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\noindent On behalf of the AISB Committee, I would like to wish you a fruitful, fun and healthy 2015! A new year calls for new beginnings, and I am happy to say that the Committee is growing! Please join me in welcoming Andrew Martin, Janet Gibbs, Joel Parthemore and Kate Devlin! These are familiar names, I am sure, for most of you, as frequent contributors to the Q, organisers of workshops and of last year's Convention. Their enthusiasm will no doubt benefit greatly our community! I also would like to extend a thank you to Timoth\'{e}e Dubuc and Dawid Laszuk, who will be helping out with future issues of your Quarterly.

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Q140 starts with the empirical study of some anthropomorphic features that may be portrayed on robots. Christine Edwards-Leis reports on what makes us comfortable alongside robots and offers some thought on design practices.

The second article of this issue is authored by Bertie M\"{u}ller, Chair of the AISB, on an account of the \nth{24} Loebner Prize Finals 2014 at Bletchley Park. The AISB is now the official promoter of the Loebner Prize Contest--the longest-running Turing-Test competition, which started in 1991 and is based on Alan Turing's original conception of the test. Please get in touch with us if you want to host next year's contest.

We end with three reports on events from last year. Swen Gaudl gives us an account of Foundations of Digital Games, Jekaterina Novikova describes the eNTERFACE International Summer Workshop, and Davide Secchi and Martin Neumann report on a workshop they organised on Modelling Organisational Behaviour and Social Agency.

As usual, we conclude with wise words from Agony Uncle Aloysius.

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The ambition of the Quarterly has always been to be a link between all of us. It has been a tool, an outlet of great value over the years. I have been told that some of us found jobs thanks to a connection made with the Q! Others found collaborators for grant proposals, new ideas for papers, etc.
Of course, the scope of the original ambition behind the Q had a particular slant in 1964, in times when twitter and email did not flood our inboxes. 

Now, more than ever, however, the Q has the potential to ground our community. The main bottleneck, as was in 1964, is the struggle to find content. Our membership is growing, and now past 370 members. They all receive the Q. They all glance at its content. Most (I want to believe) even open it and go through it, at least when a few keywords in the title appeal to the eye.

Whether you are a recent PhD graduate on the look out for a job; whether you simply want to share some of your brilliant ideas; whether you have an opinion to voice about the way the world turns, I invite you to seize this opportunity, and to submit a few words for the rest of us to read. Don't be shy!\\

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\noindent \textbf{Etienne B. Roesch\\\emph{Editor-in-Chief}}

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