Call for Participation Researchers for Online Seminars about Digital Surveillance University of Pisa Pisa, Italy Dear All, The University of Pisa is organizing a series of online seminars about Digital Surveillance. The seminars will be once a month and each researcher will reflect on a different nuanced aspect about the topic of surveillance. We are currently looking for researchers that work in this field, so we can create a dialogue during the meeting. The topics requested are (but not limited to): Surveillance in virtual reality (i.e. Metaverse, Video games, or more in general Social Network) Surveillance in Medicine Surveillance in…

Call for Papers HRD-BOND: The What, Why, How of Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads A special session at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2023 Doha, Qatar December 4-7 2023 Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2023 We welcome you to submit to our special session, HRD-BOND: The What, Why, How of Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads, at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2023 in Doha, Qatar (December 4-7 2023). DESCRIPTION: We are heading towards a society where interactions between humans and social robots will no longer be reserved for rare occasions (e.g. in a research laboratory as part…

Call for Papers E3: Enhancing the Esports Experience A workshop at CHIRA 2023, the 7th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications Rome, Italy November 16-17, 2023 https://e3workshop.wordpress.com/ Submission deadline: September 15, 2023 Hi everyone, Laura Herrewijn and I are co-chairing E3: Enhancing the Esports Experience, a workshop at CHIRA 2023 (7th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications) that will take place in Rome (Italy) on November 16-17, 2023. Together with our program committee (consisting of Simone Kriglstein, Günter Wallner and Pejman Mirza-Babei), we are looking for contributors who are working in the diverse field of esports…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS iLRN 2024: 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference theme: “Tech4Good” June 3-5, 2024: Online & in Virtual Reality June 10-13, 2024: University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland https://www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2024/call-for-papers/ Special Track Deadline: September 17, 2023 Tutorial Deadline: October 31, 2023 Full Paper Submission Deadline: November 17, 2023 The 10th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2024) will be innovative and interactive gatherings online and face-to-face for a flourishing global network of researchers and practitioners collaborating to develop the scientific, technical, and applied potential of immersive learning. It is the premier…

Call for Chapter Proposals Video Games as Ecomedia: Nature, Technology, and Play Editor: Melissa Bianchi, Nova Southeastern University Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2023 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Video games have been increasingly recognized as valuable tools for environmental storytelling and ecological simulation. In response, scholars have examined the ways specific video games depict nature, the environmental implications of game design and development, and the use of games for education and activism. Notably, Alenda Chang (2019) makes a compelling case for the study of games as ecomedia because these cultural artifacts continue to extend and challenge long traditions of environmental representations. To…

Call for Papers Nordic Explorative Workshops Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Existentialism for Games Jyväskylä, Finland October 16-18, 2023 https://nordicgamephilosophy.w.uib.no/cfp-phenomenology-for-games/ Submission deadline for abstracts and bios: September 15, 2023 Some time ago, an Innocent Bystander, after glancing through a copy of Mind, asked me, “Why do philosophers talk so much about Games? Do they play them a lot or something?” (Midgley, “The Game Game”, 1974, p. 231) University of Jyväskylä in Finland and Nordic partners call for papers and student presentations for a workshop on the philosophy of games to be held in Jyväskylä, 16–18 October 2023. Games are a source of…