Call for Papers

FTC 2021 – Future Technologies Conference 2021
28-29 October 2021
Vancouver, Canada and/or online [see note below]
https://saiconference.com/FTC2021/CallforPapers

Submissions due: 15 March 2021

NOTE: In view of the COVID-19 uncertainty, we want to reassure everyone that if travel is not feasible, you will be able to participate online/virtually.

The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers.

Join us for FTC 2021, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security and Communications.

Previous conferences successfully brought together technology geniuses in one venue to not only present breakthrough research in future technologies but to also promote practicality and applications and an intra- and inter-field exchange of ideas.… read more. “Call: Future Technologies Conference 2021”

Call for Papers

Targeting Environmental Challenges Using Interactive Visual Technology
A special issue of Sustainability Journal
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/environmental_challenges

Final deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2021 (manuscripts are reviewed when they are submitted)

Environmental concerns have now become global challenges faced by the entire world. Human-centered technologies, tools, and services are, therefore, urgently needed to assist people in dealing with these challenges. Interactive visual technologies can play an important role in helping users to become better aware of environmental issues and challenges, and understand their causes, as well as their socio-economic impacts. As a consequence, users can then take environmentally-conscious and appropriate actions, such as conserving energy, consuming natural resources more efficiently, dealing with sustainability-related concerns, and so on. Interactive visual technologies can also, in particular, address human behavior and support changes in negative behavior, which can then result in better achieving environmental user goals.… read more. “Call: Targeting Environmental Challenges Using Interactive Visual Technology issue of Sustainability Journal”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the online journal Gamvironments:
Revisiting Teaching and Games: mapping out ecosystems of learning
edited by Björn Berg Marklund, Jordan Brady Loewen and Maria Saridaki

Deadline for 300-word abstracts 1. April 2021

Games educate us, challenge us, and generate novelty in how we relate to ourselves and each other. They help us learn that failure can be fun and encourage us to explore. Yet, it is worth asking ourselves: when we think about the potential of gameplay for teaching, how can we better consider the ecosystem of unique relationships between players, creators, and those who try to facilitate spaces for meaningful play? If we hope for games to reach their most meaningful potential in – and as – educational environments, starting an authentic and open dialogue of intentionality and failure is crucial. As a community, we need stories, models, practices, and theories of teaching to map out the complex ecosystem of learning.… read more. “Call: “Revisiting teaching and games: Mapping out ecosystems of learning” Gamevironments issue”