Call for Papers ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 16-17 September, 2021 Rennes (France) at the Inria Rennes and remotely [see note below] http://sap.acm.org/2021/ Deadline for abstract submission: May 25th Deadline for paper submission: May 27th NOTE: As of now, ACM SAP 2021 is planned to be held as a hybrid conference both in Rennes (France) and virtually on the 16th and 17th of September, 2021. Although we encourage in-person attendance, the organizers plan to have online streaming and interaction options for virtual attendance for both attendees and speakers. More details will be provided as the situation evolves. The ACM Symposium…

Call for Participation Virtues, Robots and Good Lives: Who Cares? Key Note by Charles Ess Online event on May 13th, 2021, 18:00 CET https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/209917 In order to register for the Key Note, please send your name, email-address and affiliation to magdalena.heckner @ izew.uni-tuebingen.de . You will receive a confirmation via email within 24 hours. We will send a zoom link to the email address shortly before the event. ABSTRACT: A good deal of the ethical considerations regarding our possible lives with robots draws from various forms of virtue ethics. As a first catalyst, I briefly recall my initial discussion in…

Call for Participation PROMOTING IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES: WHY, HOW & WHAT? A FREE one-hour insight into why many immersive experiences aren’t being promoted to their optimum and how to do this well! Thursday 20 May, 2021 at 07:00 – 08:00 EDT Online via Zoom Book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/promoting-immersive-experiences-why-how-what-tickets-151487534293 There’s no doubt that the time for immersive experiences have come, but XR remains difficult to communicate to people who haven’t experienced it before. Marketing is now one of the biggest challenges facing the growth of the immersive sector, with many people still associating VR & AR with futuristic tech. If XR…

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…