CALL FOR PAPERS

Virtual Reality Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Special issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Latest Impact Factor: 2.689

Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2019
(Submitting Authors: Please indicate in your Cover Letter that your paper is for the VR ASD Special Issue)

As we embark on our third decade of virtual reality and behavioral health, we are continuing to expand the uses of VR to diagnosis, assess, and treat a myriad of disorders. We are also tapping into the power of VR to better facilitate skills training.

mHealth is revolutionizing how and where behavioral health services can be delivered. With less expensive VR hardware, we are witnessing a move to seamlessly deliver care from the clinic to the home setting.

The majority of studies using VR Interventions for ASD to date have been focused on social or emotional skills training, many with small numbers of participants.… read more. “Call: Virtual Reality Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder – Special issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking”

Call for proposals

Connected Learning Summit 2019
October 2-5, 2019
University of California, Irvine
http://2019.connectedlearningsummit.org/

Online submissions open: January 11, 2019
Deadline for submissions: March 8, 2019
Notifications of Acceptance: June 2019

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the second annual Connected Learning Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the Connected Learning Summit brings together leading researchers, educators, and developers. The program includes a mix of engaging presentation and workshop formats ranging from speculative design, to game walkthroughs, sharing works in progress, and research panels.

We encourage the submission of academic papers and project presentations as well as more innovative session formats which focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial games and other media, innovative tech-infused curricula, and theoretical and/or empirical exploration of digital media and technology for learning.… read more. “Call: Connected Learning Summit 2019”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction – Open Access Journal
Special Issue “Multimodal Conversational Interaction and Interfaces”
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/multimodal_Interfaces

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2019

In face-to-face interaction, multiple communicative behaviors including verbal information and nonverbal signals, such as gestures, facial expressions, and gaze, are exchanged between the conversation participants. They also interpret the combination and co-occurrence of verbal and nonverbal behaviors to understand the conversation. In multiparty communication, where more than two people participate in the conversation, patterns of multimodal information become more complex. Aiming to shed light on such a complex process of face-to-face communication, studies on multimodal interaction have employed a variety of machine learning techniques. From an application point of view, implementing some aspects of multimodal interaction is indispensable in enhancing human-agent/robot communication and supporting human-human communication in computer-mediated environments.

The purpose of this special issue is to solicit contributions from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, and envision the future directions of research on multimodal interaction and its application to multimodal conversational interfaces.… read more. “Call: “Multimodal Conversational Interaction and Interfaces” – Special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction”

Call for Participation

Challenges Using Head-Mounted Displays in Shared and Social Spaces
Workshop at CHI 2019
May 5th, 2019
Glasgow, UK
https://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/socialhmd/

Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2019

Everyday mobile usage of Head-Mounted Displays (AR and VR) is becoming a feasible consumer reality. The current research agenda for these devices has a strong focus on technological impediments (e.g. locomotion, tracking, input devices). This ignores significant challenges in the usage and perception of HMDs in shared and social spaces where HMD users are co-located with non-HMD users and are likely to be observed while interacting.

We invite academics, artists, designers and practitioners to create a common understanding of upcoming challenges and derive a research agenda for this new topic. In this CHI 2019 workshop, we will focus on group work in which we will experience and discuss challenges of HMDs in shared and social spaces.… read more. “Call: Challenges Using Head-Mounted Displays in Shared and Social Spaces – CHI 2019 Workshop”

Call for Papers

CYPSY24: 24th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference
June 24 – June 26, 2019
Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy24/

Abstract submission deadline: January 15th, 2019

It is our pleasure to invite you to join us at the 24th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference. CYPSY24 will take place Monday June 24 through Wednesday June 26, 2018 at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

Jointly organized by Norfolk State University’s Psychology Department and in collaboration with the Interactive Media Institute, this conference is an international networking and sharing platform for researchers, clinicians, policymakers and funding agents to share and discuss advancements in the growing disciplines of CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy, and Social Networking.

CYPSY24 invites presentations to include but are not limited to Social Networking, Online Behavior, Forensic Cyberpsychology (cybersecurity / cybercrime), Augmented and Virtual Reality, Avatars, e-Health, SMART applications and IoT related to human behvior, and other emerging applications.… read more. “Call: 24th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference (CYPSY24)”