Call for Abstracts: Games and Transgressive Aesthetics Workshop at DiGRA 2015 May 14th-17th at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany Overview: Digital games have a reputation for including excessive violence, and violent content tends to be the focal point when games become the target for public criticism. However, as interacting with the gameworld through the use of simulated violence is a convention in many games; and while game violence certainly can be experienced as unsettling, it seldom leads the game to become ”unplayable” for players. Rather, it seems that the game context contributes to reduce the offensiveness of such content. Indeed, players…

Call for Papers DAS @ ICAC 2015 1st Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems At ICAC 2015, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Grenoble, France, July 7 2015 Paper Submission April 13, 2015 Notification May 15, 2015 Camera Ready May 22, 2015 Workshops July 07, 2015 Workshop website: http://www.agentgroup.unimore.it/DAS2015/ Conference website: http://icac2015.imag.fr On the account of the recent advances in technology, computational systems have to be thought as ever growing distributed artificial environments in which requirements, constituent components and user needs dynamically change in unpredictable ways. Coping with such uncertainties represents an interesting challenge for the designer of these…

CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: From Model to Implementation (ABC:MI) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/abcmi E-mail: abcmi2015@fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to ABC:MI – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS is a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society – POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT…

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…