- Air-L - lists.aoir.org

NM&S Call for Papers on future imaginarie in the making and governing of digital tech
by Mager, Astrid 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Dear list members, may I kindly remind you that there are 10 days left to submit an abstract to the New Media & Society CfP on future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology I guest-edit together with Christian Katzenbach: https://www.hiig.de/en/cfp-special-issue-new-media-society/ Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions! We're looking forward to your submissions!! All the best from very hot Vienna, Astrid

1 0

CfP - INTERFACE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGNECE & AI/VR (DAIVAR)
by Artur Lugmayr 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

====================================================================================================================== Call for Long/Short Papers, Abstracts, Demos and Posters 2nd Workshop on INTERFACE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGNECE AND AI/VR (DAIVAR) In conjunction with the IEEE Artificial Intelligence Virtual Reality (AIVR) Conference - 10th-12th December 2018 - Taichung, Taiwan - Submission Deadline: 14th October 2018 - Website: http://www.artur-lugmayr.com/activities/current-activities/daivar2018/ - Submission System: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2018DAIVAR/ - Workshop proceedings published in an Scopus indexed proceedings series - Best papers will be published as edited book, or journal special issue ====================================================================================================================== The objective of this workshop is to invite scholars and practitioners to discuss synergies between interface and experience design in artificial intelligent reality virtual and augmented environments. The aim is to gather a cross- disciplinary team of contributors researching HCI related issues contributing to this fascinating newly emerging domain. We especially seek contributions from experts with a background in computer science, HCI, psychology/cognitive sciences, culture/communication studies, design and art to develop this fascinating intersection. Aspects can range from user-experience, technologies supporting end-users, practical applications, methods, content production, cultural implications, communication theories, up to more artistic approaches in artificial intelligent interaction. While AI's main aim is to replicate human intelligence, AR and VR focuses its research efforts on the creation of artificial worlds either in complete virtual world, or as part of our physical environment. Many examples that bridge the two fields have emerged recently, e.g. intelligence in digital games and the utilization of computer graphics hardware for deep learning and AI. Philosophical discussions around issues arising in this new area range from ideas when things start to think to Alan Turing's work. In this workshop, we would like to raise a question: what would happen when artificial worlds start to think, and how we humans can interact and communicate with AI through e.g. affective interfaces? Thus, while AI and VR/AR went rather distinct research pathways, we attempt to bring them together, and discuss different aspects at the intersection of machine intelligence and human interaction in a mixed reality. The workshop intends to attract a broad range of contributions to develop this scholarly field during a full day venue. As the emphasis is on creating the synergy between VR/AR and AI/ML, we are not limited to particular areas; instead, the following exemplary topics might help to gather ideas for a possible contribution: affective and emotional computation, communication with AI, digital game analytics, utilization of computer graphics hardware for deep learning, personalization and recommender systems, UX with agents and physical robots, cultural robotics, or AI in information visualization. The workshop program stretches over a full-day, and will contain a combination of invited keynote presentations, oral presentations, posters, and demonstrations. The workshop proceedings will be published in a Scopus indexed proceedings series, and the very best contribution will be published in an edited book from a highly reputable publisher which has been pre-arranged. Depending on the quality and amount of contributions, we are also considering to publish a journal special issue within an indexed publisher. ====================================================================================================================== TOPICS OF INTEREST (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ====================================================================================================================== • Interaction design for AIVR • Multimodal AI supported interaction design • Artificial intelligence and machine learning in AIVR • Emotions and AI in VR, AR, and smart objects • Human-Computer-Interaction with AI in virtual worlds • Human communication through AIVR • Emotion enriched human-AI collaboration • AI in digital games and other application areas • User-Experience and interaction with AIVR • Affective human-virtual world interaction • Design of emotionally intelligent AIVR • Recommender systems and personalisation in AIVR • Information visualisation in AIVR • Communication theory and cognitive science • Affective ambient intelligence in mixed