Call for Participation Impact of Embodiment in VR on Attitudes, Perceptions, and BehaviorFree online talkBy Sofía Seinfeld (Open University of Catalonia)August 18, 2024 at 2-4 PM (CEST)https://sites.google.com/fisppa.it/prinonground/events/fid You are warmly invited to the 4th session of FID (Filosofia Inter-Disciplinare), which will be held online on: Friday, 18 October 2024, 2pm–4pm (CEST) SPEAKER: Sofía Seinfeld (Open University of Catalonia) TITLE: The Impact of Embodiment in Virtual Reality on Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors ABSTRACT: When people see and control a life-size virtual body from a first-person perspective in VR, they might experience the illusion that the artificial body is their own real…

Call for Papers 11th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’24)Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)October 14-18, 2024Bari, ItalyIntRS’24: https://intrs2024.wordpress.com/RecSys 2024: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/ Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: August 23rd, 2024 Paper submission deadline: August 30th, 2024 Author notification: September 20th, 2024 Camera-ready version deadline: September 27th, 2024 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys2024workshops OVERVIEW A fundamental challenge in the design of the user interface for recommender systems lies in striking the right balance between personalization, diversity, and serendipity. While users want recommendations aligned with their tastes and past behavior, excessive personalization risks creating…

CALL FOR PAPERS Figuring the Invisible. Animation and Science Outreach in Contemporary Audio-Visual Culture International ConferenceNovember 20-21, 2024University of PaduaPadua, Italyhttps://www.consultacinema.org/2024/07/11/figuring-the-invisible-animation-and-science-outreach-in-contemporary-audio-visual-culture/ Submission deadline: October 10, 2024 The use of animated models and simulations in contemporary science outreach poses a major epistemological problem. This especially pertains the visualisations of the “invisible” sides of reality: they are mostly offered to the audience “as they are”, without any warning that they are based on non-optical evidence. Because of this, they get misunderstood for true-to-nature representations, and as such they circulate also in audio-visual entertainment, reinforcing the wrong belief that those objects would exactly…

Call for Papers HRI 2025: 20th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot InteractionMarch 3-6, 2025Melbourne, Australiahttps://humanrobotinteraction.org/2025/ Submission deadline for abstracts: September 24, 2024 We are excited to announce the 20th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI is the annual conference for basic and applied HRI research, where researchers from across the world present their best work to exchange ideas about theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in the field. There are many ways to participate in HRI 2025, including full papers archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library, as…