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 types of tools. In particular, XR-a catch-all term including augmented and virtual reality, as well as related technologies for spatial and pervasive computing-holds both great potential and challenges for educational use under pandemic conditions.

This virtual conference will explore areas where XR can mitigate the challenges of engaging with students remotely as well as investigate new opportunities to apply XR technologies across remote, face-to-face, or hybrid environments.… read more. “Call: Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era”

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 personas to explore the interplay of autonomous technologies with user experience and engagement.

Interaction designers, educators, policymakers, system, and automation designer or other related stakeholders are encouraged to participate and present their interest by submitting a position statement confirming background, research interest and future scenario of automation, highlighting opportunities and/or issues for UX and engagement in one domain, e.g.… read more. “Call: Co-Designing Personas for User Experience and Engagement in Automation – NordiCHI 2020 workshop”

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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 further information see the workshop website and follow us on Twitter.

INTRODUCTION

HUMAN’20 is the third workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. It is sponsored by SIGWEB and affiliated with the 31^st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.… read more. “Call: HUMAN’20 – 3rd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext”

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), Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment, 2015), What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow, 2017), and VR experiences like The Invisible Hours (Tequila Works, 2017). Having moved past the debate between narratology and ludology (Frasca, 2003; Aarseth, 2019), there is a consensus among researchers that video games should be analysed as cultural artefacts that can harbour a complex narrative development as part of their design.… read more. “Call: “Ludonarratives: Narrative complexity in video games” for journal L’Atalante”

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 Technology, University of Toronto & University of Cambridge

Submissions close: 1 March 2021

DESCRIPTION

As the COVID-19 pandemic shows, crises can catalyse socio-technical changes at a speed and scale otherwise thought impossible. Crises expose the fragility and resilience of our sociotechnical systems – from healthcare to financial markets, internet connectivity, and local communities.… read more. “Call: “After Covid-19: Crises, Ethics, and Socio-Technical Change” special issue”