Call for Papers Digital Identities, Digital Ways of Living: Philosophical Analyses Special issue of the journal Phenomenology and Mind and San Raffaele School of Philosophy 2020 Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan October, 12th – 14th 2020 Deadline for submissions: June 10th, 2020 [NOTE: Amid global concerns about Coronavirus (COVID-19), we are closely monitoring the situation with respect to our planned School. However, please consider submitting your paper anyway since accepted papers will be published on a special issue of the journal Phenomenology and Mind (expected publication date: July 2021) even in the unlucky case in which the School needs to…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) November 14-16, 2020 Golden, Colorado https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/ Submission deadline: June, 1st, 2020 GENERAL INFORMATION The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the interaction between humans and intelligent robots and on the integration of robots into the fabric of our society. ICSR 2020 will take place in Golden Colorado on November 14-16, 2020. Accepted papers will be included in ICSR 2020 Proceedings published by Springer LNAI series. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Entertaining Robots’, which is meant to be…

Call for Participation Real Artificial Intelligence 2020 A special one-day event showcasing Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence Friday 2nd October 2020 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2020/ British Computer Society London Office https://www.25copthall.com/location/ BCS-SGAI, the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence, is the organiser of one of the longest running annual series of AI conferences in Europe: the AI-20xx series. In recent years we have seen a rise in popularity of one aspect of the conference: the industry case studies. These have presented AI as it is actually implemented out there in the real world, with all the triumphs and challenges that brings.…

Call for Papers The 16th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) Boise State University Boise, Idaho, USA June 29th and 30th, 2020 https://sites.google.com/view/yrrsds2020/ Submission deadline: May 7th 2020 The 16th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) will be held at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, USA (collocated with SIGdial) on June 29th and 30th, 2020. YRRSDS is an annual workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior researchers working on spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The workshop serves as an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken…

CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Special issue of the journal p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e dedicated to Creative Research http://www.p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e.org/?page_id=4698 Submission deadline: March 31st, 2020 Creative Research (also called Art Research) is a research area that has been expanding in the past few decades. However, it’s not always easy to clarify what this concept encompasses, because creative research approaches are very diverse. It is also sometimes difficult to have research in that field recognized by institutions. This is the reason why we decided to dedicate a special issue of the journal p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e to that topic. We welcome any academic, artistic, or hybrid contribution that will shine…

Call for Papers VRST 2020 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Ottawa, Canada November 1 – 4, 2020 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2020/ Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2020 Posters and demos submission deadline: August 3, 2020 The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with VR/AR software and technology. The VRST symposium brings together the main international research groups working on AR/VR/MR, along with many of the world’s leading companies that provide or utilize AR/VR systems. The VRST 2020 conference will be held…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AI-2020: 40th International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence Cambridge, UK December 15th-17th 2020 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2020/ Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society). The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe. Deadline for submissions: 3rd July 2020 AI-2020 is the FORTIETH annual SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2020 reviews recent technical…

Call for Papers and Presentations International Media Music and Sound Arts Network in Education (IMMSANE) Zurich 2020 Congress 1st – 3rd October 2020 Zurich, Switzerland https://www.immsane.com/immsane-zurich-2020 Submission deadline: 1st May, 2020 IMMSANE welcomes proposals for papers and presentations for IMMSANE Zurich 2020 taking place 1st – 3rd October 2020 in Zurich, Switzerland. Participants should propose brief presentations of research, pedagogy or screenings/performances of research for inclusion in the congress and submit them to yatidurant@immsane.com by 1st May 2020. The presentations should include a title and abstract. IMMSANE Zurich 2020 will focus on topics of: Interaction and collaboration between sound and…

Call for Papers: Psychology and Virtual Reality Translational Issues in Psychological Science https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/tps/call-for-papers-virtual-reality Submission Deadline: July 1, 2020 Translational Issues in Psychological Science is opening submissions for consideration for a special issue titled “Psychology and Virtual Reality.” Virtual Reality (VR) technology offers new opportunities for clinical research, assessment, and intervention. Since the mid-1990s, VR-based testing, training, and treatment approaches have been developed by researchers and clinicians that would be difficult, if not impossible, to deliver using traditional methods. VR affords the opportunity to create highly realistic, interactive, and systematically controllable stimulus environments that users can be immersed in, and interact…

Call for Participation Law and the Human Network An Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-sponsored interdisciplinary community of scholars Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce a new AHRC-funded international network on the theme of “Law and the Human”, based at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK and with the involvement of network partner Amherst College, USA. We invite you to subscribe to the network’s mailing list http://eepurl.com/gozR41, to visit our website at https://research.kent.ac.uk/law-and-the-human-network/, and follow the network on Twitter @LawandtheHuman1. The network’s premise is that the historical role of law, as a primary site of knowledge and debate…

Call for Papers ACM SAP 2020: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception July 17th – 18th Washington DC Co-located with SIGGRAPH) https://sap.acm.org/2020/cfp.php Abstracts due: March 24th Papers due: March 31st The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) aims to advance and promote research that crosses the boundaries between perception and disciplines such as graphics, visualization, computer vision, haptics, acoustics, and augmented, mixed, and virtual reality. These fields can benefit from the exchange of ideas. The scope of the conference includes applications and algorithms in any area of research that incorporates elements of perception and computer science. Our seventeenth annual event…