CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ICEC 2015 – International Conference on Entertainment Computing 30 Sept – 2 Oct, 2015 Trondheim, Norway http://icec2015.info/ The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing is the primary forum for disseminating and showcasing research results relating to the creation, development and use of digital entertainment. The conference brings together practitioners, academics, artists and researchers interested in design, practice, implementation, application and theoretical foundations of digital entertainment. We solicit paper, poster and demonstration submissions, as well as proposals for tutorials and workshops. SUBMISSION TYPES AND DEADLINES We invite submissions on design, art, engineering and theory of digital entertainment in…

The 2015 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2015) June 01-05, 2015 The Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://cts2015.cisedu.info In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP Call for Poster Papers and Posters PURPOSE AND SCOPE The 2015 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2015) is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaborative environments, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact. The conference will include a session for poster presentations. CTS 2015 is soliciting poster papers and posters, both technical and industry based, on all CTS related topics…

Call for papers EKSIG 2015: TANGIBLE MEANS – Experiential knowledge through materials International Conference of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge at Design School Kolding and University of Southern Denmark. 22-26 November 2015 http://www.experientialknowledge.org.uk/conference.html With the theme “TANGIBLE MEANS: Experiential Knowledge through Materials”, the conference aims to provide a forum for debate about materials as a means for knowledge generation by professionals and academic researchers, exploring the role and relationship of generating and evaluating new and existing knowledge in the creative disciplines and beyond. In recent years many creative disciplines have shifted focus from what is produced to…

Theory & Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute Amherst, Massachusetts (2015) and Los Angeles, California (2016) Deadline: March 30, 2015 Applications are currently being accepted for Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites. This NEH Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities will take place over two consecutive summers. In 2015, participants will gather at UMass Amherst from June 22 – 28 to discuss key issues and challenges facing scholars working with 3D content with an emphasis on the end user…

CALL FOR PAPERS A Manifesto for Cyborgs thirty-years on: Gender, Technology and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century Journal of Media and Communication An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students Abstracts due: Friday 27th of February, 2015 Volume Editor: Thao Phan In her iconic essay A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s, Donna Haraway introduced the metaphor of the cyborg as an “ironic political myth” to critique the so far troubling narratives of the West. Published in the Socialist Review in 1985, it brings together a broad spectrum of literacies-from socialist-feminism, to cybernetics and…

Immersive Learning Research Network Conference iLRN 2015 July 13 – July 14 Prague, Czech Republic http://immerisvelrn.org Full Papers submissions: 1st March 2015 Author Notification: 15th April 2015 Poster submissions: 15th April 2015 Workshops Proposals: 15th April 2015 Workshop/Poster Notification: 30th April 2015 Main Conference and Special Sessions: 13th – 14th July 2015 OVERVIEW The Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) is happy to announce its first International Conference in Prague on July 13th and 14th, 2015. The international conference will be organised by Graz University of Technology and University of Essex under the umbrella of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference…

CALL FOR PAPERS ESSEM@AAMAS 2015 2nd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media: opportunities and challenges for emotion-aware multiagent systems Workshop website: http://di.unito.it/essem15 Co-located with AAMAS 2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com) Workshop date: May 4 or 5, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey NEWS! Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 20, 2015 Extended versions of the best papers presented at the workshop will be published in a follow-on Issue of Springer’s Cognitive Computation journal Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Essem2015 Spread the news: #essem2015 Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Essem2015 Follow us on G+: http://plus.google.com/u/0/103784344195297543082/posts Flyer: http://www.di.unito.it/~patti/essem15/Call4papers_final-flyer2015.pdf RATIONALE Emotions play a key role in the…

Call for Papers: The Crag International Confluence 2015 ‘Creation of Reality’: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive Understanding Thursday 3 December – Saturday 5 December 2015 University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, U.K. http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/crag/2015/02/09/crag-international-confluence-2015-call-papers/ Since the second half of the 20th century, ‘creation of reality’ is a compound that has gained exponential momentum in books and other publications (fiction and non-fiction). The general increase in the human belief that reality is, or can be to differing extents, created by us, is apparent in social processes of empowerment or disempowerment. ‘Creation of reality’ is also a growing scheme within the humanities, in the diverse…

Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges Proposals at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015) Seattle, WA, USA http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfc Proposal submissions due: February 21st, 2015 Notifications: March 1st, 2015 Conference: November 9-13, 2015 The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, and computational linguistics for example, the availability of datasets and common…

CALL FOR PAPERS – GET 2015 – Deadline for submissions (1st call – new date): 6 March 2015 8th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies 2015 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 22 – 24 July 2015 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/) Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2015) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 21 – 24 July 2015 (http://www.mccsis.org) KEYNOTE SPEAKER (CONFIRMED): Professor Joaquim Jorge, Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IST – Técnico Lisboa, Portugal CONFERENCE SCOPE The GET 2015 conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2015) Jerusalem, Israel, June 7/8, 2015 http://icaps15.icaps-conference.org/workshops/planrob Paper Submission: February 20, 2015 TOPIC AND OBJECTIVES Robotics is one of the most appealing and natural applicative area for the Planning and Scheduling (P&S) research activity, however such a natural interest seems not reflected in an equally important research production for the Robotics community. In this perspective, the aim of the PlanRob workshop is twofold. On the one hand, this workshop would constitute a fresh impulse for the ICAPS community to develop its interests and efforts towards this challenging research area.…

Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) 2015 “sound across media” Conference will take place between 17 -19th June 2015 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Call for works and papers Deadline: Monday 23rd February 2015 We would like to invite you to take part in Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) 2015, a conference for postgraduate and postdoctoral students working in the sonic and media arts. The conference is organised by postgraduate students of the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC) at De Montfort University, and it aims to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between postgraduate and postdoctoral students across institutional…