A Call for Papers/Presentations DCRC presents: Autonomy & Automation: Robotics, AI and the Digital Cultural Future A One Day Seminar at DCRC (Digital Cultures Research Centre, Bristol, UK) Saturday March 8, 2014 airobotics.dcrc.org.uk Through a curiously ambivalent wave of media attention, robotics and AI have emerged as major topics for media and cultural research. Accounts of drones and surveillance applications sit alongside promises of beneficial medical and social uses of ‘helpful’ robots and intelligent systems. All symptomatic of an increasing uncertainty around the character of technoscience and the technocultural transformation it hastens onward. This one day seminar seeks to contribute…

Call for Abstracts for the 3rd Lund Conference on Games, Interaction, Reasoning, Learning & Semantics (G.I.R.L.S.14@LUND): Evolution and Cooperation Lund, Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, April 28-30, 2014 Sponsored by the Lund Research Group on Information and Information Quality (LU-IQ) The 3rd Lund Conference on Games, Interaction, Reasoning, Learning and Semantics (G.I.R.L.S.14@LUND) welcomes submissions from researchers in philosophy, cognitive science, economics & linguistics, using agent based models with bounded rationality, models of evolutionary dynamics, and other naturalistic approaches. The primary conference aims are to foster cooperation between these groups and help establish common ground. G.I.R.L.S. 14@LUND will be themed…

Call for Papers Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing IEEE ICSC2014 June 16th-18th, 2014, Newport Beach, CA, USA http://www.ieee-icsc.org/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation of semantic information from content and the connection of semantics to knowledge, where “content” may be anything including structured data, video, audio, text, hardware, software, process, etc. The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2014) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to…

Advances in Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy in Health Care Invited Session of KES International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (InMed-14) July 09-11, 2014 San Sebastian, Spain http://inmed14.innovationkt.org/ ABOUT Papers are invited on the latest technologies offering therapy, rehabilitation, and more general well-being care. Papers should address theoretical, artistic, professional, and practical aspects of progress in this area as well as new directions in research. Position papers and critical papers are welcomed. TOPICS The subject areas will include, but are not limited to, the following: Descriptions of new therapeutic play and play therapy systems involving alternative…

Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2014 http://media.aau.dk/~sts/sive.html Submission deadline: February 15th, 2014. Notification of acceptance: February 25th, 2014. Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the online submission system Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sive14 Sonic interaction design is defined as the study and exploitation of sound as one of the principal channels conveying information, meaning, and aesthetic/emotional qualities in interactive contexts. This field lies at the intersection of interaction design and sound and music computing. In the virtual reality community, the focus on research in topics related to auditory feedback has been rather limited when compared,…

Call for papers Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media Conference 29-31 May 2014 Department of Cinematography and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Television, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Deadline: February 15, 2014 The conference is an inter-disciplinary forum for academics and practitioners working in the fields or at the intersection of cinema, performing arts, visual arts and media. The conference aims to explore the role of the body in articulating and reflecting the changes in contemporary arts and media practices as well as the theoretical discourses they generate. In this sense, the body is seen…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting December 27-30, 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) invites papers to be presented at its divisional meeting held in conjunction with the Eastern divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Papers may address any topic that involves the connection between philosophy and the visual arts: film, photography, video, or other aesthetic media. Presentations should be 20-25 minutes (10-12 pages in length; 2500-3000 words). Presenters must be currently…

Call for Papers: IACAP 2014 The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece July 2-4, 2014 http://www.pt-ai.org/iacap/2014/ This year’s meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece. Computing technologies both raise philosophical questions and elucidate traditional philosophical problems. IACAP meetings emphasise this two-way relationship, providing an opportunity for researchers in multiple fields to share new work in an interdisciplinary setting. We invite both abstract submissions and symposium proposals in areas at the intersection of computing and philosophy. This year’s meeting will have a…

Call For Papers: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2014 (Paris, France) http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/ala2014/ Paper deadline: JANUARY 22, 2014 Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) encompasses diverse fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biology, as well as Cognitive and Social Sciences. The ALA workshop will focus on agents and multiagent systems which employ learning or adaptation. This workshop is a continuation of the long running AAMAS series of workshops on adaptive agents, now in its fourteenth year. The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in…

Special Issue on Intelligent Environments in Education and Culture of the journal Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments Deadline for indication to submit (abstract): January 16th As the world moves steadily to become a knowledge-based economy, education and learning have never been more important. Technology is playing an increasingly crucial role in the delivery of education, which in turn is driving research into the search for ever better technological solutions. The age of intelligent environments is bringing such pedagogical advances as smart classrooms, intelligent campuses, immersive reality, affective learning, mobile learning, intelligent learning clouds and personalized intelligent avatar-like tutors to…

CFP: HCI Research in Healthcare: Evidence to Practice Workshop at CHI 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Healthcare presents a challenging domain for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research.  The complexity of work, variability of work practices, richness of, and reliance on information, and continuous collaborative activity, provide opportunities to explore new forms of interaction and to advance theory. Theory has an important place in HCI research in healthcare. However, resources are spread far and wide in different multidisciplinary journals. It is timely for the community to reflect on the classic, modern and contemporary theories they use, to map where strengths and weaknesses…

Call for papers: Workshop CVE3D @ IEEE VR 2014 International Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Environments At IEEE Virtual Reality 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USA Sunday, March 30, 2014 http://sites.google.com/site/3dcveieeevr2014/ We need to improve interaction and collaboration in immersive virtual environments. Indeed, frameworks for the design of immersive and collaborative virtual environments are now mature enough to allow researchers to focus on higher-level description of immersion and collaboration rather than on low-level system features. However, we still have to improve both the immersion of the users and the ability of distant users to collaborate efficiently when they are sharing a virtual environment,…