Call for Papers ACM IUI 2021: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference College Station, TX March 18-21, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/2021/ Contact: program2021@iui.acm.org Upcoming deadlines: Abstract submission: October 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: October 9, 2020 NOTE: We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent…

Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Action Modelling for Interaction and Analysis in Smart Sports and Physical Education (MAIStroPE) To be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Workshop website: http://smart-sports-exercises.nl/maistrope/ Paper submission deadline: 23 August 2020 [NOTE: See ACM ICMI 2020 website for information about conference format due to COVID-19 –ML] The workshop to be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction intends to bring together the research in Machine Learning, Interactive Technology and Sports & Movement Science to propose multimodal and interactive systems which can be utilized by coaches/trainers…

**REVISED** CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) November 14-16, 2020 Golden, Colorado Now Online https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/ TL;DR: ICSR is fully virtual and so we invite proposals for a broader-than-normal range of online based activities to be co-hosted with the conference. Simple 2 page proposals outline key activity details due by 31st July to kw1600@my.bristol.ac.uk. You may have seen the news that ICSR 2020 is going to be fully virtual this year and so we’re really hoping to do something fresh with the workshop provision and invite you to be as creative and…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Manipulation Online: Philosophical Perspectives on Human-Machine Interactions Edited volume & online workshop series Deadline for abstract submission: August 24th 2020 EDITORS Fleur Jongepier (Radboud University Nijmegen) & Michael Klenk (Delft University of Technology) AIMS We invite submissions of extended abstracts (700-1000 words) for an online workshop series and an open-access edited volume to be published with Routledge (or similar). TOPIC We increasingly interact with artificially intelligent machines like virtual assistants, robot care-takers, or algorithmic systems used for behavioural targeting. Such systems influence our (online) lives and the decisions we make in various ways. Recently, both the public…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DELbA 2020: Workshop on Designing and Facilitating Educational Location-based Applications Held online at EC-TEL 2020 (Heidelberg, Germany): Virtual workshop September 15, 2020 https://www.delba2020.net Submission deadline for full and short papers: July 15, 2020 The workshop on Designing and Facilitating Educational Location-based Applications (DELbA 2020) will be organized as part of the EC-TEL 2020 conference and will be held online on September 15th 2020. Mobile devices and mobile internet are the prerequisites for location-based apps, which interpret the current location for providing position-sensitive information. In form of games, location-based apps are extremely popular. For example, 2013 Ingress generated…

Call for Lightning Talks for Virtual Conference Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era Conference Date: August 7, 2020 Submission Deadline: July 10, 2020 Information: http://dartgo.org/covid-xr-conf Submit Proposals at https://forms.gle/yzHWHgNjPSgVLb5X8 Register to Attend at http://dartgo.org/covid-xr-conf-reg Send Questions to covid.xr.conf@gmail.com Recent large-scale engagement with remote learning has brought to the fore the challenges of teaching and learning in an online environment. While technologies like videoconferencing and learning management systems have drawn a great deal of critical review and pedagogical development, we can also apply the lessons of higher education’s sudden foray into mass remote teaching to other…