realities • UX with AI agents in AIVR • Brain interfaces in AIVR • AI based emotion mediated communication in AIVR • Authoring emotional intelligent interaction in AIVR • Multimodal affective interfaces in AIVR • Human-human emotional communication in AIVR The workshop proceedings will be published in a Scopus indexed proceedings series with an ISBN number as part of the Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME) workshop series. The very best contributions will be published in an edited book from a highly reputable publisher which has been pre-arranged. Please note that only selected high quality contributions will be published as part of the edited book. However, during the workshop a common journal article co-authored between all workshop participants will be published as an introduction chapter. ====================================================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ====================================================================================================================== * 14/10/2018: Deadline for workshop papers * 21/10/2018: Notification of accepted workshop papers * 29/10/2018: Camera ready workshop papers * 31/10/2018: Registration for the Workshop * 10/12/2018: Workshop Day ====================================================================================================================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ====================================================================================================================== The workshop program stretches over a full-day, and will contain a combination of invited keynote presentations, oral presentations, posters, and demonstrations. We are calling for paper submissions of extended abstracts between 2-5 pages long, following the submission format of IEEE Manuscript Formatting guidelines. Please choose one of the three submission categories: * Abstract: 1-2 pages long * Short paper, demo, or poster: 2-4 pages long * Long paper: 4-6 pages long Please download the paper template from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html The copyright form can be downloaded from: http://www.visemex.ambientmediaassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/C… Your submission should include: scanned signed copyright form + original contribution in word or latex + pdf of the paper. Add ALL your files (copyright form, word document/latex files, scanned copyright form) into ONE zip file. Upload the zip file to the workshop submission system on: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2018DAIVAR/ ====================================================================================================================== RECOMMENDED READINGS PRIOR SUBMISSION ====================================================================================================================== We strongly recommend the ideas and topics from the following papers prior your submission or as part of a paper submission in its discussion section: * Lugmayr, A. et al., 2017. Cognitive Big Data. Survey and Review on Big Data Research and its Implications: What is Really “New”? Cognitive Big Data! Journal of Knowledge Management (JMM), 21(1). Available at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm…, Journal of Knowledge Management/Emerald. * Sun, M., Zhao, Z., and Ma, X. (2017). Sensing and Handling Engagement Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction Involving Peripheral Computing Devices. In Proc. CHI2017 (to appear). * Zhu, F., Fang, K., and Ma, X. (2017). Exploring the Effects of Strategy and Arousal of Cueing in Computer-Human Persuasion. In Proc. CHI2017 EA (to appear). * Yang, Y., Ma, X., and Fung, P. (2017). Perceived Emotional Intelligence in Virtual Agents. In Proc. CHI2017 EA (to appear). * Ma, X. (2016). Developing Design Guidelines for a Visual Vocabulary of Electronic Medical Information to Improve Health Literacy. Interacting with Computers. * Zhu, K., Ma, X., Chen, H., and Liang, M. (2016). Tripartite Effects: Exploring Users' Mental Model of Mobile Gestures under the Influence of Operation, Handheld Posture, and Interaction Space. International Journal of Human- Computer Interaction. * A. Lugmayr, E. Serral, A. Scherp, B. Pogorelc, and M. Mustaquim, “Ambient media today and tomorrow,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 71, 2014, pp. 7-37 Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1346-z. * ZHU Kening, ZHU Rongbo, H SAMANI, BB JALAEIAN, PaperIO: a 3D interface towards the internet of embedded paper-craft, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2014 ====================================================================================================================== WORKSHOP ORGANISERS ====================================================================================================================== Kening Zhu, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Artur Lugmayr, VisLab, Curtin University, Australia Xiaojuan Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Florian ‘Floyd' Mueller, RMIT, AUSTRALIA Ulrich Engelke, Data 61, CSIRO, AUSTRALIA ====================================================================================================================== CONTACT INFORMATION ====================================================================================================================== In case of questions, please don't hesitate to contact: keninzhu(a)cityu.edu.hk

