Call for Papers

Be Part Of It: Spectator Experience in Gaming and eSports
WORKSHOP @CHI 2020 (https://chi2020.acm.org/)
April 25, 2020
Honolulu, Hawaii
https://seegamesws.wordpress.com/

Submission Deadline: 11 February 2020

This one-day workshop aims to bring researchers and industry professionals from different disciplines together to promote interdisciplinary exchange, to increase awareness, and to establish a community and collaborations how technology and Human-Computer Interaction can help to transform the act of spectating games and particularly esports from a merely passive (watching) to a more active – and engaging – experience. Submissions are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics.

TOPICS

Submissions are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• User requirement analysis for improving spectator experiences
• Design concepts to increase audience participation
• Use cases that describe spectator experiences in practice
• Evaluation methods for assessing spectator experience
• User studies on spectatorship
• Studies on streamer-audience interaction dynamics, toxic behaviour, or harassment
• Data visualizations and dashboards that support spectatorship
• Spectator analytics
• Social and community aspects of streaming
• Technological solutions for empowering viewers (AR, VR, wearables, etc.)
• Solutions that aid shoutcasters in commenting live broadcasts
• Prediction of in-game events and outcomes

Call for Papers

SLERD 2020: 5th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystem and Regional Development
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES, LUDIC AND CO-DESIGN STRATEGIES & TOOLS SUPPORTING SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AND SMART EDUCATION
Bucharest, Romania
25-27 May, 2020
http://slerd2020.uniroma2.it/

Paper submission deadline: 10th February 2020

SLERD 2020 is proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify the above vision and to achieve a better learning for a better world as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes:

Places for smart education

• future of institutional learning
• interplay between formal and informal learning
• new educational models and settings
• continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, process in learning
• role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart education
• dual education and other alternate scheme approaches
• monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region)

People in place centered design for smart education

• general frameworks and methodological advancement
• design, data and other relevant literacies
• literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens
• communities and co-design in smart learning
• sharing & participatory practices
• open access to any resource and disparity
• cultural influences

Supportive technologies and tools for smart education

• intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces
• semantic web technologies and applications
• text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• real/virtual communities and social network analysis
• interoperability and application of open/smart data and services
• safety & security in education
• IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies
• adaptability to educational contexts and citizens
• role of VR in education

Call for Papers

Nature, Health and Digital: Transcending Borders of Exclusion into Nature Through Innovation in Digital and Immersive Solutions

A session at the 2020 Annual International Conference of
The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)
London
1-4 September 2020
https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

Abstracts are due by January 31, 2020

The significance of the physical qualities of nature for the promotion of health and well-being, through healing places (Gesler 2003), therapeutic landscapes (Gesler 2005) or green and blue spaces, has been well established (cf. Rosenberg 2017a). However, not all socio-demographic groups in society have the capacity or resources to travel to these places for recreational or leisure. For example, it is known that elderly populations can experience increased social isolation as they spend up to 90% of their time indoors (Bamzar & Hous, 2016). Indeed, reduced access to recreational activities impacts people’s physical and emotional well-being, preventing them remaining active and connected in later life (Scottish Government, 2016).… read more. “Call: “Nature, Health and Digital: Transcending Borders of Exclusion into Nature Through Innovation in Digital and Immersive Solutions” at RGS-IBG 2020”

Call for Papers

HRI 2020 Workshop “The Forgotten in HRI: Incidental Encounters with Robots in Public Spaces”
Monday, March 23, 2020
Cambridge, UK

Workshop at the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Website: https://www.itec.rwth-aachen.de/cms/ITEC/Der-Lehrstuhl/Veranstaltungen/~ewbeb/HRI-Workshop/?lidx=1

IMPORTANT DATES

January 31, 2020:  Submission deadline for workshop papers
February 22, 2020:  Notification of acceptance
March 23, 2020:  Workshop

SCOPE

HRI research has predominantly focused on laboratory studies, producing a fundamental understanding of how humans interact with robots in controlled settings. As robots transition out of research and development labs into the real world, HRI research must adapt. We argue that it should widen its scope to explicitly include people who do not deliberately seek an interaction with a robot (users) but find themselves in coincidental presence with robots. We refer to this often-forgotten group as InCoPs (incidentally copresent persons). In this one-day workshop, we aim to explore studies, design approaches, and methodologies for testing robots in real-world environments, considering both users and InCoPs.… read more. “Call: “The Forgotten in HRI: Incidental Encounters with Robots in Public Spaces” HRI 2020 Workshop”