Call for Abstracts Edited volume: Live Streaming Culture Editors: Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher Persaud https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8W7er3wrnNNxS98EoyJwCBZ60sCtnqbAZ1ikqYBkL8 Abstract Deadline: July 17, 2020 Live streaming is a rapidly growing phenomenon that is having profound effects on the contemporary landscape of digital media, entertainment, and online culture. Across the internet, live streaming takes an array of forms: from gaming-focused sites like Twitch and Mixer, where millions of viewers watch live video gameplay, to social media sites like Facebook and YouTube, where streamers translate their day-to-day lives into broadcasts. As with all technological platforms, live streaming is deeply shaped…

Call for Abstracts Online Education: Teaching in a Time of Change A virtual conference coordinated by Routledge, AMPS and PARADE April 21-23, 2021 https://architecturemps.com/online-ed-conference/ Abstracts due June 30, 2020 (Early Review) Abstract Submission Form (.docx) CONTEXT: Recent events across the world of academia have brought into full light the various agendas around online education and research. As universities, schools and colleges closed across the world in 2020, researchers, teachers and students scrambled to adapt to a whole host of new pedagogical tools, communicative techniques, learning methods and teaching styles almost overnight. Some survived, others thrived, while some struggled and ultimately…

Call for Papers and Art Sound, Image and Interaction Design Symposium (SIIDS) 2020 Online [see note below] https://siids.arditi.pt/ Deadline for submissions: 26 June 2020 Submissions now open: siids.arditi.pt/submissions NOTE: SIIDS 2020 will take place 4/September/2020 as an online conference. Optionally, and if COVID-19 restrictions allow, there will also be co-located presentations at Madeira Tecnopolo (Funchal, Portugal). There has been a growing interest in the study of sound and music computing from a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective. This coincides with the shift to a third wave of HCI towards applications in broader cultural contexts. In the last few years, researchers have…

Call for Papers “Actuated and Performative Architecture: Emerging Forms of Human-Machine Integration” SPOOL (A journal from TU Delft) https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/spool/announcement/view/301 Submission deadline: July 15, 2020 Human-Machine Interaction is expanding its reach beyond displays and objects to its next frontier: the built environment. This involves not only known visions of ubiquitous computing and adaptive environments but sensor-actuator networks, large-scale interfaces, and the Internet of Things. More than and including these systems, Actuated and Performative Architecture renders the built environment as a cyber-physical system aiming to address urgent challenges of accommodating an aging population and a mass-urbanized population by increasing spatial performance, even…

Call for Papers Ethics, Law, and Psychology towards Responsible Robotics for the Society Advanced Robotics Special Issue https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/est-tadr-2020si1/ Submission deadline: 31 August 2020 Robot technology has been expanding from closed spaces such as factories to open spaces such as homes and streets. Cleaning robots have already been introduced in many houses, and many robots for social communication with humans have been developed. Furthermore, it is envisioned that many automated vehicles will drive around cities in the near future. The spread of these robots and artificial intelligence technologies will drastically change our society and is expected to bring unprecedented affluence and…

Call for Proposals Special Issue of Well Played: Playable Theatre Edited by Celia Pearce & Nick Fortugno https://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/special-issue-call-for-proposals-well-played-playable-theatre/ Submissions deadline: 30 June 2020 The rising popularity of immersive theatre works such as Third Rail’s Then She Fell and Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More, has given rise to new hybrid forms of live entertainment that combine aspects of games and theatre. These “playable theatre” works draw extensively from digital games, Big Games, tabletop and live action roleplaying (LARPs) combined with theatrical conventions and methods to create fully immersive, participatory live theatrical events in which the audience plays a substantive role in…