Call for Papers

Special Issue on
Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education
to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)

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CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call47

Guest editors:

• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Important dates:

• Deadline: December 21, 2020
• Notification to the authors: January 20, 2021
• Camera ready paper: February 10, 2021
• Publication of the special issue: end February, 2021

OVERVIEW

The guest editors and the ASLERD Association are proud to invite and welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster the development of smart learning ecosystems and smart education to help learning places to recover their central role in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development.… read more. “Call: “Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education” for IxD&A Journal”

Call for Papers

Child-Robot Interaction: Present and Future Relationships
A Workshop at the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020)
November 14-16, 2020
Online
Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/child-robot-interaction/
ICSR: https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/

KEY DATES:

Submission Deadline: October 16, 2020 (11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth)
Acceptance Notification: October 23, 2020
Camera-ready Deadline: October 30, 2020

ABSTRACT:

Robots will become more pervasive in society, playing different roles from tutors to physical therapy assistants to playmates, to name a few. The relationship between children and robots starts before the actual interaction. Researchers are faced with the question of when to involve children in this process. Children are cognitively immature, and their perspectives on robots are different from adults. How are children’s perceptions, expectations, and perspectives influencing the field, and how is CRI impacting children’s cognitive development? This half-day workshop aims to bring researchers, practitioners, and pioneers from relevant disciplines to this platform to have in-depth discussions on various aspects of CRI, such as potentials, challenges, and related opportunities to keep children in the loop.… read more. “Call: ICSR 2020 Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction: Present and Future Relationships”

Call for Papers

EICS 2021: The 13th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems
8-11 June, 2021
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
https://eics.acm.org/eics2021/

Submission deadline (round 2): October 23rd, 2020

EICS 2021 is the thirteenth international conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc.

Work presented at EICS covers all processes at any stage of the development life-cycle (requirements, specification, validation and verification, testing, deployment, maintenance).

Any of the following topics of interest may be addressed as long as their engineering contribution is made explicit and highlighted.

TOPICS

EICS 2021 focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems. The Conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from: Design, HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Modelling, and Programming.… read more. “Call: EICS 2021: 13th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems”

Call for Papers

The 2nd International Conference on
Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2021)
Stanford, California, US [see note below]
August 8, 2021
https://www.iceipi.org/

First round submission deadline: December 1, 2020

NOTE: Possible Actions on COVID-19: This conference is planned to be held in Stanford University, California. Presently, under the influence of COVID-19, there have been restrictions on travel and gatherings to avoid the spread of the virus. The world is making every effort to fight against the pandemic and we hope it can soon reach its conclusion. However, if the current situation continues as the set date of ICEIPI 2021 is approaching, we are afraid that this conference will have to be moved online in consideration for the health and safety of our participants. We will make timely updates to every change of the format and schedule of the conference.… read more. “Call: The 2nd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2021)”

Call for Papers

Ergonomics & Human Factors 2021
19-21 April 2021 online
22 April 2021, London
https://conference.ergonomics.org.uk

Submission deadline: 1 November 2020

Taking place over four days, the format of Ergonomics and Human Factors 2021 will reflect all that is best about events:

• Multiple, engaging and informative live online sessions with presenter and audience interaction.
• A large range of on-demand recorded content available through a single sign-in website.
• A day of face to face live lectures, discussion and debate on contemporary topics in a quality London venue.
• Social networking time including an online quiz and a face to face annual dinner.

CONFERENCE THEMES

We’re now inviting written submissions in either short (4 pages) or long format (8 pages) covering (but not limited to) 6 themes:

• The Future Human including robotics/ cobotics; wearable technology; AI; online learning
• Health & Social Care including human factors and Covid-19; PPE; medical device design; healthy ageing
• Transport & Mobility including autonomous vehicles; novel transport systems; travel and the pandemic
• The Future Workplace including occupational health; cybersecurity; workspace design
• The Built Environment including teaching and education; social housing; complex use; smart cities
• Sustainable Living including ecology and the environment; renewable energy; climate and pollution

PRESENTATION TYPES

You’ll be able to present your topic in one of a number of ways:

• Live or pre-recorded talks
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Recorded slideshows
• Digital posters

All accepted papers will be published in the digital proceedings.… read more. “Call: Ergonomics and Human Factors 2021”

Call for Applications

Two-day international workshop on ‘The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology
22nd-23rd January 2021
Online

Submission deadline: 31st October 2020

This is a Call for Applications for a two-day international workshop on ‘The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology’, to be held fully online the 22nd-23rd January 2021, roughly 10:00-18:00 each day Chilean time.

