CALL FOR PAPERS AIC 2020, 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition Joint with: SweCog 2020, the 16th conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society Special Topic of Interest: Human-Centered AI Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden September 2-4, 2020 Submission deadline: May 3, 2020 Workshop website: https://aic20.aass.oru.se Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aic20200 SweCog website: http://www.swecog.se/ Twitter account: https://twitter.com/aic_swecog ABOUT AIC 2020 AIC 2020 is the 8th international appointment of the International Workshop Series AIC on “Artificial Intelligence and Cognition” (please see http://www.aicworkshopseries.org/). The AIC series started in 2013, stemming from the need of creating an international scientific forum for the discussion and…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2020 7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Ottawa, Canada November 1 – 4, 2020 https://chiplay.acm.org/2020/ | @acmchiplay | #chiplay20 Submission deadlines: April 7, 2020: Full Papers July 15, 2020: Work in Progress, Interactivity, Student Game Design Competition, Rapid Communications, Doctoral Consortium CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high-quality research in games…

CALL FOR PAPERS EAI GOODTECHS 2020 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good September 14-16, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium http://goodtechs.eu/call-for-papers/ Full paper submission deadline: 1 April 2020 Proposals for special sessions due by 5 March 2020 (see website for details) Submissions of work-in-progress and for PhD track due by 1 May 2020 (see website for details) SCOPE By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights,…

Call for Participation Social VR: A New Medium for Remote Communication & Collaboration CHI 2020 WORKSHOP (https://chi2020.acm.org/) April 25, 2020 Honolulu, Hawaii Workshop website: https://www.socialvr-ws.com Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialvr2020 IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: February 24, 2020 Notification: February 29, 2020 Workshop: April 25, 2020 (with remote participation options) Remote communication allows people who are not physically present in the same location to communicate in real-time, which has many positive societal impacts, such as reducing environmental pollution, travel cost and fatigue, supporting rich collaboration by connecting talented people around the world, brings families closer and improves the availability of high-quality education and…

Call for Papers, Posters, and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals  The 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2020) 10-13 November 2020 Sydney, Australia http://hai-conference.net/hai2020/ Submission deadline for full papers: 17 May 2020 HAI 2020 is the 8th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. The conference is a venue with an interdisciplinary nature to discuss and disseminate state-of-the-art research on topics that relate to human interactions with a range of agent systems, including physical robots and humanoids, virtual agents, socially interactive agents, and artificially intelligent agents. The topical issues within the conference include user studies, frameworks, simulations, technical developments and relevant theoretical contributions…

Call for Papers Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image Issue #12: Images of the Real: Philosophy and Documentary Film http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/cfp/ Guest Editors: Stefanie Baumann Susana Nascimento Duarte Managing Editor Patrícia Castello Branco Abstract proposals due: April 1st, 2020 Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image welcomes submissions to its 12th issue on Images of the Real: Philosophy and Documentary Film. Documentary films constitute a challenge for philosophical thinking. Relying on reality and addressing it explicitly as well, they raise the problem of the encounter between world and images. The indexical images they feature do not merely reproduce the…