Call for Papers “Actuated and Performative Architecture: Emerging Forms of Human-Machine Integration” SPOOL (A journal from TU Delft) https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/spool/announcement/view/301 Submission deadline: July 15, 2020 Human-Machine Interaction is expanding its reach beyond displays and objects to its next frontier: the built environment. This involves not only known visions of ubiquitous computing and adaptive environments but sensor-actuator networks, large-scale interfaces, and the Internet of Things. More than and including these systems, Actuated and Performative Architecture renders the built environment as a cyber-physical system aiming to address urgent challenges of accommodating an aging population and a mass-urbanized population by increasing spatial performance, even…

Call for Papers Ethics, Law, and Psychology towards Responsible Robotics for the Society Advanced Robotics Special Issue https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/est-tadr-2020si1/ Submission deadline: 31 August 2020 Robot technology has been expanding from closed spaces such as factories to open spaces such as homes and streets. Cleaning robots have already been introduced in many houses, and many robots for social communication with humans have been developed. Furthermore, it is envisioned that many automated vehicles will drive around cities in the near future. The spread of these robots and artificial intelligence technologies will drastically change our society and is expected to bring unprecedented affluence and…

Call for Proposals Special Issue of Well Played: Playable Theatre Edited by Celia Pearce & Nick Fortugno https://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/special-issue-call-for-proposals-well-played-playable-theatre/ Submissions deadline: 30 June 2020 The rising popularity of immersive theatre works such as Third Rail’s Then She Fell and Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More, has given rise to new hybrid forms of live entertainment that combine aspects of games and theatre. These “playable theatre” works draw extensively from digital games, Big Games, tabletop and live action roleplaying (LARPs) combined with theatrical conventions and methods to create fully immersive, participatory live theatrical events in which the audience plays a substantive role in…