Call for Papers The 20th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING November 2-5, 2021 Coimbra, Portugal (hybrid) [see note below] www.ifip-icec.org Submission deadline for full papers: June 7th, 2021 NOTE: We are fully aware that the situation regarding Covid-19 is a cause for concern. Hopefully, vaccination and traveling measures will have been adopted and the situation being normalised after the summer and therefore will hardly affect our conference schedule. Nevertheless, for those not being able to travel, we have measures to facilitate remote participation. It is our plan to bring all conference rooms online, enabling both local and distance engagement.…

[This is a lightly edited message from our colleague Shane Burrell requesting help gathering data for his research. If you have a similar request for the presence community, please submit it here. –Matthew] Call: Colleague research request: Survey testing scale on character identification and VR My name is Shane Burrell and I presented my paper at the PRESENCE 2020 Conference on my research on en-roling and de-roling [the Proceedings are here]. I am currently conducting another study testing my scale on character identification and VR. I would greatly appreciate any and all assistance with my study. I am using this…

Call for Papers “Child-Robot Interaction: Design, Evaluation, and Novel Solutions” Special issue of Interaction Studies For this and other issue calls, see https://benjamins.com/catalog/is Deadline for manuscript submissions: July 15, 2021 Robots are becoming more pervasive in society, playing different roles from tutors to physical therapy assistants to playmates, to name a few. Child-robot interaction (CRI) is an emerging and multidisciplinary field that brings numerous challenges to researchers. Many of the challenges come from the fact that children are cognitively immature, and their perspectives on robots are different from adults. The primary purpose of this special issue is to publish the…

Call for Papers Comunicar Special Issue 70: New challenges for teachers in the context of digital learning Thematic Editors: Dr. Rayén Condeza Dall’Orso, Pontifical Catholic University (Chile) Dr. Michael Hoechsmann, Lakehead University (Canada) Dr. Divina Frau-Meigs, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle (France) Call: https://www.revistacomunicar.com/pdf/call/call-70-en.pdf Manuscript submission guidelines: https://bit.ly/2RcCe89 Deadline for submission of manuscripts: May 30, 2021 Date of publication for Comunicar 70: Preprint: October 15, 2021 Printed version: January 1, 2022 SCOPE The role of professors and teachers as front line educators is crucial. In this information and knowledge era, teachers and professors are facing new challenges in teaching and learning.…

Call for Papers Fact, Fiction, and Narration – Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art Annual Conference 2021 September 22nd and 23rd 2021 Online; free Submission deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2021 The Department of Philosophy (University of Rijeka) and Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy issue a CFP for the international conference to be held on September 22nd and 23rd 2021, online. We invite scholars working in aesthetics, philosophy of art and other philosophical areas, as well as cognitive and social scientists and psychologists, to explore contemporary philosophical theories of narrative and fiction, their relationship, connections and implications for our views on…

[Note: For other HICSS tracks and minitracks related to presence see https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/ –Matthew] Call for Papers Mediated Conversation minitrack https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ HICSS – Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 4-7, 2022 Hyatt Regency Maui, Hawaii, USA http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2021 Dear colleague, I invite you to submit a manuscript to the Mediated Conversation minitrack at HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. This minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of human communication. Mediated conversations can use text, audio, images or video, or any combination…