Call for Abstracts Conference on Social Robots in Institutional Interaction: Exploring HRI in Service, Healthcare or Educational Contexts 2-3 April 2020 Bielefeld University https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/soziologie/entry/call_for_papers_for_conference Organizers: Indra Bock & Florian Muhle Submission deadline: 10 January 2020 Humanoid robots and virtual agents are expected to interact with humans in a natural and sociable way. However, for many years humanoid technical systems were mainly used as research platforms in laboratories and HRI was investigated dominantly with experimental methods. That is, for a long time humans could only encounter robotic systems under artificial and controlled laboratory conditions, but not in natural situations. This has…

CALL FOR PAPERS QoMEX 2020 The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience May 26th – 28th 2020 Athlone, Ireland Conference website: www.QoMEX2020.ie Follow us for weekly updates on: www.twitter.com/QoMEX2020 https://www.facebook.com/Qomex2020 https://www.instagram.com/qomex_conference/ PDF: Call for Papers: http://qomex2020.ie/downloads/QoMEX2020CallforPapers.pdf PDF: Call for Special Session proposals: http://qomex2020.ie/downloads/QoMEX2020CallforSpecialSessions.pdf Paper submission deadline: 29th January, 2020 The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience will be held from May 26th to 28th, 2020 in Athlone, Ireland. QoMEX 2020 will provide a warm welcome to leading experts from academia and industry to present and discuss current and future research on multimedia quality, quality of experience…

Call for Papers: “Pretense and Imagination from the Perspective of 4E Cognitive Science” Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences https://philevents.org/event/show/78442 Guest Editors: Zuzanna Rucińska, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, Belgium https://www.zuzannarucinska.com/ Martin Weichold, Institute for Philosophy, University of Regensburg, Germany https://www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-kunst-geschichte-gesellschaft/praktische-philosophie/personen/martin-weichold/ Submission deadline: August 1, 2020 4E Cognitive Science understands cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended, though the list of “E”’s can be extended to conceiving of cognition as ecological, enculturated and emotional as well. While there are important differences between these approaches, they all agree that there is more to cognition than what goes…

Call for exemplar projects for the 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report [From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), a “collaborative community committed to advancing learning through IT innovation,” via the ELICOURSES e-list. –ML] Submission deadline:  December 4, 2019 As you know, EDUCAUSE has been working closely with the expert panel to prepare the 2020 Horizon Report. We have recently concluded the voting for the six most important emerging technologies and practices for teaching and learning in higher ed. For 2020, we will continue the long-standing tradition of reaching out to the community for projects that illustrate these technologies and practices in action.…

Call for Papers Understanding UX through Implicit and Explicit Feedback Special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction In collaboration with the MDPI journal “Multimodal Technologies and Interaction”, we are bringing researchers together to contribute to a Special Issue on: Understanding UX through Implicit and Explicit Feedback Guest Editors: Dr. ir. Bruce Ferwerda, Jonkoping University, Jonkoping, Sweden Dr. ir. Mark Graus, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/UX_feedback Submissions are ongoing with the final submission deadline for manuscripts to be considered on 31 March 2020. This special issue aims to explore the opportunities and challenges of combining implicit and explicit feedback to…