Call for Participation MIN2022: Museums Immersive Network: Got Tech? A free webinar focused on the meaningful application of immersive technology in museums and heritage organisations By Cornwall Museums Partnership September 7, 2022, 13:00 – 15:15 BST Online https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/399409302977 The Museums Immersive Network team will be hosting our next webinar on 7th September 2022, 13:00-15:00 BST. This event will be a deep-dive into making technology work for your organisation and audience. Colleagues from Museums, Heritage, and Digital organisations share their experiences of making the most of technology to enhance the experience of audiences. ‘Got Tech?’ is a deep dive into making…

Call for Participation 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2023) March 13-16, 2023 Stockholm, Sweden [and online] https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/ Full paper submission deadline: October 3, 2022 Workshop and tutorials submission deadline: October 7, 2022 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is a premier, highly-selective venue presenting the latest advances in Human-Robot Interaction. The 18th Annual HRI conference theme is “HRI for all.” We encourage the community to consider ways to both make the field a more inclusive place for those who may not feel included, as well as to encourage inclusion within our research methods and practices.…

Call for Papers Engaging with Automation: Understanding and designing for operation, appropriation, and behavior change Theme issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Issue: https://www.springer.com/journal/779/updates/20071234 Journal: https://www.springer.com/journal/779/ Submissions due: September 30, 2022 Guest Editors: Peter Fröhlich, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria, peter.froehlich@ait.ac.at Matthias Baldauf, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, matthias.baldauf@ost.ch Virpi Roto, Aalto University, Finland, virpi.roto@aalto.fi Philippe Palanque, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, France, palanque@irit.fr Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg & AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria, manfred.tscheligi@sbg.ac.at Automation permeates our everyday lives. Given both the ubiquity and, in many cases, the indispensability of ubiquitous automated systems,…

Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 44th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference February 22-25, 2023 Marriott Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.org Submission deadline: October 31, 2022 The Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area invites papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. Proposals are welcome from any and all scholars (including graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, and emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, artists, archivists, and so forth). Unusual formats, technologies, and the like are encouraged. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Possible topics include (but are…

Call for Papers Workshop on Social and Ethical Issues in Entertainment Computing The International Conference on Entertainment Computing Bremen, Germany November 1-3, 2022 https://www.icec2022.eu/index.php/workshops/ Submission deadline: October 11, 2022 Entertainment computing spans anything from a single player game on a console through to large-scale multiplayer online virtual worlds. This workshop focuses on a range of issues which impact on the design, use and adoption of entertainment computing systems from an ethical and social perspective. Issues to be explored include the composition of those working in the industry from the perspectives of diversity and inclusion, how these impact on design and…

Call for Abstracts “Playing at Intimacy”: Character Intimacy-centered video games, intimacy with game characters A workshop at the Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference (CEEGS 2022) Conference theme: Ludic Realities October 13, 2022 Tallinn University Tallinn, Estonia Workshop: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FrTv0LPGpXS7MZi-YE5xlEf3SdQ2tOAe/view CEEGS 2022 Workshops: https://web.htk.tlu.ee/ceegs2022/#workshop-info CEEGS 2022: https://web.htk.tlu.ee/ceegs2022 Organizer: Luca Bruno (Leipzig University, PhD Candidate) Submission deadline: September 15, 2022 Japanese video games centered on developing imagined intimate relationships with anime-manga characters, chiefly known as ‘visual novels’, are predominantly collocated within the domain of Japanese pop culture and anime-manga media. Such collocations obscure the gamic dimension of character intimacy, in favor…