Call for Papers Workshop on Symbiotic Society with Avatars: Social Acceptance, Ethics, and Technologies (SSA) In conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) Naples, Italy and Online September 2, 2022 (Half day morning session) Workshop: https://www.asedc.org/RO-MAN2022_SSA_workshop RO-MAN 2022: http://www.ro-man2022.org/ Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2022 1. Statement of objectives Although COVID-19 pandemic caused many problems in the society, new technologies emerged to overcome the difficulties. One aspect is communication. Using a telepresence robot, people can exist in a distant physical space and meet other people there. In a metaverse environment, the user…

Call for Proposals 4th Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling Innovation Center of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Hungary 10-12 November, 2022 https://zip-scene.mome.hu/ Deadline for submitting proposals: June 30, 2022 Dear All, This year we again organize the 4th Zip-Scene Conference of Immersive Storytelling (in-person). Yuhuu! I’m sending below the information about the #cfp (call for proposals): Details (short): The 4th Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling (10-12 November, 2022) will be organized in Budapest, at the Innovation Center of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in partnership with ARDIN & INDCOR COST Action. This year – beside the general…

Call for Submissions Workshop on Participatory Design in Human-Robot Interaction At 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) Naples, Italy and Online [NOTE: This is for RO-MAN 2022; the Workshop website doesn’t specify location –Matthew] August 29, 2022 Workshop: https://romanpd.notion.site/romanpd/workshop-on-participatory-design-in-human-robot-interaction-0599c39e0c9248518349c7509d203483 RO-MAN 2022: http://www.ro-man2022.org/ Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: August 14th, 2022 Camera-ready Deadline: August 20th, 2022 Workshop Date: August 29th, 2022 As robots are engaging with more users in a variety of contexts, it is critical to ask who are robots being designed for, who are designing these systems, and…

Call for Submissions Workshop: Games and the Metaverse At Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2022 conference Athens, Greece and AoE Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/fdg-metaverse-workshop/ FDG 2022: http://fdg2022.org/ Submission deadline: June 17th, 2022 Join us for our (hybrid) workshop on games and the metaverse at the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) conference from Sept 5 – 8, 2022. We have 2 submission tracks, to make attendance available to a broader games audience from both industry and academic perspectives. One is a “talk” track; submission for this is a short abstract/outline of a talk you would like to give surrounding games and the metaverse.…

Call for Papers International Workshop on Intelligent interfaces and Human factors in EXtended environments (IHEX) At SITIS 2022, 16th international conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems Workshop: https://www.sitis-conference.org/2022/contribute/workshops/ihex/ SITIS 2022: https://www.sitis-conference.org Paper submission deadline:  July 15, 2022 eXtended Reality is becoming more and more widespread; going beyond entertainment and cultural heritage fruition purposes, these technologies offer new challenges and opportunities also in educational, industrial and healthcare domains. The research community in this field deals with technological and human factors issues, presenting theoretical and methodological proposals for perception, tracking, interaction and visualization. Increasing attention is observed towards the…

[Also see the related ISPR Presence News post “Call: 1st Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Socially Adaptive Robots (at RO-MAN 2022)” –Matthew] Call for Papers AR4W: The 1st Workshop on “Affective Robotics For Wellbeing” Co-located with ACII 2022, 10th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction October 17th, 2022 (tentative) Nara, Japan Workshop: https://sites.google.com/rosielab.ca/ar4w2022/ ACII 2022: https://acii-conf.net/2022/ Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2022 We kindly invite you to participate and submit your paper contributions to the ACII 2022 workshop “AR4W: Affective Robotics For Wellbeing”, to be held in October 17th, 2022 in Nara, Japan. The main topic of…