Call for Papers Practice-research in Games 2023 (PinG’23) June 22, 2023 University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK https://bit.ly/PinG-23 Important Dates: Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Friday 19th May 2023 Notification of Acceptance: Friday 26th May 2023 Deadline for Camera-Ready Submission: Tuesday 13th June Conference Date: Thursday 22nd June Chairs: Peter Howell, Matthew Higgins (University of Portsmouth) Practice-research in Games 2023 (PinG’23) is a one-day conference for game design professionals. The event will provide a platform for showcasing, disseminating, examining, and discussing practice-research from across the games research, design, and development spectrum. This event is based in the UK, but we invite work…

Call for Papers Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions Co-located with the 2022 International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022) Sapporo, Japan – Virtual Event March 6, 2022 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/robo-identity2 HRI 2022: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/ Submission deadline: 11 February 2022 Following the success of the first edition of Robo-Identity, the second edition will provide an opportunity to expand the discussion about artificial identity. This year, we are focusing on emotions that are expressed through speech and voice. Synthetic voices of robots can resemble and are becoming indistinguishable from expressive human voices. This can be an opportunity and a constraint…

Call for Applications XR Research Awards 2021 https://xrra.net/ Submission deadline: December 10, 2021 We offer €40,000 in equipment and support for researchers or content creators to study the impact of virtual reality on behaviour. Sign up now for a chance to win! ABOUT THE XR RESEARCH AWARDS Whilst numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of virtual reality for training,  understanding behaviour, and mental health, more research is needed to into XR and to ensure the rapid yet safe adoption of immersive technologies. Key issues to address are: Demonstrating that VR simulations create responses that match real life responses. Demonstrating that…

Call for Papers Digital Society, Springer – Special issue on Blockchain for Trustworthy Digital Identity Systems: Socio-Technical Perspectives We welcome contributions addressing, from a socio-technical perspectives, the social, legal, economic, political, ethical, and philosophical implications of Blockchain-Based Identity Management Systems. Please for the full CfP see: https://www.springer.com/journal/44206/updates/19729104 Important information: Deadline: 31 May 2022 – Feel free to submit in advance Guest editors: Antonio Carnevale – CyberethicsLab Piercosma Bisconti – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Federica Russo – Unviersity of Amsterdam As the world population zooms past the 7 billion mark, the number of people with internet access balloons as well.…

Call for Submissions Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021 10th–13th June 2021 School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong https://www.cityu.edu.hk/artmachines2/ Submission deadline: 15th December 2020 We are now calling for submissions for Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021, which will take place between 10th–13th June 2021 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. “Art Machines 2,” will bring together Academics, Artists, and Professionals in the field of Computational Media Art in a four-day symposium on the topic of Machine Learning and Art. After the…

Call for Papers (Virtual) Workshop – Challenges of Agent Identity in Multimodal Communication To be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 25 October 2020 To be held remotely due to COVID-19 ICMI 2020: http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=home Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/agentidentity/home Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caimc2020 Submission deadline: 21 August 2020 NOTE: This workshop is co-located with the 2020 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020). Given that the current situation with COVID-19 is continuously evolving, we are still finalizing the final format of the workshop. We are going to decide on the format according to the format of the ICMI…

Call for Papers VRIC ConVRgence 2020: 22nd Virtual Reality International Conference – Laval Virtual April 22-24, 2020 Place de Hercé Laval, France http://www.laval-virtual.com/ ; https://easychair.org/cfp/VRIC-ConVRgence2020 Abstract registration deadline: January 10, 2020 Submission deadline: January 17, 2020 The annual ConVRgence (VRIC) – Laval Virtual scientific conference – is a global forum for researchers and engineers from industry, academia and research institutes to discuss and exchange ideas, methods and results on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, new usage scenarios and emerging technologies. The scope of the conference covers a variety of topics ranging from theoretical developments to industrial applications and case…