Call for Panelists

“Training the Trainer: Best Practices for Virtual Meeting Platforms”
At NCA 2022, the 108th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association
November 17-20, 2022
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
https://www.natcom.org/nca-108th-annual-convention-honoring-place-people-liberation-advocacy-community-and-environment

Submission deadline: March 28, 2022

Panel organizer and chair:
Penny Joyner Waddell, PennyJoynerWaddell@gmail.com

Regardless of whether you are involved with a business, K-12 education, community college, technical college, or a university, professional development is expected and required by most industry leaders. Responding to NCA’s 2022 Theme of PLACE, this training session will address Community, Environment, and Location as it pertains to training and development.

Post-COVID, virtual meeting platforms have been added to traditional face-to-face training and development events. Which delivery method is most effective? What are the best practices for delivering content as an online session? How can we make virtual meetings more interactive? What can we do to improve the professionalism of virtual meetings?… read more. “Call: Panelists for “Training the Trainer: Best Practices for Virtual Meeting Platforms” at NCA 2022”

Call for Panelists

“Virtual Reality in the Communication Studies Classroom”
At NCA 2022, the 108th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association
November 17-20, 2022
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
https://www.natcom.org/nca-108th-annual-convention-honoring-place-people-liberation-advocacy-community-and-environment

Submission deadline: March 27, 2022

Panel organizer and chair:
Lori A. Walters-Kramer, Monmouth College, lwalterskramer@monmouthcollege.edu

My colleagues and I want to organize a panel that centers on the use of Virtual Reality in educational contexts (the classroom, the Speech Lab, etc.). Examples of possible topics include but are not limited to the following, using VR to familiarize students with different communication contexts (public speaking, group, interpersonal), helping students address their Communication Apprehension, providing opportunities for situated embodiment, etc. Presenters should be able to describe and share insights about their use of VR and/or share their VR-centered research.

If you are interested in joining the panel, please email a short description of your contribution to the panel to lwalterskramer@monmouthcollege.edu… read more. “Call: Panelists for “Virtual Reality in the Communication Studies Classroom” at NCA 2022”

Call for Participation

LA ACM SIGGRAPH Presents…
Visions of the Metaverse 2022:
Powering the Metaverse: The Hardware Platforms
Date: Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Time: 7 – 9pm PDT
Location: Zoom Virtual Event
https://lasiggraph.org/event/powering-metaverse-hardware-platforms

DESCRIPTION:

Join Host/Moderator Larry Rosenthal, Vice Chair of LA Siggraph, as they welcome Industry Leaders from the Companies that are creating, building, and selling the tools for the Metaverse.  April’s webinar will focus on the Hardware systems, and May’s webinar will focus on the Software and tool Platforms. Both Webinars will be presented via Zoom and have a Live VR Meet-and-Greet afterwards online in the LA SIGGRAPH VR Campus.

You must register with ZOOM REGISTRATION to attend this event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VB6ERIunTTaS-JoN3iza8A

SPEAKERS:

HTC –  Shen Ye, Global Head of Hardware (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shenye-/)
Varjo – Remi Arnaud , Principal Architect (https://www.linkedin.com/in/r%C3%A9mi-arnaud-002200/)
Nvidia –  Speaker TBD
HP – Joanna Popper, Global Head of Virtual Reality for Go-To-Market and Content Partnerships (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannapopper/… read more. “Call: Powering the Metaverse: The Hardware Platforms – Free online LA SIGGRAPH event”

Call for Papers for Minds and Machines
Special Issue on
Computing Cultures: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Following the 6th History and Philosophy of Computing Conference (HaPoC) Conference
https://www.springer.com/journal/11023/updates/18800754

Guest Editors:
Juan Luis Gastaldi (ETH Zurich) and Luc Pellissier (Université de Paris-Est Créteil)

Submission deadline: June 28th, 2022

Digital machines of the 20th century were inspired by the biological individual, replacing the cultural and social image of machines from the 19th century with a solipsistic mental one. However, the growing cultural import of computing practices has become ever more pressing with the spectacular deployment of computers in all the dimensions of social life. Not only have cultural phenomena increasingly become the object of computational analysis, but computational practices have also proved inseparable from the cultural environment in which they evolve. Computing cultures thus extend the boundaries of our different cultural environments, as well as those of computational practices.… read more. “Call: Minds and Machines issue: Computing Cultures: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives”

CALL FOR PAPERS – HBU 2022

12th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU)
Focus theme: Applications for Clinical and Behavioral Sciences
Held in conjunction with ICPR 2022, the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
August 21-25, 2022
Montréal Québec
Workshop: https://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/hbu/2022/
ICPR 2022: https://www.icpr2022.com/

Paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2022
Notifications: June 1st, 2022
Camera-ready submission deadline: June 24th, 2022
Workshop: August 21st/25th, 2022 (to be confirmed)

ABOUT

Domains for human behavior understanding (e.g. multimedia, human-computer interaction, robotics, affective computing and social signal processing) predominantly rely on advanced pattern recognition techniques to automatically interpret complex behavioral patterns generated when humans interact with machines or with other agents. This is a challenging research area where many issues are still open, including the joint modeling of behavioral cues taking place at different time scales, the inherent uncertainty of machine detectable evidences of human behavior, the mutual influence of people involved in interactions, the presence of long term dependencies in observations extracted from human behavior, and the important role of dynamics in human behavior understanding.… read more. “Call: 12th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU)”