Call for Papers/Panels Game Studies Area: 2016 PCA/ACA National Conference Seattle, Washington, USA March 21-25, 2016 The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held Monday, March 21 through Friday, March 25, 2016 at the Sheraton in Seattle, WA. The database for proposal submissions opens July 1. Below, please find: I. TOPICS OF INTEREST II. SUBMISSION PROCESS III. INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE IV. CONTACT INFORMATION — I. TOPICS OF INTEREST…

Call for Papers Special issue of teorema: Learning from Fiction Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2015 In ordinary critical practice, we take for granted that we can learn from fictions (literary or visual), i.e., that we can acquire new warranted beliefs on that basis. We similarly assume that we can acquire experiential knowledge – knowledge of what it is like – and knowledge-how, whether or not they differ from propositional knowledge. But can this be philosophically justified? First, empirical research suggests that we can be gullible when exposed to fictions; second, there are thorny indeterminacy issues; and thirdly, in any…

Workshop on Virtual Health Agents Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2015 (IVA 2015) 25 August Delft, The Netherlands http://ii.tudelft.nl/virtualhealthagents Position paper submission: June 28, 2015 This workshop is a part of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual agents (http://iva2015.tudelft.nl/). The workshop will take place on the day before the main conference (25th of August 2015). WORKSHOP One domain in which intelligent virtual agents are becoming more popular is the health domain. With the changing demography in the western world, the health-care costs are expecting to increase. Less health care professionals will be available for more “care needy persons”. Virtual health agents…

CALL FOR PAPERS You are cordially invited to participate in IADE/UNIDCOM’s 8th International Conference: Senses & Sensibility in Lisbon – Design as a Trade. http://www.iade.pt/unidcom/senses2015/participate/ Extended deadline: June 30, 2015 The conference aims to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of information which embraces the theoretical, applied, and/or related areas of design and marketing, and can be grouped into nine strands or categories (see information below). Such a discussion shall be accomplished through both keynote presentations, presentations by invitation, or parallel sessions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent referees from the conference’s international scientific…

Invitation for Submissions TRACEY Journal – Theme issue on Drawing and ‘presence’ Submission deadline: September 4, 2015 TRACEY Journal is a fully peer reviewed electronic journal dedicated to drawing and visualisation. It is varied and diverse with a fast growing readership of academics, students and practitioners representing a wide range of drawing interests including fine art, architectural design, product design and visual communication – ideally any activity in which drawing and visualisation is essential. You can see us at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/ In this next invitation for submissions, we are focusing on the theme of Drawing and ‘presence’, particularly in relation to…

Workshop on Playful Experiences and Game Concepts for Multi-Screen Environments http://soc.kuleuven.be/cuo/ICEC at ICEC 2015 – IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing http://icec2015.idi.ntnu.no/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 10th, 2015 NOTIFICATION: August 14th, 2015 WORKSHOP: September 29th, 2015 WORKSHOP GOAL In this workshop at the ICEC 2015 Conference we will focus on how to design for playful experiences in multi-screen environments (smartphone, tablet, PC and TV), how existing gaming concepts can or cannot be transferred to the design of novel multi-screen formats, and how current insights in sociability, genres and attention can inspire new game concepts. These insights should ultimately lead to novel…

Call for Papers AI 2015: 28th AUSTRALASIAN JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Canberra, Australia, 30 November – 4 December 2015 http://ai2015.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ Submission Deadline: Jul 1, 2015 Notification Due: Sep 1, 2015 Final Version Due: Sep 15, 2015 Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence has become the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. In 2015, the 28th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Canberra, Australia. AI 2015 will be collocated…

FILM-PHILOSOPHY: PROSPECTS, DIRECTIONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES January 5-7, 2016 Film and Television Department Tel Aviv University Abstract deadline: August 1, 2015 Much has been learned from, and many interesting avenues for rethinking the interconnections between and among film studies and philosophy have been opened by, the burst of interest in “film-philosophy” over the past two decades. Calling upon philosophical and critical resources culled from both disciplines, this vibrant and still-emerging field presents an agenda for the kind of work for which we hope to provide a platform here: research that combines a careful and astute critique of objects of profound…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS eLEARNING 2.0 “The Paradigm Shift: Refocusing on the Student” Brunel University London, UK July 29, 2015 www.elearning2.org Submission of title and abstract DEADLINE: June 19, 2015 eLearning 2.0 is a lively international conference exploring technology-enhanced learning and social media technologies. The conference is a collaborative space for educators, students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to share their eLearning classroom successes, as well as new developments in their research and workplace. The main theme of this year’s conference is “The Paradigm Shift: Refocusing on the Student”. This educational paradigm shift is fuelled by the unprecedented access that students…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 11th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications – VISIGRAPP 2016 February 27 – 29, 2016 Rome, Italy WEBSITE: http://www.visigrapp.org/ REGULAR PAPERS Paper Submission: September 17, 2015 Authors Notification: November 12, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: November 27, 2015 POSITION PAPERS Paper Submission: October 29, 2015 Authors Notification: December 4, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: December 18, 2015 WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal: September 7, 2015 SPECIAL SESSIONS Special Session Proposal: September 17, 2015 TUTORIALS, DEMOS AND PANELS PROPOSALS October 12, 2015 SPONSORED BY: INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of…

AutomotiveUI 2015 Workshop on PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES in Measuring and Modeling Drivers and Driver-Vehicle Interactions Nottingham, UK; September 1st, 2015 Colocated with the 6th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2015) (http://www.auto-ui.org/15) Workshop website: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI15WS/ Submission deadline: July 13th, 2015 OBJECTIVES: MODELING AND MEASURING INTERACTIONS The goal of the workshop is to bring together both young and experienced researchers in the field of automotive UI research and discuss settings, experiences, best practices, etc. for conducting lab or field experiments. This includes discussions about how to improve user studies (setting), what types of sensors and recording platforms…

Call for Submissions Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on BIG PERSONAL DATA IN INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Main submission deadline: July 14th, 2015 http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html AIMS AND SCOPE Increasingly vast amounts of data about people’s interaction with the social and physical world are generated when people use social media, personal tracking devices, and the internet of things. How can big personal data be collected, analyzed, and exploited so as to provide new or improved forms of interaction with intelligent systems; and what new issues have to be taken into account? The question of how to process big…