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 Intelligence) teaching assistant debuted in at a university in the U.S.

In this regard, the goal of this special section is to provide a space that synthesizes research studies that explore the role of machine teachers in education. Considering that it is an emerging area, we welcome an exploratory study, pilot study, or preliminary study that provide foundation for this line of research.… read more. “Call: “Machine Teachers in Education” issue of Journal of Communication Pedagogy”

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 establish a cohesive CUI community and research agenda within CSCW and examine the roles in which CSCW research can contribute insights into understanding how CUIs are or can be used in various settings. By bringing together existing researchers and new ideas in this space, we intend to foster a strong community and enable potential future collaborations.… read more. “Call: Conversational User Interfaces Workshop at CSCW 2020 Conference”

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 and design, and to rely on first-hand experience as a mode of knowing. This shift in epistemological commitments has the potential of yielding rich, honest, and authentic reflections and insights about our ongoing lives with technology. We have seen, for example, the benefits of researchers using methods such as autoethnography, duoethnography, autobiographical design, autoethnographical research through design, micro-phenomenology, someaesthetics, design memoirs, and more.… read more. “Call: First-Person Research in HCI (special issue of ACM TOCHI)”

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL TRACK ON XR & IMMERSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
at IEEE 2020: An International Conference on Engineering, Technology & Learning
8-11 December 2020
Online/Virtual
http://tale2020.org/special-track-1/

Submission Deadline: 17 August 2020

Organized in conjunction with the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org), the Special Track on XR & Immersive Environments for Learning at IEEE TALE 2020 will focus on the use of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and related technologies for creating environments and experiences that excite, inspire and engage learners in immersive ways. Of interest are reports of both research studies and applications covering the entire spectrum of immersive platform types, including desktop, mobile, wearable and room-based (e.g., CAVE). Authors and presenters are encouraged to think creatively in terms of how they might frame their work to accommodate different conceptions of and perspectives on immersion.… read more. “Call: IEEE TALE 2020 Special Track on XR and Immersive Learning Environments”

Call for Papers

Understanding Each Other when Communicating in Emerging Technology Mediated Environments
Communication Studies
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/comm-emerging-tech/

Special Issue Editor(s):
Rhonda McEwen, PhD, University of Toronto Mississauga, rhonda.mcewen@utoronto.ca
Michelle Lui, PhD, University of Toronto Mississauga, michelle.lui@utoronto.ca

Submission deadline: 15 January 2021

Classic definitions of communication focus on the process of exchange of information — instrumental and expressive — and with the goal of mutual understanding of the content among the participants. The structure and format of in-person communication is a particular instantiation of engagement for which we have accumulated a wealth of research within the field. As we move to remote and technology-mediated communication and then to human-machine communication new opportunities and constraints have arisen — particularly if we return to the notion that understanding emerges through communicative interactions.

With new forms of technology, how understanding is acquired, developed, built together and shared is as much a question of how the technological systems are designed, as it is of how they are deployed and used (Collins et al.,… read more. “Call: “Understanding each other when communicating in emerging technology mediated environments” – Comm Studies issue”