CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE RO-MAN 2021 GenR WORKSHOP
GENDERING ROBOTS: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics

IMPORTANT DATES & INFO

Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30th, 2021
Paper Acceptance Notification: July 21st, 2021
Camera Ready Paper: July 28th, 2021
Main Conference Date: August 8th-12th, 2021
Workshop Date: August 12th, 2021

Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ro-man21-genr-workshop/home
Twitter : @GenR_ROMAN

Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genr2021
Full call for papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/GenR2021

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

Within the GenR workshop, we aim to provide researchers investigating gender in robotics with a platform to share their work and invite interested scholars to reflect with us on inclusive and ethical practices in robot gendering. We hope to explore motivations for robot gendering, and understand how robot gendering might impact human-robot interaction in the face of its risks with regards to stereotype propagation. Furthermore, we would like to inspire discussions about the mindful use of robots in society and promote the possibility to use robots to oppose/challenge harmful social practices (gender stereotypes, gender inequality, etc.).… read more. “Call: Gendering Robots workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2021”

Call for Participation

Human Factors Interventions for Surgical Systems
A Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences Virtual Symposium
Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 05:00 – 07:30 EDT
Free
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/human-factors-interventions-for-surgical-systems-tickets-155955728783

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Novel technologies have the potential to impact the health field, from augmenting education to greater efficacy in medical procedures. Despite this potential, it is important that they provide a positive user experience both for clinicians and patients. This can be achieved through a user-centred design process where user needs are considered every step of the way.

To gain more understanding around this important process, our symposium explores how to approach healthcare from a human factors perspective. This is covered through engaging talks by world-leading researchers in the field and design activities which demonstrate how these factors can be applied in clinical settings.

AGENDA… read more. “Call: “Human Factors Interventions for Surgical Systems” June 17 free virtual symposium”

Call for Papers

MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
December 5-8, 2021
Leuven, Belgium and online [see Note below]
https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/

Submission deadline for long and short papers: August 6, 2021

NOTE: This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to travel to Belgium. We are currently considering which solution to use to be as inclusive as possible to those who will prefer to present and participate remotely. We will monitor the unfolding of the events in the short term and update the conference modality accordingly.… read more. “Call: MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia”

Call for Papers

“Gender and Human-Machine Communication”
Special Issue of Human-Machine Communication
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/callforpapers.html

Editors:
Leopoldina Fortunati (leopoldina.fortunati@uniud.it), Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Autumn Edwards (autumn.edwards@wmich.edu), School of Communication, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America

Submission deadline: January 15, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The reproductive sphere, historically the place of domestic appliances and classic media (television and radio), is now populated by various types of machines: from computers to mobile phones to social robots to virtual and voice-based assistants. Domestic work, especially in its immaterial aspects (affection, emotion, sex, information, care and support, communication, education, entertainment), is increasingly machinized, while its material aspects remain far from being robustly supported by technologies. What is the social and political meaning of this massive penetration of hard technology in the immaterial reproduction sphere and of the relatively limited penetration in the material reproduction sphere?… read more. “Call: “Gender and Human-Machine Communication” issue of HMC”

CALL FOR PAPERS

HUMAN’21 – 4th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext
Official workshop of the ACM Hypertext Conference ’21
Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB
August 30, 2021
Online

Workshop website: https://human.iisys.de/human21
HUMAN on Twitter: @HUMAN_HT
Twitter hashtag:  #HUMAN21

Submission deadline:  July 23, 2021

INTRODUCTION

HUMAN’21 is the third workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. It is sponsored by SIGWEB and affiliated with the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. It has a strong focus on the user and thus is complementary to the strong machine analytics research direction that could be experienced in previous conferences.

The user-centric view on hypertext not only includes user interfaces and interaction, but also discussions about hypertext application domains. Furthermore, the workshop raises the question of how original hypertext ideas (e.g., Doug Engelbart’s “augmenting human intellect” or Frank Halasz’ “hypertext as a medium for thinking and communication”) can improve today’s hypertext systems.… read more. “Call: HUMAN’21 – 4th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext”