Call for Papers:
Special Issue of the Gerontechnology Journal: Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations
Special issue editors: Sayan Sarcar (University of Tsukuba), Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto Mississauga)

We are open to receive submissions. However, papers submitted before mid-March will be considered for the first round of the review process.
First-round notification to authors: Middle of April
Revised and resubmitted version due (for the first round): End of May 2021
Special issue publication timeline: August-September 2021

This special issue advances the study and design of digital software interfaces, particularly mobile, wearable, IoT, or conversational for the aging population. The topic is timely, as we are seeing an increase in essential consumer-level technologies (e.g. online banking, social media, remote healthcare access) that have low uptake among older adults despite their benefits. Even more, emerging tech products that are marketed as helpful for older adults are not always designed with them in mind.… read more. “Call: “Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations” issue of Gerontechnology”

Call for Participation

ON HUMANS AND MACHINES
HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTIONS IN DIGITAL_CULTURES
Annual conference of the research cluster digitale_kultur at the University of Hagen and the Emmy Noether Research Group (DFG): “The Phenomenon of Interaction in Human-Machine Interaction (MMI)”
March 3-5, 2021
The conference will take place as an interactive online event
https://on-humans-and-machines.fernuni-hagen.de/en/home/

Registrations accepted until March 1, 2021

The workshop looks at qualitative innovations of current human-machine interactions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Philosophical, cultural-, social- and educational approaches as well as perspectives of the technology developers are being discussed.

The focus lies on the social and cultural implications of new MMI. Starting point are current discussions about the limits and potentials of the information paradigm. In the face of current technological developments, it is up to debate whether new forms of MMI can still be described exhaustively by the information paradigm or whether different description modes are needed.… read more. “Call: “The Phenomenon of Interaction in Human-Machine Interaction” Online Workshop”

Call for Submissions

StoryBits Conference
An online event from Covilhã, Portugal
April 21-22-23, 2021
http://labcom.ubi.pt/storybits/indexEN.php

Submission deadlines:
Communication for paper: March 07, 2021
Project, Thematic Table and Workshop: March 21, 2021

INTRODUCTION

Digital media have fostered the emergence of multiple narrative formats and modes of representation, that mirror the new processes of mediation and remediation. The StoryBits conference, with a focus on this reality, is a natural continuum to former events, dedicated to the area of digital and interactive expressions of documentary, organized by the University of Beira Interior between 2016 and 2018, but broadens this thematic focus to include other genres, formats and narrative models.

StoryBits thus arises from the need to create a scientific event that promotes discussion around digital media and the diversity of creation and production of narratives that emerge from this context. It aims to promote theoretical and scientific knowledge about these new narratological expressions, including in this reflection the need for project-based research practices, and the sharing of experiences between researchers and professionals in the field.… read more. “Call: StoryBits Conference”

Call for Papers

Spatial Cognition 2020/1 (SC 2020/1)
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia [or hybrid or all-online; see note below]
August 2- 4, 2021
http://sc2020.lu.lv/

Submission deadline: March 15, 2021

NOTE: This conference was originally scheduled for August 2020. We now aim to hold it in August 2021. It will be a hybrid conference (with some talks in physical co-presence and some virtual), or entirely virtual if necessary.

Renewed Call for Papers

Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, development, representation, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial objects in real, virtual or hybrid environments and processed by human or artificial agents. Spatial Cognition includes research from fields such as cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, computer science, geography, cartography, philosophy, neuroscience, and education. The conference is single-track, and the final program will be the result of a selective review process. The program will include oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, symposia and keynote talks.… read more. “Call: Spatial Cognition 2020/1”

Call for Papers

CoG 2021 – 3rd IEEE Conference on Games
17–20 August
It University of Copenhagen
https://ieee-cog.org

Deadline for full papers: April 9th 2021

Games offer a limitless domain for computational creativity, design, technology, education, social sciences, and artificial intelligence. The annual IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) is a unique forum for cutting-edge research related to game technologies and design, covering scientific, technical, social, and human aspects of games.

CoG was expressly launched to reflect the changing nature of games as technology and media; where concerns merge, overlap, and cross-pollinate. Beginning as an evolution of the Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) and later joined by the International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games), CoG brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, to share recent advances and co-create future directions.

This year’s edition of CoG continues forging the path of attracting an evermore competent and diverse audience.… read more. “Call: CoG 2021 – 3rd IEEE Conference on Games”