[Important note: I usually avoid posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I add an explicit note near the top of the post specifying the fee. For more information about these fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew] Call for Papers Special Issue “Advances in Tangible and Embodied Interaction for Virtual and Augmented Reality” A special issue of Electronics…

Call for Papers Memory 1st Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Saturday 23rd October – Sunday 24th October 2021 Online: ShockLogic Platform https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/making-sense-of/memory/conferences/ Submission deadline: 3rd September 2021 Our memories shape us: our beliefs, our actions, our selves. A memory that we share with others can be a call to action or a way of formulating our identities. But memories are fallible, and the more people who are involved in a memory, the more room there is for debate about its meaning. The fallibility of memory is important in court cases, memoir-writing, and other situations involving testimony. And the extreme memory-loss caused…

Call for Papers Third Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems (KaRS 2021) September 27th – October 1st, 2021 Amsterdam, the Netherlands https://kars-workshop.github.io/2021/ http://sisinflab.poliba.it/kars/2021/ Extended Submission deadline: August 12, 2021 SCOPE We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Third Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021) Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from September the 27th to October the 1st, 2021. In the last few years, a renewed interest of the research community on conversational recommender systems (CRSs) is emerging. This is probably due to the great…

Call for Papers EvoMUSART 2022 – 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design Part of the evo* event 20-22 April 2022 Venue: Somewhere On Earth! [according to WikiCFP] www.evostar.org/2022/evomusart/ Submission deadline: 1 November 2021 The 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2022 is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers who are working on the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques in creative and artist fields. There is a growing interest in the application of Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Cellular Automata, Alife, and other Artificial Intelligence…

Call for Abstracts Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC) 2021 November 9th – 11th, 2021 University of Technology Sydney and Online http://www.simulationcongress.com/about/ Abstract submission deadline: July 30, 2021 (extended) The Simulation Australasia Board and 2021 Australasian Simulation Congress Organising Committee warmly invite you to join us at the 2021 Australasian Simulation Congress (ASC 2021). This year’s event will be hybrid, hosted both online and at the University of Technology Sydney from November 9th to 11th, 2021. ASC will be on line from 9th to 10th November with a live event hosted at UTS, Sydney on 11th November. We will be exploring the…

Call for Papers ANIMATAS Symposium on ‘Human-Machine Interaction. Perception, Social Learning, Personalised Adaptation in Educational Settings’ October 12-14, 2021 Virtual event Symposium Website: https://sites.google.com/view/animatas-symposium ANIMATAS Website: https://www.animatas.eu Submission Deadline: 16th of August 2021 OVERVIEW: As emerging technologies continue to grow in complexity and availability, the question of how to successfully integrate such technologies into our society is attracting growing research interest. Social robots, virtual agents, and (explainable) artificial intelligence models are increasingly being implemented in healthcare systems, in entertainment or retail, or in educational settings as a means to reduce burden on human workers and maximise user experience. Education is…