Call for initial abstracts for Book Chapters:
Virtual Reality Gaming: Embodiment, Presence, Immersion

Submission deadline: August 1, 2023

Virtual Reality (VR) is not a new technology by any stretch of the imagination. Regardless of how futuristic VR might appear in popular culture, VR encompasses a rich and varied history that began to surface in the 1980s and 1990s when VPL Research produced a number of commercial devices (e.g. the DataGlove and Audiosphere). As exciting as these systems were, the technology simply could not live up to the hype (Evans, 2018). The level of ‘immersion’ associated with these developments was just not enough to fulfil the implicit promise of VR. Simply put, the available technology was not able to conjure an experience of being present in a digital world that felt in any way ‘real’ (Shields, 2005).

In contrast to the failed hype of its first few decades, contemporary VR is going through a marked ‘renaissance’ (Evans, 2018).… read more. “Call: Virtual Reality Gaming: Embodiment, Presence, Immersion (book chapters)”

Call for Papers

Workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation
IFIP Working Group 13.8 on Interaction Design and International Development
Preceding INTERACT 2023 (https://interact2023.org)
York, UK and online
August 28 or 29, 2023 (TBC)
https://ifipwg138.wordpress.com/hci-democracy/

Deadline for four-page position papers: May 31, 2023

MOTIVATION

This workshop will explore and discuss how Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a field of knowledge and practice can contribute to develop platforms for digital democracy and participation. These issues are mainly seen at two levels: (1) the optimal design of the digital environment of citizen participation platforms, and (2) explore how HCI can contribute to the development of new trends in Political Science, such as e-democracy. The practice of designing digital platforms for citizen participation and democracy could benefit greatly from a multidisciplinary sociotechnical approach that incorporates into design reflection on issues of democratic theory and practice, legal and political science.… read more. “Call: IFIP WG 13.8 Workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation”

Call for Papers

Practice-research in Games 2023 (PinG’23)
June 22, 2023
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
https://bit.ly/PinG-23

Important Dates:

• Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Friday 19th May 2023
• Notification of Acceptance: Friday 26th May 2023
• Deadline for Camera-Ready Submission: Tuesday 13th June
• Conference Date: Thursday 22nd June

Chairs: Peter Howell, Matthew Higgins (University of Portsmouth)

Practice-research in Games 2023 (PinG’23) is a one-day conference for game design professionals. The event will provide a platform for showcasing, disseminating, examining, and discussing practice-research from across the games research, design, and development spectrum. This event is based in the UK, but we invite work from the global games community to help foster wide-ranging and diverse discussion.

Game design and development is rarely a linear, straightforward practice. The iterations, playtests, feedback, fixing and refining, the successes, and the failures along the way, all combine to form the foundation on which the final game eventually stands.… read more. “Call: Practice-research in Games Conference 2023”

[NOTE: Follow the link for several other tracks related to presence. –Matthew]

Call for Papers

ACADEMIC MINDTREK 2023 CONFERENCE
Human-Nature Interaction track
October 3-6, 2023
Tampere (Finland) and online
https://www.mindtrek.org/2023/academic-2023/

Deadline for full papers & workshops: June 8, 2023
Deadline for posters, demos & doctoral consortium submissions: August 17, 2023

Chairs: Ferran Altarriba (Tampere University), Velvet Spors (Tampere University), Katherine Isbister (University of California, Santa Cruz), Pat Brundell (University of Nottingham)

On behalf of my co-chairs at the Academic Mindtrek 2023 conference I invite you to  submit your work to our Human-Nature Interaction track. The conference will take place in Tampere (Finland) on October 3-6, 2023. Though in-person attendance will be very much encouraged, we will host a hybrid event with professional video streaming. The conference welcomes full papers, workshops, demonstrations, and poster presentations on various topics, as well as a Doctoral Consortium.… read more. “Call: Academic Mindtrek 2023 Conference: Human-Nature Interaction Track”

Call for Contributions

OzCHI 2023: Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Theme: Design from a distant world
Victoria University of Wellington, School of Design Innovation, Te Aro campus
Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, Aotearoa | New Zealand
December 4-6, 2023
http://www.ozchi.org/2023/index.html

Submission deadlines:

• Long papers: June 14, 2023
• Short papers: August 16, 2023
• Workshops: July 12, 2023
• Doctoral colloquium: August 23, 2023
• Demos: October 4, 2023

It’s been a long time but OzCHI is returning to New Zealand! The theme for this year’s OzCHI is Design from a Distant World, recognising that Australia and New Zealand are physically distant from much of the world, but that we have unusual strengths in Design and Human Computer Interaction.

We invite contributions on any topic related to how people or societies interact with technologies, including but not limited to:

• Indigenous influences on technology
• Design for connection
• Equity and ethics in human computer interaction
• Conceptual issues in human computer interaction or design
• Empirical studies of interactions between people and technology
• Social implications of novel systems
• Design for under-represented groups
• Technical human computer interaction

Contributions must be novel, not published or under review elsewhere.… read more. “Call: OzCHI 2023: Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference”