2nd International Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Assistive Technology At IEEE Virtual Reality 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USA http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~jpq/vaat/ The IEEE VR 2014 Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Assistive Technology is intended to bring together technological and clinical research communities to advance the state-of-the-art in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) assistive technology. Over the past several decades, there has been a host of research conducted to improve rehabilitation and enable assistive technology for persons with disabilities (e.g., cognitive, physical) through VR and AR. However, this area needs to take more advantage of state-of-the-art VR and AR technology. We believe…

First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/sc-aamas-2014/ Co-located with AAMAS 2014 (http://aamas2014.lip6.fr) May 5-9, 2014, Paris, France 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 PARTICIPATION: CHI PLAY 2014 Submission Deadlines: May 8, 2014 (full papers, demos, workshops, doctoral consortium) June 26, 2014 (student competition, work-in-progress) CHI PLAY 2014 The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play http://chiplay.org/ Twitter: #chiplay Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 5-8, 2014 CHI PLAY is a new international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI), we call it: “player-computer interaction”. The goal of the conference is to highlight and foster discussion of current high quality research in games and HCI as foundations for the…

Dear Colleagues- As you finish your semesters and move toward the holidays, I wanted to remind you that proposals for the special issue of Connexions entitled Education and Training for Globally Distributed Virtual Teams are due January 15.  These proposals are short, and I have copied the text of the call (with the production schedule) below for your convenience.  The issue will be published in Dec. 2014.  Please consider submitting.  Contact me or Kirk if you would like to discuss an idea. Best wishes, Pam Call for Proposals EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL TEAMS Preparing the workforce of…

Join us at the AISB AI&Games 2014 symposium. Deadline for long abstract submission 3rd of January 2014. see http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/D.Romano/AISB14/ —— The AI & Games Symposium acts as a meeting and network point for researchers from academia, education and industry, in particular those involved with the design, development and evaluation of AI and games. Their expertise could be in a range of areas including: AI, machine learning, planning, narrative, education and training, multimedia, game design and development, game interaction design, characters design, interaction design and evaluation for children, adults and any other relevant area.…

Meaningful Play 2014 October 16 – 18, 2014 East Lansing, MI, USA http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu Call for Submissions (Deadline July 1, 2014) Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Central to all of these goals is the idea of Meaningful Play: a player’s sense that actions matter and the context of play matters. Meaningful Play 2014 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and…

Call for Papers CHI 2014 Workshop on Designing Speech and Language Interactions Toronto, Canada http://www.cs.toronto.edu/dsli2014 Submission of position papers: 17 January 2014 Notification of acceptance: 10 February 2014 Workshop: 26 April 2014 Speech and natural language remain our most natural forms of interaction; yet the HCI community have been very timid about focusing their attention on designing and developing spoken language interaction techniques. While significant efforts are spent and progress made in speech recognition, synthesis, and natural language processing, there is now sufficient evidence that many real-life applications using speech technologies do not require 100% accuracy to be useful. This…

Call for Participation: 28th British HCI Conference – HCI2014 9th – 12th September 2014 The 28th British HCI Conference will be held in the Victorian Seaside town of Southport, in the North West of the UK less than an hour away from the International Airports of Manchester and Liverpool. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Sand, Sea and Sky – Holiday HCI’ and the aim is to provide a venue for both regular and diverse HCI as well as to promote work that highlights HCI for the family, for recreation and for relaxation. The conference will combine regular paper…

International Journal of Gaming and Computer Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) SPECIAL ISSUE ON: Assessing Human Capabilities in Video Games and Simulations SUBMISSION DUE DATE: June 2nd, 2014 Guest Editor: Richard N. Landers INTRODUCTION: In video games and computer mediated simulations (GCMS), instructional designers and human resources professionals can develop virtual situations and environments that enable people to exhibit a wide range of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs; “O” includes a diverse set of constructs such as personality, preferences, interests).  Often, direct measurement of these KSAOs outside of a computer-mediated environment is difficult, confounded, or costly. For example, in the…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION “Architectural Space and Interaction” – Workshop on space in interaction Two-day workshop at CHI 2014, April 26th or 27th in Toronto, Canada SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 10th 2014, via E-Mail to n.dalton@open.ac.uk SUBMISSION FORMAT: 2-4 page position papers, formatted according to ACM SIGCHI Publications Format (not anonymised) NOTIFICATION: February 1st, 2014 INFORMATION & NEWS: http://interactioninspaceworkshop.blogspot.com From the earliest two-dimensional graphic user interface, through to games & virtual reality, and now emerging into mobile computing, urban computing, ambient computing, tangible computing and ubiquitous computing, our awareness of space and its role in the interaction process is becoming more distinct.…

Call For Proposals 10th annual Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference June 11-13, 2014 Madison, Wisconsin, USA http://glsconference.org/2014/call-for-proposals/ The Games+Learning+Society Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce that the 10th annual Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference will be held June 11-13, 2014, with pre-conference activities on June 10 including the GLS Playful Learning Summit and the GLS Doctoral Consortium. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, this grassroots “indie” event continues to be one of the few destinations where the people who create high-quality digital learning media can gather for…

CARs@HRI: Workshop on Culture Aware Robotics at HRI, Bielefeld University, Germany, 03 March 2014 http://cars.e-hci.org/?page_id=8 Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2014: http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2014/ Culture is not the first aspect that comes to mind when discussing human robot interaction. But our cultural upbringing does to a large degree influence our patterns of behavior and interpretation. Thus, culture is present in the development of robotic systems right from the start, unconsciously influencing how robots look, what we envision with them to do, and how they are programmed to interact with the user. Thus, culture significantly shapes how we interact with each other and with other…