65th Intl Astronautical Congress: Session E5.3 Designing Human Systems Interaction (Sep/Oct 2014, Toronto, Canada)

Dates: 29 Sep – 3 Oct 2014
Location: Toronto, Canada
Website: www.iac2014.org or download CfP here
Submission Deadline: 25 February 2014

Space Architecture: Designing Human Systems Interaction – Session E5.3
25th Symposium On Space Activity & Society, 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2014)

In response to the diversifying needs of users in space exploration and commercial spaceflight, interest in human-machine interfaces has continued to grow in space agencies, industry, and academia. At the same time, the wider individual and societal implications of the human-technology relationship have evolved into a key theme of interdisciplinary engagement with space. This session explores conceptual and applied issues related to the design of human interaction with space systems. In the context of habitats and infrastructure in the space and ground segment, these include interfaces of work stations, consoles, and devices; tools and payload hardware used in EVA and IVA; remote interaction; human-robotic partnerships; ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, and beyond.

2nd Intl Workshop on Science Fiction Prototyping for Technology Innovation (July 2011, Nottingham/UK)

Dates: 25-26 July, 2011
Location: Nottingham, UK
Deadline for Papers: March 28, 2011
Website: http://www.creative-science.org/

This workshop will explore the use of science fiction as a means to motivate and direct research into new technologies and consumer products. It does this by creating science fiction stories grounded in current science and engineering research that are written for the explicit purpose of acting as prototypes for people to explore a wide variety of futures.

We we are inviting short imaginative fictional stories (prototypes) of no more than 12 pages (and presentations of 20 minutes).

The workshop is running in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE’11.