CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Animex Research and Innovation Conference
April 17-18, 2023
Teesside University, UK
Hybrid Conference: In-Person and Online
https://www.tees.ac.uk/animexconference/index.cfm

Submission deadline: January 6, 2023

We are delighted to announce the inaugural Animex Research and Innovation Conference. The Animex Research and Innovation Conference is the latest addition to the Animex family and brings students and practitioners together from across the animation, games and VFX landscape to share their research in these disciplines.

TOPICS

We are seeking proposals for a variety of formats from animation, games and VFX. All related proposals will be considered but we encourage you to consider the following topics:

• game and animation theory
• gesture recognition and motion analysis
• graph and network visualisation
• inclusive, interactive, participatory, and immersive approaches
• information visualisation
• machine learning and AI in animation and games
• motion capture and retargeting
• motion in sports and rehabilitation systems
• multimodal interaction: haptics, sound, etc
• physics-based animation
• procedural approaches and behavioural simulation
• real-time animation
• real-time simulation
• serious games and Industrial applications
• social agents and avatars
• user experience and interface
• virtual humans and autonomous actors
• virtual production
• visualisation, virtual reality and augmented reality

SUBMISSON FORMATS

We are accepting proposals for individual 20-minute conference presentations, round table discussions, poster presentations and works-in-progress (aimed at PhD students and early career researchers.)… read more. “Call: Animex Research and Innovation Conference”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Trusting and Distrusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
June 7-9, 2023
https://trustlit.org/conference-2023/

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. William Davies (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Prof. Ellen Rutten (University of Amsterdam)

Submission deadline: February 13, 2023

This conference aims to connect two prominent scholarly conversations of the contemporary moment: concerning, on the one hand, the ways in which the digital age has shaped (and been shaped by) human trust relations; and on the other, how digital technologies have intersected with the traditions and practices of imaginative literature. We seek to bring together scholars interested in either or both of these fields of inquiry for an interdisciplinary dialogue on trust, the digital, and the literary.

Scholars across a wide variety of disciplines – including sociology, philosophy, political science, anthropology, psychology, management and organisation studies – have recognised the importance of the digital revolution for thinking about trust.… read more. “Call: Trusting and Distrusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature Conference”

Call for Papers

THE STRUGGLE IS (FOR) REAL: CULTIVATING AUTHENTICITY IN THE “BEREAL” AGE
Flow Volume 29 Special Issue 4
https://ecrea.eu/page-18206/13024948

Deadline: January 13, 2023

The viral popularity of BeReal prophesizes the next generation of social media and social sharing platforms. The image-centric sharing platform, launched in 2020 by Alexis Barreyat and Kevin Perreau, promotes itself as a platform for people who hate social media. The platform’s 10 million active users receive a daily notification reminding them it is “time to BeReal” while allowing two minutes to snap their current moment. Already recognized as the “antidote to social media fakery” (Duffy & Gerrard, 2022), BeReal encourages authenticity through the platform’s logic and design while policing users’ labor through its emphasis on capturing each post in a single shot. BeReal cultivates a return to simplicity with its minimalist interface and simple user experience flow (Boffone, 2022).… read more. “Call: The Struggle Is (For) Real: Cultivating Authenticity in the “BeReal” Age – Flow special issue”

Call for Papers

InfoDesign – Special issue
Information design and technology
https://infodesign.org.br/infodesign/announcement/view/24

Submission deadline: February 28, 2023

For some time there has been a growing interest in investigating the use of technology in various activities and areas of information design, both in physical and digital environments. As technology becomes more interconnected and indispensable in our everyday lives, this has become an important and urgent area of research. With this special issue, we aim to bring together contributions that focus primarily on the relationship between information design and technology, and report on emerging issues within this topic.

Related topics include, but are not limited to:

• Information Design in the Digital Age
• Digital education and information design
• Emerging technologies in information design
• Information design in virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence
• Histories of technology applied to information design
• New trends and themes in information design and technology
• Information and mobility design
• The use of technology for inclusive information design
• Digital data visualisation and data decisions
• Information in animation and digital game design
• Information design and user experience
• Digital information design for healthcare

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers following InfoDesign guidelines, available HERE.… read more. “Call: Information design and technology – Special issue of InfoDesign”

Call for Papers

Special Issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics on “The Future of Work, Play, and Education in the Metaverse”
https://mopp-journal.org/go-to-main-page/calls-for-papers/

Guest Editors:
Nir Eisikovits (Director, Center for Applied Ethics, UMass Boston)
James Hughes (IEET Executive Director and Associate Provost, UMass Boston)
Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston Post-Doctoral Fellow)

Submission deadline: July 1, 2023

With Facebook’s rebranding to Meta in 2021, the concept of ‘the metaverse’ became a ubiquitous term overnight, inviting both excitement and intense skepticism about the possibilities of our digital future. Broadly speaking, ‘the metaverse’ refers to the emerging online network of three-dimensional, virtual worlds facilitated by virtual and augmented reality technologies. As a proposed successor to our current model of the internet, the metaverse offers a virtual counterpart to our physical world that can accommodate our lives of work, play, and education. Three-dimensional workspaces – whether facilitated by virtual reality or augmented reality headsets – represent new immersive environments for social interaction, community-building, productivity, and learning.… read more. “Call: “The Future of Work, Play, and Education in the Metaverse” issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics”