Call for Papers

Well Played Journal
Special Issue: AR and VR Games
https://press.etc.cmu.edu/news/well-played-journal-special-issue-cfp-ar-and-vr-games

Edited by Ira Fay and Dan Roy

Submission deadline: April 30, 2023

AR and VR games are growing in popularity and access, while also increasing in the variety of experiences players can have. They offer multiplayer embodied experiences, ranging from augmented reality games that tap into GPS and have you walking around like Pokemon Go, to virtual reality games in a headset like Beat Saber, to mixed reality experiences that are location-specific like Ghostbusters: Dimension.

We welcome submissions of analyses and studies of AR and VR games that highlight this new avenue of gameplay experiences. We would also like to encourage designers of such games to submit post-mortems of their own work, as well as breakdowns of their design philosophy and lessons learned in their practice.… read more. “Call: AR and VR Games issue of Well Played Journal”

Call for Participation

“Secret Agents: The Real and Imagined Inner Lives of Interactive Robots”
Utrecht University Embodied AI Talk by dr. Tom Williams
February 2, 2023
15:00 to 16:00 CET
Online on MS teams

Registration can be done here: https://forms.gle/SvmJAwgwWMhpPtdH9. We will email the Teams link to the registered participants

For more information about the Embodied AI Initiative: https://embodiedaiuu.wixsite.com/home

ABSTRACT

Robots are Secret Agents. By this I mean that while computer scientists and roboticists may not view their robots as being fully autonomous, interactive, and adaptive, everyday users perceive them as such nonetheless. This creates a whole host of user expectations that may be hard to live up to — and that may cause problems when violated. In this talk, I’ll begin by explaining how robot design choices impact how people perceive robots and expect them to behave. I’ll then explain why robots are not simply agents, but are also moral and social agents, and explain the work the MIRRORLab has been doing to understand and address the unique perceptions and expectations that come along with these more nuanced types of agency.… read more. “Call: Free online talk: “Secret Agents: The Real and Imagined Inner Lives of Interactive Robots””

[See also the Call for ACII 2023 Workshop proposals, which has the submission deadline of February 17, 2023. –Matthew]

Call for Papers

ACII 2023: International Conference on Affective Computing + Intelligent Interaction
MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, USA
September 10-13, 2023
https://acii-conf.net/2023

Main track submission deadline: April 14, 2023

The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on September 10th – 13th, 2023.

The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international venue for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and, more generally, affective phenomena. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore (conditional on the approval by IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI.… read more. “Call: ACII 2023: International Conference on Affective Computing + Intelligent Interaction”

Call for Papers

Technical Papers for IBC 2023
September 15-18, 2023
RAI Amsterdam
Technical papers: https://show.ibc.org/conference/technical-papers-2023
IBC 2023: https://show.ibc.org/

Submission deadline for 300-word synopses: February 10, 2023

IBC is the world’s most inspiring content and technology event. It draws together the global media, entertainment and technology industry for a compelling live experience that enables every attendee to gain critical insights, share expertise and unlock business opportunities. Created ‘by the industry, for the industry’ – a principle established on its founding in 1967 that carries through to today – IBC has continued to evolve with each new trend and technology over its 55-year history. Attracting representatives from 24 countries in its first year, IBC now welcomes exhibitors, speakers and visitors from more than 170 nations.

The Technical Papers Programme at IBC 2023 welcomes entries from all industry sectors across the media, entertainment and technology industry and from every discipline, whether you are a professional or a professor, a member of a R&D team, working alone or within a global brand and from across any part of the broadcast, communications, electronic media and entertainment fields.… read more. “Call: Technical Papers for IBC 2023”

Call for Submissions

ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023
Theme: Designing for inclusive conversation
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
July 19–21, 2023
https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2023/

Submission deadlines:

• Papers: February 15, 2023
• Workshops: March 2, 2023
• Provocations, posters, demos, doctoral consortium: April 17, 2023

ACM CUI 2023 will be in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 19–21st July 2023. CUI has now been welcomed into the ACM family, and is now a SIGCHI sponsored conference!

There has been an increasing interest in language-based interactions with technology. Driven by the commercial success of intelligent personal assistant devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, the number of natural language and conversation-based interactions is growing in commercial settings.

CUI 2023 aims to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer interaction issues in speech and language technology, with a specific interest in theory-based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech and text-based conversational user interfaces.… read more. “Call: ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023”