Call for Papers IDEA: Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents International Workshop co-located with AAMAS 2023, The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems London, United Kingdom IDEA Workshop: May 29 or 30, 2023 https://en.uit.no/project/idea/call_for_papers AAMAS 2023 conference: May 29 – June 2, 2023 https://aamas2023.soton.ac.uk/ Submission deadline: February 14, 2023 DESCRIPTION The Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents (IDEA) workshop is a one full-day workshop organized within the AAMAS2023 conference (29-30 May, London, United Kingdom). Emotion Sensitive Agents (ESA), i.e. agents equipped with emotional sensitivity, may it be for accounting for (human-centered) or replicating (human-like) emotion, are an…

Call for Abstracts Virtually Human: Philosophizing through Games and Virtual Worlds April 21-22, 2023 Molloy University Rockville Centre, NY https://philevents.org/event/show/105233 Submission deadline: February 5, 2023 The Molloy University Philosophy Department and New Media Department welcome submissions to our conference, “Virtually Human: Philosophizing through Games and Virtual Worlds,” taking place on our campus in Rockville Centre, NY, on April 21-22nd, 2023. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers from philosophy as well as game studies. The conference will include participation from undergraduates and be open to the public, so papers are encouraged to avoid excessive philosophical jargon and to be accessible to the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Human-Machine Communication: Authenticity in Communicating with Machines A pre-conference at ICA 2023, the 73rd annual conference of the International Communication Toronto, Ontario, Canada Preconference: Thursday, May 25, 2023 (Full Day; 8:30 am – 5:00 pm) Venue: on-site at the ICA23 conference venue https://humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-conference-2023/ ICA 2023: May 25-29, 2023 https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23 Submission deadline: January 31, 2023 The 7th annual pre-conference on Human-Machine Communication (HMC) aims to facilitate discussions about theories, methodologies, findings, opportunities, and challenges related to “authenticity” in HMC. We focus on two primary areas: “authenticity in communication between humans and machines” and “authenticity in HMC research.” 1)…

Call for Papers Information design and technology Special issue of InfoDesign 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…

Call for Participation Bad Game Arcade Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Online January 23-27, 2023 https://www.badgamearcade.ca/ Hi Everyone, I am happy to invite each and every one of you to a free symposium happening (online and in-person) at Concordia University from January 23 – 27, 2023. Titled the Bad Game Arcade, this event will be investigating the benefits, challenges, and drawbacks of making educational games in and outside of Academia. The week will be as hybrid as possible featuring: 1. An arcade with over 16 educational games you can play, critique, and explore. 2. Live interviews with game developers,…

Call for Papers Conversational, Cognitive, and Affective HCI A mini-track at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023 Conference August 10-12, 2023 Panama City, Panama AMCIS 2023: https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org Track descriptions [several relate to presence –Matthew]: https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/ Submission deadline: March 1, 2023 Understanding and adapting to the cognitive and affective states of users can enable systems to interact more effectively and creates new possibilities for information systems. Emerging systems are able to incorporate information from these sensors to create more humanlike responses, to improve decision processes, and to gain a deeper understanding of how the user is thinking or feeling.…