[See Calls for Papers for other presence-related AISB 2020 symposia at https://aisb20.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/symposia-cfp/ –Matthew] Call for Papers Responsibility and control: Communication and conversation through technology Part of the AISB-20 Annual Convention 2020 St. Mary’s University Twickenham, London 6-9 April 2020 AISB: https://aisb20.wordpress.com Symposium: https://racct.wordpress.com/ The convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB); http://www.aisb.org.uk/ Deadline for extended abstracts: January 10, 2020 OVERVIEW Technologies are being developed that permit novel forms of communication. These include neuroprosthetic devices aimed at addressing speech disability, and devices hoping to develop direct brain-to-brain communication. Besides these, we have…

Call for Papers Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Robot Interaction (SCRITA) Special issue of the International Journal of Social Robotics http://scrita.herts.ac.uk/2019/specialissue.html Submission deadline: January 31, 2020 The International Journal of Social Robotics is running a Special Issue based on the Workshop Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Robot Interaction (SCRITA) that was held at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2019. The Special Issue will explore different aspects of Human-Robot Interaction that can affect, enhance, undermine, or recovery human trust towards robots. Topics include but are not limited to: Impact of Social Cues…