Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums (NODEM) 2014 Conference Engaging Spaces – Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies December 1-3, 2014, Warsaw, Poland Abstract Submission Deadline (extended): May 21, 2014 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We are delighted to announce the opening of call for proposals for anyone interested in speaking at the NODEM 2014 Conference “Engaging Spaces – Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies”. We invite submissions of proposals that deal with issues of crossing boundaries and creating links between experience design, architecture, ICT, digital strategies and interpretative content to explore critical aspects of visitor engagement. Proposals are welcomed from museum professionals and researchers…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ICEC2014 – International Conference on Entertainment Computing 1-3 Oct 2014 Sydney, Australia http://icec2014.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 several tracks: Full Technical…

Final Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments AI@IE – http://2014.ai4ie.de (in conjunction with ECAI 2014 in Prague) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline:  25. May 2014 (slightly extendable on request) Notification of acceptance:  23. June 2014 Final version deadline:  7. July 2014 Workshop date:  18. August 2014 (during ECAI 2014) CALL FOR PAPERS Researchers in the area of intelligent environments try to embed intelligence into everyday working and living spaces. To reach this goal they investigate options to integrate smart technologies into ordinary objects within the environment or by controlling the available infrastructure in some…

Re-imagining Commonly Used Mobile Interfaces for Older Adults September 23, 2014, Toronto, Canada http://www.olderadults.mobi workshop@olderadults.mobi Call for Papers Many countries have an increasingly ageing population. In recent years, mobile technologies have had a massive impact on social and working life. As the older adult population rises, many people will want to continue professional, social and lifestyle usage of mobiles into their 70s and beyond. Mobiles support community involvement and personal independence, but the ageing process can interfere considerably with their usage, e.g. through changes in vision, attention, and motor control. This workshop will bring together researchers who are re-imagining mobile…

Research Through Design 2015 conference 21st Century Makers and Materialities 25th-27th March 2015, Cambridge UK. Website: http://researchthroughdesign.org Twitter: @RTD2015 <http://twitter.com/RTD2015> 1st Call for Submissions We are excited to invite submissions for the second bi-annual Research Through Design (RTD) conference, to be held in Cambridge, UK, between the 25th and 27th of March 2015. RTD supports the dissemination of practice-based research through a novel and experimental conference format, comprising a curated exhibition of design research accompanied by round-table discussions in ‘Rooms of Interest’. The exhibition will be used as a platform for presenting and demonstrating research processes and outputs, and for…

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction Intelligenza Artificiale, the official journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2014 Paper submission deadline: 1 August 2014 Special Issue Web site: http://aihci.di.unito.it/special_issue.html Journal Web site: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligenza-artificiale/ SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) aims at improving the symbiosis between humans and computers by merging two research fields: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This may involve including intelligent capabilities in the interface in order to improve performance, usability and experience in critical ways. It may also involve designing an interface…

The Fifth International Conference on Serious Games Development & Applications (SGDA 2014) Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014 www.sgda-conf.org Submission deadline: 12 May 2014 SGDA 2014 will be held in Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014, as a satellite conference to European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2014). Both conferences are hosted by University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. Registered participants will have access to both conferences. The recent re-emergence of serious games since 2002 has put the spotlight on the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Games and society: From social interaction to social change Pre-Conference to ECREA’s fifth European Communication Conference, ECC 2014 (Lisbon, Portugal) – 11 November 2014 Abstracts deadline: 15th May 2014 The awareness of digital games has evolved rapidly in recent years, recognizing an activity earlier considered a practice for narrow and specialized audiences to be mainstream media entertainment for the masses. Since the mid nineties researchers have engaged in studying games as platforms for social interaction and as unique channels for exploration, experimentation and entertainment – however, much scientific and publication attention has been paid to the risks…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014) Tsukuba, Japan, October 29-31, 2014 http://hai2014.org/ People are increasingly interacting with computerized agents. Examples include autonomous and tele-presence robots in homes, healthcare, or search and rescue, virtual characters in the expanding gaming industry or for serious games, and agents representing other people through on-line social and interactive meeting places. Although these broad areas have their own unique research challenges, there is a clear commonality to be addressed in the investigation of how people interact with agents, whether they have physical or virtual embodiments, or represent remote people or…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Deadline: Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as ‘Outsider’ CHArt 2014 conference, part of the UNDERGROUND Arts & Humanities Festival, King’s College London, Strand Saturday, 18 October 2014 Digital engagement with art is thriving. Much of it is actively subversive of the traditional frameworks that enable art to be created and responded to – whether casually or professionally. This subversion takes various forms, including notions of value, uniqueness, fixity and location. The CHArt 2014 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the underground creation, display, consumption and study…

Extended Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL’14) Workshop Website: http://adl2014.wordpress.com/ co-located with i-KNOW 2014 (http://i-know.tugraz.at/) Important Dates: Submission deadline: 4th May Notification to authors: 23rd May Camera Ready: 5th June Digital libraries are becoming increasingly important in research. Traditionally they have been used for tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, however they are increasingly being used as sources for mining information, discovering new trends and evaluating research excellence. The rapid growth in the number of documents being deposited in digital libraries requires the provision for novel approaches that are driven by the needs…

Call for Papers: Computer Speech and Language (CSL) Special Issue on Speech and Language for Interactive Robots AIMS AND SCOPE Speech-based communication with robots faces important challenges for their application in real world scenarios. In contrast to conventional interactive systems, a talking robot always needs to take its physical environment into account when communicating with users. This is typically unstructured, dynamic and noisy and raises important challenges. The objective of this special issue is to highlight research that applies speech and language processing to robots that interact with people through speech as the main modality of interaction. For example, a…