[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 various societal domains, including transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, industrial systems, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and systems advancements of cloud computing, mobile and pervasive computing, sensor networking, and social computing are taking smart computing to a new level while improving our ways of living.… read more. “Call: SMARTCOMP 2023: 9th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing”

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 considers how urgent and porous the challenges regarding the current environmental crisis are. If biodiversity and ecosystems as we know them are at stake as we venture through the Anthropocene (Dirzo et al. 2014), the voluntary efforts from a diverse set of scientific disciplines and sectors of contemporary society in mitigating the effects of anthropogenic climate change are expected and desirable.… read more. “Call: Ecogaming in the Past Tense: Promises, Deceptions and Learning Opportunities – Special issue of Convergencias”

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 sense, within a comprehensive ecophilosophical understanding of ecology as comprising not only environmental but also mental and social factors (F. Guattari 1989), or as a dynamic interaction between external and internal systems (R. Blair 2019), empathy becomes inescapably associated with an ecological attentiveness of, and exchange with, the Other, including non-human nature.… read more. “Call: Empathy Colloquium in Art-Science-Philosophy at University of Lisbon and (free) online”

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 communities, for instance. However, commercial technology providers design for the masses and rarely take an interest in marginalized user groups, so there is a lack of work on life-changing pragmatic technologies that provide artificial senses, streamline the shape of interaction, or empower users to exercise agency in social life.… read more. “Call: “Robust and flexible interactive language technology for human empowerment” panel at IPrA 2023”

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, multi-device/screen, multi-environment interaction, mobile and pervasive systems, large-scale and big data applications, deployment of interactive systems, as well as novel development methods and processes for improving the development of interactive systems.

The EICS series focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems.… read more. “Call: EICS 2023: 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems”