Call for Participation 5th Annual Frameless Symposium November 29-30, 2020 MAGIC Spell Studios, Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York http://framelesslabs.rit.edu/symposium-2020/ Submission deadlines: Papers, talks, workshops: August 31, 2020 Demos, Installations, Performances, WiP: September 30, 2020 Flash Talks: November 1, 2020 NOTE: We intend to hold this conference virtually with the possible addition of onsite participation. Therefore, we are exploring options for distance participation through VR and other digitally synchronous means to broaden the range of opportunities for presentation and attendance. Please stay tuned to the conference website where we will share information and updates. The Frameless Symposium is an…

Call for Papers “Empowering Children’s Critical Reflections on AI, Robotics and Other Intelligent Technologies” NordiCHI 2020 workshop 25 October 2020 Tallinn, Estonia and online (see NordiCHI 2020 website for updates) https://sites.google.com/view/nordichi2020wsai/ Paper submission deadline: September 1st, 2020 Robotics, automated systems and AI are gradually shaping novel techno-social realities especially in educational contexts. However not enough space is being given to a critical reflection on the emerging ethical and social implications for designers/developers and the users, especially children. This workshop aims at creating a space to discuss the current practices and the near future opportunities for the support of children’s reflections…

Call for Abstracts Lockdown: Mental Illness, Wellness, and COVID-19 November 16th-18th, 2020 via Zoom There are no registration fees for this conference. https://forms.gle/7UWvZKshQncbojsF7 Deadline for submissions: September 13 2020 In the wake of the global COVID-19 lockdown, digitally mediated and online forms of mental health therapy and wellness practices have proliferated. Such therapies and practices have been necessitated by the COVID-19 lockdown and its unique demands. Nevertheless, the necessity of social distancing has the potential to fuel calls for digitising treatment of mental illnesses, calls that emerge from institutions and entrepreneurs who see tele-therapies as cost effective, and as pushing…

Call for Manuscripts Journal of Communication Pedagogy Theme: Machine Teachers in Education https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jcp/callforpapers.html#machine Guest Editor: Jihyun Kim, Ph.D., Nicholson School of Communication and Media, University of Central Florida, USA. Submission Deadline: October 15, 2020 OBJECTIVE With ongoing technology development, it is highly likely that education will begin its new era by incorporating nonhuman agents as a tutor, assistant, advisor, or/and teacher, so-called “machine teachers.” Although human teachers may not be completely replaced by machine, some people argue machines would start assisting and replacing teachers in some areas in near future. In fact, this trend already arrived when an AI (Artificial…

Call for Papers CUI@CSCW: Collaborating through Conversational User Interfaces Workshop at the 2020 ACM Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) conference 17th or 18th October Held virtually http://speech-interaction.org/CSCW2020/ KEY DATES Submission deadline:  30th August (23:59 Anywhere on Earth) Notifications:  13th September Workshop:  17th or 18th October (TBC) ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The virtual CUI@CSCW workshop will bring together the burgeoning communities centred on the design, development, application, and study of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs). We will examine the challenges involved in transforming CUIs into everyday computing devices capable of supporting collaborative activities across space and time. Additionally, we intend to…

Call for Papers ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Special issue on First-Person Research in HCI https://dl.acm.org/journal/tochi/firstpersonhci Guest Editors: Audrey Desjardins (University of Washington) Andres Lucero (Aalto University) Marta Cecchinato (Northumbria University) Oscar Tomico Plasencia (ELISAVA and Eindhoven University of Technology) Carman Neustaedter (Simon Fraser University) Abstract submission deadline:  September 8, 2020 Full paper submission deadline:  October 22, 2020 As an addition to the array of HCI methodological tools, first-person research methods offer a chance for researchers to not only investigate the mundane, ongoing, and ubiquitous presence of technology in everyday life, but also to acknowledge their own positionality in research…