Call For Papers HaPoC 3: Third International Conference for the History and Philosophy of Computing 8-11 October, 2015, Pisa http://hapoc2015.di.unipi.it The DHST commission for the history and philosophy of computing (www.hapoc.org) is happy to announce the third HAPOC conference. The series aims at creating an interdisciplinary focus on computing, stimulating a dialogue between the historical and philosophical viewpoints. To this end, the conference hopes to bring together researchers interested in the historical developments of computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape.…

Call for Papers Designs on eLearning (DeL) 2015: Technology, Culture, Practice 16-17 September 2015 London http://www.designsonelearning.net/ Application deadline: 15 April 2015 Accepted applicants will be notified by late May The DeL 2015 conference is now accepting applications for panel discussions, workshops or short paper presentations on the following themes (see below): Cross-disciplinarity Understanding practice & culture Engaging students in digital spaces Digital identity Digital scholarship As digital technologies continue to transform the creative and pedagogic landscape, we face exciting possibilities and new challenges for the future of education. Titled “Technology, Culture, Practice,” DeL 2015 aims to explore forms of learning…

Call for Chapters: Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives EDITORS Dr. Keri Duncan Valentine (West Virginia University) Lucas John Jensen (The University of Georgia) Proposals Submission Deadline: March 30, 2015 Full Chapters Due: June 30, 2015 INTRODUCTION The maturing field of video games offers unparalleled narrative complexity, experimentation with new game mechanics, and avenues for in-game creativity. Can the interactive nature of video games shift a player’s perspective on sociopolitical and cultural topics by placing them in unique and challenging situations, characters, and/or points of view? As video games grow in popularity,…

Call for Papers – Digital Animals: Inhabiting the Intersections of Nature, Culture, and Technology The University of Florida’s TRACE journal publishes online peer-reviewed collections in ecology, posthumanism, and media studies. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, we focus on the ethical and material impact of technology. We welcome submissions in a variety of media that engage cultures, theories, and environments to “trace” the connections across and within various ecologies. The first issue of TRACE explores current conversations at the intersection of animal studies and digital media studies. Animal studies scholars argue that animals influence the ways we engage with philosophy, critical theory,…

Announcement and Call for Papers 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2015) 30.11. – 2.12., 2015 in Linz, Austria www.mum-conf.org Organized by University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and Johannes Kepler University Linz in-cooperation with ACM SIGCHI MUM 2015, the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held on 30.11. – 2.12.2015 at the Ars Electronica Center Linz in Austria. Import Dates: Paper submission deadline: August 21, 2015 Notification of review decisions: October 9, 2015 Conference dates: November 30 – December 2, 2015 MUM is a distinguished forum for advances in research and technologies…

CALL FOR PAPERS COMUNICAR JOURNAL Special Issue, n46 The Internet of the future The challenges of human interaction Internet del futuro Los desafíos de la interacción humana Subject Editors Carina S. González. University of La Laguna, Spain César A. Collazo. University of Cauca, Colombia FOCUS This issue is intended to promote and disseminate recent advances in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI in the USA, IPO in Spain). In particular, we will focus on the problems facing the internet of the future or the internet of things, and the challenges present in this field involving interacting and communicating with the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (www.scpe.org) Special Issue: Principles and Practices in Multi-Agent Systems Agent-based Computing addresses the challenges in managing distributed computing systems and networks through monitoring, communication, consensus-based decision-making and coordinated actuation. As a result, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have demonstrated the capability to use intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and other social metaphors like “trust”, “game” and “institution”, to not only address real-world problems in a human-like way but to transcend human performance. This has had a transformative impact on many application domains, particularly e-commerce, but also on planning, logistics, manufacturing, robotics, decision…

There is still opportunity to reserve your free place at this exciting afternoon symposium: ROBOT & GRAN: WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR AGEING PARENT OR GRANDPARENT IN THE CARE OF A ROBOT? Wednesday 25th March 2015, 3:30pm Committee room 3, House of Lords Palace of Westminster United Kingdom This event is kindly hosted by Lord McColl of Dulwich For the first time in history, there are 11 million people aged 65 or over in the UK with 3 million people aged 80 or over. By 2050, estimates predict that the elderly will account for 16 percent of the global population. Research…

Call for Papers WEB3D 2015 – 20th International Conference on 3D Web Technology June 18-21 – Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://web3d2015.web3d.org The annual ACM Web3D Conference is a major event which unites researchers, developers, entrepreneurs, experimenters, artists and content creators in a dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing and creating new 3D Web and Multimedia technologies such as WebGL, X3D, VRML, Collada, MPEG family, U3D, Java3D and other technologies. The conference also focuses on recent trends in interactive 3D graphics, information integration and usability in the wide range of Web3D applications from mobile devices to high-end…

Call for Papers SSC 2015: Special Session on Serious Games and Social Simulation (SSSG) The Eleventh Conference of the European Social Simulation Association September 14 to 18 in Groningen, The Netherlands Dear all, As organizers of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Serious Games and Social Simulation (SSSG), we would like to invite you to consider submitting a paper for our special session at the 2015 Social Simulation Conference (SSC). This will take place from September 14-18 in Groningen, The Netherlands and the current deadline for full papers, extended abstracts and posters is set to April 13th.…

Call for Papers Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Postgraduate Network (PGN) MeCCSA PGN Conference 2015 ‘Transformative Practice and Theory: Where we stand today’ Coventry University in Coventry, United Kingdom 2-3 July 2015 Deadline: Monday 23rd of March 2015 Pre-Conference Screening of Oscar Award Winning Documentary CitizenFour on the 1st of July Confirmed speakers: Dr. Clare Birchall (King’s College), Prof. Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths), Dr. Rebecca Coleman (Goldsmiths), Prof. Gary Hall (Coventry University) and Associate Prof. Mandy Rose (University of West England/Digital Cultures Research Centre) The multidisciplinary fields of media, communication and culture face the challenge of constantly responding to…

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2015 (IVA2015) 26 – 28 August Delft, The Netherlands http://iva2015.tudelft.nl IMPORTANT DATES Papers, Poster and Demo Submissions: Submissions deadline: 15 March 2015 Author notification: 16 May 2015 Camera ready version: 31 May 2015 IVA 2015: Doctoral consortium: Monday morning 24 Aug 2015 Tutorials: Monday afternoon 24 Aug 2015 Workshops: Tuesday 25 Aug 2015 Main conference: Wednesday 26 Aug – Friday 28 Aug 2015 CONFERENCE Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are…