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 from the global games community to help foster wide-ranging and diverse discussion.

Game design and development is rarely a linear, straightforward practice. The iterations, playtests, feedback, fixing and refining, the successes, and the failures along the way, all combine to form the foundation on which the final game eventually stands.… read more. “Call: Practice-research in Games Conference 2023”

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 in expressing emotional speech that can (falsely) convey a human-like identity that can mislead people, leading to ethical issues.

How should we envision an agent’s artificial identity? In what ways should we have robots that maintain a machine-like stance, e.g., through robotic speech, and should emotional expressions that are increasingly humanlike be seen as design opportunities?… read more. “Call: Robo-Identity 2: Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions – HRI 2022 workshop”

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 VR can alter behaviour.

XR RESEARCH AWARD AIMS

Whilst most research has relied on questionnaires administered before, during or after an experience, this method is subjective, prone to recall bias and may break the sense of immersion.

The XR Research Awards aims to support projects that promote objective evaluation of behavioural responses to build the strong evidence base for VR that is vital for wider adoption.… read more. “Call: XR Research Awards 2021”

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. An increasingly large part of human activity is now carried out on the web: from social media to online purchasing to public administrations, many rely on the internet for providing services and information. In this context, reliable Identity Management (IM) is becoming a crucial issue for ensuring the validity of transactions, purchases, and in general the fruition of internet services.… read more. “Call: “Blockchain for Trustworthy Digital Identity Systems: Socio-Technical Perspectives” issue of Digital Identity”

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 success of “Art Machines” in 2019, this much-anticipated follow-up symposium will provide the opportunity for in depth assessment of the impact of artificial intelligence on the making of computational art and media, and an exploration of the conditions of existence, range and futures of computationally based art and media.… read more. “Call: Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021”

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 conference. We will publish the papers of the workshop regardless on the workshop format (in Utrecht, or virtual) and will host a mixed or fully virtual set of discussions and panel.

Conversational agents that interact with users in everyday settings are becoming more commonplace, yet their identity has not yet been a key point of investigation.… read more. “Call: ICMI 2020 (Virtual) Workshop on Challenges of Agent Identity in Multimodal Communication”