Call for Participation

International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC) 2021
March 19 – 20, 2021 and Affiliated Forum, March 21, 2021
http://iw2021.xrenlab.com/

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The international workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC 2021) focuses on rethinking the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will be convened online via ZOOM and it will be open to all audiences around the world through webcasts and/or live-streaming platforms.

The aim of this workshop is to rethink the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will strive to achieve a common platform to advance various idea exchanges around the world, resulting in the evolution of a stronger workforce in order to create a better world to live in. We are inviting distinguished speakers from around the world and from several domains such as human-computer interaction, brain science, computer science, AI, engaged human, engaging technology, design so on.… read more. “Call: International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC) 2021”

Call for Papers

Workshop on Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges
At IDC 2021 – ACM Interaction Design and Children conference 2021
[Online] Athens, Worldwide
26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021
Workshop: https://www.techresearch4children.com/
IDC 2021: https://idc.acm.org/2021/

KEY DATES

Deadline for Paper Submission: 12 April 2021
Paper Acceptance Notification: 26 April 2021
Camera-ready Paper: 10 May 2021
Workshop Date: 26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021

ABSTRACT

Research on child-agent interaction is rapidly expanding. It is, therefore, necessary to converge our collective efforts to broaden our understanding and perspectives of how virtual agents, affect and potentially improve the well-being of children.

“Children, Robots and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges” follows our International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2020 workshop on child-robot interactions. In this full-day workshop, we will focus on the unique technical and empirical challenges of designing and conducting child-agent interactions.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges (at IDC 2021)”

Call for Papers

Inclusive HRI – Special Session at RO-MAN 2021
August 8-12, 2021 – Virtual
Website: https://ro-man2021.org/full-papers/

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper Submission: March 21, 2021 (regular paper submission deadline)
• Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2021
• Camera ready papers due: June 20, 2021
• Conference: August 8-12, 2021

OVERVIEW

How can we improve robots’ capacity to interact successfully with all segments of the population? How can we prevent the implicit transfer of our bias into robots while designing interactions and related artificial intelligence software? Interactive robots are being deployed into homes, schools, shopping malls, hospitals, and retirement homes worldwide. Many of these robots use perception systems to recognize aspects of a user, and algorithmic bias can result in varying levels of interaction success, depending on race, culture, age, gender and other factors. Roboticists, in particular, burdened with real-time constraints and integration of many different skills onto one robot, often still use off-the-shelf solutions, which work with limited populations and situations.… read more. “Call: Inclusive Human-Robot Interaction – Special Session at RO-MAN 2021”

Call for Long, Short and Blue Sky Papers

23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2021)
18-22 October 2021
Montreal, Canada
http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfp

Submission deadline: May 26, 2021

The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada. ACM ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.

We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community. ACM ICMI 2021 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), Blue Sky papers, demonstrations, exhibits, doctoral spotlight papers, and late-breaking papers.… read more. “Call: ICMI 2021, the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction”

Call for Registration

Online Lecture and Debate
Embodied, Embedded – A Talk about Theatre and AI
Evening Lecture by Diana Serbanescu
Wednesday March 24, 2021 at 7 pm (CET)

Organized by the Working Group on Philosophy of Technology (WGPT) – https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt

Register by: March 23, 2021

Based on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Grotowski’s Theatre Laboratory, Haraway’s feminist theory and REPLICA’s practice-led research project on The Shape of Things to Come, this talk discusses the potential of applied theatre for empowering communities to explore and devise embodied interactions with intelligent systems, thus becoming the co-designers of these technologies. Not only does this lead to more appropriate designs and new interaction models comprehensive to the embodied and situated knowledge relevant to the socio-cultural, affective and emotional contexts of their usage, it also enables trust towards emergent technologies.

Diana Serbanescu has a double background in computer science and performing arts.… read more. “Call: “Embodied, Embedded – A Talk about Theatre and AI” online lecture and debate”