Call for Abstracts Virtual entities in science: A virtual workshop 5, 12, and 19 March 2021 Online Conference Germany https://indico.cern.ch/event/951512/page/20902-call-for-abstracts Submission deadline: 15 November 2020 Not only since the sudden increase of online communication due to the COVID-19 situation has the concept of the “virtual” made its way into everyday language. In this context, it mostly denotes a digital substitute of a real object or process. “Virtual reality” is perhaps the best known term in this respect. With these digital connotations, “virtuality” has been used also in science and research: Chemists use virtual laboratories, biologists do virtual scanning of molecular…

Call for Papers First International Workshop on Cross-Reality Interaction At ACM ISS 2020, 14th ACM conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces November 8-11, 2020 Lisbon, Portugal (ALL VIRTUAL) https://xr.famnit.upr.si/ Deadline for submissions: October 7, 2020 The 14th ACM conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2020) is taking place from November 8 to 11 in all virtual conference mode. As part of the conference we organize the first International Workshop on Cross-Reality Interaction. You are invited to submit a position or work-in-progress paper (2-4 pages, single column) to the first international workshop on Cross-Reality (XR) Interaction that describes the…

Call for Papers Electronics: Special Issue on “Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics” Full call at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/mobile_robotics_control Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2021 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit contributions to a special issue on “Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics” to be published in Electronics. Since the first experiments with Shakey at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Robotics Institute, the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics fields have been intimately connected. Several movies ranging from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina have helped to cement this tie in the collective imagination. Indeed, the two are…

Call for Papers ICTeSSH 2021: International Conference on Information-Communication Technologies enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities Online June 28th – 30th, 2021 https://ictessh.uns.ac.rs/call-for-papers/ Deadline for abstract submission: December 1st, 2020 SSH researchers should be awakened to the huge possibilities and avenues for research based on ICT. The future of science is about multidisciplinary collaboration and applying new technologies. ICT tools for SSH researchers already exist, such as research-oriented social networking sites and tools to support scientific research, to manage labs and data, and to enable better communication. These tools could change the way SSH researchers carry out research, collaborate, disseminate and…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing). Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7CQ3GKSSG CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call47 Guest editors: Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Important dates: Deadline: December…

Call for Papers Child-Robot Interaction: Present and Future Relationships A Workshop at the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) November 14-16, 2020 Online Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/child-robot-interaction/ ICSR: https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/ KEY DATES: Submission Deadline: October 16, 2020 (11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth) Acceptance Notification: October 23, 2020 Camera-ready Deadline: October 30, 2020 ABSTRACT: Robots will become more pervasive in society, playing different roles from tutors to physical therapy assistants to playmates, to name a few. The relationship between children and robots starts before the actual interaction. Researchers are faced with the question of when to involve children in this process. Children…