Call for Contributions: AMII2014: Ambient Play and Informal Learning Ambient Gaming Workshop (AMGAM’14) November 11, 2014 Eindhoven Deadline for submission:  01 October 2014 Notification of acceptance:  15 October 2014 Workshop:  11 November 2014 Web:  http://www.playfitproject.nl/ambientgamingworkshop/ Download full call:  http://www.playfitproject.nl/wp-content/uploads/Workshop@AmI2014_PlayLearning_final.pdf ABOUT AMBIENT GAMING AND PLAY The definition of play is often restricted to a specific ‘time and place’. Digital play can be more integrated in a spatial, temporal and social sense owing to new media, social networks, modern technology and (social) interaction. This enables to design for playful activities that are seamlessly integrated within our daily lives in such a way…

Call for Papers: First International Workshop on Emotion for Sociable Agents (ESA14; http://www.social-robot.info) on October 28, 2014 in conjunction with Human Agent Interaction (HAI) 2014 (http://hai-conference.net/hai2014/) in Tsukuba, Japan EXTENDED DEADLINE:  September 5, 2014 Please contact us at:  esa-contact@social-robot.info IMPORTANT DATES: September 5, 2014, 23:59 PST  –  Paper submission deadline (extended) September 15, 2014  –  Notification of acceptance September 26, 2014  –  Camera ready submission October 28, 2014  –  See you in Tsukuba WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: In our aim to build soft- and hardware agents that are to appear intelligent and to interact seamlessly with humans we must not neglect the…

Call for Contributions SocInfo 2014 Workshop: What’s in a dyad? Interaction and Exchange in Social Media Workshop website:  http://dyad.di.unito.it Conference website:  http://socinfo2014.org/ Conference: 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014) @ Barcelona, Spain in November 10-13, 2014 Submission deadline:  September 8, 2014 A great deal of work has used computational methods to investigate the intensity, structure, topic and sentiment of social interactions. But neither information alone nor structure in isolation can be considered fully responsible for the complexity of social life, whether on- or offline. Online interactions can be conceptualized as a social exchange, and also as a process…

Call for Abstracts Workshop on Behavior Coordination between Humans, Animals and Robots @ IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2014 Genoa, Italy Oct. 13, 2014 DEADLINE:  Sept. 15, 2014 http://icdl14.bplaced.net/wordpress/ http://www.icdl-epirob.org/ Contact:  hagen.lehmann@iit.it Organizers: Luisa Damiano Research Centre on Complex Systems / Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy and Hagen Lehmann Italian Institute of Technology, iCub Facility, Genoa, Italy This workshop intends to bring together specialists investigating one or more aspects of behavior coordination in three different research domains: human-human interaction, human-animal interaction, human-robot interaction. The aim is to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue directed towards cross-fertilization between these fields,…

Call for Participation EdMedia 2015 June 22 – 25 Montréal, Québec, Canada Submissions Deadline: December 12, 2014 Proposal Submission Guide & Form [This call:  http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm] INVITATION EdMedia–World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education. EdMedia, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and annually attracts more…

HCI International 2015 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2-7 August, 2015 Los Angeles, California, USA http://www.hcii2015.org/ PROPOSALS SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Papers:  17 October 2014 Tutorials:  17 October 2014 Posters:  20 February 2015 HCI International 2015, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, which are held under one management and one registration, invite you to Los Angeles, California, USA, to participate and contribute to the international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical, generic and applied areas of HCI, through the following modes of communication: Plenary / Keynote Presentation, Parallel Sessions, Poster Sessions, Tutorials and Exhibition. The Conference…

2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA 2015) 12th to 14th June 2015 Shenzhen, China Organized by:  IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Website:  http://2015.civemsa.ieee-ims.org/ Papers are currently being solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence, human-computer interaction technologies, and virtual environments for measurement systems & the related applications, from the points of view of both theory & practice IMPORTANT DATES: Full Paper Submission:  Thursday, Jan 01, 2015 Acceptance Notification:  Sunday, Feb 01, 2015 Final Paper Submission:  Sunday, Mar 01, 2015 To increase the quality of life…

MuseumNext 2015 Geneva, Switzerland 19 – 21 April 2015 http://www.museumnext.com/ MuseumNext is Europe’s major conference on the future of museums. The event brings together delegates from around the world to discuss ‘what’s next?’ for the museum sector. We are now inviting the international museum community to participate in our 2015 conference by proposing presentations, workshops or panel discussions on the subject of ‘What’s next for museums?’ We are seeking excellent examples of today which shine a light on the museum of tomorrow. The conference will be a dialogue about what’s next in all aspects of the museum, including architecture, exhibitions,…

AAAI Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction March 23-25th, 2015 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA The AAAI Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction will bring together researchers across multiple disciplines–including multimodal systems, human-robot interaction, embodied conversational agents, and spoken dialogue systems–to address a topic of common interest: the modeling, realization, and evaluation of turn-taking and real-time action coordination between humans and artificial interactive systems. This symposium will serve to build common ground for researchers from these disparate backgrounds to share their perspectives, methodologies, and results from their own investigations into the problem of multimodal coordination.…

Call for Chapters: Closed Systems / Open Worlds Contact:  ClosedandOpenBook@gmail.com Deadline for précis:  15 September 2014 (extended) Edited by:  Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Usability Testing of Video Games: Multidisciplinary Case Studies A book edited by Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada To be published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis:  http://www.crcpress.com/ Introduction Usability Testing of Video Games: Multidisciplinary Case Studies will present case studies describing academic research and practicing hands-on experience on usability testing methodologies and techniques, with the aim of improving the human-computer interfaces of video games and players’ user experience (UX). The usability experiences will be presented as comprehensive case studies to be used as learning and teaching materials in video game design and development, usability, human-computer…

CALL FOR PAPERS Social ITS: Tutorial and Workshop on Theories and Applications of Social Science for Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces In conjunction with ACM ITS 2014 Dresden, Germany November 16, 2014 http://its2014socialscienceforis.weebly.com Important Dates Submission Deadline:  September 5, 2014, 5pm PDT Notification to Authors:  September 23, 2014 NEW EVENT FORMAT:  Tutorial (½ day) + Workshop (½ day):  November 16, 2014 Social ITS Tutorial + Workshop Theme There is an increasing trend in the human-computer interaction (HCI) and interactive tabletop and surfaces (ITS) communities towards the application of social theories describing human and social behaviour into our technology designs. For example,…