Call for Papers SLERD 2021: 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development – SLERD Reload Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic June 24-25, 2021 Bucharest, Romania (blended) slerd2021.uniroma2.it Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): March 31, 2021 SLERD 2021 will feature: keynotes by: Inger Birkeland (University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24 Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place Danielle McNamara (Arizona State University) – June 24 Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective Sébastien Turbot (eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25 Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach…

Call for Participation International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC) 2021 March 19 – 20, 2021 and Affiliated Forum, March 21, 2021 http://iw2021.xrenlab.com/ LINKS: Registration Q&A Platform Survey The international workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC 2021) focuses on rethinking the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will be convened online via ZOOM and it will be open to all audiences around the world through webcasts and/or live-streaming platforms. The aim of this workshop is to rethink the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will strive to achieve a common platform to advance various idea exchanges around the world, resulting…

Call for Papers Workshop on Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges At IDC 2021 – ACM Interaction Design and Children conference 2021 [Online] Athens, Worldwide 26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021 Workshop: https://www.techresearch4children.com/ IDC 2021: https://idc.acm.org/2021/ KEY DATES Deadline for Paper Submission: 12 April 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: 26 April 2021 Camera-ready Paper: 10 May 2021 Workshop Date: 26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021 ABSTRACT Research on child-agent interaction is rapidly expanding. It is, therefore, necessary to converge our collective efforts to broaden our understanding and perspectives of how virtual agents, affect and potentially improve…

Call for Papers Inclusive HRI – Special Session at RO-MAN 2021 August 8-12, 2021 – Virtual Website: https://ro-man2021.org/full-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: March 21, 2021 (regular paper submission deadline) Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2021 Camera ready papers due: June 20, 2021 Conference: August 8-12, 2021 OVERVIEW How can we improve robots’ capacity to interact successfully with all segments of the population? How can we prevent the implicit transfer of our bias into robots while designing interactions and related artificial intelligence software? Interactive robots are being deployed into homes, schools, shopping malls, hospitals, and retirement homes worldwide. Many of these…

Call for Long, Short and Blue Sky Papers 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2021) 18-22 October 2021 Montreal, Canada http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfp Submission deadline: May 26, 2021 The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada. ACM ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. We are keen to showcase novel…

Call for Registration Online Lecture and Debate Embodied, Embedded – A Talk about Theatre and AI Evening Lecture by Diana Serbanescu Wednesday March 24, 2021 at 7 pm (CET) Organized by the Working Group on Philosophy of Technology (WGPT) – https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt Register by: March 23, 2021 Based on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Grotowski’s Theatre Laboratory, Haraway’s feminist theory and REPLICA’s practice-led research project on The Shape of Things to Come, this talk discusses the potential of applied theatre for empowering communities to explore and devise embodied interactions with intelligent systems, thus becoming the co-designers of these technologies. Not…