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…

Call for Papers ISMAR 2020: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Recife/Porto de Galinhas, Brazil November 09 to 13, 2020 http://www.ismar20.org Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: April 06, 2020 ISMAR 2020, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) will be held on November 09 to 13 in Recife/Porto de Galinhas, Brazil. ISMAR is responding to the recent explosion of commercial and research activities related to AR and MR and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope over the past several years. ISMAR 2020 will cover the full range…

[See the conference website for other Calls. –ML] Call for Papers: 2020 Media Architecture Biennale (MAB20) Theme: Futures Implied 23-27 November 2020 Amsterdam and Utrecht The Netherlands www.mab20.org Paper submission deadline: 5 April 2020 We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 2020 Media Architecture Biennale (MAB20) themed #FuturesImplied. The Media Architecture Biennale is the world’s premier event on media architecture, urban interaction design, and urban informatics, bringing together world-renowned architects, artists and designers, leading thinkers on urban design, key industry and government representatives, and students. The event offers workshops, symposia, a conference with an academic research track…

CALL FOR PAPERS: BCS HCI 2020 33rd International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference 6th-10th July 2020 Keele University Staffordshire, UK Doctoral Symposium | Hackathon | Industry Day | Workshops Keynotes | Presentations | Posters | Events | Interaction Gallery Website:  https://bcshci2020.com/ Email:  bcshci2020@gmail.com Twitter:  @HCI_2020 Paper submission deadline: Extended to 16th March The International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference is a vibrant and established multidisciplinary HCI conference in its 33rd year. The July 2020 conference will be hosted by Keele University – a beautiful rural campus university with woods and lakes surrounding the Keele Hall manor house. Centrally located in the UK, near…

Call for Papers ICTS4eHealth 2020 – 5th edition of the IEEE International Workshop on ICT Solutions for e-Health In conjunction with the Twenty-Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Rennes, France July 7th, 2020 http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it Submission deadline: April 25th, 2020 MISSION: e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers. The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods typical of Soft Computing and Computational…

Call for Papers Morality Play 2020 @ DiGRA 2020 June 2, 2020 Tampere, Finland https://moralityplay.org/2020/01/06/cfp-morality-play-2020-digra-2020/ Extended deadline for submissions: 3 April, 2020 The Morality Play workshop (first held at FDG/DiGRA 2016) will return to DiGRA 2020 this June. We are calling for short or long papers dealing with themes of empathy and ethics in games and play. Moral questions have always been a cornerstone of art. Many of our greatest dramas hinge on our struggles to decide between right and wrong and to put those decisions into effect, both on the grand stage and in intimate relationships. Games are no…

[Note: Much more information is on the conference website, although registration costs don’t seem to be easily accessible. –ML] Call for Participation Me and AI 2020 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Artificial and Augmented Intelligence Athens, Greece 30th March – 2nd April, 2020 http://www.meandai.gr The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory in cooperation with the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) organizes the 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Artificial and Augmented Intelligence and the ways it is expected to affect us in the near and distant future. The conference aims to highlight aspects related to the ethical, legal, political, social and economic dimensions of…

Call for Papers Technology and the Future of the Home Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, Missouri, USA November 5 – 6, 2020 Keynote Speaker: Diane Michelfelder, Macalester College Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2020 Research on how we conceptualize the home is increasing across the academy. However, studies about how technology challenges our conceptualization of the home require focus. The purpose of this colloquium is to develop and advance such conversations. Although submissions that interpret the home are welcome, abstracts focused on guiding its development to create a better world are highly encouraged. All disciplinary backgrounds and approaches…

Call for Papers G|A|M|E: The Italian Journal of Game Studies Special Issue: “The Taboos of Game Studies” Editors: Kristine Jørgensen (University of Bergen) and Riccardo Fassone (University of Torino) Extended abstract submission deadline: February 24, 2020 The next issue of the Italian journal of game studies G|A|M|E (http://gamejournal.it/) welcomes contributions that address the taboos of game studies. Taboos can be understood as social prohibitions based in religion or custom rather than in legislation or common sense, and are as such bearing moral weight (International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 2001). Taboos can be found in all parts of…

CALL FOR PAPERS AIC 2020, 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition Joint with: SweCog 2020, the 16th conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society Special Topic of Interest: Human-Centered AI Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden September 2-4, 2020 Submission deadline: May 3, 2020 Workshop website: https://aic20.aass.oru.se Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aic20200 SweCog website: http://www.swecog.se/ Twitter account: https://twitter.com/aic_swecog ABOUT AIC 2020 AIC 2020 is the 8th international appointment of the International Workshop Series AIC on “Artificial Intelligence and Cognition” (please see http://www.aicworkshopseries.org/). The AIC series started in 2013, stemming from the need of creating an international scientific forum for the discussion and…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2020 7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Ottawa, Canada November 1 – 4, 2020 https://chiplay.acm.org/2020/ | @acmchiplay | #chiplay20 Submission deadlines: April 7, 2020: Full Papers July 15, 2020: Work in Progress, Interactivity, Student Game Design Competition, Rapid Communications, Doctoral Consortium CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high-quality research in games…