Call for Journal Papers IEEE VR 2020: the 27th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces March 22-26, 2020 Atlanta, USA http://ieeevr.org/2020/ IMPORTANT DATES Journal Track September 3, 2019: Abstracts due (REQUIRED) September 10, 2019: Submissions due November 9, 2019: Notification of first review cycle results January 6, 2020: Revised paper submissions due to second review cycle January 22, 2020: Final notifications January 31, 2020: Camera-ready material due from authors of accepted papers Conference Track November 16: Conference paper abstracts due (REQUIRED) November 23: Conference paper submissions due January 26: Conference paper notifications of results returned to authors…

Call for Papers Human-Machine Communication Interest Group International Communication Association 70th annual conference – ICA 2020 Gold Coast, Australia 21-25 May 2020 Conference: https://www.icahdq.org/page/2020CFP HMC: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HMC_CFP Submission deadline: 1 November 2019 at 16:00 UTC The Human-Machine Communication (HMC) Interest Group supports and promotes scholarship regarding communication between people and technologies designed to enact the role of communicator. Such technologies include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI) software and devices, robots, digital and home assistants, automated-writing software, smart toys, and Internet of Things (IOT) devices. HMC research focuses on the meaning-making that unfolds when people engage directly with technology…

Call for Papers ECSCW 2020 – The 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work The International Venue on Practice-centred Computing and the Design of Cooperation Technologies Siegen, Germany 13-17 June 2020 https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/ Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2020 ECSCW – European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work is a series of conferences on computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe. The full paper submission for the ECSCW 2020 Conference is open and ONGOING. This year for the first time, the conference supports a continuous review process which will allow authors a longer time to revise their manuscript and achieve the high standard…

Call for Abstracts/Articles Yearbook of Moving Image Studies »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities I: Virtual Images« (2020) https://www.movingimagescience.com/call-for-papers/ Deadline for Abstracts: November 30, 2019 (Review till January 24, 2020) Deadline for Articles: May 29, 2020 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting articles from scientists, artists, designers, developers and film makers for the fifth issue, which is the first part of the »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities« concept, entitled »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities I: Virtual Images«. The issue in 2021 will focus on »Augmented Images« and 2022 will address »Mixed Reality Images«. YoMIS will be enriched by…

Call for Papers AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication Editor-in-Chief: Karamjit S. Gill (editoraisoc@yahoo.co.uk) Special issue on: AI and Law – Ethical, Legal, and Sociopolitical Implications Extended Deadline: December 31, 2019 Contributions are invited for a Special Issue on AI and Law – Ethical, Legal, and Socio-political Implications, to be published by the AI & Society Journal of Culture, Knowledge and Communication (Springer) (http://link.springer.com/journal/146). This special issue examines the ethical, legal, and socio-political implications of AI and Law. The unprecedented technological advances of the recent decades have had a number of positive effects in almost every area…

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…