Call for Applications

AI GameDev
Europe’s first research-driven competition to enhance game technology – for AI scientists and start-ups
Award Ceremony: December 2, 2021
https://www.aigame.dev/

Abstract submission deadline: September 26, 2021

Cyber Valley, Square Enix, and IT-Farm are launching AI GameDev, a competition for start-ups and scientists who feel their ideas could contribute to or whose work focuses on developing the most exciting AI technologies for the entertainment and gaming industry.

Do you think you can make an impact on this sector with a paper you’ve already published, a specific project or technology you’ve been working on, or something completely new? Then submit your idea to win one of our prizes.

AWARDS

Scientific Award

• powered by Cyber Valley for the most promising scientific performance
• win an exclusive Cyber Valley tour and meet top AI researcher,  including a visit to MPI-IS Stuttgart and Tübingen, Germany
• conditions: up to three people, incl.

[An online event this week…  –Matthew]

Call for Participation

LSR 2021: 6th International Congress on Love & Sex With Robots
August 18-20th, 2021
Online via Zoom
https://www.lovewithrobots.com/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-6th-international-congress-on-love-and-sex-with-robots-tickets-156421519977

Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with artificial partners. This is demonstrated well by the interest of the general public, coverage in print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community.

This topic is relevant now and increases year over year as artificial intelligence innovates and the sextech industry becomes more mainstream. There is a wide spectrum of interests and opinions on the subject matter, hence the academic disciplines in this field have grown exponentially.

This Congress facilitates the discussion points, is a platform to present emerging research and opens the conversation in a cross-disciplinary manner in fields of study such as, but not limited to:

Robot Emotions, Humanoid Robots, Clone Robots, Entertainment Robots, Robot Personalities, Teledildonics, Intelligent Electronic Sex Hardware, Robotics and Electronic Sex Startups

With approaches such as, but not limited to:

Gender/sex, Feminist and Intersectional, Affective, Psychological, Sociological, Sexological, Roboethics, Philosophical and Clinical

The International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots provides an excellent opportunity for academics and industry professionals to present and discuss their innovative work and ideas in an academic symposium.… read more. “Call: LSR 2021: 6th International Congress on Love and Sex With Robots”

Call for Papers

SACAIR2021 – South African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research
Theme: Artificial Intelligence for Science, Technology and Society
Dolphin Coast, KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
6 – 10 December 2021
http://2021.sacair.org.za/

Abstract submission deadline: 10 September 2021
Full paper submission deadline: 24 September 2021

The Organising Committee of the South African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research (SACAIR2021) invites the submission of full papers for presentation at the conference, to be held at Simbithi Country Club, Simbithi Eco-Estate, Dolphin Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, from 6 – 10 December 2021. The conference theme is ‘Artificial Intelligence for Science, Technology and Society’. The SACAIR series of conferences, held since 2019, aims to promote multi- and interdisciplinary studies in Artificial Intelligence and provides a platform to researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge developments in the field. The conference seeks significant contributions to all major fields of Artificial Intelligence in both theoretical, application and practical aspects.… read more. “Call: SACAIR 2021 – South African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research”

Call for Papers

17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022)
March 7-10, 2022
Sapporo, Japan and online [see “CONFERENCE CHANGES DUE TO COVID-19” below]
https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/

Full paper submission deadline: October 1, 2021

The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is a premier, highly-selective venue presenting the latest advances in Human-Robot Interaction. The 17th Annual HRI conference theme is “Breaking Boundaries.” The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, behavioural, theoretical, methodological, and metrological, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction. Full papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.

FULL PAPERS: DUE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1ST, 11:59PM ANYWHERE ON EARTH (AOE)

Full papers are variable length papers that should reflect the extent of the contribution but maximum length is eight pages including figures, but excluding references.… read more. “Call: HRI 2022, 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction”

[Important note: I usually avoid posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I 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

“Innovations in Game-Based Learning”
Special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/GBL

Article processing charge: 1,400 Swiss Francs ($1,516 at this writing)
More information about the publisher’s APC policies including possible funding/discount: https://www.mdpi.com/apc

Submission deadline: December 20, 2021

Game-based learning (GBL) has emerged as a promising direction for supplementing and improving the delivery of educational content. In particular, games facilitate a variety of beneficial learning techniques, such as explorative learning, trial and error, inquiry-based learning, learning by doing, and many others.… read more. “Call: “Innovations in Game-Based Learning” issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction”