Call for Participation UNITE GamiFOREST Coffee Talks #2 LUDIC SPATIAL STRATEGIES & FOREST SPACES by Mattia Thibault Date: March 18, 2022 Time: 13:00 (Helsinki Time) Zoom Link: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67954634202 How can the organisation of a space favour playfulness, creativity and curiosity? If we look at existing spaces designed to host playfulness (theme parks, arenas, interactive museums, playgrounds, casinos, treetop parks and so on) we can try to outline a series of spatial strategies that are put in place exactly to this end. But how can these strategies be applied to a space with an emergent morphology and an intrinsically open-ended configuration?…

CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Virtual Consumerism Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking https://home.liebertpub.com/cfp/special-issue-on-virtual-consumerism/366/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2022 Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is developing a special issue dedicated to virtual consumerism. Ushered in by Amazon and fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual consumerism (VC) is more than simply the act of buying products on the Internet. The term encompasses entire economies and the study of each facet of these intricate new systems. Modern technologies, buoyed by current world conditions and trends, have enabled the creation of a seemingly inexhaustible parade of consumer products and services, forming new markets,…

Call for Papers Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality,Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022) October 26-28, 2022 Rome, Italy Session: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-10 Conference: https://metroxraine.org/ Extended abstract submission deadline: March 18, 2022 Final paper submission deadline: July 30, 2022 SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that…

Call for Participation A Workshop at ACM CHI 2022 AI-Generated Characters: Putting Deepfakes to Good Use Hybrid Workshop April 30, 2022 Workshop: http://deepfakes.media.mit.edu/ CHI 2022: https://chi2022.acm.org/ Submission deadline: March 5, 2022 AI-generated characters (more infamously known as “deepfakes”) are a form of digital media generated by deep neural networks, which feature the human appearance and appear authentic to human beings. Such realistic renderings are made possible through advances in generative machine learning for the hyper-realistic synthesis, recreation, and modification of prose, images, audio, and video data. While the technology is perhaps most widely associated with media manipulation and misinformation, it…

[Note: See the conference website for information about these other special sessions: Hand-Object Interaction: from Human Demonstrations to Robot Manipulation Short- and Long-Term Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-care Service Robots Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI Safe Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manufacturing Environments Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots –Matthew] CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION Theory of Mind for social HRI 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) August 29th – September 2nd, 2022 Naples, Italy and Online [See NOTE below] http://ro-man2022.org Important dates for Regular…

Call for Papers Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022 Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 Submission deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on “ICT for Societal Challenges”. It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation…