Call for Papers IE2016 – Interactive Entertainment 2016 Canberra, Australia, 2-5 February, 2016 http://www.ieconference.org/ie2016/ Interactive Entertainment is Australasia’s longest running games and digital entertainment conference. The twelfth series of the conference will be held 2-5 February 2016 as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2016) – http://cs.anu.edu.au/conf/acsw2016/. ASCW 2016 will be hosted at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. Registration for IE2016 will enable delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in ACSW. Accepted papers presented at the conference will also be published via the ACM conference publication series in addition to the ACM Digital Library.…

Call for Chapters Handbook of Research on Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society Editor: Steven John Thompson, (UMUC) Proposals Submission Deadline: August 1, 2015 Full Chapters Due: December 15, 2015 Introduction Handbook of Research on Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society lays the foundation for current research and exploration in cyborg theory and practice, and sets the stage for cyborg inquiry and participation in an academic platform. The project idea comes from my edited book on human enhancement technologies, where scientists, laymen, philosophers, and other explorers converge on the fringe of cybernetics related to…

International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies (ERM4CT 2015) 13 November 2015, Seattle (at ACM ICMI’15) http://erm4ct.cogsy.de/ Submission deadline: July 10, 2015 SCOPE: ERM4CT joins two past workshop series, “Emotion representations and modelling in Human-Computer-Interaction Systems” (ERM4HCI) and “Techniques Towards Companion Technologies” (T2CT), respectively. The major goal in human computer interaction (HCI) research and applications is to improve the interaction between humans and computers. One way of achieving a better interaction is to allow the computer to recognise and respond to the user’s natural behaviour as shown during the interaction. As user behaviour is often very specific…

ACADEMIC MINDTREK CONFERENCE 2015 Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials 22nd to 24th of September 2015 Tampere, Finland http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, workshops and extended abstracts due on: — DEADLINE 31st of July 2015 Tutorials due on: — DEADLINE 24th of August In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level work will be published as book chapters or in journals. We are pleased to invite you to the Academic Mindtrek conference, 22nd to 24th September 2015, which…

Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Vision and Eye Tracking in Natural Environments and Solutions & Algorithms for Gaze Analysis (SAGA 2015) Where: Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany When: September, 29-30, 2015 WWW: http://saga.eyemovementresearch.com The SAGA 2015 workshop is accepting abstracts for two calls: solutions for the (semi-) automatic annotation of gaze videos, eye movement studies in natural environments as a trailblazer for gaze analysis in natural environments, social interactions, computational linguistics, consumer research, mobile eye-based interaction and eye-based context-awareness. As a follow up event of the successfull SAGA 2013 workshop, we are providing…

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…