Call for Participation Symposium on Emotional AI at BICA 2014 (International Conference of the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society) MIT, Boston, MA, Nov 7-9 2014 This symposium will focus on emotions in artificial intelligence, a topic of increasing interest in many areas of research and development. We invite submissions in the form of papers or presentations reviewing recent/ongoing original work, and especially software demonstrations of different aspects of emotions in AI. Suggested topics include: Advancing taxonomies and models of emotion Generating emotions in AI AI recognition of emotions in humans Emotional content and tone in AI conversation Uses for emotion…

Call for Publications Theme: Authenticity Publication: Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice Date: Theme Issue 21:2 (2017) Deadline: 1.1.2016 Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice seeks paper proposals for a theme issue devoted to the topic of ‘Authenticity’. ‘Why’, the New Statesman asked in March 2013, ‘are we so obsessed with the pursuit of authenticity?’ Phenomena as diverse as snobbish hipster lionising of artisan coffee and organic food, the craze for vintage clothing and scandals over James Frey’s fake misery memoir or Beyoncé’s lip-synching at Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2013 all seem to testify to pervasive…

Call for Papers: 12th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS August 27-29, 2014 Taipei, Taiwan http://www.smartgraphics.org/ Submission deadline: April 15, 2014 (New) ABOUT SMART GRAPHICS The International Symposium on Smart Graphics will bring together researchers from Computer Graphics, Visualization, Art & Graphics Design, Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, all working on different aspects of computer-generated graphics and the user experiences they enable. This year’s meeting will be held in Taipei, Taiwan. Advances in computer graphics have made visual media the heart of the user interface, and it is clear that graphics will play a dominant role in knowledge work, entertainment, and…

Call For Papers ATMM 2014 – Audio Technologies for Music and Media 3rd International Conference 6 – 7 November 2014, Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey http://www.atmm-conference.org Audio Technologies for Music and Media (ATMM) is an international interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the various aspects of audio, audiovisual and music technologies for music and media, and, also, on the relationship between sound, music and image in both ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ media. 3rd ATMM International Conference will be hosted by the Department of Communication and Design, and will take place on 6 – 7 November 2014 at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Former keynote…

ICIDS 2014: Call for Papers The 7th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2014) 3-6 November 2014, Singapore View this call online at: http://narrativeandplay.org/icids2014/call.html Submission deadline: 16 June 2014 The International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) is the premier venue for researchers, practitioners and theorists to present recent results, share novel techniques and insights, and exchange ideas about this new storytelling medium. Interactive digital storytelling is an exciting area in which narrative, computer science and art converge to create new expressive forms. The combination of narrative and computation has considerable untapped potential, ranging from artistic projects to interactive…

[From the blog of DiGRA Students, the student members of the Digital Games Research Assocation (DiGRA); note that the database contains a category “Presence, Engagement, and Immersion” with six sub-categories] DiGRA Students is proud to present our latest endeavor: Ludodemia. What is Ludodemia? Ludodemia is a database for game studies research organized by topic. This database was originally created by the Wellcome Trust as a resource for finding important articles related to particular categories within game studies. However, this resource was hidden in a corner of the Internet that was nearly impossible to find and the organization of the information…

Call For Papers: Philosophy of Engineering and Artifact in the Digital Era (PHEADE) 7th PHEADE Conference Conference’s theme: Ethics and Predictions of the Future of Technology. Technoethics in the Age of Surprise http://www.pheade.ro/2014/ Tracks: Humanism, Technology and Spirituality Ethics of Research in the Age of Surprise Religion on the Future of the Human Being in the Emerging Technologies Era Convergences & Divergences in the Ethics of Technology (Technoethics) Knowledge & Responsibility We welcome suggestions for further topics, not included in the above list. Place: Online community & Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth (Pune, India) – Graduate Students Building Time: December 19-21 2014 (changed…

Call for Papers: First workshop on Empathic Television Experiences (EmpaTeX 2014, empatex2014.org), part of ACM TVX 2014 (tvx2014.com) Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, June 25th, 2014 Deadlines Submission deadline:  March 23 2014 Notification Deadline:  April 20th 2014 Camera-ready deadline:  April 27th 2014 Workshop:  June 25th 2014 Call for Papers Personalized TV/media experiences are becoming mainstream. Recommender systems and other personalization technology are frequently included in television sets and second screen applications. Current systems lack one major ability: to be empathic, to take appropriate actions based on intentions, emotions or mood of persons in front of the TV. This workshop has two major goals:…

Call for Papers & Work: Fifth International Conference on the Image Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany 29-30 October 2014 http://ontheimage.com/the-conference/call-for-papers Conference Focus We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia (See Proposal Types) addressing the Image through one of the following themes: The Form of the Image Image Work The Image in Society 2014 Featured Theme: The Representation of Possibility: Understanding Change and Continuity through the Image Proposal ideas that extend beyond these thematic areas will also be considered. For more information about the ideas and themes underlying this community, see Our Focus. We also offer…

Call for Papers An ISPR Presence Panel for the 100th Conference of the National Communication Association November 20-23, 2014 Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.natcom.org/convention/ Deadline for abstracts: March 22, 2014 The National Communication Association (NCA) is celebrating its centennial and the theme for its fall 2014 conference in Chicago is “The Presence of Our Past(s)”:  “In addition to the convention’s annual array of provocative scholarship, this special moment calls for us to reflect together on the study, teaching, and practices of communication over the past 100 years.” We are organizing an ISPR panel on this theme, focused on the evolution –…

UBISS 2014 – 5th International UBI Summer School 2014 Oulu, Finland, June 9-14, 2014 http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBI-summer-school-2014 Application deadline:  March 24, 2014 UBISS 2014 – the 5th International UBI Summer School 2014 – will be held in Oulu, Finland, on June 9-14, 2014. The summer school provides young researchers with an opportunity to gain hands on experience and insight on selected topics on the multidisciplinary fields of ubiquitous computing and urban informatics under the tutelage of distinguished experts. The summer school is targeted primarily to doctoral (graduate) students, but undergraduate students and postdocs are also welcome to attend. The summer school builds…

[From the Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA)’s Gamesnetwork list] Hello everyone, I’m writing a short article for a non-academic audience on the potential for mainstream adoption of virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift in the near future to trigger a moral/media panic and attract the kind of regulation and censorship that recently culminated in Brown v. EMA (2011) for videogames in the US. I think this recent Forbes article is a harbinger of sensational news coverage to come. I personally think it’s still up in the air as to whether or not the Oculus and other VR peripherals…