CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION NordiCHI 2020 Workshop – Co-Designing Personas for User Experience and Engagement in Automation Workshop date: October 26, 2020 Location: Talinn, Estonia (or possibly virtual) https://iti.larsys.pt/co-designing_personas_for_user_experience_and_engagement_in_automation/ Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2020 NOTE: In the context of COVID-19, we can say the workshop WILL happen in whichever format is possible at the time of the conference. See the Workshop website and NordiCHI 2020 website for updates. Grounded on principles of co-designing and user experience engagement in design, this one-day workshop will offer an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners aiming to actively engage in co-design of…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN’20 – 3rd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext Official workshop of the ACM Hypertext Conference ’20 Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB December 4, 2020 Online Workshop website: https://human.iisys.de/human20 HUMAN on Twitter: @HUMAN_HT Twitter hashtag:  #HUMAN20 Submission deadline:  September 27, 2020 NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that HT’20 is held virtually, the HUMAN’20 workshop will take place online later in 2020. This will make it easier for participants to follow both events HT’20 and HUMAN’20. As a service to the research community, we make the participation in the HUMAN’20 workshop free to anyone. For…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Ludonarratives: Narrative complexity in video games L’ATALANTE 31 (issue to be published January 2021) http://revistaatalante.com/index.php?journal=atalante&page=announcement&op=view&%20path%5B0%5D=68 Acceptance of proposals for the Notebook section: from July 1st 2020 to September 1st 2020 In recent years, narratives in video games have grown increasingly complex, evolving from serving merely as a context designed to present the rules and mechanics of the game towards the development of much deeper and more complicated structures, plots and characters, and the exploration of new thematic perspectives. Narrative complexity is already a central part of the gaming experience in games like Telling Lies (Sam Barlow, 2019),…

Call for Papers Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society: After Covid-19: Crises, Ethics, and Socio-Technical Change Confirmed Guest Editors: Rafael A. Calvo, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London Sebastian Deterding, Digital Creativity Labs, University of York Catherine Flick, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University Christoph Luetge, Institute for Ethics in AI, Technical University of Munich (TUM) Alison Powell, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science Jack Stilgoe, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London Karina Vold, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Special Issue on Digital Romance and Dating, Including COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Impacts https://home.liebertpub.com/cfp/special-issue-on-digital-romance-and-dating-including-covid-/276/ Guest Editors: Jayson L. Dibble, PhD, Hope College, Holland, MI Brandon T. McDaniel, PhD, Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation, Fort Wayne, IN Manuscript submission deadline: September 1, 2020 Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is developing a special issue dedicated to current digital dating, romance/sex, and dating apps. This also includes, but is not limited to, pandemic-related impacts (e.g., social distancing due to COVID-19, quarantining) on dating, sex, and romance. Special consideration is given to articles that go beyond…

Call for Participation Champions in Higher Education of XR (CHEX) Consortium Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Calling all leaders and champions of VR/AR/MR (XR) initiatives at universities and colleges Champions in Higher Education of XR (CHEX) is a new consortium formed under the umbrella of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org/) that brings together both administrators as well as faculty/staff grassroots leaders who are championing the adoption and use of XR and immersive technologies at colleges, universities, and college/university systems around the world. Many of these champions have oversight of XR initiatives at a campus, institution, or system-wide…