Call for Papers SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE)Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025Cagliari, Italy SOCIALIZE WORKSHOP:March 24, 2025http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/ ACM IUI 2025:March 24-27, 2025https://iui.acm.org/2025/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 15, 2025Authors notification: January 20, 2025Camera-ready: March 1, 2025Workshop date: March 24, 2025 OVERVIEW The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g.,…

Call for Papers Mediatization Conference 6, 2025Exploring Mediatization in Times of interplay between Human and Artificial IntelligenceMarch 7-8, 2025Hybrid: Lublin, Poland and Onlinehttps://www.umcs.pl/en/ms-cfp.htm Organizers:Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in LublinPolish Communication Association, Mediatization Section Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2025 We cordially invite you to the next, sixth edition of the international scientific conference: Mediatization Conference 6, 2025. This time we want to discuss the relationship and dependencies between mediatization processes and applications of artificial intelligence in various areas of human life. In particular, we are interested in the interactions between human and algorithmic factors, which in different ways drive…

Call for Papers: Arts and Games21st annual spring seminar organized by the Tampere University Game Research LabMarch 26-27, 2025Tampere University, Finlandhttps://springseminar.org Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 20, 2024 The fields of arts and games are continuously and progressively intersecting, creating hybrids and cultural frames, mutually influencing each other. This is not new; arts have been using games as subject and material for millennia from depictions of athletes in ancient Greek sculpture to Yoko Ono’s All White Chess Set (1966) and from Caravaggio’s Cardsharps (1594) to Harold Hejazi’s game performance series Adventures of Harriharri. Weiqi, or as it is named…

Call for Papers Future ScreenA Special Issue of DIGITCULT@Scientific Journal on Digital Cultureshttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01817.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 31, 2024 (full papers due March 31, 2025) No payment from the authors will be required Issue edited by: Gianni Corino (Plymouth University), Andrew Prior (Plymouth University), Tatiana Mazali (Politecnico di Torino). Digitcult journal calls for research papers on the novel concept of Future Screen, a cross disciplinary topic that has the potential to reshape immersive media, film, narrative and game design, music and performing arts and more broadly the sector of Creative industries, Culture and Entertainment. We would contributors to…

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Call for Papers Meaningful XR 2025University of California (UC) Davis and OnlineMay 22–23, 2025https://www.meaningfulxr.org/ Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2025 Dear Colleagues, We are excited to invite you to Meaningful XR 2025, a conference dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)—collectively “XR”. Meaningful XR 2025 is an engaging gathering of researchers, educators, industry professionals, and students passionate about XR technologies and their meaningful applications. Join us on May 22–23, 2025, at the UC Davis International Center or participate virtually through our hybrid option. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Katherine Isbister, Professor of Computational…