CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd Workshop on User Experience of Autonomous Driving at AutomotiveUI 2014 (http://www.auto-ui.org/14) Seattle, WA, USA; September 17th, 2014 Workshop website:  http://projects.icts.sbg.ac.at/aui2014/ Submission deadline:  August 10, 2014 IMPORTANT DATES August 10, 2014:  Submission deadline Option 1:  Position paper (to appear in adjunct proceedings) Option 2:  Biography and motivation to participate August 13, 2014:  Notification August 15, 2014:  Early Registration Deadline for Conference September 1, 2014:  Camera ready version (optional) September 17, 2014:  Workshop at AUI 2014 in the afternoon SUMMARY AND THEME Autonomous Driving has gained attention from academia and industry over the last decades. Research organizations and…

14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015) Istanbul Congress Center Istanbul, Turkey 4-8th of May, 2015 http://www.aamas2015.com IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission:  12th of November, 2014 (23:59 UTC-12) Full Paper Submission:  17th of November, 2014 (23:59 UTC-12) Rebuttal Phase:  14-16th of January, 2015 (23:59 UTC-12) Author Notification:  28th of January, 2015 ABOUT AAMAS AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages…

Call for participation NordiCHI’14 Workshop – Beyond the Switch: Explicit and Implicit Interaction with Light October 26, 2014: Helsinki, Finland in conjunction with NordiCHI’14 (http://nordichi2014.org/) URL:  http://lightingworkshop.wordpress.com/ Deadline for submissions is August 14, 2014. The introduction of connected lighting, which can be integrated with sensors and other devices, is opening up new possibilities for creating responsive and intelligent environments. The role of lighting in such systems goes far beyond functional illumination. Extensive lighting networks are established in which digitally controllable LED light sources enable almost limitless lighting output possibilities, such as dynamic and coloured light. Despite this potential, the current…

Call for submissions Pages on Arts and Design (PAD) #12 Bodies of interaction: Physical, virtual and social interfaces http://www.padjournal.net/about/ PAD (Pages on Arts and Design) is an international, open access, and peer-reviewed e-journal published twice a year. PAD publishes original and qualified intellectual production in all area of design and arts research. It provides an international and interactive forum for the exchange of ideas, debate and criticism. PAD [publishes] findings from researchers and professionals across different countries and cultures of the Mediterranean areas and encourages research on the impact of cultural factors on design theory and practice. The publication of…

Call for Papers/Participation – ACE’14 Workshop on “Designing Systems for Health and Entertainment: What are we missing?” In conjunction with ACE 2014:  http://www.ace2014.info/ Tuesday, November 11, 2014 in Madeira, Portugal More info:  http://designingsystemsforhealthandentertainment.wordpress.com/ DESCRIPTION: Systems that aggregate health and entertainment goals are proliferating, but little is known about the way to design and evaluate these systems and how to manage the different (if nor opposite) needs of these two main areas. This workshop will promote the discussion of issues surrounding these areas, enabling a better understanding of the how’s and why’s of designing systems for health and entertainment, as well…

CALL FOR PAPERS ACM GROUP 2014 Workshop on Collaboration and Coordination in the Context of Informal Care (CCCiC GROUP 2014) November 9, 2014 Sanibel Island, Florida (USA) http://group2014.cccic2014.org IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline:  August 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance:  September 26, 2014 Camera ready:  October 17, 2014 Workshop day:  November 9, 2014 WORKSHOP THEMES CCCiC is an International Workshop Series addressing issues of design and development of systems to support coordination, communication, and collaboration between informal caregivers, their friends, family members, and health professionals. The first chapter of the series took place at CSCW 2014 in Baltimore and the next edition…

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video http://pucitvandvideoexperiences.wordpress.com/ SCOPE Interactive experiences for online video and television is a research area of increased interest to an international community of academics and industrial practitioners. This area engages a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. Novel interaction mechanisms, multi-screen solutions and insights on large-scale analysis of user feedback and viewers experiences are explored in this year’s conference program of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television…

Journal of Engineering Design Special Issue on Interaction and Experience Design The aim of the special issue is to focus on novel research and development in the field of Engineering Design to design experiences in products, processes and systems. This is a call for design projects and research that encompass aspects of interaction design, psychology, culture and human factors to achieve satisfying, engaging and meaningful user experiences. In particular we are interested in the following topics: Interaction paradigms to better meet the emotional requirements of users Metrics and models for the assessment of user response Methods and principles for product…

Here is a CfP for a graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati for this October. It is hosted by the German Department, but will not be German-specific. Please consider submitting an abstract! Creating, Questioning, and Playing with Reality: Living in Worlds of Pure Imagination? Alex Hogue, Matthew Bauman, Acacia Diniz Department of German Studies University of Cincinnati, USA 10-12 October 2014, Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati Please send 250 word abstracts to fogs.editor@gmail.com by August 1, 2014. The German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati and the editors of the graduate student journal Focus on German Studies…

The 7th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction At ACM ICMI 2014, Istanbul, Turkey November 16th, 2014 Papers deadline: July 15th, 2014 www:  http://hhhuang.homelinux.com/gaze_in Eye gaze is one of the most important aspects in understanding and modeling human-human communication, and it has great potential also in improving human-machine and robot interaction. In human face-to-face communication, eye gaze plays an important role in floor and turn management, grounding, and engagement in conversation. In human-computer interaction research, social gaze, gaze directed at an interaction partner, has been a subject of increased attention. This is the seventh workshop in Eye…

Call for papers: Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems IntRS’14:  http://recex.ist.tugraz.at/intrs2014/ Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014) 6-10th October 2014, Silicon Valley, California. Submission deadline: 21st of July, 2014 Submit here:  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intrs2014 As an interactive intelligent system, recommender systems are developed to suggest items that match users’ preferences. Since the emergence of recommender systems, a large majority of research has focused on objective accuracy criteria and less attention has been paid to how users interact with the system and the efficacy of interface designs from users’ perspectives. The field…

Call for Papers: “Living With the Digital Dead” Burwood Corporate Centre, Deakin University, Melbourne Friday 7th November Researchers across a number of disciplines have noted that the internet, and especially the increasing ubiquity of social media, is changing the ways in which the dead figure in the lives of the living. New means of commemorating, remembering, forgetting, interacting with and even denigrating the dead have emerged in online contexts, from online memorial sites, to new conventions of public mourning, to Facebook users continuing to post on the walls of deceased friends, to speculative new technologies that will create interactive avatars…