Call for Participation “Institutional Factors Shaping XR Technology Accessibility Policy & Practice in Academic Libraries” An online survey https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Ya9id4uCXoktLv Survey closes: May 15, 2021 (extended) Hello, This invitation to participate in a survey is being sent out to those responsible for managing and providing XR technologies in academic libraries. This survey is part of a study titled “Institutional Factors Shaping XR Technology Accessibility Policy & Practice in Academic Libraries.” The principal investigator (PI) is Dr. Zack Lischer-Katz, PhD (Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Arizona) and the co-principal investigator (Co-PI) is Jasmine Clark (Digital Scholarship Librarian, Temple University). An…

Call for Papers HALF-DAY WORKSHOP: Pilot Implementation: Testing Human-Work Interaction Designs Bari, Italy and online 31 August 2021 https://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it/HWID/events/Pilot4HWID/ At INTERACT 2021 – The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction https://www.interact2021.org/ Deadline for submission (subject to change): June 1, 2021 This workshop on pilot implementation will take place preceding INTERACT2021, in Bari, Italy, on 31 August 2021. Online attendance will also be allowed. This workshop on pilot implementation has three main objectives: To help mature pilot implementation as a technique for evaluating human-work interaction designs during the process of their development and implementation. To collect case studies…

Call for Papers “Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare: Understanding and Generating Multimodal Nonverbal Cues” A workshop at ICMI 2021, the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Montreal, Canada October 18-22 (specific date TBA) https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/ Paper submission deadline: June 18, 2021 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce our workshop titled “Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare: Understanding and Generating Multimodal Nonverbal Cues” which takes place as part of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2021 in October 2021 in Montreal, Canada. For more information, please see https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/. CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in the areas of face and gesture analysis, computational…

Call for Abstracts CANTERBURY 2022 (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): A conference on design, culture and technology – past, present, and future Canterbury, UK / Virtual Organisers: University of Kent Dates: 15-17 June 2022 https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-2022/ Deadline for abstract submissions (early): 01 July 2021 CONTEXT The buildings, towns and cities we inhabit are physical entities created in the past, experienced in the present, and projected to inform the future. The same can be said of the artefacts we use daily: designed furniture in the home, the mobile devices in our hands, the vehicles we see on our streets. However, each of these places, buildings…

Call for Papers “Intricacies of Child-Robot Interaction” Special issue [or book] to be published by the open-access journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Child_Robot_Interaction Submission deadline: September 1, 2021 Dear colleagues, We invite contributions for a Special Issue on “Intricacies of Child-Robot Interaction”, to be published by the open-access journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE: In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in interest around the child-robot interaction (CRI). The possibilities of using social robots for educational or therapeutic purposes in schools, hospitals, and domestic settings have captured the attention of researchers, institutions, and stakeholders alike. In…

Call for Contributions The Construction of the Robot in Language and Culture Theme issue of Technology and Language Submission deadline: January 10, 2022 The second issue of Technology and Language has just appeared – and with it a new call for contributions. Individual papers and the whole issue are freely available at https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/issue/2/. “In the Beginning was the Word: The Word as a Technical Artefact”  features contributions from Irina Belyaeva, Chandrima Christiansen, Christopher Coenen and Alexandra Kazakova, Thomas Froy, Tatiana Kazarina, Ulrike Ramming, Walker Trimble, Viktoria Vorotnikova and Sergey Karlin, and Joseph Wilson. New Call for Contributions: The Construction of…