Call for Papers

ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
16-17 September, 2021
Rennes (France) at the Inria Rennes and remotely [see note below]
http://sap.acm.org/2021/

Deadline for abstract submission: May 25th
Deadline for paper submission: May 27th

NOTE: As of now, ACM SAP 2021 is planned to be held as a hybrid conference both in Rennes (France) and virtually on the 16th and 17th of September, 2021. Although we encourage in-person attendance, the organizers plan to have online streaming and interaction options for virtual attendance for both attendees and speakers. More details will be provided as the situation evolves.

The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, virtual reality and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side.… read more. “Call: ACM SAP 2021: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception”

Call for Participation

Virtues, Robots and Good Lives: Who Cares?
Key Note by Charles Ess
Online event on May 13th, 2021, 18:00 CET
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/209917

In order to register for the Key Note, please send your name, email-address and affiliation to magdalena.heckner @ izew.uni-tuebingen.de . You will receive a confirmation via email within 24 hours. We will send a zoom link to the email address shortly before the event.

ABSTRACT:

A good deal of the ethical considerations regarding our possible lives with robots draws from various forms of virtue ethics. As a first catalyst, I briefly recall my initial discussion in these directions – namely, an evaluation of sex with robots via the feminist-phenomenological lens of Sara Ruddick (1975).

Such an approach, however, presumes a philosophical anthropology – including some form of humanism. There have been some important lessons regarding “decentering the human” over the past several decades, however, including feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial, and decolonial critiques.… read more. “Call: “Virtues, Robots and Good Lives: Who Cares?” Online talk by Charles Ess”

Call for Participation

PROMOTING IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES: WHY, HOW & WHAT?
A FREE one-hour insight into why many immersive experiences aren’t being promoted to their optimum and how to do this well!
Thursday 20 May, 2021 at 07:00 – 08:00 EDT
Online via Zoom

Book your place here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/promoting-immersive-experiences-why-how-what-tickets-151487534293

There’s no doubt that the time for immersive experiences have come, but XR remains difficult to communicate to people who haven’t experienced it before. Marketing is now one of the biggest challenges facing the growth of the immersive sector, with many people still associating VR & AR with futuristic tech. If XR is to truly capture mass audiences from different corners of the cultural landscape, then a reimagined promotional language is needed.

This webinar is run by the Immersive Promotion Design collective, a new marketing consultancy for the XR world that supports VR, AR & MR creatives and businesses to better communicate with their audiences about the magic of immersive content.… read more. “Call: Free Webinar: Promoting Immersive Experiences: Why, How and What?”

Call for Participation

“Institutional Factors Shaping XR Technology Accessibility Policy & Practice in Academic Libraries”
An online survey
https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Ya9id4uCXoktLv

Survey closes: May 15, 2021 (extended)

Hello,

This invitation to participate in a survey is being sent out to those responsible for managing and providing XR technologies in academic libraries. This survey is part of a study titled “Institutional Factors Shaping XR Technology Accessibility Policy & Practice in Academic Libraries.” The principal investigator (PI) is Dr. Zack Lischer-Katz, PhD (Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Arizona) and the co-principal investigator (Co-PI) is Jasmine Clark (Digital Scholarship Librarian, Temple University).

An Institutional Review Board (IRB) responsible for human subjects research at The University of Arizona reviewed this research project and found it to be acceptable, according to applicable state and federal regulations and University policies designed to protect the rights and welfare of participants in research.… read more. “Call: Survey on Institutional Factors Shaping XR Technology Accessibility Policy & Practice in Academic Libraries”

Call for Papers

HALF-DAY WORKSHOP: Pilot Implementation: Testing Human-Work Interaction Designs
Bari, Italy and online
31 August 2021
https://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it/HWID/events/Pilot4HWID/

At INTERACT 2021 – The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
https://www.interact2021.org/

Deadline for submission (subject to change): June 1, 2021

This workshop on pilot implementation will take place preceding INTERACT2021, in Bari, Italy, on 31 August 2021. Online attendance will also be allowed.

This workshop on pilot implementation has three main objectives:

• To help mature pilot implementation as a technique for evaluating human-work interaction designs during the process of their development and implementation.
• To collect case studies that analyze experiences – good and bad – with conducting and learning from pilot implementations.
• To formulate a research agenda for future work on pilot implementations – addressing their strengths, limitations, conduct, impact, and so forth.

Pilot implementations are field tests of properly engineered, yet unfinished, systems.… read more. “Call: Pilot Implementation: Testing Human-Work Interaction Designs – INTERACT 2021 Workshop”