Call for Papers SLERD 2020: 5th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystem and Regional Development PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES, LUDIC AND CO-DESIGN STRATEGIES & TOOLS SUPPORTING SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AND SMART EDUCATION Bucharest, Romania 25-27 May, 2020 http://slerd2020.uniroma2.it/ Paper submission deadline: 10th February 2020 SLERD 2020 is 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. We welcome contributions from people that fight to reify…

Call for Papers Nature, Health and Digital: Transcending Borders of Exclusion into Nature Through Innovation in Digital and Immersive Solutions A session at the 2020 Annual International Conference of The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) London 1-4 September 2020 https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/ Abstracts are due by January 31, 2020 The significance of the physical qualities of nature for the promotion of health and well-being, through healing places (Gesler 2003), therapeutic landscapes (Gesler 2005) or green and blue spaces, has been well established (cf. Rosenberg 2017a). However, not all socio-demographic groups in society have the capacity or resources…

Call for Papers HRI 2020 Workshop “The Forgotten in HRI: Incidental Encounters with Robots in Public Spaces” Monday, March 23, 2020 Cambridge, UK Workshop at the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Website: https://www.itec.rwth-aachen.de/cms/ITEC/Der-Lehrstuhl/Veranstaltungen/~ewbeb/HRI-Workshop/?lidx=1 IMPORTANT DATES January 31, 2020:  Submission deadline for workshop papers February 22, 2020:  Notification of acceptance March 23, 2020:  Workshop SCOPE HRI research has predominantly focused on laboratory studies, producing a fundamental understanding of how humans interact with robots in controlled settings. As robots transition out of research and development labs into the real world, HRI research must adapt. We argue that it should widen…

Open Call 2020 Third edition of international VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival 5 to 13 June 2020 Hamburg, Germany https://www.vrham.de/en/ Submission deadline: February 9, 2020 VRHAM! is the first international Virtual Reality & Arts Festival. Since its first edition in 2018, VRHAM! has established itself as an important date in the international VR art scene. The festival is a platform for extraordinary national and international artists who are literally exploring new dimensions. [See the event website or YouTube for a 5:30 minute VRHAM! 2019 video –ML] From 5 to 13 June 2020 VRHAM!’s third edition will take place at…

Call for Abstracts Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life – The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds with Robots” May 7-8, 2020 IZEW Tübingen, Germany Organizers: International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen (Regina Ammicht Quinn and Wulf Loh, both Tübingen, in cooperation with Janina Loh, Vienna, and Charles Ess, Oslo) Submission deadline: January 31, 2020 Social robotics has the strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especially in the realms of elder day care, child rearing, and education. As human beings have the fascinating ability to emotionally bond…

Call for Participation Urban Play and the Playable City: A Critical Perspective A workshop held as part of DiGRA 2020 2 June 2020 Tampere, Finland https://sites.google.com/view/theplayablecity/home Submission Deadline: 10 February 2020 Recently the notion of the playable city has emerged as a counterpoint to the “smart city” whereby the array of sensors and actuators that enable smart city infrastructure can be harnessed to create novel interactions and playful experiences within the city by lending an ear to trees, giving a voice to park benches, stairs and garbage cans or reviving the shadows that pass in the night thereby enabling a…

Call for Long and Short Papers ICMI 2020: The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2020 The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. We are keen to showcase novel input and output…

Call For Papers Minds & Machines special issue on “Rethinking, Reworking, and Revolutionising The Turing Test” Editor-in-Chief: Mariarosaria Taddeo (Oxford) Guest Editors: Nicola Damassino (Edinburgh) and Nick Novelli (Edinburgh) Deadline for paper submissions: April, 2020 The special issue focuses on the role that the Turing Test has played, and above all can still play, in artificial intelligence research. Ever since it was proposed in 1950, the Turing Test has been a major focus of philosophers and computer scientists alike. Focus on creating AI that can pass the Turing Test has been matched by debate about the adequacy of the Turing…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE COMPSAC 2020 IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications Theme: Driving Intelligent Transformation of the Digital World Madrid, Spain July 13-17, 2020 Full CFP: https://Ieeecompsac.computer.org/2020 Papers due: 20 January 2020 COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging challenges, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The theme of COMPSAC 2020 is “Driving Intelligent Transformation of the Digital World”. Staying relevant in a constantly evolving digital landscape…

Call for Papers IMX 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences 17 -19 June 2020 Barcelona https://imx.acm.org/2020/ https://imx.acm.org/2020/research-papers/ TVX / IMX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into interactive media experiences. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. KEY FACTS: Submission deadline: 24/01/2020 First Decision Notification: 19/02/2020 Call for mentoring program: 07/01/2020 Rebuttals Submission: 28/02/2020 Final Decision Notification: 13/03/2020 Camera Ready Version (for Industry Talks): 01/04/2020 Online submission: PCS submission system Selection:…

Call for Papers ECCE 2020 – European Conference On Cognitive Ergonomics 32nd annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) 6-9 October 2020 Siena, Italy htpp://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecce2020 Deadline for submissions: 9 March 2020 ECCE 2020 invites contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of Cognitive Ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems as part of a rich conference program including Keynote talks, Paper Presentation as well as a doctoral consortium. The 32nd of ECCE conference will target state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to Cognitive Ergonomics and its…

Call for Papers: Workshop on Non-intrusive acquisition and fusion of context information in Ambient Intelligence (Ni-AFCiA) Part of the 11th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAMI) L’Aquila (Italy) 17-19 June, 2020 Ni-AFCia Workshop: https://www.isami-conference.net/workshops/ni-afcia ISAMI 2020: https://www.isami-conference.net/ Submission deadline for full papers:  31 January, 2020 SCOPE Research on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has been growing steadily in the last years, a proof of its interest, applicability and potential. While this growth moves the field forward, it also opens new grounds and possibilities for research. Ambient Intelligence can be briefly described as the application of techniques of Artificial Intelligence (AI) towards the…