Call for Papers Association for Information Systems Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) Special issue on AI Fairness, Trust and Ethics https://bit.ly/2JcrDT7 Special issue editors: Lionel P. Robert Jr., University of Michigan Gaurav Bansal, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Nigel Melville, University of Michigan Tom Stafford, Louisiana Tech University Submission deadline: February 15, 2020 AI is rapidly changing every aspect of our society from how we conduct business, socialize and exercise. AI has amplified our productivity as well as biases. John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, recently lamented in the MIT Technology Review that the dangers posed by the ability of…

Call for Abstracts (1000 words) Workshop on Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics (EIAR 2019) @ ICSR 2019 (The Eleventh International Conference on Social Robotics) Madrid, Spain November, 29, 2019 Conference website: http://icsr2019.uc3m.es/ Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/eiar2019/home IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Due – September 25, 2019 Notification of Acceptance – October 05, 2019 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We are interested in submissions of original research in Ethics of Social Robotics and HRI, or research from related fields, relevant to the topic of “Experimental and Integrative Approaches in Robo-ethics”. The submissions, in the form of abstracts (min 800, max 1000 words, references excluded), should…

[From the Philos-L e-list. –Matthew] Perceptions of Creativity in Human and Artificial Intelligence Survey You are warmly invited to take part in a survey measuring the perceptions of creativity in human and artificial intelligence. This research project is funded by the Industrial Humanities Research Priority Area Development of the University of Nottingham and its aim is to consider the perceptions and attitudes that the audience has in respect to creative activities performed by Artificial Intelligence. During the questionnaire you will be asked questions relative to your intuitions about the notion of creativity and your attitudes regarding the use of AI…

Call for Papers DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) 2020 Tampere, Finland June 2-6, 2020 https://digra2020.org/ Deadline for papers, abstracts and panels: 29 November 2019 Deadline for workshop proposals: 13 December 2019 DiGRA 2020 will take place in Tampere, Finland from June 3rd-6th 2020. A pre-conference will be held on Tuesday, June 2nd. DiGRA 2020 is co-hosted by the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies (https://coe-gamecult.org/), a joint effort of game research teams in three universities (Tampere, Turku, and Jyväskylä). In Kyoto, we were also proud to announce the first conference keynote speaker: Dr Susanna Paasonen, Professor of Media Studies…

[Note: This and calls for other special sessions of potential interest are at http://www.mirlabs.org/isda19/cfss.php. –Matthew] CALL for PAPERS: PPAI-ISDA 2019: Special Track: Philosophical Problems of Artificial Intelligence at the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) December 03-05, 2019 Pretoria, South Africa Submission deadline: 1st of September MOTIVATION: Since the notorious “Turing Test” had been proposed, by means of which one can (allegedly) measure if or to what extent a computer possesses features of intelligence, the philosophical debates on this topic have not ended. Famous thinkers like Hans Driesch, John Searl (with the “Chinese room”), Hilary Putnam,…

Call for REFLECTION STATEMENTS (1-2p. CHI EA format) and INTEREST 3rd Workshop on Mixed Reality for Intelligent Vehicles (MRV 2019) Colocated with AutoUI 2019 (http://www.auto-ui.org/19) September 22, 2019 Utrecht, Netherlands http://www.andreasriener.com/AutoUI19WS_MRV/ Submission deadline: August 25, 2019. With the increasing development of Augmented reality (AR), the number of its purposes and applications in vehicles rises. Augmented reality may help to increase road safety, support more immersive (non-) driving related activities, and finally enhance driving and passenger experience. AR may also be the enabling technology to increase trust and acceptance in automated vehicles and therefore help on the transition towards automated driving.…

Call for Speakers Virtuality – A trade show dedicated to VR and immersive technologies 21-23 November, 2019 Le Centquatre-Paris (5 rue Curial – 75019 Paris) https://www.virtuality.fr/en/virtualityparis/Submit-a-talk SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH THE INDUSTRY Every year, we receive more than 40 speakers from all over the world to host our talk sessions lasting an average of 20 minutes. If you have a vision of the industry to share, a case study with particularly interesting results or if you have done research in the field of immersive technologies we would be delighted to study your talk proposal. SOME HOT TOPICS WE ARE LOOKING…

[Follow the link for more Calls for presence-related special sections in BJET. –Matthew] Call for Papers Immersive Virtual Reality in Education Special section in British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14678535/homepage/bjet_special_issues.htm#1 Abstracts due: 30 September 2019 Guest editors Associate Professor Matt Bower (Macquarie University, Australia) Associate Professor Morris Siu-Yung Jong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Recently there has been a proliferation of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) apps and hardware that has made the use of IVR in educational settings more accessible to students and teachers. The advent of Google Cardboard and other smartphone headsets means that IVR educational experiences…

Call For Papers VRCAI 2019: 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry Co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 (https://sa2019.siggraph.org) Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia 14-16th November 2019 http://vrcai.acm.org Paper Abstract Due (Optional): 3rd September 2019 Paper Submission: 18th September 2019 Posters/Demos Submission: 8th October 2019 On 14-16th November 2019 the 17th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI2019), will take place just before SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 (17-20th, Dec) in Brisbane, Australia. From exciting beginnings in Hanzhou, China in 1993, VRCAI has grown into an internationally established conference with…

Call for Papers Paternalism, Nudging, and the Digital Sphere Moral Philosophy and Politics (MOPP) special issue https://www.mopp-journal.org/go-to-main-page/call-for-papers/ Submission deadline: January 15, 2020 Information technologies (broadly construed) provide corporations and governmental institutions with tools that enable them to push the behavior of their citizens/users into directions they consider “right”. For example, E-health-applications or smart homes might promote healthier or more sustainable lifestyles while the Chinese government currently experiments with implementing the so called digitally administered ‘Social Credit System’ with the aim of improving behavioral regulation of both, their citizens and businesses. In a similar vein, the information-architecture of e.g. Google`s search…

Call for Papers MeCCSA 2020 – Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association 2020 Conference Theme: Media Interactions and Environments University of Brighton, UK 8-10 January 2020 http://www.meccsabrighton2020.co.uk/call-for-papers.html Submission deadline: 31 August 2019 Keynote Speakers: Professor Trine Syvertsen, University of Oslow Professor Sarah Kember, Goldsmiths University of London Dr. Deborah Gabriel, Bournemouth University, UK The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association are pleased to invite the submission of abstracts, panel proposals and practice-based contributions for the MeCCSA 2020 Conference, to be held from 8-10 January 2020 at the University of Brighton. The theme of the conference is Media Interactions and Environments.…

Call for Papers Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of Wearable Robots Topical Issue in PALADYN, Journal of Behavioral Robotics https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/1932 Submission deadline: 31st October 2019 GUEST EDITORS Dr. Eduard Fosch Villaronga (lead GE: e.fosch.villaronga@law.leidenuniv.nl), Leiden University, NL Dr. Heike Felzmann, NUI Galway, Ireland Dr. Ann-Marie Hughes, University of Southampton, U.K. Ms. Alexandra Kapeller, Linköping University, Sweden ADVISORY EDITORS Prof. Deborah G. Johnson Department of Engineering and Society, University of Virginia, dgj7p@virginia.edu Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, Emeritus Adjunct Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Prof. Mohamed Bouri Group leader of Rehabilitation and Assistive…