1 0

New journal announcement & call for submissions
by Phil Bratta 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

All, The announcement below may be of interest to many of you. We look forward to seeing your work. Phil *Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal* Published by Working & Writing for Change <https://www.parlorpress.com/workingandwritingforchange>/New City Community Press <http://newcitycommunitypress.com/> Spark is an online-only, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published annually. It provides a forum for activist students, teachers, and researchers in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies to articulate the public and disciplinary value of their social justice pursuits. Such justice work may be localized within a school, neighborhood, or campus, or as far-reaching as regional, national, and international efforts. It may intersect with movements such as Black Lives Matter, or campaigns such as Defend DACA or Families Belong Together & Free. Ultimately, the work published in Spark speaks to the power of intersectional and collaborative efforts working for political change. Unlike academic journals that focus on narrow disciplinary arguments, Spark provides readers with an inside view of activism and community organizing being done by those in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Spark’s goals are to amplify contributors’ work, to help contributors build coalitions with one another, and to inspire readers to get involved in this work or to develop their own. 2019 Call for Submissions On 6 April 2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero tolerance policy” on illegal immigration. Acting on Sessions’ decree and the Trump administration’s policies, the US Department of Homeland Security deemed that any adult making illegal entry into the U.S. had committed a misdemeanor and thus fit the criteria for deportation. Under this policy, if these adults were accompanied by their children, then border agents separated the families. The Department of Justice deported the parents, and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) put the children into detention centers around the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security reported that border agents separated 2,342 children from parents between May 5 and June 9. Shocking images from these detention centers emerged in June 2018, including photos of children corralled into cages, sleeping on floors, and living in tents in the 100+ degree Texas heat. These images were accompanied by details of cruelty and abuse, such as the story of a nursing child being dragged from her mother’s breast and the stories of children in these detention centers being forcibly drugged by ORR employees. These images and stories have galvanized long-time activists as well as many people who don’t regularly take action related to immigrants’ rights, as many people took to social media to direct this outrage at family separation and child abuse. Their online interventions ask people to take individual action by educating oneself and donating money to organizations like Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and Annunciation House. They also called on people to work collectively by participating in mobilizations, such as the Families Belong Together protests that took place on June 30th in Washington, DC and cities around the U.S., as well as protests outside detention centers around the country. Finally, these calls ask people to help build existing organizations and become part of the movement to stop the Trump administration’s policies and institute a humane system for immigrants and asylum seekers in the U.S. The 2019 edition of Spark reflects on the ways that individual, collective, and organizational action are integral to this fight and more broadly to all struggles for justice, equity, and liberation. Furthermore, the edition asks contributors to explore how the foci of writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies--reading, writing, speaking, and listening--undergird individual, collection, and organizational actions. Contributions may examine a variety of topics, including but not limited to the following questions: Individual Action - What can an individual do to protest national policies? - What does it mean to educate oneself on an issue, such as the history of U.S. immigration policy? - How do individual actions fit into a larger context (e.g., for policy or social change)? - How does one make individual action sustainable? Collective Action - What strategies/tactics did you use in participating in or organizing a collective action (e.g., a protest, teach in, rally, etc.)? - How have certain strategies/tactics of collective action informed your pedagogy or institutional service work? - What did you learn from participating in or organizing a collective action? - How does one make collective action sustainable? Organizational Action - How does one create or get involved in an organization that addresses a complex and far reaching social, political, cultural, or economic issue? - What role does mentoring play in building and sustaining an organization? - How does one make activism organizationally sustainable? - What do issues of self- and communal-care look like in ongoing activist work? Overarching Questions - What do these types of actions look like in a specific context or geographic location? - How do they intersect, complicate, or diverge from one another? - How do they afford or constrain “activism”? - How do citizenship status, race and ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexuality and sexual orientation, and/or class inform individual, collective, or organizational action? Submission Types We seek submissions from writers who represent all the embodied experiences and labor categories which inform the purposes of our field. We invite submissions from activist-scholars in all “ranks” of rhetoric & writing studies and adjacent areas of inquiry--from undergraduate and graduate students to non-tenure track, tenure track, and tenured faculty. Furthermore, we invite submissions that fit into the following loosely defined genres: Extended Essays & Discussions An extended essay or discussion piece would detail a project, its tactics, or a political moment in a 1500-2500 word piece that might take the shape of a conversation between activists or a reflective essay about a particular experience. These pieces are different from interviews or scene reports in that we encourage others to connect their activism to the field, reflect on emerging trends and new directions for their work, or offer interventions into current scholarship and/or activist movements. Scene Reports A scene report should do one of two things: either it provides a broad overview of local events (e.g., teach-ins, rallies, marches, etc.) and addresses the different organizations involved in these events, or it provides a detailed description of one event. In either case, you should position yourself in relation to the event(s) by addressing how you contributed and/or participated. These reports could include photos from the event(s) or documents used to organize them. Note that you do not need to submit a page design. Scene reports should be 1500-2000 words. Interviews We encourage interviews with activists and organizers that address questions about local work, particularly how and why local events were organized, issues the organizers faced and how they overcame those issues, public response to the events, etc. Interviews may be submitted as print or video. They should be 1500-2000 words. Tool Reviews We invite submissions that address different tools used in your organizing and activist work. Such submissions might address how you use specific writing genres, web applications, street team tactics, canvasing tactics, etc., in your work. Tool reviews should be 1000-1500 words. As a way to encourage continued conversations, we will also publish the following genres on a quarterly basis: Columns We invite 1,000-word columns that address key terms or concepts related to activism and organizing. Columns are an ideal space to review current events or movements, offer “explainers” about a movement, or summarize how activist trends shape work within writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Media Reviews Media reviews can include underground publications/zines, books, films, records, etc. We are interested in publishing reviews of scholarly and popular texts that address different aspects of or issues related to activism and organizing. Reviews should be limited to 800-1000 words. For examples of these genres, check out 4C4Equality’s Writing Networks for Social Justice zine and webtext: http://constell8cr.com/4c4e/. Submit Your Work We invite submissions of alphabetic texts in Word .docx form to 4c4equality(a)gmail.com. We also invite submissions that are “born digital,” that is to say work that involves multimodal composing and must be presented online, such as podcasts, videos, photo essays, or downloadable resources. Multimodal work can be submitted as a Google Drive link to the above address. We welcome inquiries. Deadline for Submission for April 2019 Issue: 1 October 2018. Managing Editors Liz Lane, University of Memphis Don Unger, University of Mississippi Editorial Collective Phil Bratta, Oklahoma State University Sherri Craig, West Chester University Khirsten Echols, University of Pittsburgh Darin Jensen, Des Moines Area Community College Fernando Sánchez, University of St. Thomas Jaquetta Shade-Johnson, Michigan State University Karieann Soto Vega, University of Kentucky Advisory Board Jennifer Bay, Purdue University Resa Crane Bizzaro, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Seth Kahn, West Chester University Rhea Estelle Lathan, Florida State University Steve Parks, Syracuse University Tiffany Rosculp, Salt Lake Community College Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Lori Shorr, Temple University Patricia Sullivan, Purdue University -- Assistant Professor Rhetoric and Professional Writing Department of English Oklahoma State University 205 Morrill Hall, 104C Stillwater, OK 74078

1 0

IFF Fellowship: Applications Due this Week
by Griffin Boyce 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Passing this along. The Internet Freedom Festival is always great and a very welcoming environment with a wonderful team running it. best, Griffin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sandy Ordonez <Sandy(a)internetfreedomfestival.org> Date: Aug 19, 2018, 9:11 PM -0400 To: otf-talk(a)opentechfund.org <otf-talk(a)opentechfund.org> Subject: [OTF-Talk] IFF Fellowship: Applications Due this Week > Hey Friends!! > > Just a reminder that the IFF Community Development Fellows Program > applications are due this week on August 22.! If you could help spread > the word, we would really appreciate it > > https://internetfreedomfestival.org/fellowship/ > > This is a great opportunity for people that are passionate about > developing their local communities. Not only will they be connected to a > network of community builders, they will also play an intrinsic part in > curating the programming for the IFF. > > If you yourself are not applying, try to encourage people that you think > would be a good fit. (FYI, the application is very short and to the point). > > Ping us if you have any questions! > > (((hug))) and THANK YOU for any help with this!! > > Sandy :) -- PGP: 0x03CF4A0AB3C79A63 // github.com/glamrock “Cypherpunks write code, not flamewars” ~Jurre Van Bergen

1 0

Digital Methods
by Amanda Karlsson 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Dear all I am planning a course on digital methods together with two other colleagues and looking for inspirations/ideas for exercises the students can do with their smartphones - it could be tracking various everyday aspects (e.g. time spent on smartphone, mood tracking, sleep etc.) to raise awareness on privacy issues and data flow, or it could be recording video diaries, collecting data by using a smartphone... or something completely different? If any of you have experiences of integrating apps/smartphones as part of your teaching - and maybe even recommendations on specific apps/tools for smartphone that you would like to share - it will be very much appreciated! It's a master course in media studies with 60 students so preferebly free software/apps. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Amanda Karlsson MA, PhD Fellow School of Communication & Culture Aarhus University akarl(a)cc.au.dk<mailto:akarl@cc.au.dk> +45 40603734 __(‘’)__/

5 5

Assistant/Associate Jobs in Tech Comm/Rhetoric at Texas Tech
by Rice, Rich 19 Aug '18

19 Aug '18

Assistant/Associate Professor of Technical Communication & Rhetoric Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication & Rhetoric program in the Department of English invites applications for TWO open-rank positions to begin August 2019. These are 9-month appointments. We are especially interested in advanced Assistant or Associate-level colleagues who specialize in web design, information design, digital and social media, big data and web analytics, and/or usability/UX. Preference given to applicants with the PhD in Technical Communication. Applicants with administrative experience, online teaching experience, and a record of scholarship supported by funding are strongly encouraged to apply. Service to the department, college, and university is expected, including program-building as well as graduate teaching. The teaching load is 2-2, with further teaching reductions possible for administrative or national service. With around 120 students in our robust graduate program, our faculty have opportunities to teach graduate courses in our areas of interest, and we all serve on dissertation committees. Join our fifteen faculty. We offer the BA in Technical Communication, the MA in Technical Communication, and the PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric in onsite, hybrid, and online delivery modalities. We also offer graduate certificates in Grants & Proposals and in Teaching Technical Communication. Our program affords excellent facilities, including communication-rich computer classrooms, and opportunities to conduct research through the Usability Research Lab, the Media Lab, and the Letterpress Studio. Our university’s strategic plan emphasizes educating and empowering a diverse student body, enabling innovative research and creative activities, and transforming lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship. Texas Tech University is designated a Carnegie Tier One (Highest Research Activity) institution and a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). It has a law school, a medical school, and colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Architecture, Business Administration, Engineering, Human Sciences, Media and Communication, and Visual and Performing Arts. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest of these, representing approximately 28% of the total enrollment of 35,000. The university is located in Lubbock, a rapidly growing city of more than 300,000 on the high plains. Lubbock enjoys 260 days of sunshine every year, little traffic, and a relatively low cost of living. As an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, Texas Tech University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We actively encourage applications from all those who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community at Texas Tech University. The university does not discriminate on the basis of an applicant’s race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran. Texas Tech welcomes consideration of dual career and professional couple accommodations. See https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/tcr for more information. If you are interested in working with passionate, productive colleagues and motivated, talented students, please apply for one of these positions through https://www.texastech.edu/careers > TTU Faculty (Requisition ID: 14970BR) with letter of application and vita. Dossiers solicited later from exceptionally qualified candidates. Screening starts October 15. Direct inquiries to the chair of the search committee, Dr. Rich Rice, Director of Technical Communication & Rhetoric (rich.rice(a)ttu.edu) --- Dr. Rich Rice Texas Tech University Director of Technical Communication & Rhetoric http://richrice.com

1 0

Research on enhancing video game / eSports performance
by Lee, Mark 19 Aug '18

19 Aug '18

Hello everyone, I am interested in connecting with folks who are researching the cognitive, neurocognitive, and/or physiological aspects of video game performance, both in the context of competitive video gaming/eSports as well as more broadly. If you or your colleagues are looking into factors that influence game performance, and what can be done to enhance player performance (as opposed to the cognitive/neurocognitive benefits of playing video games, of which there is already plenty of extant research), please reach out! I'd also be very grateful for any pointers to people/groups I should contact. Many thanks in advance for your times Kind regards, Mark J. W. Lee Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia Visiting Faculty, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, USA malee(a)csu.edu.au / mjwlee(a)cmu.edu

1 0

Two journal publication opportunities associated with the XR & Immersive Learning Environments Special Track @ IEEE TALE 2018
by Lee, Mark 19 Aug '18

19 Aug '18

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that the extended paper submission deadline for the Special Track on XR (VR, AR, MR) and Immersive Learning Environments (http://tale2018.org/xr <http://tale2018.org/xr>) at IEEE TALE 2018, which will take place this December in Wollongong, Australia (close to Sydney), is fast approaching. This Special Track is being organised in conjunction with the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org/ <http://immersivelrn.org/>). We also wanted to take this opportunity to make you aware of two journal special issue publication opportunities associated with the Special Track: Special Issue of the journal Virtual Reality (published by Springer; 2017 SCI Impact Factor 1.375) on "Innovations in XR and Immersive Technologies for Learning" Special Issue of the journal Interactive Learning Environments (published by Taylor & Francis, 2017 SSCI Impact Factor 1.604) on "XR and Immersive Learning Environments in STEM Education" The Call for Papers for the Virtual Reality special issue can be found at https://bit.ly/2vdyKEL <https://bit.ly/2vdyKEL> , and the Call for the Interactive Learning Environments issue will be available soon (for now, please email xr(a)tale2018.org <mailto:xr@tale2018.org> if you are interested in that issue). The timelines for both issues are as follows: Conference paper submission deadline: 24 August 2018 Notification of review outcomes for conference papers: 19 September 2018 Final conference papers due for TALE 2018 proceedings: 1 October 2018 TALE 2018 early-bird and presenter registration deadline: 8 October 2018 TALE 2018 conference dates: 4-7 December 2018 Revised and expanded manuscripts for journal special issues due: 14 December 2018 Notification of review outcomes for journal special issues: 8 March 2019 Final manuscripts due for special issues: 31 May 2019 Anticipated publication of journal special issues: Late 2019 Please feel free to share this information with others who you think might be interested. Kind regards, Jonathon Richter, Minjuan Wang, Dennis Beck, Jungwoo Ryoo, Kurt Winkelmann, Nian-Shing Chen and Mark J. W. Lee Special Track Chairs / Guest Editors Email: xr(a)tale2018.org <mailto:xr@tale2018.org>

