CALL FOR PAPERS EAI GOODTECHS 2020 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good September 14-16, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium http://goodtechs.eu/call-for-papers/ Full paper submission deadline: 1 April 2020 Proposals for special sessions due by 5 March 2020 (see website for details) Submissions of work-in-progress and for PhD track due by 1 May 2020 (see website for details) SCOPE By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights,…

Call for Participation Social VR: A New Medium for Remote Communication & Collaboration CHI 2020 WORKSHOP (https://chi2020.acm.org/) April 25, 2020 Honolulu, Hawaii Workshop website: https://www.socialvr-ws.com Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialvr2020 IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: February 24, 2020 Notification: February 29, 2020 Workshop: April 25, 2020 (with remote participation options) Remote communication allows people who are not physically present in the same location to communicate in real-time, which has many positive societal impacts, such as reducing environmental pollution, travel cost and fatigue, supporting rich collaboration by connecting talented people around the world, brings families closer and improves the availability of high-quality education and…

Call for Papers, Posters, and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals  The 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2020) 10-13 November 2020 Sydney, Australia http://hai-conference.net/hai2020/ Submission deadline for full papers: 17 May 2020 HAI 2020 is the 8th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. The conference is a venue with an interdisciplinary nature to discuss and disseminate state-of-the-art research on topics that relate to human interactions with a range of agent systems, including physical robots and humanoids, virtual agents, socially interactive agents, and artificially intelligent agents. The topical issues within the conference include user studies, frameworks, simulations, technical developments and relevant theoretical contributions…

Call for Papers Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image Issue #12: Images of the Real: Philosophy and Documentary Film http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/cfp/ Guest Editors: Stefanie Baumann Susana Nascimento Duarte Managing Editor Patrícia Castello Branco Abstract proposals due: April 1st, 2020 Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image welcomes submissions to its 12th issue on Images of the Real: Philosophy and Documentary Film. Documentary films constitute a challenge for philosophical thinking. Relying on reality and addressing it explicitly as well, they raise the problem of the encounter between world and images. The indexical images they feature do not merely reproduce the…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS CRIME AND/OR PUNISHMENT: Joining the Dots between Crime, Legality and HCI Workshop at ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020; https://chi2020.acm.org/) 25 April 2020 Honolulu, Hawaii https://crimehci.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ Workshop Organisers: Rosanna Bellini (Newcastle University), Nicola Dell (Cornell Tech), Monica Whitty (Melbourne University), Debasis Bhattacharya (University of Hawaii), David Wall (University of Leeds) and Pamela Briggs (Northumbria University) Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 16th February 2020 Crime is rarely cited as an explicit focus for research in CHI papers, although it is often discussed implicitly. A search of the entire CHI conference series using the search…

Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Key Enabling Technologies for Digital Factories in conjunction with CAiSE 2020, 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (http://caise20.imag.fr/) June 8-12, 2020 Grenoble, France https://sites.google.com/view/ket4df2020/ Paper submission deadline: March 1st, 2020, 11:59 pm Hawaii Time SCOPE The manufacturing industry is entering a new digital era in which ICT technologies and collaboration applications will be integrated with traditional manufacturing practices and processes to increase flexibility and sustainability in manufacturing, mass customization, increase automation, better quality and improve productivity. This workshop seeks at providing the opportunity for inspiration and cross-fertilization for the research groups…

Hello everyone, A quick reminder – still a bit over a week left to apply! As part of the DiGRA 2020 Conference, being held at Tampere University, Finland, 2-6 June 2020, a workshop is being organized on the current state of avatar research. The workshop is being organized and chaired by Ea Christina Willumsen (University of Bergen) and Daniel Vella (University of Malta). The full call for submissions is below. We hope you’ll be interested in joining us, and please send us any questions you might have. Call for Abstracts The State of the Avatar: A DiGRA 2020 Workshop 2…

Call for Papers 2020 Workshop on User Experience of Artificial Intelligence in Games Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) Conference Malta September 15-18, 2020 (exact date TBD) http://www.uxofai.org/cfp-2020.php Submission deadline: May 4 2020 The 2020 Workshop on User Experience and Artificial Intelligence encompasses the intersection between UX and AI as it they manifest in games, as it pertains to how the player interacts with the embedded AI systems through the game. The AI systems may take the form as artifacts or underlying components for personalization, adaptation or content creation. We wish to act as a point of interaction between researchers specialized…

Call for Papers Smart Cities at Play: Lived Experiences, Emerging Forms of Playfulness, and Problems of Participation CHI’2020 Workshop (https://chi2020.acm.org/) April 27-30, 2020 Honolulu, Hawaii https://smartcitiesatplay.wordpress.com/ Submission deadline: 29th of February 2020 Smart cities can be described as places where physical environments are combined with information technology to rectify socio-economic and environmental issues. While this might be the case, for the most part scholarly attention has focused on the technologies used to construct these environments. What is missing from these discussions is a deeper engagement with the lived experience of ‘smart spaces’, and the extent to which this confluence of…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Human–Robot Confluence Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Latest Impact Factor: 2.650 Guest Editors: Giuseppe Riva, PhD Catholic University of Milan and Istituto Auxologico Italiano Milan, Italy Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA Virtual Reality Medical Institute, San Diego, CA Deadline for Manuscript Submission: March 1, 2020 The new humanoid robots not only perform tasks, but also can activate interactions and social relationships with other robots and with humans. From this point of view, the diffusion of humanoid robots with a physical structure reminiscent of the human body, endowed with decision-making…

Call for Papers ICADIWT 2020: The 11th International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information & Web Technologies 9th – 11th November 2020 Thessaloniki, Greece https://icadiwt2020.sigappfr.org/ Full papers submission deadline: 29 June 2020 The International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information & Web Technologies (ICADIWT) has travelled along 3 continents (America, Asia, Europe): from Bangalore (2019), Juarez City (2017), Keelung (2016), Hong Kong (2015), Chennai (2014), Stevens Point, WI (2011), Ayia Napa (2012), Istanbul (2010), London (2009) to Ostrava (2008).The 11th ICADIWT organization will take place at Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece. Research in Digital Information is…

Call for Papers Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research ISSN 1477-965X | Online ISSN 1758-9533 3 issues per volume | First published in 2003 Editor Roy Ascott, The Planetary Collegium, UK roy.ascott@btinternet.com Full papers deadline: 15 April 2020 Submissions and queries to be directed to Associate Editor, Luna Zhou (zhoujing@detaoma.com) Technoetics is a convergent field of practice that seeks to explore consciousness and connectivity through digital, telematic, chemical or spiritual means, embracing both interactive and psychoactive technologies, and the creative use of moistmedia’ (Roy Ascott 2008). Technoetic Arts focuses upon the juncture between art, technology and the mind.…