Call for Chapters Springer Book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) SecondDeath. Experiences of Death Across Technologies Submission deadline: Expressions of interest requested ASAP; Chapters: December 2024 Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the international academic publisher Springer is planning the release of the “SecondDeath. Experiences of Death Across Technologies” (2024) in the book series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE). This book edition has been entrusted to Alger Sans Pinillos (University of Pavia), alger.sanspinillos@unipv.it, Vicent Costa (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC), and Jordi Vallverdú (ICREA Academia – Autonomous University…

Call for Participation XR Access 2023: Seizing Advancements for Access June 15-16, 2023 Cornell Tech campus in New York City and online https://xraccess.org/symposium/ ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The last few years have seen amazing technological breakthroughs in software and hardware alike. Join us for the 5-year anniversary of the XR Access Symposium, hybrid in New York for the first time since 2019, and learn about how these technological advancements can be used to make virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (collectively XR) more accessible for people with disabilities. This 1.5 day conference will take place on June 15-16 at the Verizon Executive…

Call for Papers From C-3PO to HAL: Opening the Discourse about the Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents A hybrid workshop at the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023 conference July 19, 2023 at 13:00 – 17:00 (UTC+2) Eindhoven, The Netherlands and online Workshop: https://www.digital-media-lab.uni-bremen.de/multimodaldarkpatterns CUI 2023: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2023/ Submission deadline: June 2, 2023 Overview: Communicative bots such as voice assistants, social (ro-)bots, and taskbots are increasingly becoming part of everyday life, with work showing how we integrate these agents in our daily routines while creating emotional bonds with them. As these artificial agents grow in numbers and level of sophistication,…

CALL FOR PAPERS Gaming, Entertainment and Media (GEM) 2023 conference: Where Technology and Art Collide Sponsored by IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) November 19-22, 2023 Bridgetown, Barbados (Hybrid – In-Person + Virtual) https://ieeegem.org/ Paper/demo submission deadline: June 30, 2023 Get ready to witness what happens when technology and the arts collide at IEEE CTSoc International GEM 2023 conference. This premier conference brings together leading researchers, academics, and industry professionals to explore the intersection of games, entertainment, media and the arts. With exciting networking opportunities, you’ll have the chance to share and discover cutting-edge research, ideas, and experiences on the future…

[Note: For other HICSS tracks and minitracks related to presence see https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/ –Matthew] Call for Papers Mediated Conversation minitrack https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ HICSS – Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 3-6, 2024 In Waikiki at Hilton Hawaiian Village (Oahu, Hawaii, USA) http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2023 Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. The deadline to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack is June 15. Conversations are at the core of human communication.  Mediated…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AIofAI ‘23: 3rd Workshop on Adverse Impacts and Collateral Effects of Artificial Intelligence Technologies In conjunction with the 32nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2022) Macao, China August 19-21, 2023 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/aiofai2023/home IJCAI-2023: https://ijcai-23.org Submission deadline: May12, 2023 – EXTENDED! The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in people’s everyday life has grown exponentially over the last decade. Currently, individuals rely heavily on intelligent software applications across different domains including healthcare, logistics, defence, and governance. Particularly, AI systems facilitate decision-making processes across these domains through the automatic analysis and classification of large data sets and the subsequent identification…