Call for Papers

CONVERSATIONS 2024 – 8th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Human-Centred AI
Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece [and online]
December 4-5, 2024
https://2024.conversations.ws

Submission deadline: (firm): September 25, 2024

Welcome to CONVERSATIONS 2024, a two-day workshop on chatbots and human-centred AI. This is the 8th workshop in the CONVERSATIONS series. We invite researchers and practitioners with an interest in the workshop topics to submit papers reporting research outcomes, preliminary findings or positions for sharing and discussion at the workshop. Accepted full papers will be published in the workshop proceedings at Springer LNCS.

This year the scope of the workshop extends beyond chatbot research to include also other highly relevant application areas of human-centred AI – including human-AI interaction, human-AI collaboration and decision making, trustworthy AI, human-centred research on generative AI and large language models.

Paper presentations will be conducted on-site at the workshop location.… read more. “Call: CONVERSATIONS 2024 – 8th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Human-Centred AI”

Call for Papers:
Topical Collection on Trust and Opacity in Artificial Intelligence for Philosophy & Technology (Springer)
https://link.springer.com/collections/dibibiaidb

Guest Editors: Martin Hähnel (University of Bremen) and Rico Hauswald (TU Dresden)

Submission deadline: June 1, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of our everyday lives, we are faced with the question of how to use it responsibly. In public discourse, this issue is often framed in terms of trust – for example by asking whether, to what extent, and under what conditions trusting AI systems is appropriate. In this context, the philosophical debates on practical, political, and epistemic trust that have been ongoing since the 1980s have recently been gaining momentum and developed within the philosophy of AI.

However, a number of fundamental questions remain unanswered. For example, some authors have argued that the concept of trust is interpersonal in nature and therefore entirely inapplicable to relationships with AI systems.… read more. “Call: Topical Collection on Trust and Opacity in AI for Philosophy and Technology Journal”

Call for Participation

IMMERSIVE FILMMAKING FOR SPHERES AND DOMES
An LA SIGGRAPH event
April 13, 2024, 12:00pm PDT
Free online via Zoom
https://lasiggraph.org/event/immersive-filmmaking-spheres-and-domes

You must register with ZOOM REGISTRATION to attend this event

Explore the forefront of immersive filmmaking with a global lineup of emerging and established artists sharing their experiences producing animated films for large-scale dome theaters. Produced by LA SIGGRAPH in cooperation with Dome Fest West.

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Explore the forefront of immersive filmmaking with a global lineup of emerging and established artists sharing their experiences producing animated films for large-scale dome theaters. Includes case studies showcasing select projects nominated for Dome Fest West awards in 2024. Join us for a glimpse into the future of cinematic storytelling in these groundbreaking immersive environments!

Moderator: Ed Lantz, President & CTO, Vortex Immersion and Board Chair, Dome Fest West

Panelists include:
Julius Horsthuis, Fractal Artist
Michael J.… read more. “Call: Immersive Filmmaking for Spheres and Domes – LA SIGGRAPH free online event”

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE LYCEUM PROJECT: AI ETHICS WITH ARISTOTLE
June 20, 2024
Athens, Greece
https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/lyceum-project-ai-ethics-aristotle

Submission deadline: April 30, 2024

Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI, in collaboration with Stanford University, Greece’s National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos“, and the World Human Forum will hold a one-day conference on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), ‘The Lyceum Project’, in Athens on June 20, 2024. The venue for the event will be the Athens Conservatory which is adjacent to the ancient site of Aristotle’s school, the Lyceum.

The Lyceum Project is premised on the belief that Aristotelian ethics contains many compelling ideas that have great significance for the ethics of AI. These ideas include the centrality of human flourishing to ethics and democratic politics; the virtues as constitutive of flourishing; the use of reason to determine the ends and not merely the means of human conduct; the place of friendship and citizenship in a good human life, among others.… read more. “Call: The Lyceum Project: AI Ethics with Aristotle”

Call for Papers

Consensual Play
Guest-edited issue of The Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2024

The Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds invites submissions for a guest edited special issue exploring consent in games. The issues surrounding consent are far-reaching, and what constitutes consent continues to be a live subject of debate in wide-ranging arenas (including healthcare choices, data access, gun ownership rights, and sexual assault). As discussions around consent and entitlement swirl around the public sphere, game scholars and designers have a critical opportunity to explore this crucial cultural conversation through the lens of games.

Games have long offered a distinctive exploration of consent through the concept of the magic circle, which involves voluntarily suspending real-world constraints within the playspace (Huizinga 1938, Salen and Zimmerman 2004; Zimmerman 2012). While the magic circle itself does not explicitly relate to consent, the player’s agreement to abide by the rules of the game world can be seen as a kind of implied consent within the context of the game.… read more. “Call: Consensual Play issue of The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds”