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),…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Designing Moral Technologies – Theoretical, Practical and Ethical Issues July 10-15, 2016 LOCATION: Centro Stefano Franscini (http://www.csf.ethz.ch/) on the Monte Verità near Ascona, Switzerland Submission deadline: January 31, 2016 SCOPE: Many empirical disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, neuroscience and anthropology, contribute to a growing knowledge of the foundations, mechanisms, and conditions of human moral behavior in various social contexts. This knowledge provides a basis for moral technologies – interventions intended to improve moral decision-making that do not target deliberation itself, but underlying neurological or psychological processes, as well as technological mediators of human social interaction. Such technologies…

SimHealth 2016 26-29 September 2016 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Victoria, Australia http://simulationcongress.com/ Call for Abstracts The SimHealth Organising Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the 12th Annual SimHealth Conference, held under the auspices of Simulation Australasia’s Health Specialist Community, the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH). Simulation Australasia, the national body for those working in simulation in Australasia, will once again bring together the SimHealth and SimTecT conferences under the name of the Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC) with opportunities for a number of joint sessions of mutual interest. In 2016, the International Simulation and…

CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: One-day Workshop on Collaborative Appropriation: How Couples, Teams, Groups and Communities Adapt and Adopt Technologies in conjunction with CSCW 2016 http://cscw.acm.org/2016/ February 27th, 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop Website: http://projects.hci.sbg.ac.at/cscw2016/ Important dates: 16th December 2015: Submission of Position Papers 18th January 2016: Notification of acceptance 25th January 2016: Camera-ready version 27th February 2016: Workshop at CSCW 2016 TOPIC: Previous workshops and papers have examined how individual users adopt and adapt technologies to meet their own local needs, “completing design through use.” However, there has been little systematic study of how groups of people engage collaboratively in…