Call for Papers

The Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021)
Co-located with the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference
19th July, 2021
Online
https://hci2021.bcs.org/workshop-1/

Submission deadline: 15th June, 2021

The Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021) will be held online on the 19th July and is co-located with the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (https://hci2021.bcs.org)

INTRODUCTION

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners from national and international cultural heritage (CH) organisations together with those from across HCI and related fields. We aim to establish how an alertness to tertiary embodiment (mind-body-artefact) can provide the ground for bringing artefacts to life, catalyse collective knowledge production, enable collaboration, and encourage the creative integration of computational and archival thinking. For example, in building on AI methods to create a visual search platform, the Deep Discoveries collaborative project at The National Archives fosters embodied interaction with national collections.… read more. “Call: Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021) at British HCI Conference”

[Important note: I have avoided posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but will now do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I will add an explicit note near the top of the post specifying the fee. For more information about these fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew]

Call for Papers

“Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction”
A special issue of Big Data and Cognitive Computing (ISSN 2504-2289)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC/special_issues/Virt_Reality

Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 July 2021
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.

NOTE: The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs), which at this writing is 1,553 USD.… read more. “Call: “Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction” issue of Big Data and Cognitive Computing”

Call for Participation

Amazing Folks in Tech: VR in the Medical Field
A free online event from LA ACM SIGGRAPH
June 8, 2021
https://lasiggraph.org/event/amazing-folks-tech

REGISTER FOR FREE WITH ZOOM until May 26, 2021

PRESENTERS:
Andrew Melchior, Founder, 3rd Space Agency
JohnLeah, Founder, 3rd Space Agency
Greg Ruthenbeck, Director, Exagen Oy
Daish Malani, Founder, Technical Director, Add Life Technologies
Kyle Carlin, Moderator

DESCRIPTION:
As medical professionals strive to use VR with accuracy: learn from three medical professionals using VR. VR in the Medical Field will be LA ACM SIGGRAPH’s June 8th event. Join us here at LA SIGGRAPH for a magical night where we show the bridge between medicine and technology. Featuring speakers:

John Leah and Andrew Melchoir are the Team from 3rd Space Agency. Their presentation covers work in virtual medical rooms and how that shapes how we communicate.

Daish Malani is the founder of Add Life Technologies.… read more. “Call: Amazing Folks in Tech: VR in the Medical Field – Free online LA SIGGRAPH event”

Call for Papers

Dis/abling Spaces and Cultures in Times of Crisis
Special issue of Space and Culture journal, forthcoming online in 2022
Michael Schillmeier, Editor
https://www.spaceandculture.com/2021/04/05/call-for-papers-dis-abling-spaces-and-cultures-in-times-of-crisis/

Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2021

With the COVID 19 pandemic we experience the adverse effects, ambiguities, uncertainties, insecurities of a global crisis that links and separates embodied, personal, social and cultural lives. Although the crisis may affect everyone, it is obvious that people who are disabled, marginalized, discriminated, vulnerable, ill, and/or live through precarious situations are at high risk to be become more disabled, more discriminated, more vulnerable or ill, and precarity deepens and spreads. Physical distancing, quarantining, self-isolation, wearing masks and other hygiene practices of protection have impactful and highly diverse and disputed effects on dis/abling spaces and cultures and how they are lived, felt and experienced.

It is the very experience of the ongoing global crisis that draw attention on the situated relations of dis/embodied, spatial and cultural practices that constitute dis/abling experiences that this Special Issue wishes to address and critically engage with.… read more. “Call: “Dis/abling Spaces and Cultures in Times of Crisis” issue of Space and Culture”

Call for Papers

Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction (SCRITA) Workshop
In conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2021 conference
12 August, 2021
https://scrita.herts.ac.uk

Deadline for submissions: June 13th, 2021

This workshop will be a full day event on 12 August, 2021 in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2021 conference, which is organised by the University of British Columbia and University of Waterloo, Canada.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

Trust is a fundamental aspect that helps to foster effective collaboration between people and robots. It is imperative that people trust robots to not create a hazardous situation, such as starting a fire when trying to make a cup of tea or giving the wrong medicine to a vulnerable person. Likewise, people should be able to trust robots not to create an unsafe situation, such as leaving the door open unattended or providing personal information to strangers – and potentially to thieves.… read more. “Call: Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Robot Interaction (SCRITA) workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2021”