Call for Proposals FLAT journal – Issue 0.2: Touch https://flatjournal.com/cfp/ Submission deadline: August 1st, 2021 To our readers, writers, and passersby, We are living with the unmistakably eerie feeling that perception has been broken down for parts and recombined into something else.  Something built for and by blue-light screens, tiny monophonic speakers, and just enough tactility to find the right key to press or swipe on a glass screen. For this year’s issue, we are looking for co-conspirators (despite the dangers of breathing together) to rebuild our understanding of touch and its necessity to perception, bodies, and being in the…

Call for Papers: CONVERSATIONS 2021 – 5th International Workshop on Chatbot Research November 23-24, 2021 Online virtual event hosted by the University of Amsterdam https://conversations2021.wordpress.com Paper submission deadline: September 1, 2021 Chatbot researchers and practitioners are invited to join CONVERSATIONS 2021, a two-day workshop on chatbot research and design. This is the fifth CONVERSATIONS workshop, where researchers with an interest in chatbots and conversational user interfaces collaborate and share. The workshop is free of charge. Following from the pleasant experience of last year’s virtual event, also CONVERSATIONS 2021 will be fully online. Paper presentations and groupworks are important parts of…

Call for Papers The Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021) Co-located with the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference 19th July, 2021 Online https://hci2021.bcs.org/workshop-1/ Submission deadline: 15th June, 2021 The Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021) will be held online on the 19th July and is co-located with the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (https://hci2021.bcs.org) INTRODUCTION The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners from national and international cultural heritage (CH) organisations together with those from across HCI and related fields. We aim to establish how an alertness to tertiary embodiment (mind-body-artefact)…

[Important note: I have avoided posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but will now do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I will 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 “Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction” A special issue of Big Data and Cognitive…

Call for Participation Amazing Folks in Tech: VR in the Medical Field A free online event from LA ACM SIGGRAPH June 8, 2021 https://lasiggraph.org/event/amazing-folks-tech REGISTER FOR FREE WITH ZOOM until May 26, 2021 PRESENTERS: Andrew Melchior, Founder, 3rd Space Agency JohnLeah, Founder, 3rd Space Agency Greg Ruthenbeck, Director, Exagen Oy Daish Malani, Founder, Technical Director, Add Life Technologies Kyle Carlin, Moderator DESCRIPTION: As medical professionals strive to use VR with accuracy: learn from three medical professionals using VR. VR in the Medical Field will be LA ACM SIGGRAPH’s June 8th event. Join us here at LA SIGGRAPH for a magical…

Call for Papers Dis/abling Spaces and Cultures in Times of Crisis Special issue of Space and Culture journal, forthcoming online in 2022 Michael Schillmeier, Editor https://www.spaceandculture.com/2021/04/05/call-for-papers-dis-abling-spaces-and-cultures-in-times-of-crisis/ Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2021 With the COVID 19 pandemic we experience the adverse effects, ambiguities, uncertainties, insecurities of a global crisis that links and separates embodied, personal, social and cultural lives. Although the crisis may affect everyone, it is obvious that people who are disabled, marginalized, discriminated, vulnerable, ill, and/or live through precarious situations are at high risk to be become more disabled, more discriminated, more vulnerable or ill, and precarity deepens…