Call for Abstracts

Edited volume: Live Streaming Culture
Editors: Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher Persaud
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8W7er3wrnNNxS98EoyJwCBZ60sCtnqbAZ1ikqYBkL8

Abstract Deadline: July 17, 2020

Live streaming is a rapidly growing phenomenon that is having profound effects on the contemporary landscape of digital media, entertainment, and online culture. Across the internet, live streaming takes an array of forms: from gaming-focused sites like Twitch and Mixer, where millions of viewers watch live video gameplay, to social media sites like Facebook and YouTube, where streamers translate their day-to-day lives into broadcasts. As with all technological platforms, live streaming is deeply shaped by (and also itself actively shapes) broader cultural issues.

This edited volume will take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cultural issues in live streaming. Examples of topic areas include but are not limited to: identity, community, power, access, aesthetics, gender, sexuality, race, disability, discrimination, harassment, politics, and activism.… read more. “Call: Edited volume on Live Streaming Culture”

Call for Abstracts

Online Education: Teaching in a Time of Change
A virtual conference coordinated by Routledge, AMPS and PARADE
April 21-23, 2021
https://architecturemps.com/online-ed-conference/

Abstracts due June 30, 2020 (Early Review)
Abstract Submission Form (.docx)

CONTEXT:

Recent events across the world of academia have brought into full light the various agendas around online education and research. As universities, schools and colleges closed across the world in 2020, researchers, teachers and students scrambled to adapt to a whole host of new pedagogical tools, communicative techniques, learning methods and teaching styles almost overnight. Some survived, others thrived, while some struggled and ultimately went ‘out of business’.

For some disciplines, the transition was seamless, with lectures, tests and projects administered online with little or no change at all. Other disciplines writhed at having to forego the peer-to-peer learning environment of the classroom, the dynamic interaction of the design studio, or the personal contact of the open-ended seminar discussion.… read more. “Call: Online Education: Teaching in a Time of Change – 2021 virtual conference”

Call for Papers and Art

Sound, Image and Interaction Design Symposium (SIIDS) 2020
Online [see note below]
https://siids.arditi.pt/

Deadline for submissions: 26 June 2020
Submissions now open: siids.arditi.pt/submissions

NOTE: SIIDS 2020 will take place 4/September/2020 as an online conference. Optionally, and if COVID-19 restrictions allow, there will also be co-located presentations at Madeira Tecnopolo (Funchal, Portugal).

There has been a growing interest in the study of sound and music computing from a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective. This coincides with the shift to a third wave of HCI towards applications in broader cultural contexts. In the last few years, researchers have paid special attention to the integration of other sensory modalities with sound. In this context, the Sound, Image and Interaction Design Symposium (SIIDS) aims to address emerging issues in research related to the creation of interactive sonic experiences, particularly focusing on the role that image plays in these scenarios.… read more. “Call: Sound, Image and Interaction Design Symposium (SIIDS) 2020”

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 in tight spatial confines. Embedding computation, including robotics, into the physical fabric of buildings fosters a potentially more intimate relationship between the built environment and people. Mixing the physical and the digital redefines the borders between types of spaces, the affordances and meanings of environments, and the sense of presence.… read more. “Call: “Actuated and Performative Architecture: Emerging Forms of Human-Machine Integration” issue of SPOOL”

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 well-being to people’s lives. However, there is also a concern that new social problems that have never been considered, so-called ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues), will occur as robots begin to autonomously work close to humans. To address them, transdisciplinary debate from technological, ethical, legal, social, and scientific perspectives is required.… read more. “Call: “Ethics, Law, and Psychology towards Responsible Robotics” issue of Advanced Robotics”