Call for Papers HAID 2022 – 11th International Workshop on Haptic & Audio Interaction Design August 24-25-26, 2022 Queen Mary University of London, UK [and online; see below] https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ Submission deadlines (final): Papers: 22 May 2022 Demos: 26 June 2022 Work in Progress: 26 June 2022 Since its conception by Stephen Brewster in 2006, the aim of the HAID workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who share an interest in finding out how the haptic and audio modalities can be used together in human-computer/machine interaction. The research challenges in the area are best approached through user-centred design, empirical…

Call for Papers HRI4Wellbeing: The 1st Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Socially Adaptive Robots Co-located with RO-MAN22 September 2, 2022 Hybrid format, join our workshop: In-person: Royal Continental Hotel, Via Partenope, 38, 80121 Napoli NA, Italy Naples, Italy or Remotely: TBD Workshop: https://hri4wellbeing.github.io/ ; https://easychair.org/cfp/hri4wellbeing IEEE RO-MAN 2022: http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2022 The main topic of our workshop will be socially adaptive robots for wellbeing, which aligns strongly with the RO-MAN 2022 theme in making robots adaptive and emotional to be socially accepted in different contexts (i.e., clinical and not clinical) – “robots capable of being welcomed as our…

Call for Papers Workshop on Augmenting Usability Evaluation In conjunction with the Mensch&Computer [Humans and Computers] 2022 conference Darmstadt, Germany Workshop: https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/de/unitylab-mensch-computer-conference Conference: https://muc2022.mensch-und-computer.de/en/ Important Dates: June 15, 2022 – Deadline for workshop submission July 13, 2022 – Notification of Acceptance July 27, 2022 – Deadline for the camera-ready paper September 07, 2022 – Workshop Day (in the morning) OBJECTIVE: The aim of the workshop is to collect, share and discuss novel approaches that support and augment the (semi-)automatic evaluation of (complex) interactive applications focusing on the user interface. CONTEXT: There exist many guidelines, norms, and standards on how usability…

Call for Participation “Sound Design(ed) Futures: New realities, spaces, technologies” One-day international conference Date: 27 May 2022 10.00-18.30 Place: Online & Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris, France) Organisation: Eleni-Ira Panourgia & Andrea Giomi Conference: https://lisaa.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/actualites/actualite/sound-designed-futures-new-realities-spaces-technologies Free registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sound-designed-futures-new-realities-spaces-technologies-tickets-276697348217 As part of the CCAMAN Team (Confluences, Cinematographic, Audiovisual, Musical and Digital Arts) and the Literature, Knowledge and Arts Research Lab (LISAA), a one-day international conference will be devoted to the future directions of sound design through artistic and scientific approaches. Sound is omnipresent in the physical and virtual spaces that surround us in our everyday life, and is becoming increasingly important in…

Call for Papers GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment The Italian Journal of Game Studies Special Issue: “Interactive Digital Narratives: Counter-Hegemonic Narratives and Expression of Identity” https://www.gamejournal.it/n-112023-idn/ Edited by Ilaria Mariani, Mariana Ciancia, Judith Ackermann Submission deadline: July 29, 2022 The discourse on IDNs is today growingly prominent in scholarly debates (Koenitz, 2018; Koenitz et al., 2015), fed by an unceasing technological evolution that opens vaste possibilities and potentialities with relevant implications in terms of expression – both from the perspective of authors and players. The eleventh issue of G|A|M|E digs into interactive storytelling and interactive digital narratives (IDNs)…