CALL FOR PAPERS

Cozy Games and Coziness in Digital Games
For Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies
https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Replay/cfp

Submission deadline: June 30, 2023

Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies invites all scholars to submit articles concerning cozy games and coziness in games.

Undoubtedly, the past decade has seen a spurt in both production and academic research on cozy games, i.e., games that reject the game model based on competitiveness, time restrictiveness, and the scarcity of resources, instead promoting gameplay experiences that are casual, enjoyable, and calm. Although in the gaming literature, they have been given many names, depending on the aspects on which the analysis was focused – such as “ambient games” (Fizek 2018; Hjorth and Richardson 2020), “friendship games” (Harrington 2018), or “personal games” (Parker 2013) — the term “cozy games” became a common term in the game industry and, thus, starts being more common in  (Cook 2018, Waszkiewicz and Bakun 2020).… read more. “Call: Cozy Games and Coziness in Digital Games for Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies”

Call for Papers

ICTS4eHealth 2023
3rd Edition of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health
In conjunction with the 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
Tunis, Tunisia
July 9-12, 2023
https://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it

Submission deadline: April 16, 2023

MISSION:

E-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers. Following the success of five workshop editions and two years as an International IEEE Conference, we are now proud to announce the third edition of this popular event dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health. The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry, government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational Intelligence techniques in the area of e-Health.… read more. “Call: ICTS4eHealth 2023 – IEEE International Workshop on ICT Solutions for e-Health”

[See this event’s web page for more information, including abstracts for each speaker. –Matthew]

Call for Participation

‘Humans and Smart Machines as Partners in Thought?’
A hybrid two-day workshop on Large Language Models
University of California Riverside and online
May 10-11, 2023
https://www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/EVENTS

• Organized by Anna Strasser & Eric Schwitzgebel
• Supported by the Philosophy Department, UC Riverside & the International Social Ontology Society (https://isosonline.org)

Registration: Attendance is free, but places (online & in-person) are limited. To register, please go to the workshop website and fill in the form.

Registration deadline: 1 April 2023, 23:59 PST.

DESCRIPTION: Large language models (LLMs) like LaMDA, GPT-3, and ChatGPT have been the subject of widespread discussion. This workshop focuses on an analysis of interactions with LLMs. Assuming that not all interactions can be reduced to mere tool use, we ask in what sense LLMs can be part of a group and take on the role of conversational partners.… read more. “Call: ‘Humans and Smart Machines as Partners in Thought?’ free hybrid workshop on Large Language Models”

Call for Papers

Central and Eastern European Game Studies (CEEGS) 2023 Conference
Theme: Meaning and Making of Games
Macromedia University
Leipzig, Germany
October 19-21, 2023
http://www.ceegs.eu/

Submission deadline: April 28, 2023

Dear all,

It is my great pleasure to share with you our ‘Call for Papers’ for the upcoming CEEGS 2023 conference (and new ‘DiGRA Chapter for Central and Eastern Europe’), taking place at Macromedia University in Leipzig from October 19-21.

Theme: Meaning and Making of Games

With it, we wish to bring together the game studies and game design & development communities to create a fruitful dialogue. How game studies informs the creation of games is among the main questions, as wells as how game developers employ research for their creations, but also the role of societal context and how a discussion of games shapes the medium in different ways.… read more. “Call: Central and Eastern European Game Studies (CEEGS) 2023 Conference”

[See also the IoT 2023 Call for Workshops. –Matthew]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 13th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2023)
November 7-10, 2023
Nagoya, Japan
https://iot-conference.org/iot2023/

Paper submission deadline:  July 31, 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exciting research area that brings together academia, industry, society, and governmental agencies due to the innovative advances connected devices and systems bring to society. As the IoT becomes more established and evolves, its focus widens from connecting new devices, services, and functionalities to the Internet, to achieving seamless and autonomous interaction among heterogeneous systems and their users. Resulting networks may therefore take advantage of intelligent and interoperable people, things, and services from both the physical and virtual world, creating distributed ecosystems that are capable of providing secure cross-domain interactions.

The International Conference on the Internet of Things is the premier gathering for visionary and groundbreaking research in IoT and closely-related fields.… read more. “Call: The 13th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2023)”