Call for Papers

First Pacific Asia Workshop on Game Intelligence & Informatics (GII)
To be held in conjunction with
The 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (https://www.pakdd2020.org/)
11-14 May 2020
Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre
https://web.northeastern.edu/guii/gii/

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: January 22, 2020
Camera-ready copies: March 6, 2020
Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2020

SCOPE AND TOPICS

Understanding the game state and player action is a fundamental objective for any game researcher, because it sheds light on various aspects about the players and the game, such as skills, strategies, engagement, intention, retention, difficulty level and decision-making. Such intelligence helps us advance closer to the holy grail of providing a perfectly personalized and wholesome user experience, in a data-driven manner.

In recent times, there have been numerous innovative advances in the space of AI and machine learning for the gaming domain, including bots and reinforcement learning agents for perfect and imperfect information games, dynamic content generation for digital games, and so on. … read more. “Call: First Pacific Asia Workshop on Game Intelligence & Informatics (GII)”

Call for Submissions

International Academic Conference on Meaningful Play 2020
October 1-3, 2020
East Lansing, Michigan, USA
http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/

Submission deadline: June 15, 2020

Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior.

Meaningful Play 2020 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.

The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes.

CONFERENCE SUBMISSION TOPICS… read more. “Call: Meaningful Play 2020”

Call for Contributions

8th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2020)
15-18 June 2020
Oldenburg, Germany
http://ichi2020.de/

We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2020) that will take place June 15-18, 2020 in Oldenburg, Germany.

ICHI 2020 is a premier community forum concerned with the application of computer science, information science, data science, and informatics principles, as well as information technology, and communication science and technology to address problems and support research in healthcare, medicine, life science, public health, and everyday wellness. The conference highlights the most novel technical contributions to stakeholder-centered technology innovation for benefiting human health and the related social and ethical implications.

Calls are open for all types of contributions:

• Workshop Proposals (due Jan 10)
• Tutorials (due Feb 6)
• Full Papers (due Feb 20)
• Doctoral Consortium (due April 3)
• Industry Track (due April 3)
• Posters and Demos (due April 16)

Papers, workshop submissions, poster and demo submissions, and industry track submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.… read more. “Call: 8th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2020)”

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2020)
March 13-15, 2020
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
http://iasle.net/icsle-2020/

• Main conference paper ABSTRACT enter on EasyChair: January 10, 2020
• Main conference paper submission: January 17, 2020
• Workshop/Panel proposal submission: January 17, 2020

The International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2020) will be held during March 13-15, 2020 at the Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. It aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss issues related to the optimization of learning environments to enhance learning. The focus is on the interplay of pedagogy, technology and their fusion towards the advancement of smart learning environments.

CONFERENCE OUTCOMES:

• Proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Educational Technology series.
• Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for Springer’s Smart Learning Environments journal (Open access journal with no author processing charge).

Call for Papers

Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2020
3-4 September 2020
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://saiconference.com/IntelliSys

Submission Deadline: 15 December 2019

IntelliSys 2020 will focus in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and how it applies to the real world. IntelliSys provides a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence. It is part of the conference series started in 2013.

The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and industrial workshops. All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.

Authors are kindly invited to submit their papers/ posters/ demo proposals as per the call for papers schedule below.… read more. “Call: Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2020”

Call for Abstracts

Conference on Social Robots in Institutional Interaction: Exploring HRI in Service, Healthcare or Educational Contexts
2-3 April 2020
Bielefeld University
https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/soziologie/entry/call_for_papers_for_conference

Organizers: Indra Bock & Florian Muhle

Submission deadline: 10 January 2020

Humanoid robots and virtual agents are expected to interact with humans in a natural and sociable way. However, for many years humanoid technical systems were mainly used as research platforms in laboratories and HRI was investigated dominantly with experimental methods. That is, for a long time humans could only encounter robotic systems under artificial and controlled laboratory conditions, but not in natural situations. This has changed in recent years, since the first robotic systems made the leap into everyday life settings. Today, robots like Pepper, Nao or Care-O-bot have left the laboratories in order to work in various institutional environments such as health care, customer service or educational institutions, where they make contact with the public and staff.… read more. “Call: Conference on Social Robots in Institutional Interaction”

