Call for Submissions and for Participation

Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults
A Workshop on Theoretical, Methodological, and Practical Design Perspectives on Designing CUIs for Older Adults

At the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023 conference
July 19, 2023
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Workshop:  http://speech-interaction.org/CUI-OA2023
CUI 2023: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2023/

Submission deadline: Submitted papers will be lightly reviewed by the organizing committee within 10 days of submission (there is no formal deadline)

This multidisciplinary workshop aims to tackle the significant gaps in theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and exploration of new paradigms within the research and design of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) for Older Adults (OAs). We also aim to build research capacity by bringing together researchers and practitioners across several disciplines and industries who are actively working or having an interest toward understanding older adults’ use of and need for CUIs.

We invite researchers from various fields to present their work on and collectively engage in synthesizing and collating findings from different disciplines, and to discuss barriers and approaches to designing CUIs that are usable, adoptable, personally, and culturally relevant to OAs.… read more. “Call: Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults – CUI 2023 Workshop”

Call for Papers

ETHICOMP 2024
21st International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT
Smart Ethics: The Leading Role of Ethics in the Digital World
Logroño, Spain
March 13-15, 2024.
https://www.unirioja.es/ethicomp/2024/index.html

Extended abstract submission due: June 15, 2023

We are living in a smart world, where everything looks smart. The use of the term “smart” is a buzzword. Technology becomes the backbone of virtually every aspect of our life: work, relations, health, education, leisure, … In our next international conference, ETHICOMP 2024, we wonder if the current state of technological revolution is truly smart. What does “smart” really mean in digital contexts, and what should “smart” signify? If technology becomes smart, what is the impact on computer ethics and digital ethics? It is unquestionable that any smart technology must be ethical in both its development and its uses, but cases of unethical practices in the digital world, which are often hidden by technological determinism, are increasing.… read more. “Call: ETHICOMP 2024 – 21st Intl. Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT”

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Journal SEMEIOSIS – Special Issue on “AI Aesthetics”
https://semeiosis.com.br/special-issue

About the Journal: https://semeiosis.com.br/about-semeiosis

Guest Editors:
Alexander Gerner (amgerner@fc.ul.pt)
Renata Souza (renatynhass@usp.com)
Vinícius de Aguiar (vjdaguiar@fc.ul.pt)

Submission deadline: June 15, 2023

“For it is evident that it is in esthetics that we ought to seek for the deepest characteristics of normative science, since esthetics, in dealing with the very ideal itself whose mere materialization thickens the attention of practices and of logic, must contain the heart, soul, and spirit of normative science.”  Peirce (1906, CP 5551).

The question of the mere ontological (im-)possibility of “the” creative machine does usually obfuscate the performative and cultural changes emerging from collaborative human-AI aesthetics. Human-machine interaction, such as in multimodal language models and text-generators (eg GPT-3; OPEN AI Codex), NFT art generators, music/audio generators put forward questions of control of randomness, sampling creativity parameters, and computational models of aesthetic judgments.… read more. “Call: “AI Aesthetics” issue of SEMEIOSIS”

Call for Papers/Posters/Demos

VRST 2023
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Christchurch, New Zealand / In-person only
October 9-11, 2023
https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2023/

Submission deadlines:

• Abstracts: June 12, 2023
• Papers: June 19, 2023
• Posters and demos: July 2, 2023

The 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, from Monday-Wednesday, 9-11 October 2023. The event is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH.

VRST is a premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers on virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR, XR for short) software and technology.

VRST brings together the main international research groups working on XR, along with many of the world’s leading companies that provide or utilise XR systems.

TOPICS:

VRST 2023 welcomes paper submissions relating (but not limited) to the following XR areas:

• Display technology and interaction devices
• Low-latency and high-performance software and applications
• Multi-user and distributed XR
• XR software environments and authoring systems
• Interaction techniques
• Tracking and sensing
• Multimodal XR including haptics, smell, taste, and brain-computer interfaces
• Audio & music processing, sound synthesis, and sonification
• Computer vision, computer graphics, and rendering techniques
• Immersive analytics
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Modeling and simulation techniques
• Avatars and virtual humans, virtual embodiment, and body-ownership illusions
• Teleoperation and telepresence
• Performance testing, user experience, and empirical studies
• Locomotion and navigation
• Perception, presence, and cognition
• XR applications, e.g.