Call for Papers: HCSE 202611th International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software EngineeringCo-located with the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)September 29 – October 2, 2026Paderborn, GermanyHCSE 2026: http://www.hcse-conference.orgVL/HCC: https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2026 Deadlines for submissions:Technical Full Papers and Late Breaking Results: May 22, 2026 (extended)Demos, Posters, and Discussion Forum: July 3, 2026 HCSE is a bi-annual, single-track, working conference organized by the IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodology for User-Centred System Design. We aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of interactive system and user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering,…

Call for Papers: A Letter to Video Games: The Mechanisms of EmotionsAn international, interdisciplinary online conferenceAugust 28-29, 2026 (via Zoom)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eeAvnB1FuET4nZsdgjTDKRFYVBOOBnC0/view Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 5, 2026 This conference explores how video games evoke, construct, and regulate emotional experiences. As an interactive medium combining narrative, audiovisual design, and player agency, video games offer unique ways of engaging emotions—from joy and empathy to fear, nostalgia, and moral tension. We approach this theme from two interrelated perspectives: Player reception and subjective emotional experience Game design mechanisms that produce and shape emotional responses We welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplines…

Call for Papers: Resonant Worlds: Sound, Matter, and Environmental Design in GamesEdited CollectionEdited by Michael Austin and Kate Galloway[From the Gamesnetwork mailing list] Deadline for submission of abstracts: August 15, 2026 Resonant Worlds: Sound, Matter, and Environmental Design in Games  is an edited collection that examines how video games render environments through sound, with particular attention to the sonic expression of materiality. While game studies has long emphasized visual worldbuilding and environmental storytelling, this volume foregrounds how sound communicates the textures, behaviors, and affordances of virtual matter, including water, ice, stone, wind, vegetation, and more, as dynamic, interactive systems.…

Call for Participation: 4th Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human–Robot InteractionAt ICRA 2026, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & AutomationJune 5, 2026Hybrid Event: Vienna, Austria and onlineWorkshop: https://neurodesign-in-hri.webflow.io/ICRA 2026: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/ Deadline for submissions: May 17, 2026 (extended) Dear Colleagues, Researchers, Students, and Early-Stage Start-up Teams, We are excited to invite you to participate in the NeuroDesign in Human–Robot Interaction EXPO & Competition and Poster Paper Track, held as part of the 4th Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human–Robot Interaction at IEEE ICRA 2026. Due to popular demand and the strong interest we have received, we are pleased to announce that the submission…

Call for Papers: Generative AI and Cultural HeritageInternational ConferenceOctober 29-30, 2026Ferdinando Rossi School of Advanced StudiesUniversity of Turin, Italyhttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2026-all/msg00678.html Sponsored by Global Media and China (Sage Journals) Organisers:Simone Natale (University of Turin, Italy)Deqiang Ji (Communication University of China)Anthony Fung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)Dianlin Huang (Communication University of China) Deadline for the submission of abstracts: June 30, 2026 Cultural heritage – defined as the tangible and intangible legacy that is passed down from generation to generation – has always been sensitive to technological innovation. From photography to film, from computing to the Internet, from social media to virtual reality,…

Call for Participation: “Sensing Immersion: Video passthrough, bodily technologies and sense coupling in co-extensive reality”A talk by Chris Salter (Zurich University of the Arts)May 19, 2026, 16:00 – 18:00University of Siegen, Germany and onlinehttps://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/talk_-by_chris_salter_en/ Registration: https://my.liberaforms.org/talk-registration-sensing-immersion ABOUT THE TALK The introduction of worn mixed reality devices such as the Meta Quest 2 or the Apple Vision Pro marks an important shift towards re-centering virtual experience back onto the human body as a mediator between self, others and the world. Yet, as optical sensing technologies and their associated algorithms transform virtual reality headsets into camera-based sensing systems that “passthrough” the outside…