Call for Papers Human-Machine Communication Interest Group International Communication Association 70th annual conference – ICA 2020 Gold Coast, Australia 21-25 May 2020 Conference: https://www.icahdq.org/page/2020CFP HMC: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HMC_CFP Submission deadline: 1 November 2019 at 16:00 UTC The Human-Machine Communication (HMC) Interest Group supports and promotes scholarship regarding communication between people and technologies designed to enact the role of communicator. Such technologies include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI) software and devices, robots, digital and home assistants, automated-writing software, smart toys, and Internet of Things (IOT) devices. HMC research focuses on the meaning-making that unfolds when people engage directly with technology…

Call for Papers ECSCW 2020 – The 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work The International Venue on Practice-centred Computing and the Design of Cooperation Technologies Siegen, Germany 13-17 June 2020 https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/ Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2020 ECSCW – European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work is a series of conferences on computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe. The full paper submission for the ECSCW 2020 Conference is open and ONGOING. This year for the first time, the conference supports a continuous review process which will allow authors a longer time to revise their manuscript and achieve the high standard…

Call for Abstracts/Articles Yearbook of Moving Image Studies »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities I: Virtual Images« (2020) https://www.movingimagescience.com/call-for-papers/ Deadline for Abstracts: November 30, 2019 (Review till January 24, 2020) Deadline for Articles: May 29, 2020 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting articles from scientists, artists, designers, developers and film makers for the fifth issue, which is the first part of the »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities« concept, entitled »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities I: Virtual Images«. The issue in 2021 will focus on »Augmented Images« and 2022 will address »Mixed Reality Images«. YoMIS will be enriched by…

Call for Papers AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication Editor-in-Chief: Karamjit S. Gill (editoraisoc@yahoo.co.uk) Special issue on: AI and Law – Ethical, Legal, and Sociopolitical Implications Extended Deadline: December 31, 2019 Contributions are invited for a Special Issue on AI and Law – Ethical, Legal, and Socio-political Implications, to be published by the AI & Society Journal of Culture, Knowledge and Communication (Springer) (http://link.springer.com/journal/146). This special issue examines the ethical, legal, and socio-political implications of AI and Law. The unprecedented technological advances of the recent decades have had a number of positive effects in almost every area…

Call for Papers Association for Information Systems Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) Special issue on AI Fairness, Trust and Ethics https://bit.ly/2JcrDT7 Special issue editors: Lionel P. Robert Jr., University of Michigan Gaurav Bansal, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Nigel Melville, University of Michigan Tom Stafford, Louisiana Tech University Submission deadline: February 15, 2020 AI is rapidly changing every aspect of our society from how we conduct business, socialize and exercise. AI has amplified our productivity as well as biases. John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, recently lamented in the MIT Technology Review that the dangers posed by the ability of…

Call for Abstracts (1000 words) Workshop on Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics (EIAR 2019) @ ICSR 2019 (The Eleventh International Conference on Social Robotics) Madrid, Spain November, 29, 2019 Conference website: http://icsr2019.uc3m.es/ Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/eiar2019/home IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Due – September 25, 2019 Notification of Acceptance – October 05, 2019 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We are interested in submissions of original research in Ethics of Social Robotics and HRI, or research from related fields, relevant to the topic of “Experimental and Integrative Approaches in Robo-ethics”. The submissions, in the form of abstracts (min 800, max 1000 words, references excluded), should…