Call for Papers International Journal of Social Robotics – VIRTUOUS ROBOTICS: ARTIFICIAL AGENTS AND THE GOOD LIFE https://dhrg.uws.edu.au/robots-ai-confr/international-journal-of-social-robotics-cfp/ Full paper submission deadline: 1 March 2019 GUEST EDITORS Massimiliano Cappuccio (UAE University and University of New South Wales) Omar Mubin (Western Sydney University) Mohammad Obaid (University of New South Wales) Eduardo Benitez Sandoval (University of New South Wales) Mari Velonaki (University of New South Wales) THEME Can robotics play a moral role in the life of humans? In addition to providing practical benefits to the users, can interaction with social robots fortify the users’ moral dispositions and instill new ethical principles?…

Call for Participation London Aesthetics Forum: Immersion in Film 2 November 2018 Senate House / Birkbeck Cinema London, UK Free with registration On November 2nd there will be two events exploring the experience of narrative immersion in film from both a philosophical and empirical perspective: a morning workshop and an afternoon film screening and discussion about Shadow of a Doubt (1943), which Hitchcock sometimes called his ‘favourite’ of his oeuvre. Though registration for the two events is separate, they are related and everyone is welcome to attend both. The widespread experience of ‘being lost in a narrative’ (Nell 1988)-sometimes called…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Aging between Participation and Simulation Ethical Dimensions of Socially Assistive Technologies International Conference for Young Scholars 4th – 8th February 2019 Bochum, Germany Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2018 In future, an increasing number of elderly people will be reliant on the healthcare system. The emerging resource crisis will affect the right to social participation, wellbeing and autonomy of older or impaired people. Social assistive technologies such as robot companions or smart screen assistants promise to preserve individual rights by supporting their users in their daily environment. They offer emotional as well as physical care and support.…

Call for Papers Workshop on supporting collocated participation in large events At CSCW 2018 – The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (http://cscw.acm.org/2018/) November 4th, Jersey City, USA https://hybridevent.wordpress.com/ Position paper deadline: October 10th How can technology transform how people assemble and interact in-person for learning, work, and fun? Nowadays, backchannels and audience interaction systems, have provided the audience with a mediated channel to support their participation. We are seeing conferences, seminars, classes, festivals transform the audience experience through technologies that allow spectators to participate in the creation of the event’s content. Such settings have a…

Call for Participation Multi-Cultural Human-Robot Interaction Workshop December 4, 2018 Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia https://culturaldrones.wixsite.com/welcome Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2018 We are pleased to invite you to participate in this one-day workshop on Multi-Cultural Human-Robot Interaction, held on December 4th, 2018 as part as the AfriCHI conference in Windhoek Namibia. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: This hands-on workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the cultural aspects of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) design. Recent work shows that the one fits all model of interaction might be obsolete, especially when considering natural interactions where people use gesture and…

Call for Papers Revista de Bioética y Derecho of the University of Barcelona Monographic issue dedicated to artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of things http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/RBD/announcement/view/369 Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2018 Revista de Bioética y Derecho of the University of Barcelona announces a call for papers for a monographic issue dedicated to artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of things. There is a growing interest in the bioethical, social and legal implications of new technological developments, bringing us closer to a world that seemed to be only science fiction. We invite submissions on all areas related to these topics,…