‘Embodied Perception of the Human World’ (9th-10th April 2015) Over the past quarter of a century the sciences of the mind have placed increasing emphasis on the notion of an embodied agent perceiving the world around through interacting with that world. Many developments associated with this change in thinking were pre-figured within the philosophical movements of phenomenology through the course of the twentieth century. Some cognitive scientists have explicitly acknowledged this historical trend while others consider developments to have occurred in parallel. In a joint action by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology at Mary Immaculate College ~ University of…

Call for Participation Embarrassing Interactions: A CHI 2015 Workshop http://embarrassinginteractions.org CHI 2015 April 18-23 in Seoul, Korea http://chi2015.acm.org/ No matter whether mobile devices, ubiquitous computing, intercultural human-computer interaction (HCI), public interfaces, interactive art, experimental games, social computing, or robots and virtual agents: wherever new technologies disturb or merge situational norms and audiences, embarrassment is likely. Thus, (fear of) embarrassment presents a fundamental hurdle to adoption and engagement for any interactive system, but also a design space for experimental interfaces. This one-day workshop, co-located with CHI 2015 in Seoul, convenes researchers, designers, and artists to share and advance the current state…

THE COMPUTER GAMES JOURNAL CALL FOR PAPERS VOLUME 4 EDITION 1 CALL OPENED: AUGUST 2014 CALL CLOSES: DECEMBER 2014 FINAL COPY AGREED: JANUARY 2015 PUBLICATION: MARCH 2015 Following the purchase of The Computer Games Journal title by Springer Science+Business Media we are pleased to announce a general call for papers for 2015 publication. As this represents a new-start for The Computer Games Journal, authors have a singular opportunity to have their work appear quickly in a rated publication through a leading publishing house. All work published will be widely available across all relevant online research databases and will be co-distributed…

Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2015 conference Call for Participation We invite researchers and educators to submit to FDG 2015 and share insights and cutting-edge research related to game technologies and their use. FDG 2015 will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by high-profile industry and academic leaders, panels, and posters. The conference will also host a technical demo session, a Research and Experimental Games Festival, and a Doctoral Consortium. The technical demo session will include novel tools, techniques, and systems created for games. The Research and Experimental Games Festival will showcase the latest experimental and research games. The…

Call for Papers British HCI 2015 13th-17th July 2015 Lincoln, UK The 29th British Human Computer Interaction Conference (http://hci2015.bcs.org/) will be held in Lincoln (UK) from 13th-17th July 2015. The conference is organised by the University of Lincoln’s Social Computing (LiSC) research centre in conjunction with the BCS Interaction Specialist Group. The theme for HCI 2015 is digital society, and the role interactive technology plays in mediating our civic lives. This is inspired by the 800th anniversary, in 2015, of the sealing of the Magna Carta, an event viewed as an international cornerstone of liberty and that one that challenged…

CALL FOR PAPERS TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2015 University of Helsinki, Finland, 9-13 June 2015 Pre-conference workshops: 8 June 2015 http://www.helsinki.fi/tsc2015 Submission deadline: 30 November 2014 Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Cutting edge, controversial issues are emphasized. Held annually since 1994, the TSC conferences alternate yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. The University of Helsinki is proud…

Call for Papers CEPE-IACAP 2015 Joint Conference Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiries / International Association for Computing and Philosophy June 22-25 2015 at the University of Delaware Philosophical and ethical enquiries about information technologies, computing, and artificial intelligence have acquired a focal place in the academic and societal debate on the design, development and deployment of technological artefacts. As the issues to be addressed are increasingly complex and interwoven, the need to consider different stakeholders and to endorse both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches in addressing such problems become more pressing. For this reason, in 2015 the International Society for Ethics in…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds 2015 Workshop The U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Simulation and Training Technology Center’s Military Open Simulator Enterprise Strategy (MOSES) and AvaCon are pleased to announce the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds 2015 Workshop will take place on March 6-7, 2015 in a virtual conference center designed specifically for the event. The Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds invites proposals to be a speaker, presenter, or performer at the workshop. While lecture style presentations are acceptable, we highly encourage proposals that are interactive in nature, involve the audience in hands-on…

CALL FOR PAPERS GAMEON-ASIA’2015 5th Asian GAME-ON Conference 2015 Ghent University Global Campus http://www.sgu.or.kr/sgu/eng/inuniv/02_guide.htm Incheon, South-Korea March 25-27, 2015 Full details: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/362 Games Development Methodology Game Theory/Multi-Agent Systems Artificial Intelligence Learning and Adaptation Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems Opponent Modelling Physics and Simulation/Graphical Simulation 3D Scalability Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation AI and Simulation Tools for games design Game Design Rendering Techniques Voice Interaction Artistic input to game and character design Storytelling and Natural Language Processing Online Gaming – Security Issues in Online Gaming MMOG’s Serious gaming Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc…. Games for training Games…

Call for Papers The 12th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2015) 24-26 August 2015 Rome, Italy http://www.mobiwis.org/2015/ The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have been following a continuous and steady development over a number of years through the innovative research and practices of researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and scientific organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between these areas and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest research and developments related to research issues of the…

Call for Presentations When Virtual Reality Became a Reality The Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds Project: 5th Global Meeting Sunday 10th May – Tuesday 12th May 2015 Dubrovnik, Croatia http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/experiential-learning-in-virtual-worlds/call-for-papers/ Submission deadline: January 23, 2015 “For the better part of a century, science-fiction writers, technologists and philosophers have contemplated the arrival of a digital realm so immersive that it is neurologically indistinguishable from the outside world. Now it’s here” (Rubin, 2014). There can be little doubt that we are at the dawn of an exciting new era for experiential learning in virtual worlds. Virtual reality devices such as Oculus Rift…

The 2015 Emerging Learning Design Conference (ELD15) May 29th, 2015 at Montclair State University http://eld.montclair.edu/ The mission of the Emerging Learning Design Conference is to provide a space to showcase innovation as well as to engage in a vibrant and dynamic discourse regarding pedagogy and how technology can better enhance or transform it. The 2015 conference will take place on the campus of Montclair State University. MSU is located in northern New Jersey, 14 miles west of Manhattan and is easily accessible by car, bus, or train. ELD15 Call For Proposals The 2015 Emerging Learning Design Conference (ELD15) is accepting…