Call for Participation: INTERACT Workshop Monday 21 March 2016 Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK Calling all UK researchers interested in potential links between HCI and HRI: The University of Sheffield, in conjunction with The University of Nottingham and The University of Hertfordshire cordially invite you to the INTERACT workshop, which aims to connect the UK HCI and HRI research communities, and scope opportunities for future funding and collaboration. While the fields of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) share many perspectives, and have similar research goals, there is little cross-fertilisation. We are hosting this EPSRC-sponsored workshop as a first step…

VES Vision and Education Committees with LA SIGGRAPH present VR Post Production Saturday, 12 March 2016 Sony’s Ray Harryhausen Theater Los Angeles http://la.siggraph.org/events/title/vr-post-production RSVP’s required Space is filling up – make your reservation now! Revenues from virtual reality and augmented reality are projected to hit $150 billion by 2020! Visual effects artists are on the front lines to deliver that immersive content. These presentations will cover the latest live action VR post production techniques which are currently being used to realize the dream of VR. All attendees must register through VES’ page (https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/events/event/event-ves-vision-and-education-committees-la-siggraph-present-vr-post-production-los). Space is limited. You MUST RSVP.…

Digital Creativity 27:3 Creative Technologies and Innovation: Health and Wellbeing Guest Editors: Ted Krueger (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Louise Poissant (Université du Québec à Montréal) Diana Domingues (University of Brasilia) Abstracts deadline: February 29, 2016 Radical changes to ecological, environmental, social, and biological conditions are turning some artists from traditionally defined practices towards new approaches that reinvent their engagement with life, health, and wellbeing. Their practices, while not new, are increasingly relevant for culture and health. These transformative changes to the nature of practice have put those trained in the arts, their insights and methods, in contact with those of other…

ECGBL 2016 10th European Conference on Games Based Learning 6 – 7th October 2016, Paisley, Scotland The University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland http://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/ WELCOME TO ECGBL 2016 The European Conference on Games Based Learning was established 9 years ago. It has been held in Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Norway to mention only some of the countries who have hosted it. ECGBL is generally attended by participants from more than 40 countries and attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners, game designers and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of games-based learning and serious games.…

Call for Presentations Space and Place 7th Global Meeting Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net – Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: September 1-3, 2016 Deadline: April 1,.2016 http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-for-papers/ Now in its seventh year, Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues is an established annual interdisciplinary conference project that encourages critical and collegial dialogue. Recognising that different disciplines and practices express themselves through different modes, media and formats we strongly encourage the submission of proposals from creative practitioners – artists, architects, writers, photographers, painters, film-makers, performers, urban planners – as well as people from related professions, industries and activities and alternative…

Dear colleague, We are pleased to announce the seventh edition of our International Summer School in Affective Sciences (ISSAS 2016), which will take place this year from July 7 to 15 at the Château de Bossey, an 18th-century manor house located in an outstanding natural environment overlooking Lake Geneva and the French Alps. This year the central topic of the summer school organized by the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (SCAS) is “Emotion, fiction, and virtual worlds”. A growing body of research is highlighting the potential power of new technologies such as virtual reality, robotics, videogames or human-computer interaction for…

Call for book chapters State of the art on AI applied to Ambient Intelligence “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” IOS Press Book Series http://ebooks.iospress.nl/bookseries/frontiers-in-artificial-intelligence-and-applications Editors: Juan Carlos Augusto — Middlesex University, United Kingdom Asier Aztiria Goenaga — Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain Andrea Orlandini — National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC), Italy MOTIVATIONS During the last decade, questions were raised on how intelligent were the so called “smart systems” and the stereotype smart system was somehow identified in the smart homes. Nowadays, the word smart has become a sort of wild card to be attached to any new product introduced to…

CALL FOR PAPERS AIC 2016 4th Edition of the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition New York, USA, July 17th-18th 2016 Workshop website: http://di.unito.it/AIC2016/ Co-located with IJCAI 2016: http://ijcai-16.org/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIC_Workshop hashtag: #aic2016ws AIC 2016 will be an official workshop of the BICA 2016, 7th Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures and will be one of the international events that will take place in July in New York under the HLAI framework, a joint effort between the major Artificial Intelligence conferences and academic events explicitly targeting different approaches and works towards the achievement of human-level intelligence…

Call for Papers SafePlan: ICAPS 2016 Workshop on “Planning, Scheduling and Dependability in Safe Human-Robot Interactions” to be held at the 2016 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), London, UK http://fourbythree.eu/icaps2016/ http://icaps16.icaps-conference.org/safeplan/ Important Dates: Submission deadline: March 4, 2016 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2016 Final paper submission: April 30, 2016 Workshop Date: June 11th or 12th 2016 We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this workshop which aims to bring together experts active in the field of planning and scheduling (P&S) with those in human-robot interaction with particular emphasis on safety. The sector experiences a…

Call for papers Mind – Media – Narrative: Exploring the Nexus of Transmedial and Cognitive Narratologies University of Warsaw (Poland) 20-22 June 2016 http://www.konferencja.narratologia.uw.edu.pl/ Proposals deadline: 15th of March, 2016 Narrative is a universal phenomenon that shapes virtually every aspect of human life. Narrative exists across time, culture – from the cave narratives of Lascaux, to the hypertext narratives of contemporary cyberspace. And together with the proliferation of narrative forms, there are also the myriad ways of understanding and defining them. Consequently, narrative can be understood as the ‘representation of at least two real or fictive events’ (Gerald Prince), as…

4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering 2016 (i-USEr 2016) 23rd to 25th August 2016 Melaka, Malaysia Official Website: http://fskm.uitm.edu.my/iuser2016/ DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: 15TH MARCH 2016 The 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering 2016 (i-USEr 2016) will be held in Melaka, Malaysia from 23rd to 25th August 2016. i-USEr 2016 aims to address the main issues of concern within Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with a particular emphasis on the aspects of design, development and implementation of interfaces and the generational implications for design of human and technology interaction. This conference provides a platform for researchers, practitioners…