1 0

2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018): Last Mile for Workshop Papers Submission
by Announce Announcements 19 Aug '18

19 Aug '18

*** LAST MILE FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS SUBMISSION *** 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018) Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, 12-14 November, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: 31st August 2018 (extended) *** Ambient intelligence refers to normal working and living environments being surrounded by embedded devices that can merge unobtrusively and in natural ways using information and intelligence hidden in the network connecting these devices (e.g. The Internet of Things). Such devices, each specialised in one or more capabilities, are intended to work together based on an infrastructure of intelligent systems, to provide a variety of services improving safety, security and the quality of life in ordinary living, travelling and working environments. Accompanying the main conference, the following two workshops will be organized: WS-AFFIN 2nd Workshop On Affective Interaction With Avatars and Robots http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… BRAINS Behavioral Change and Ambient Intelligence for Sustainability http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS Both workshops invite full-papers, work-in progress and position papers that address one or more of the topics of interest. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three Program Committee members from the corresponding workshop. All accepted full papers and posters will appear in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier under the ENTCS Journal series. Papers must be submitted in PDF format adhering to the ELSEVIER Journal format and should follow the publication policies of ENTCS. The macros can be obtained on the ENTCS Macro Web Site http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… along with detailed instructions about preparing the papers for the series. IMPORTANT DATES · Paper Submissions Due: 31 August, 2018 (extended) · Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 10 September, 2018 · Camera Ready Versions Due: 25 September, 2018 · Author (of workshop papers) Registration: 25 September, 2018 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE A few papers from each workshop will be selected by the workshop chairs and invited for submission to a special issue of MDPI Applied Sciences (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/intelligent_environments ). The final paper should have at least 30% extra material and will be reviewed as any MDPI submission. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair · George Roussos, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Program Chairs · Achilleas D. Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece · Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Workshops Chairs · Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Rome, Italy · Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK Local Organization Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

1 0

Open Rank Position in Communication Studies
by Rivka Ribak 19 Aug '18

19 Aug '18

*Open Rank Position in Communication Studies (tenure-track)** The Department of Communication at the University of Haifa invites applications from outstanding candidates for an open-rank position in the field of communication studies.* The Department of Communication offers single and double major B.A. programs in communication studies, a research M.A. and Ph.D. programs, as well as an M.A. program in Strategic Communication and Public Relations. Faculty in the department study the meanings and effects of communication in an age of evolving technologies and cultures, using a variety of methodological approaches. We seek applicants in all subfields of communication research. Only candidates that are expected to have completed their Ph.D. by October 2019 will be considered. While a Ph.D. in communication is preferred, candidates with training in related fields who have published in leading journals in the field of communication will also be considered. The successful applicant is expected to have at least three publications in top-tier communication research outlets. The language of instruction at the University of Haifa is Hebrew, but a period of adjustment is an option. Applications should be submitted by email no later than *October 2, 2018* to: Dr. Roei Davidson (roei(a)com.haifa.ac.il) with the heading "Faculty Search" and should include the following documents: 1) A complete curriculum vitae, including an academic biography that describes the candidate's current research interests and future research plan; 2) A brief description of three potential courses; 3) A list of three references. (Please do not send letters until requested by the committee.); 4) Copies of selected recent publications. Applicants will be informed by November 7, 2018 as to the status of their submission. The appointment will begin on October 1, 2019. * Pending funding. Rivka Ribak, Ph.D. Dept. of Communication University of Haifa 31905 Phone +972-4-824-9602 https://sites.google.com/com.haifa.ac.il/rivkaribak/home

1 0