In the third and final workshop on virtuality, this one will concentrate on some of the concrete social, moral and political impacts of virtual technology, now and going forward. With the high rise and influence of recent virtual technologies (such as social media and online gaming, as well as new virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR, AR and MR respectively) technologies), understanding their various societal and other influences and effects is becoming increasingly pressing. With this in mind, abstracts (300-500 words) are welcome which seek to address any concrete social, ethical or political impact of a type (or types) of virtual technology.… read more. “Call: “The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology” online workshop”

Call for Participants

Trust in home: Rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI*) design workshop
19-20 November, 2020
Online
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/Trust-in-home-rethinking-interface-design-in-the-Internet-of-Things

Call closes: October 15
Participant selection: November 1

We would like to invite colleagues from all career stages (including PhD students) and all relevant fields (IoT, security, HCI, design, sociology, law, etc) for a two-day online design workshop “Trust in home: rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI)” on 19-20 November. The idea is to identify some of the gaps in design and regulation of UI for IoT technologies by co-designing the solutions for a range of hypothetical use cases in groups, which would hopefully lead to future research collaborations with colleagues from different disciplinary backgrounds.

IoT systems in smart homes present several privacy challenges. While GDPR creates a general duty for data controllers to implement privacy by default and privacy by design, this obligation requires taking into account the state-of-the-art.… read more. “Call: Trust in home: Rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI*) design workshop”

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Methodologies of Sonic Thinking (between Artistic Research and Phenomenology)
November 23 – 25, 2020
Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

Keynote speaker: Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
Main organizer: Martin Nitsche (CAS Institute of Philosophy, Prague, CZ)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 8, 2020

Human reasoning (incl. philosophy, language, arts, politics, leisure, etc.) is predominantly built on visual experience. Sonic thinking (a term that is gaining attention thanks to the volume edited in 2017 by our keynote speaker, Bernd Herzogenrath) challenges the primacy of visual and claims that human thinking should be transformed according to aural experience. Sonic research investigates our experience of sounds, music, rhythms, resonances, noises, and other sonic phenomena in order to describe configurations of human sense, which offer an alternative conception of human understanding to those maintained visually.

The conference aims to reflect upon sonic thinking as a specific way of research.… read more. “Call: Methodologies of Sonic Thinking (between Artistic Research and Phenomenology)”

Call for Papers

Towards development of mediatization research IV
Mediatization of everyday life: Media and love – transformation of emotions and relationships
Workshop with Mark Deuze, Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam
16 November 2020
Online
https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl/event/towards-development-of-mediatization-research-iv/

Submission of proposed topic and 5 sentence description: September 15, 2020

All researchers of mediatization are cordially invited to submit their proposals for the closed workshop Towards development of mediatization research IV organized by the Institute of Social Communication and Media Science, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin, Poland and Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub.

The workshop will take place online on 16 November 2020 and it will be led by Professor Mark Deuze of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

The title of this year’s edition is: Mediatization of everyday life: Media and love – transformation of emotions and relationships.… read more. “Call: “Mediatization of everyday life: Media and love – transformation of emotions and relationships” free online workshop”

[Note that presence-evoking technologies can be used to both encourage and discourage the ‘inhuman’ impulses explored in this conference. –Matthew]

Call for Contributions

The Art of Being Inhuman
A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Friday 16th April 2021 – Saturday 17th April 2021
Vienna, Austria
https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/series/interdisciplinary-perspectives/social-values/being-inhuman/conferences/

Submission deadline: Friday 2nd October 2020

The global novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has transformed the world as we know it, seemingly overnight. Every passing day bears witness to the best and the worst of humankind as we grapple with not only the health crisis, but also its reverberating impacts on every facet of society. We have seen countless examples of kindness, bravery and sacrifice among those who have done their part to assist their communities in stopping the spread of Covid-19. At the same time, displays of selfishness, greed and hateful behaviour of individuals and groups have punctuated the story of the world’s battle with Covid-19 with reminders of how truly awful people can be to one another.… read more. “Call: The Art of Being Inhuman: A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference”