Experience Design for Behaviour Change Parallel Session at HCI International 2014 http://designforbehaviorchange.wordpress.com Following the popularity at HCI International 2013 where our parallel session was one of the largest of the conference, we invite you to HCII 2014 Crete, Greece, 22-27 June 2014. This Parallel Session aims to bring together a multidisciplinary set of researchers and industry professionals interested in designing behavior change interventions. The session is part of the conference’s thematic area Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU). For more information please visit the Conference Website at http://hcii2014.org/duxu.php. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite contributions that explore how experiences can be…

[Note: Papers and several other types of submissions are also sought – see http://tvx2014.com for details   –Matthew ] TVX 2014 – Call for Workshop Proposals TVX is the leading international conference for research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. TVX 2014 will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK on the 24-27th June 2014.…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Machine Ethics in the Context of Medical and Care Agents (MEMCA-2014) To be held at: AISB-50, Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW, UK Convention dates:  1-4 April 2014. We are pleased to announce a Symposium on Machine Ethics in the Context of Medical and Care Agents, as part of the AISB-50 Annual Convention 2014 to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, between April 1st and 4th, 2014 (detailed Convention programme tba).  The Convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) (http://www.aisb.org.uk) OVERVIEW OF MEMCA-2014 SYMPOSIUM: Robots and…

Call For Participation! i-Docs 2014 Bristol, UK March 20-21, 2014 http://bit.ly/19tWoHF Following the success of the i-Docs Symposia in 2011 and 2012, we are delighted to invite you to participate in i-Docs 2014, two full days devoted to considering the expanding and rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary The Symposium is convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Mandy Rose, and hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, Bristol. The event will be held at Watershed on Bristol’s Harbourside – Thursday 20 and Friday 21 of March 2014. Keynote speakers confirmed so far: Kate Nash (University of Tasmania), Hank…

Call for Papers 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014) May 26-28, 2014 University of Houston Houston, Texas, USA Full details: http://graphics.cs.uh.edu/casa2014 The University of Houston and Computer Graphics Society are pleased to announce the 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014) to be held on May 26-28, 2014 at the University of Houston Hilton Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA. CASA was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland and it is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. We seek research full papers, short papers, and posters…

CALL FOR PAPERS UMAP2014: 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 7-11 July 2014, Aalborg, Denmark http://um.org/umap2014/ UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This…

International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014 10-13 June 2014 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2014/ Important Dates: Submissions due: January 31, 2014 Author notification: by March 15, 2014 Final submissions: due April 15, 2014 Conference: June 10-13, 2014 Computational Creativity is the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. As a field of research, this area is thriving, with progress in formalising what it means for software to be creative, along with many exciting and valuable applications of creative software in the sciences, the arts, literature,…

Please take part in this survey investigating viewer perception of facial expression and the Uncanny Valley for human-like virtual characters intended for immersive video game environments: http://app.evalandgo.com/s/?id=JTk5biU5OG4=&a=JTk2aiU5Nm0lOUM= The survey should take between 10-15 minutes to complete. This series of studies on the Uncanny Valley meets the criteria for the University Research Ethics Framework and has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee at Bolton University.…

Expanded Narrative Symposium Roland Levinsky Building Plymouth University Fri 1st – Sat 2nd November 2013 http://expandednarrative.org/symposium/ Early Bird tickets available until end of September! The Expanded Narrative Symposium explores the multidisciplinary fields of interactive narrative that reconfigure the form and expand the experience of storytelling. The reader, relocated, becomes a player, co-author or participant. How can we design, develop and experience locative sound, participatory theatre, pervasive and mobile games, flash fiction and works yet to be defined? Through the consideration of these questions, the symposium aims to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration between practitioners from the arts, academia and the…

Dear Colleagues, Hello everyone, I am conducting an online survey on gamers’ online gaming experiences, such as trash talking and related behaviours. I have received some responses from various sources. May I kindly ask for your help in filling out and sharing the survey link to your friends and people who play online. The survey takes on average 15 minutes. Here is the link: http://osucomms.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8BsMt3C1Y9jL3Bb Cheers, Wai Yen Tang The Ohio State University School of Communication PhD Student tang.252@osu.edu vgresearcher.wordpress.com…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE 3rd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health May 14-16, 2014 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sponsored by: IEEE ˆ Computer Society http://www.ipca.pt/segah2014 IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Poster Submission (extended abstract) Deadline: November 1, 2013 Authors Notification (regular papers and extended abstract): December 1, 2013 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: January 15, 2014 Tutorial Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Demo Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Workshops Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Symposiums Submission Deadline: July 31, 2013 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Esteban Clua, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil João Vilaça, Polytechnic Institute…

[For those wondering how this might be about (tele)presence, see Esther Milne’s ISPR 2011 paper, Historical Provocations: Postal Presence, Intimate Absence and Public Privacy.  –Matthew ] 1st Global Conference Letters & Letter Writing – Signed, Sealed, Delivered Tuesday 18th March – Thursday 20th March 2014 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/letters-and-letter-writing/call-for-presentations/ Call for Presentations The letter has been one of the most important forms of communication over thousands of years across many cultures and continents. Whether personal, professional or an open statement of intent it can covey the most intimate messages or declare the most inflammatory of declarations. It can be delivered…