IUI 2015: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Atlanta, GA, USA – March 29-April 1, 2015 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2015 is the 20th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. IUI is where Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We’re also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, etc. WHY SUBMIT TO IUI? At IUI our focus is to improve the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence…

Call for Papers 14th International Cultural Studies Symposium Theme: Culture and Space Faculty of Letters, Ege University Izmir (Turkey) 6.-8.5.2015 Deadline:  30.12.2014 Edward Soja in his book Postmodern Geographies, says that “We must be insistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life, how human geographies become filled with politics and ideology.”. It is assumed that the spatiality of social life is under the threat and disguise of authoritarian ideologies and practices which may hide the realities of power relations…

Call for Papers: Models of Culture for Intelligent Virtual Agents (MoCIVA) Call for short and long papers for first MoCIVA workshop co-located with Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) in Boston, MA – August 27th – 29th. Submissions due June 24th. General page:  http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/mociva/ Link to submission details:  http://gaips.inesc-id.pt:8081/mociva/index.php/submission Position papers: 2 pages Short papers: 4-6 pages Long papers: 10-12 pages MoCIVA topics MoCIVA aims to provide a forum for continued discussion and dissemination of results on several topics related to culture and virtual agents including: Culture-specific virtual agents and robots Agents for teaching cultures, or cross-cultural interaction Models of culture that…

The 2nd International Workshop on ICT for the Preservation and Transmission of Intangible Cultural Heritage “How to exchange Cultural Heritage 3D objects and knowledge in Digital Libraries?” 3rd ­ 8th Nov. 2014, Conference Venue: Lemessos, Cyprus http://www.culturalheritage2014.eu/index.php/workshops/ Full paper (max. 10 pages), Project paper (max. 8 pages) or Short paper (max. 6 pages) submission:  June 30th, 2014 Submission system: http://www.culturalheritage2014.eu/index.php/paper-submission/ The Workshop takes place as part of the International Conference on Cultural Heritage (CH), which brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today. In particular, the main goal…

ARTECH 2015 7th International Conference on Digital Arts – Creating Digital e-Motions. Óbidos, Portugal, March 18-20, 2015 Call for Papers ARTECH 2015 is the Seventh International Conference on Digital Arts, this time hosted by Universidade Aberta in the ancient village of Óbidos, Portugal. The goal of the conference is to promote the interest in the current digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, but also as a common space for discussion and exchange of new experiences. Seeking to foster greater understanding about digital arts and culture across a wide spectrum of cultural, disciplinary,…

ACADEMIC MINDTREK CONFERENCE 2014 Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstration, Workshops, Tutorials 4th to 7th November 2014 Tampere, Finland http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on — DEADLINE 30th June 2014 Workshops due on — DEADLINE 30th June 2014 (extended) Tutorials due on — DEADLINE 30th Sept 2014 THEMES: Social Media Ambient/Ubiquitous Media & Open Source Business & Media Human-Computer Interaction Hybrid Media (new track!) Digital Games ICT & E-Government Information Systems & Management in Creativity Industry (new track!) In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI Contributions will be published in…

CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction IHCI 2014 Evry, France, December 8-10, 2014 http://ihci2014.telecom-sudparis.eu Important dates: Papers submission before June 30, 2014 (extended) Notification by September 10, 2014 Final version due September 30, 2014 Venue: December 8-10, 2014 (in Evry, France) The international conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction (IHCI) is a forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results at the crossroads of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, signal processing and computer vision. It brings together engineers and scientists from various application fields and from around the world. The 6th edition in the series, IHCI…

UK Museums On The Web conference (UKMW14): Museums Beyond the Web Submission deadline: June 30, 2014 The Museums Computer Group will be holding our annual UKMW conference at the Natural History Museum on Friday November 7 2014. This year our theme is ‘Museums Beyond the Web’. What does ‘the web’ mean to those of us working with digital and museums today? Increasingly, our visitors’ online experiences are moving away from the humble browser (though perhaps email will always be with us). From simple mobile apps and games to the internet of things and wearable technology, new forms are displacing the…

Call for Papers for a special journal issue of the Journal of Communication and Society, nº27, ISSN: 1645-2089, to be published during the 1st semester of 2015, on the theme of, Videogame Communication. Expression, Engagement and Experience Editors: Nelson Zagalo, Miguel Sicart and Emmanoel Ferreira We’re pleased to announce an upcoming issue of the Journal of Communication and Society dedicated to the studies of communication on the media of videogames. SCOPE For the past fifteen years videogames have thoroughly been researched from a myriad of academic angles – psychology, education, anthropology, computer science, economy, arts, etc. – In this special…

CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: Freedom in Play Istanbul, 13-15 November 2014 2014.gamephilosophy.org Abstracts deadline: 15 August 2014 We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 8th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Istanbul 13-15 November 2014. The concept of freedom is central in the shaping of game experiences and game cultures. It is a lens through which we can critically evaluate the philosophical, cultural and political relevance of computer…

CALL FOR PAPERS EXAG 2014 – Experimental AI in Games Workshop http://www.exag.org October 4, 2014 Located at AIIDE 2014 in Raleigh, North Carolina Submission deadline: July 10th, 2014 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The Experimental AI in Games (EXAG) workshop aims to foster and celebrate innovative applications of AI to all aspects of games and game development. EXAG solicits submissions of position papers arguing for new roles of AI in games, prototypes or works-in-progress of experimental applications of AI in games and game creation, and descriptions of new kinds of games and interactive experiences made possible with AI. Broadly, EXAG is interested…

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS – EXTENDED DEADLINE JUNE 6TH AI-2014: Cambridge, UK, December 9th-11th 2014 Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (an ECCAI Member Society) The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2014/ AI-2014 is the thirty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2014 reviews recent technical advances in AI technologies and shows how…