC provides an opportunity for workers in the areas of HCI, CSCW, and pervasive computing to meet with colleagues and with others in the broader computer science community. We will be publishing via the ACM conference publication series for the first time, which will ensure good visibility of published papers. Important Dates Paper submission:…

Call For Papers – Game Studies Special Issue: “WAR/GAME” by Guest Editors – Pötzsch & Hammond Video games are an important sector of the global entertainment industry and AAA titles often have budgets and audiences similar to those of major Hollywood productions. Many of the commercially most successful games are war-themed titles that play out in what are framed as authentic real-world settings inspired by historical events. Parallel to this development, significant changes have occurred in the way Western industrialized nations wage actual wars. It has been argued that postmodern war increasingly resembles a videogame and that this form of…

Call for Papers IHCI 2015: 7th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad 14-16 December, 2015 http://ihci.iiita.ac.in Paper Submission Deadline: August 16, 2015 The international conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) is a forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results at the crossroads of human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, signal processing and computer vision. It brings together engineers and scientists from around the world. It will also provide as a platform triggering further technological and research improvements through exchanges between industry and academic professionals. The 7th edition in the series, IHCI…

International Association for Computing and Philosophy – Annual Meeting June 14-17, 2016 University of Ferrara, Italy The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.iacap.org/] is delighted to announce that submissions are now being accepted for its 2016 annual meeting [http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2016], to be held on June 14-17 at the University of Ferrara, Italy [http://www.unife.it/international] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrara]. The meeting will be hosted by Professor Marcello D’Agostino [http://docente.unife.it/dgm] and Professor Marcello D’Alfonso [http://docente.unife.it/dlfmtv/]. IACAP has a long-lasting tradition of promoting philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of the computational and informational turn.…

AISB 2016 Call for Symposium Proposals Deadline for symposium proposals: 1st September 2015 Notification of acceptance: 26th September 2015 The AISB Convention is an annual conference covering the range of AI and Cognitive Science, organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. The 2016 Convention will be held at the University of Sheffield, UK, from 4-6th April 2016. Daniela Romano (Department of Computer Science) and Tony Prescott (Department of Psychology) are the 2016 conference chairs, which will be hosted by Sheffield Robotics. The convention is structured as a number of co-located symposia, together with…

Call for Papers NEUROTECHNIX 2015 – 3rd International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics 16-17 November, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal http://www.neurotechnix.org NEUROTECHNIX is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication SCOPE The first research works on neurotechnology can be dated back nearly half a century, but it is in the XXI century that most significant advances are being witnessed. Neurotechnology shows a very high potential of enhancing human activities, involving technologies such as neural rehabilitation, neural prosthesis, neuromodulation, neurosensing and diagnosis, and other combinations of neurological and biomedical knowledge with engineering technologies. This congress…

Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors Series editors Calvin Mercer (Professor of Religion, East Carolina University) Steve Fuller (Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK) Humanity is at a crossroads in its history, precariously poised between mastery and extinction. The fast-developing array of human enhancement therapies and technologies (e.g., genetic engineering, information technology, regenerative medicine, robotics, and nanotechnology) are increasingly impacting our lives and our future. The most ardent advocates believe that some of these developments could permit humans to take control of their own evolution and alter human nature and the human condition in fundamental…

GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment www.gamejournal.it Call for Papers – n. 6/2016 Hear The Music, Play The Game Music And Game Design: Interplays And Perspectives Edited by Hillegonda C. Rietveld and Marco Benoît Carbone http://www.gamejournal.it/n-62016-hear-the-music-play-the-game-music-and-game-design-interplays-and-perspectives/#.VbCbv4cn91M Music composition and sound design in video games are important dimensions in the experience of play, gaining increased acknowledgement and attention within the game industry. The growing relevance and success of several kinds of music-based games, and their codification in novel genres and sub-genres, illustrates one tendency in this shift of focus towards the aural in relation to the usually visual dominance of…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education – CSEDU 2016 Website: www.csedu.org 21 – 23 April, 2016 Rome, Italy REGULAR PAPERS Paper Submission: October 28, 2015 Authors Notification: January 28, 2016 Camera Ready and Registration: February 12, 2016 POSITION PAPERS Paper Submission: January 5, 2016 Authors Notification: February 5, 2016 Camera Ready and Registration: February 19, 2016 WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal: November 9, 2015 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Paper Submission: February 16, 2016 Authors Notification: February 24, 2016 Camera Ready and Registration: March 4, 2016 SPECIAL SESSIONS Special Session Proposal: November 18, 2015 TUTORIALS, DEMOS AND PANEL PROPOSALS December…

Call for Book Chapters: Social Internet of Things Series Title: Internet of Things: Technology, Communications and Computing – Springer AG Editors: Alessandro Soro, Margot Brereton, Paul Roe (Queensland University of Technology) [a.soro, m.brereton, p.roe]@qut.edu.au http://www.designparticipation.net/CFP-Social-IoT The vision for the Internet of Things has moved over time from a supply chain management perspective to one aimed at combining the power of smart objects, ubiquitous connectivity and semantic interoperability. At the same time, fuelled by the increasing availability of miniaturized computing and cheap sensing devices, a multitude of research initiatives has envisioned, prototyped and investigated in depth a wide range of tools…