Call for Papers “Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare: Understanding and Generating Multimodal Nonverbal Cues” A workshop at ICMI 2021, the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Montreal, Canada October 18-22 (specific date TBA) https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/ Paper submission deadline: June 18, 2021 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce our workshop titled “Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare: Understanding and Generating Multimodal Nonverbal Cues” which takes place as part of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2021 in October 2021 in Montreal, Canada. For more information, please see https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/. CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in the areas of face and gesture analysis, computational…

Call for Abstracts CANTERBURY 2022 (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): A conference on design, culture and technology – past, present, and future Canterbury, UK / Virtual Organisers: University of Kent Dates: 15-17 June 2022 https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-2022/ Deadline for abstract submissions (early): 01 July 2021 CONTEXT The buildings, towns and cities we inhabit are physical entities created in the past, experienced in the present, and projected to inform the future. The same can be said of the artefacts we use daily: designed furniture in the home, the mobile devices in our hands, the vehicles we see on our streets. However, each of these places, buildings…

Call for Papers “Intricacies of Child-Robot Interaction” Special issue [or book] to be published by the open-access journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Child_Robot_Interaction Submission deadline: September 1, 2021 Dear colleagues, We invite contributions for a Special Issue on “Intricacies of Child-Robot Interaction”, to be published by the open-access journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE: In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in interest around the child-robot interaction (CRI). The possibilities of using social robots for educational or therapeutic purposes in schools, hospitals, and domestic settings have captured the attention of researchers, institutions, and stakeholders alike. In…

Call for Contributions The Construction of the Robot in Language and Culture Theme issue of Technology and Language Submission deadline: January 10, 2022 The second issue of Technology and Language has just appeared – and with it a new call for contributions. Individual papers and the whole issue are freely available at https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/issue/2/. “In the Beginning was the Word: The Word as a Technical Artefact”  features contributions from Irina Belyaeva, Chandrima Christiansen, Christopher Coenen and Alexandra Kazakova, Thomas Froy, Tatiana Kazarina, Ulrike Ramming, Walker Trimble, Viktoria Vorotnikova and Sergey Karlin, and Joseph Wilson. New Call for Contributions: The Construction of…

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals 3rd Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling 30 September – 2 October, 2021 Organized in Budapest, at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in partnership with ARDIN [see note below] https://zip-scene.mome.hu Deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals: May 15, 2021 NOTE: We aim to carry out this conference preferably as an offline event based in Budapest, should the circumstances of the current pandemic permit. The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the event program. When sending the abstract, please indicate whether you are planning to attend physically the event or you would prefer to…

Call for Papers 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference Conference Theme: Post-Pandemic HCI – Living digitally 19-21 July (Online) London, UK – University of West London https://hci2021.bcs.org/ https://twitter.com/BCSHCI2021 hci2021@bcs.org Submission Deadline: 30th of April, 2021 The 2021 conference theme is “Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally” highlighting current and future efforts for digital innovations in socio-technical systems and related challenges and opportunities. The theme invites to think beyond the current pandemic and be hopeful. ‘Living digitally’ calls for interpreting and imagining how human-computer interactions and collaborations in all areas of human life may be shaped by the pandemic. The conference accepts…