Call for Workshop Proposals: Critical Alternatives 2015 Aarhus, Denmark 17 or 18 August, 2015 We hereby invite workshop proposals for Critical Alternatives 2015, (http://www.aarhus2015.org). The fifth decennial Aarhus conference, Critical Alternatives, aims to set new agendas for theory and practice in computing for quality of human life. Workshops at the conference provide an opportunity to discuss and build communities around specific issues and topics within the field of information technology. This is inherently an interdisciplinary conference, and we invite workshop organisers to consider how different perspectives can help establish constructive and critical discussions of workshop themes. Workshops are intended to…

Second International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/mfsc-2015/index.html Co-located with AAMAS 2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com/) 4-8 May, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey Social computing broadly refers to computing-supported approaches that facilitate interactions among people and organizations. Social computing has emerged as an exciting multidisciplinary area of research, driven by the wealth of easily available information and the success of online social networks and social media. Social computing applications are characterized by high interactivity among users, user-generated content, and in cases such as Wikipedia, more open governance structures. Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business…

Call for Papers HWID2015 working conference on “Interaction Design for Pervasive and Smart Workplaces” uwl.ac.uk/hwid2015 Venue: University of West London, Brentford Site, Boston Manor Road, TW8 9GA, United Kingdom Wednesday and Thursday, 25th – 26th of June 2015, in London, United Kingdom Deadline for submissions: 1st of February 2015. THEME, SCOPE AND FOCUS: The HUMAN WORK INTERACTION DESIGN 2015 (HWID 2015) working conference focuses on the integration of work analysis and interaction design methods for pervasive and smart workplaces. Pervasive and smart technologies have pushed work-place configuration beyond linear logic and physical boundaries. As a result, workers’ experience of and…

5th International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems (CCGIDIS 2015) Madrid, Spain :: May 27 – 29, 2015 http://www.alaipo.com/CCGIDIS-2015/symposium_CCGIDIS_2015.html CCGIDIS 2015 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, workshops, doctoral consortium, demo session, poster presentations, and research-in-progress. INTRODUCTION AND TOPICS Communicability is the cornerstone for the success of the interaction among human beings and the technological (r)evolution in scientfic visualization, hypermedia online, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc., devices in which a huge part of humankind is immersed. In these devices there is a convergence and intersection of disciplines deriving from the formal…

Call for Contributions: 4th International Visual Methods conference 16-18 September 2015 The University of Brighton is delighted to host the Fourth International Visual Methods Conference in September 2015. Our programme builds on the foundations laid by the three successful Visual Methods conferences that have taken place at the Open University and the University of Leeds in the UK and at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand over the past six years. Deadline for panels and ‘other’ contributions: 16th January 2015 Deadline for papers: 30th January 2015 We are very pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Gillian Rose, Professor…

Call for Participation – Proposal for Catalogue Entries and further artworks Art.CHI http://art-chi.org The Art.CHI workshop brings together artists working in interactive media who wish to explore and discuss the HCI issues around their work. In addition to the workshop we are also publishing a catalogue of Art.CHI work at CHI2015. So in this call we are asking for Catalogue submissions in the same format as our previous artworks call. In addition we have one or two places available at the workshop and are extending the call for artwork presentations to 19th January The catalogue submissions and artwork proposals can…

Special issue of Entertainment Computing “Fun and Engaging Computing Technologies for Health” http://www.journals.elsevier.com/entertainment-computing/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-fun-and-engaging-computing-technologies/ BACKGROUND Health technologies and systems have been changing significantly in the last few years. There has been a transition from clinical and institutionally centralised scenarios to a more and more personalized and ubiquitous approach that uses joyful and engaging experiences to foster patients and caregivers acceptance and adoption. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these systems, the way in which to better design, develop, and evaluate them, and how different, and sometimes opposite needs – fun and health – can be managed throughout its development.…

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing on “HCI at the Boundary of Work and Life” Guest Editors: Erik Grönvall, Luigina Ciolfi, Gabriela Avram, Chiara Rossitto, Louise Barkhuus http://hciworkandlife.wordpress.com/ This special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer) on “Human-Computer Interaction at the Boundary of Work and Life” aims to explore how HCI themes, concepts, design and technical sensibilities can be extended and applied to practices blurring the boundary between work and life. Technology has moved from workplaces to become part of nearly every aspect of everyday life. Similarly, HCI research spans not only work settings and…

Call For Papers AISB AI & Games 2015: 6th AISB Symposium on AI & Games 20 April, Kent University, UK DEADLINE Monday 19 January 2014 ALL submissions The AI & Games Symposium acts as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners from academia, education and industry who are involved with the design, development and evaluation of AI in the context of games. Papers connecting games to all areas of computational intelligence and traditional AI are considered. ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS: Extended Abstracts (2-4 pages) Posters (one slide) Demos (max 2 pages description of what is going to be demonstrated) Tutorials (max 2…

Call for Papers The International Association of Societies of Design Research IASDR 2015 Congress in Brisbane, Australia 2 – 5 November 2015 http://iasdr2015.com During this congress we will explore the interaction of design research with science, technology and the arts. This continual INTERPLAY provides opportunities to explore interaction between cross-disciplinary knowledge and various design research approaches. IASDR 2015 aims to establish trans-disciplinary research platforms across diverse domains to foster new research and education opportunities and stimulate innovation. The congress provides a global forum for presentation and discussion of the INTERPLAY of design research and applications across all domains of design,…

Call for Papers Journal of Game-Supported Interactive Learning Dear Colleague, The journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by ILCS and MacroWorld Pub., in both print and online version for research on all aspects of the use of game in learning and teaching in all sectors of education. Journal of Game-Supported Interactive Learning is an international, refereed, multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed journal providing a platform for the publication of high quality and discussion of the latest scientific research, concepts, review papers and comparative analyses and exemplars that can deeply influence the role of game-supported technologies on learning, development, instruction and teaching. All…

Call For Papers MATES 2015: SMART THINGS WORKING TOGETHER 13th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies Held in conjunction with INFORMATIK’2015 Cottbus, Germany, September 28 – October 2, 2015 http://www.mates2015.de INTRODUCTION The MATES conference series aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in multiagent systems and agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains. In 2015, the MATES conference will be co-located with the 45th Symposium of…