[See also the Call for Workshop Proposals, with submission deadline November 15, 2022 –ML] Call for Papers SMARTCOMP 2023 9th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing June 26-30, 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, USA https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ Deadlines: Paper Registration: February 23, 2023 Paper Submission: March 2, 2023 SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, ambient intelligence, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in…

Call for Papers Ecogaming in the Past Tense: Promises, Deceptions and Learning Opportunities Special Issue of the open access journal Convergências https://revistas.unasp.edu.br/convergencias/announcement/view/6 Submission deadline: November 30, 2022 It is very easy to find in discussions of computer games and ecology, especially in times when green games seem to consolidate as a genre within computer game typology, the assumption that gaming can help (if not directly “save”) the environment, by making use of climate change communication, or even by prompting the direct climate action of individuals through gamification strategies. We should not disregard such a drive for change, especially if one…

Call for Participation EMPATHY COLLOQUIUM IN ART-SCIENCE-PHILOSOPHY CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON Amphitheatre FCiências.ID, Ciências ULisboa & Zoom October 6, 2022, 10:30-16:30 (Lisbon time) https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/empathy-colloquium-in-art-science-philosophy/ In recent years empathy has become very popular, both as a term used in our daily lives (often conflated with pity and compassion), and as a process investigated by the arts, humanities and sciences. Such continued interest marks the ongoing need by human beings to understand the complexity of how they experience the world and, in turn, of how they may conceive the Other’s experience of the world. In this…

Call for Panel Contributions “Robust and flexible interactive language technology for human empowerment” IPrA 2023, the 18th International Pragmatics Conference organized by the International Pragmatics Association Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Brussels, Belgium July 9 – 14, 2023 Panel: https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/files/ipra2023-panel-interactive-language-technology.pdf IPrA 2023: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023 Convened by Andreas Liesenfeld (Radboud University) and Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University) Abstracts submission deadline: November 1, 2022 Beyond flashy PR and AI hype, language technology has the potential to change many people’s lives, as it makes available new interactional resources and communicative modalities. Better hearing aids for deaf users or disaster early warning systems for small language…

Call for Papers EICS 2023: The 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 27–30, 2023 Computational Foundry, Swansea, Wales, UK https://eics.acm.org/2023/ Submission deadline (for the second round): October 24, 2022 OVERVIEW EICS 2023 is the fifteenth international conference devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems. Work presented at EICS covers the full range of aspects that come into play when “engineering” interactive systems, such as innovations in the design, development, deployment, verification and validation of interactive systems. Topics of interest include the design and development of systems incorporating new interaction techniques and multimodal interaction, multi-user,…

Call for Research Contributions Nordic DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) 2023 April 27-28, 2023 Uppsala, Sweden https://www.im.uu.se/nordicdigra2023/ Submission deadline: November 18, 2022 The Nordic DiGRA Conference returns in spring 2023, this time in Uppsala, Sweden. This will be a fully in-person two-day event on 27 – 28 April 2023. Nordic DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) invites research contributions in the form of extended abstracts. We accept deviations from the format as well as creative interpretations (such as panels, workshops, demos, etcetera). We invite contributions from within and across any discipline committed to advancing knowledge on games. The conference theme this…