Call for Participation The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2022 13-15 March 2022 Kashiwanoha, Japan and Online https://augmented-humans.org/ Submission deadlines: Full/Short Papers: January 7th, 2022 Posters/Demos/Exhibition: February 11th, 2022 The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2022 will be a hybrid online/onsite conference, held on 13-15 March 2022. The onsite conference will be held in Kashiwanoha, Chiba, Japan. The conference focuses on physical, cognitive, and perceptual augmentation of humans through digital technologies. The plural – humans – emphasizes the move towards technologies that enhance human capabilities beyond the individual and will have the potential for impact on societal scale. The idea…

Call for Papers First Workshop for Building the Foundations of the Metaverse (MetaBuild 2022) In conjunction with IEEE VR 2022 12-13 March, 2022 Christchurch, New Zealand (Online) https://metabuild.hkust.edu.hk/ Submission deadline: 11 January 2022 The First Workshop for Building the Foundations of the Metaverse (MetaBuild 2022), in conjunction with IEEE VR 2022, aims to bring together system researchers, engineers and content creators to identify open directions and discuss the latest research ideas and results on technological foundations towards the development of the upcoming metaverse ecosystem. The MetaBuild ’22 workshop focuses on engineering building blocks of the metaverse and the novel approach…

Call for Participation To the 4th Dimension and Beyond LA Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH Event Tuesday, 11 January 2022, 7-9 pm PST Via Zoom https://lasiggraph.org/event/fourth-dimension-and-beyond Computer graphics provides opportunities to interact with, calculate, and visualize multi-dimensional space. This is one of our community’s important frontiers and has been compared to the revolution of linear perspective during the Renaissance. DESCRIPTION: Many experience day-to-day reality in four dimensions: the three physical dimensions + time. Alternatively, physicists, artists, science fiction writers and mathematicians dwell conceptually beyond the fourth dimension. Computer graphics provides opportunities to interact with, calculate and visualize multidimensional space. This is…

Call for Submissions 16th European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL 2022) Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal [and online; see NOTE below] 6-7 October 2022 http://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/ecgbl-call-for-papers/ Submission deadline: 16 March 2022 NOTE: We are planning for ECGBL 2022 to be a “hybrid” conference. Meaning that there will be physical events with virtual elements built into it to create an experience for both those who can attend in person and those able to attend online. OVERVIEW The way in which education and training is delivered has changed considerably with the development of Game-Based Learning (GBL). The European Conference on Game-Based Learning offers…

Call for Papers 9th Games and Natural Language Processing Workshop (Games and NLP 2022) At LREC 2022, the 13th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference of the European Language Resources Association June 25, 2022 Palais du Pharo in Marseille, France [and remote presentations – see REVIEW PROCESS below –ML] https://gamesandnlp.com/call/ Submission deadline: April 8th, 2022 The 9th Games and Natural Language Processing (Games and NLP 2022) (gamesandnlp.com) -to be held at LREC 2022 – will examine the use of games and gamification for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, as well as how NLP research can advance player engagement…

Call for Abstracts: Grabbe, Lars C., Andrew McLuhan, and Tobias Held. 2023. Beyond Media Literacy. Büchner-Verlag: Marburg. Deadline for abstracts: April 22, 2022 Deadline for articles: November 25, 2022 Today, media literacy, digital media literacy, media and information literacy, critical media literacy, media literacy education, and the like, are hot topics discussed from elementary schools to UNESCO and a whole industry of non-profits has sprung up in response. One thing that these programs seem to share is a focus on content, and on spotting bias and manipulation in terms of content creators and purveyors. But there is much more to…