CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (4A’20) https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/4a Organized within the framework of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2020), Track 2 Sofia, Bulgaria 6-9 September, 2020 http://www.fedcsis.org/ https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/css Paper submission deadline (sharp/no extension): May 15, 2020 NOTE: COVID-19 Information: We would like to assure everybody that FedCSIS 2020 will take place, the submitted and accepted papers will be published and sent for indexations as usual. In case the conference cannot be staged in real setting of beautiful Sofia, we will provide a virtual web-based avenue for it. We look forward to…

Request for Proposals Facebook Research Explorations of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/explorations-of-trust-in-ar-vr-and-smart-devices-request-for-proposal/ Applications due by June 12, 2020 Facebook is pleased to invite university faculty to respond to this call for research proposals on exploring unique challenges, threats, attacks, mitigations, and other considerations in the burgeoning space of AR, VR, and smart devices.…

ICOTTS’20 – The 2020 International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems 29 – 31 October 2020 Cartagena, Colombia Proceedings by Springer. Indexed by Scopus, ISI, etc. https://www.icotts.org/ Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2020 SCOPE Multidisciplinary conference, transversal to all the activity sectors that involve Information Technologies and systems in the Tourism area, namely: Competitiveness of destinations based on digital technology, Hospitality, Destinations Management, Business & Finance, Public Administration; Economics; Management Science; Education; Health & Rehabilitation; Agriculture & Food Technology. GENERAL OBJECTIVES Promote a collaborative environment between the academic and tourism community in search of improvement and attractiveness of innovation, business…

Call for Participation Announcing the 2020 XR Access Symposium July 20-21, 2020 | Virtual Event Cornell Tech and the XR Access Initiative are pleased to announce the 2020 XR Access Symposium! This will be held virtually on July 20 and 21, 2020. If you’re interested in virtual or augmented reality or accessibility, keep reading! At the first Symposium, organized by Cornell Tech and Verizon Media in Summer 2019, over 120 researchers, technologists, advocates, and industry leaders gathered for talks, demos, and working group sessions that generated actionable plans for making XR more accessible. For the past year, that’s been our…

Call for Papers ECCE 2021 – EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS 32nd annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) 6-29 April, 2021 Siena, Italy http://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecce2021 Submission Deadline: 15 June 2020 NOTE: The COVID pandemic has severely impacted the preparation of the ECCE 2020 conference and we have had to postpone the event to 26-29 April, 2021. Please consider the updated dates and deadlines of ECCE 2021. Authors who have already submitted their manuscripts are not required to make a new submission. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ECCE 2021 is delighted to welcome the following keynote speakers: Elisa Giaccardi – Delft…

Call for Abstracts Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data Organisers: University of Hertfordshire Dates: 28-30 June 2021 Place: London / Virtual / Hatfield, UK https://architecturemps.com/london-hatfield/ Deadline for early abstracts: 30 June 2020 (Abstract Submission Form) NOTE: This conference is planned as a hybrid in-person and virtual event. The keynote will be held in London. In-person presentations will take place in the University of Hertfordshire campus in Hatfield on the outskirts of London. The role of computers in the design, control and making of the public life [and space] is increasingly dominant, their presence pervasive, and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) Bournemouth, UK Dates TBD, 2020 http://casa2020.bournemouth.ac.uk/ First submission deadline: May 24, 2020 NOTE: Notice: Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, the submission dates have been extended. Please see the Call for Papers and Important Dates for more details. The conference will be postponed in September 2020 and we will fix the conference dates shortly and keep you informed. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. The 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) will be held in September, 2020 in Bournemouth, UK. The conference is organized by…

Call for Papers ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction We are proud to announce the launch of the new and updated ACM THRI website (https://thri.acm.org/). ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) is the leading peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of human-robot interaction. THRI continues its cultivation of leading intellectual advancements from its origins as the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI). In January 2018, JHRI became an ACM publication and was rebranded as ACM THRI, fostering the widest possible readership of HRI research and information. THRI is committed to excellence, sustainability, and inclusion in its scholarship and review processes. We are currently accepting high-quality…

Call for Participants Simulation Australasia Unconference 2: Focusing on Solutions Wednesday 29th April 2020, 8 pm (GMT+10:00) via Zoom Simulation Australasia invites you to join our inaugural “unconference”, a crowd source meeting where we will address common problems and solutions related to COVID19: Unconference is a crowd source meeting to address common problems: Rule #1: Whoever shows up are the right people Rule #2: Whatever happens is fine Rule #3: Whenever it starts is the right time Rule #4: It is over when it’s over We will explore the following themes: Mapping Existing tools and simulations modes to common area…

Call for Expressions of Interest for book on “Everyday Virtual (+Augmented/Mixed) Reality” Dear colleague, If you attended this year’s online Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality held at IEEE VR 2020, you might remember that we mentioned we were in talks with Springer about editing a book on Everyday Virtual (+Augmented and Mixed) Reality. Ideally such a book would collect more in-depth versions of research experiences related to the Workshop themes, and about the impact they might have had. If you are interested in contributing, please get in touch with us by sending to everydayxr@gmail.com. A 0.5-1 page abstract with your…

Call for Papers HISTORY OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION Remember the past to look to the future A virtual workshop 7th July 2020 https://hcibook.net/hcihistory/ Submission deadline: 23rd June 2020 This workshop will bring together those interested in preserving the fragile history of human-computer interaction. This includes those interested in the strategies to support such endeavours in both HCI and related areas (within and outside academia), and also those seeking to understand the lessons past HCI holds for the on-going development of the field. We hope that this workshop we will start a process to ensure the preservation of the history of HCI…

Special Session on Safe and Acceptable Human-Robot Collaboration for the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2020) Naples, Italy August 31 to September 4, 2020 http://ro-man2020.unina.it/ Deadline: 29th of April 2020 NOTE: The RO-MAN Steering and Organizing Committees are constantly monitoring the information and advice given by the World Health Organisation and the Governments about the COVID-19 pandemic (Coronavirus). Please know that health and safety are our first priority. Our thoughts are with those affected by the restrictions, difficulties and uncertainty that people are facing. At this point, we would like to confirm that:…