Call for Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops and Doctoral Consortium Academic Mindtrek 2021 Tampere, Finland and online (see note below) June 1-3, 2021 Website: https://www.mindtrek.org/2021/ Track description: https://www.mindtrek.org/2021/academic-mindtrek-tracks/ Full CfP: https://www.mindtrek.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2020/11/The-2nd-CfP.pdf Full papers, demonstrations and workshops due on January 25, 2021 Posters and doctoral consortium proposals due on April 10, 2021 NOTE: Special arrangements for virtual presentations will be made for presenters unable to travel and physically attend due to the COVID-19 related travel restrictions. Academic Mindtrek 2021 welcomes all the scientific papers that present relevant and actual studies of today, that may shape the way we interact with technologies of…

Call for Papers ACM UMAP 2021 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: “Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research” Hybrid: Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online June 21-25th (tentative), 2021 https://www.um.org/umap2021/ Abstracts due: January 17, 2021 (mandatory) Full paper due: January 24, 2021 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User…

CALL FOR PAPERS COMPSAC 2021 IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications Theme: Intelligent & Resilient Computing for a Collaborative World July 12-16, 2021 Madrid, Spain and/or online [see note below] https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2021/ Main conference papers due: 15 January 2021 [NOTE: Because the safety and well-being of our conference participants are our priorities, we will continuously monitor the COVID-19 situation and determine in Spring, 2021 whether or not to transform COMPSAC 2021 into an all-digital conference. We hope to announce that decision before the end of April, 2021.] COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers,…

Call for Papers Digital Worlds: A Virtual Workshop The Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley April 10 & 11, 2021 Online Abstract submissions deadline: January 15, 2021 The Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley invites submissions for a virtual workshop to be conducted remotely on April 10 & 11, 2021. We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, or alters our experience of our lived worlds. The distinction between “being on the internet” and “being in the real world” is eroding.  People…

Call for Papers The International Journal of Digital Art History (DAHJ) Special issue: Horizon of Mixed Reality https://dahj.org/cfp/6 Submissions accepted on rolling basis; publication in first quarter of 2021 The International Journal of Digital Art History (DAHJ) responds to cutting edge scholarship concerning extended reality technologies. Today, mixed reality is poised to be just as transformative as analog film and photography, which radically reorganized many domains of modern life (including communication, science, politics, and art). This potential has become increasingly apparent in the face of our current global pandemic, wherein virtual landscapes have begun to serve as critical contact zones…

Call for Participation Social Robots: The Social Potential of a New Communicative Agent Free Online Conference – Organized as part of UAI’s Social Media Conference 2020 Tuesday 17th November, 9 AM EDT / 10 AM Chile / 14 PM CET To receive the Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/et3wNu7 Digital emergent technologies -from social media, apps and artificial intelligence- bring up new possibilities for communication. At the same time, they question paradigms and concepts which make us rethink our forms of imagining and inhabiting the world. Social robots and artificial intelligence emerge as new communicative agents, which open up new possibilities and challenges…

Call for Papers IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics Impact Factor (2019): 5.223 Special Issue on Enabling Technologies for Next Generation Telehealthcare https://www.embs.org/enabling-technologies-for-next-generation-telehealthcare/ Deadline for Submission: 31 December 2020 Nowadays, all over the world, the number of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investments in health and well-being is rapidly increasing. In this context, there is a growing interest about telehealthcare that allows the provisioning of various kinds of health-related services and applications over the Internet. The main benefits of telehealthcare are: it reduces the risk of infection because patients can make use of remote healthcare services directly in their…