CALL FOR PAPERS

QoMEX 2020
The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience
May 26th – 28th 2020
Athlone, Ireland
Conference website: www.QoMEX2020.ie

Follow us for weekly updates on:
www.twitter.com/QoMEX2020
https://www.facebook.com/Qomex2020
https://www.instagram.com/qomex_conference/

PDF: Call for Papers: http://qomex2020.ie/downloads/QoMEX2020CallforPapers.pdf
PDF: Call for Special Session proposals: http://qomex2020.ie/downloads/QoMEX2020CallforSpecialSessions.pdf

Paper submission deadline: 29th January, 2020

The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience will be held from May 26th to 28th, 2020 in Athlone, Ireland. QoMEX 2020 will provide a warm welcome to leading experts from academia and industry to present and discuss current and future research on multimedia quality, quality of experience (QoE) and user experience (UX). The conference will be held in form of oral, poster and plenary sessions, comprising dedicated special sessions on trending topics.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full and/or short papers (maximum of 6 or 3(+1) pages, respectively) to the general track and to special sessions.… read more. “Call: QoMEX 2020 – The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience”

Call for Papers:

“Pretense and Imagination from the Perspective of 4E Cognitive Science”
Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
https://philevents.org/event/show/78442

Guest Editors:

Zuzanna Rucińska, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, Belgium
https://www.zuzannarucinska.com/

Martin Weichold, Institute for Philosophy, University of Regensburg, Germany
https://www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-kunst-geschichte-gesellschaft/praktische-philosophie/personen/martin-weichold/

Submission deadline: August 1, 2020

4E Cognitive Science understands cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended, though the list of “E”’s can be extended to conceiving of cognition as ecological, enculturated and emotional as well. While there are important differences between these approaches, they all agree that there is more to cognition than what goes on in the head: cognition is said to be shaped, structured or even co-constituted by the dynamic interactions between the brain, the body, and both the physical and the social environment. These approaches have been taking cognitive science by storm.

However, 4E Cognitive Science is still relatively silent about higher forms of cognition, such as pretense and imagination.… read more. “Call: “Pretense and Imagination from the Perspective of 4E Cognitive Science” issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences”

Call for exemplar projects for the 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report

[From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), a “collaborative community committed to advancing learning through IT innovation,” via the ELICOURSES e-list. –ML]

Submission deadline:  December 4, 2019

As you know, EDUCAUSE has been working closely with the expert panel to prepare the 2020 Horizon Report. We have recently concluded the voting for the six most important emerging technologies and practices for teaching and learning in higher ed.

For 2020, we will continue the long-standing tradition of reaching out to the community for projects that illustrate these technologies and practices in action. If your institution is working with any of the six (listed below), we encourage you to submit your project or initiative via the below-linked form. You are welcome to submit more than one project.

This work can be in almost any form: production or pilot programs, research projects, faculty undertakings, emerging technology trials, or evaluation/assessment projects.… read more. “Call: Exemplar projects for 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report”

Call for Papers

Understanding UX through Implicit and Explicit Feedback
Special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

In collaboration with the MDPI journal “Multimodal Technologies and Interaction”, we are bringing researchers together to contribute to a Special Issue on:
Understanding UX through Implicit and Explicit Feedback

Guest Editors:
Dr. ir. Bruce Ferwerda, Jonkoping University, Jonkoping, Sweden
Dr. ir. Mark Graus, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/UX_feedback

Submissions are ongoing with the final submission deadline for manuscripts to be considered on 31 March 2020.

This special issue aims to explore the opportunities and challenges of combining implicit and explicit feedback to understand and design user experience (UX) in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

Measuring UX is important to understand how successful applications and systems are in reaching their goals. In general, there are two main approaches to measure UX: 1) explicit feedback (i.e., using data measured through surveys, interviews and focus groups) and 2) implicit feedback (i.e., using data describing users’ observable interaction behavior measured through, for example, telemetry).… read more. “Call: “Understanding UX through Implicit and Explicit Feedback” issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction”