Call for Papers:
Disability and Video Games: Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming (Edited Book)
Beate Ochsner & Markus Spöhrer (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Deadline for Abstracts: 15.04.2021 (300 words)
Deadline for papers: 15.09.2021

Please submit your abstracts: markus.spoehrer@uni-konstanz.de

Concerns with the accessibility and adaptability of digital games, corresponding gaming platforms as well as peripheral devices have been uttered from different perspectives and sources during the last decades. Interestingly, subcultural or amateur DIY-accessibility practices have been documented since the mid-1970s. Counterplaying the arcade game Touch Me (Atari 1974) as a game for blind persons (cf. Kirke, 2018, p. 66; Spöhrer, 2019, p. 91), reconfiguring and adjusting Atari 2600 game controllers to left-handed persons or persons with differently abled bodies (cf. Morgenstern, 1983, p.4), the evaluation of games in terms of accessible use such as done by the Audissey magazine from 1996-2006 (cf.… read more. “Call: Disability and Video Games: Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming (Edited Book)”

Call for Abstracts

24th Annual CUNY Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Artificial Intelligence: Limitations, Foundations, and New Directions
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Online
https://philevents.org/event/show/88190

Submission deadline: March 19, 2021

We welcome abstracts from graduate students on any topic related to artificial intelligence, broadly construed. The conference will be held virtually on Saturday, April 24.

Keynote Speakers: Jesse Prinz (CUNY), TBA

Contemporary research in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) is proving dramatically successful where earlier projects stalled. Image models and language models today display sophisticated (and sometimes uncanny) abilities in some narrow domains. Various flavors of machine learning see applications in many industries, and seem poised to seriously alter creative human work, policing and surveillance, medicine, entertainment, war, prediction and forecasting, etc. There is an opening for philosophers to write about the character and use of such systems now, as they grow out of their infancy and see increasingly widespread integration in society – and before their norms and uses become established, locked in, and hard to change.… read more. “Call: Al: Limitations, Foundations, and New Directions – 24th CUNY Graduate Student Philosophy Conference”

Call for Abstracts

Changing Values, Changing Technologies
International Research Conference
Delft University of Technology [see note below]
12 & 13 October 2021

Deadline for abstract submission: May 15 2021

NOTE: We are currently planning to have the conference in Delft. If the situation will change due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will update our plans accordingly.

ORGANIZERS

Ibo van de Poel, Anna Melnyk, Steffen Steinert, and Michael Klenk (Delft University of Technology)

AIMS

The aim of the conference is to present and discuss research on the interrelations of values and technology. Specifically, we aim to explore how novel technological developments lead to changes in moral values and, conversely, how changing moral values affect the developments of new technologies.

THEMES

We envision the following more specific themes for the conference:

1. (Historical) case studies of value change and technology
2. The interrelation between value change and technological change
3. Value change, technical progress and moral progress
4. Origins of value change: individual and collective
5. Implications of value change for value sensitive design
6. Methods for studying and anticipating value change

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
Webb Keane (University of Michigan)
Tsjalling Swierstra (Maastricht University)

FORMAT… read more. “Call: Changing Values, Changing Technologies International Research Conference”

Call for Abstracts and Participation

Ethics and Technology Workshop for Graduate Students
April 26th 2021
https://forms.gle/XGYVRGpczFXejb4p7

We are the Graduate Research Group on Ethics and Technology. We are hoping to set up a network supporting graduate research in ethics and technology, beginning with the ‘Ethics and Technology Workshop’ on April 26th.

We are welcoming any work-in-progress proposals for the group to discuss together for either this workshop or later events to come. This group is intended to be a relatively informal, meeting place for early stage researchers where we can share our research and make some connections with others who specialise in the same area. We hope to keep in touch with participants and organise more events in the same vein with their involvement.

We are looking for discussions in any area of ethics and technology, including the following example topics:

• Machine Ethics: robot rights, autonomous systems, military robots
• Data Ethics: bias, fairness, transparency, privacy, explainability
• Decision making: moral judgements, artificial moral agency
• Ethics of technology: technofeminism, digital divide, gender equality,
• Superintelligent AI: existential risk, intelligence explosions, super-ethical AI
• Biology And Artificial Intelligence: human-enhancement and transhumanism, biological data science, synthetic biology, A-life
• Healthcare AI: care robots, patient monitoring, treatment and diagnosis,
• Conversational AI: chatbots, virtual personal assistants, natural language generation and understanding

You can register your interest here: https://forms.gle/XGYVRGpczFXejb4p7… read more. “Call: Ethics and Technology Workshop and Network for Graduate Students”

Call for Submissions

CHItaly 2021 Interactive Experiences track
11-13 July
Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and online (www) [see note below]
CHItaly 2021: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it
Interactive Experiences track: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html

Submission deadline: 19th March 2021

NOTE: We are hoping to safely welcome some of you to Bolzano (Italy) in July but, in case it is not possible, online participation will also be available.

INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES

CHItaly 2021 Interactive Experiences track is a venue for exploring, representing, and challenging the frontiers of HCI through co-located and distributed interactive experiences.

The track welcomes prototypes and installations that demonstrate and question how digital technologies mediate personal, collaborative, and societal interactions. Contributions can include tangible artefacts, embodied experiences, interactive installations, and performances – but not only. Submissions are expected to trigger discussions on current digital societies and foster critical reflections on future scenarios.

During the hybrid conference, the interactive experiences will be open to citizens, both physically and online, so as to disclose research and foster public engagement, bridging the frontiers between research and society.… read more. “Call: CHItaly 2021 Interactive Experiences track”