Call for Applications

Workshop on ‘A Phenomenology of Virtuality?’
Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago, Chile
22nd-24th January 2020

Application deadline: 17th September 2019

Dear all,

This is a Call for Applications for a workshop on ‘A Phenomenology of Virtuality?’ at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, 22nd-24th January 2020.

In a second of three workshops on virtuality, this one will concentrate on the question as to whether a phenomenology of virtuality is possible and, if so, what would it look like? Indeed, with the high rise and influence of recent virtual technologies such as social media and online gaming, as well as new virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR, AR and MR respectively) technologies, a phenomenology of virtuality and virtual technologies is becoming increasingly pressing if the former is to keep up with many everyday experiential and societal developments. Here, although ‘the virtual’ and ‘virtuality’ are not common terms in classical (roughly Husserl to Merleau-Ponty) phenomenology, given its ambitious and ongoing programme it should nevertheless be able to account for such terms and experiences in detail.… read more. “Call: Workshop on ‘A Phenomenology of Virtuality?’”

Call for Participation

The 6th Experimental AI in Games Workshop
In conjunction with Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2019
October 8-9, 2019
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.exag.org

Submission deadline: July 19, 2019

Interested in games and AI? The Experimental AI in Games (EXAG) workshop aims to foster experimentation in game AI research and all forms of game development. In addition to presenting traditional academic talks and live demos of AI technology, EXAG welcomes a diverse community of researchers and practitioners with activities including a show-and-tell demo and gameplay session.

The sixth workshop on Experimental AI in Games is being held Oct. 8-9 in Atlanta, GA in conjunction with the AIIDE 2019 conference.

The call for participation is included below.

TOPICS

• In keeping with this year’s AIIDE theme, we specifically invite papers and systems that introduce novel methodologies for evaluating intelligent systems for digital entertainment.

Call for papers

The 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Aesthetics of Computer Games
St Petersburg, Russia
October 21-24, 2019
http://gameconference.mediaphilosophy.ru/pcg2019.html and gamephilosophy.org

Conference Committee:

Program Chair:
Feng Zhu (King’s College London) – feng.zhu@kcl.ac.uk

Conference Chairs:
Alina Latypova (St Petersburg State University) – latypova.al@gmail.com
Konstantin Ocheretyany (St Petersburg State University) – kocheretyany@gmail.com

Submission deadline: 11th August, 2019

We invite submissions to the 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, organised by the Game Philosophy Network, together with the Centre for Media Philosophy and Laboratory for Computer Games Research, in St Petersburg, Russia, on October 21-24, 2019.

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘The Aesthetics of Computer Games’. Playing games yields particular kinds of playful experiences or perceptions through the senses, which can be studied with an aesthetic focus, emphasising aísthēsis over noêsis. Computer games can be regarded as playful media that organise our perceptions and modify our sensibilities.… read more. “Call: 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Aesthetics of Computer Games”

Call for Papers

Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction
12-14 November 2019
Haifa, Israel
http://www.aciconf.org/aci2019

Submission deadline (extended): 19 July 2019

For ACI2019 we invite a wide range of contributions that have the potential to promote a constructive dialogue around animal-centered research and design of interactive technology, and to foster the development of ACI as discipline.

CONFERENCE THEME

This year’s conference theme is Common Denominator, which implicitly refers to multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary methods, theories, designs, ethics or practices that could translate between or transfer across species to aid multispecies or interspecies communication, participation, interaction and cooperation with or through computing systems, during the design process or following deployment. Although specifically focused, the theme is very broad in the connections that can be made from multiple angles, in order to encourage engagement with and contributions to the conference from a wide range of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.… read more. “Call: Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction”

CALL FOR PAPERS

HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies
http://www.humanamente.eu

Vol 12, issue 36
Living with Artificial Intelligence. An Analysis of Moral and Philosophical Implications in our Everyday Life

Edited by
Maurizio Balistreri (University of Turin)
Nicola Liberati (University of Twente)

Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2019

This issue aims to focus the attention on two different main elements: the moral questions emerging through the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday world, and the way AI can redefine what it means to be a human being by reshaping the way we look and understand ourselves. Especially, this issue will not merely refer to artificial intelligence as a specific branch of computer science, and it will not be just limited to the analysis of specific computer programs, but it will focus on the broad spectrum of intelligent robots, machines, and systems which use AI at some extent in order to act in our everyday world.… read more. “Call: “Living with AI: An Analysis of Moral and Philosophical Implications in our Everyday Life” issue of Humana.Mente”