CALL FOR ABSTRACTS BudPT: Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology 2019 12-13 December 2019 Budapest University of Technology and Economics Building “Q” 2 Magyar Tudósok körútja 1117 Budapest, Hungary (for more information about the venue click here) https://www.budpt.eu/ Deadline for abstract submission: 14 August 2019 THEME OF THE WORKSHOP The second Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology will seek to explore a wide variety of topics connected to the Ethics of AI, Epistemology of Engineering and the Metaphysics of Artifacts. Any other high-quality submissions in the field of philosophy of technology are welcome. Keynote Speaker: Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna…

Call for Papers Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in Science and Engineering Special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/cs/call-for-papers-virtual-and-augmented-reality-applications-in-science-and-engineering-cfp Submission deadline: 1 September 2019 (to Scholar One Manuscripts) Publication: May/June 2020 This is a call for papers for an upcoming special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering to be published in May/June 2020. Affordable consumer-quality virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) hardware and software tools are just becoming available, but significant research is needed to adapt VR and AR for important and difficult scientific and engineering applications such as telepresence, medicine, education and training, manufacturing, service,…

Call for Papers Conference on Somaesthetics in Fashion, Craft, and the New Media May 8-9, 2019 Shangai, China Submission deadline: January 15, 2019 The Somaesthetics Center of East China Normal University (Shanghai) and the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Florida Atlantic University invite paper proposals for a conference on “Somaesthetics in Fashion, Craft, and the New Media” that will be held at ECNU’s Shanghai Campus on May 8-9, 2020. Somaesthetics was introduced as a new name to revive and productively integrate some valuable old ways of thinking. This conference highlights both the traditional and the new in its…

Call for Papers, Posters, Demonstrations and Workshops Academic Mindtrek 2020 29th to 30th January, 2020 Tampere, Finland https://www.mindtrek.org/2020/academic/ Submissions deadline: October 31, 2019 In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library. We are pleased to invite you to the 23rd International Academic Mindtrek conference, 29th to 30th January 2020. Academic Mindtrek is a meeting place where researchers, experts, students, and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of novel technology, media, and digital culture for the society of tomorrow. Academic Mindtrek is part of the renowned Mindtrek…

Call for Papers 15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020) March 23-26, 2020 Cambridge, UK http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/ Full Paper Submission Deadline: October 1, 2019 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is a premier, highly-selective venue presenting the latest advances in Human-Robot Interaction. The 15th Annual HRI conference theme is “Real World Human-Robot Interaction”. The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, behavioural, theoretical, methodological, and metrological, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction. Full papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library.…

Call for Papers ‘Toys and the TV: Serious Play’ Workshop October 22, 2019 Barcelona, Spain http://toys-n-tv.org/ At CHI PLAY 2019 6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Barcelona, Spain October 22-25, 2019 https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/ Submission deadline: 5th of August, 2019 BBC R&D, Children’s BBC, IRT and ZDF are hosting a collaborative workshop titled ‘Toys and the TV: Serious Play’ that aims to bring together researchers and designers to tackle interaction design and interfaces with respect to the use of the TV by children. With the advent of connected TVs and connected toys, there is an opportunity to develop…

Call for Papers 4th Global Posthuman Symposium: “POSTHUMAN AGENCY” NYU April 30-May 2, 2020 New York City, US https://nyposthuman2020.weebly.com/cfp.html Deadline for abstracts and bios: December 31, 2019 We are delighted to announce the 4th Posthuman Global Symposium, to be held at New York University, New York, USA. This Symposium is dedicated to exploring the importance of posthuman agency in the interrelated significations of human and non-human realms. We intend to spark a deep and multilayered analysis of posthuman agency both as praxis and as a moral stance on the current global issues, as exemplified by its advocacy of environmentalism, cyborg…

CALL FOR PAPERS SAT 2019 International Workshop on Socio-Affective Technologies: An Interdisciplinary Approach https://socioaffectivetechnologies.wordpress.com/ In Conjunction with SMC 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Bari (Italy), October 6-9, 2019 http://smc2019.org/ Submission deadline: July 21 PURPOSE Within Human- Machine systems and interaction, the present workshop aims at featuring state of the scientific research on socio-affective technologies by integrating both the computational and psychological approach in the understanding, recognizing and shaping affective processes in real and new social environment (social media, virtual realty) even in educational contexts. The two main focuses of the workshop will be on linguistic, visual…

[Apologies for the late notice (I just saw this); if you’re interested consider contacting the organizers about a late submission. –Matthew] CALL FOR PROPOSALS THE PICTURESQUE: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in-between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture International film and media studies conference organized by the Sapientia University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), within the framework of the research project supported by the UEFISCDI 25-26 October, 2019 http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/the-picturesque-visual-pleasure-and-intermediality Deadline for proposals: July 15, 2019 Continuing our series of conferences dedicated to rethinking intermediality in contemporary cinema and visual culture, we propose to initiate a discussion around aspects of intermediality that may unfold…

DISSELF II: Self-Perception in Human and Artificial Agents Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Porto 23 October 2019 disself2019.wordpress.com/ Abstract submissions deadline: 15th of August 2019 Keynote Speakers: Makila AUVRAY – Institut des Système Intelligents et Robotique, Paris. Anna CIAUNICA – MLAG-Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto. António MARQUES (TBC) – Politécnico do Porto, Escola Superior de Saúde. Verónica ORVALHO – Department of Computer Science, University of Porto. Manos TSAKIRIS – Royal Holloway, University of London. David HARIS SMITH – McMaster University, Canada. The capacity to integrate self-related information across multiple sensory channels is fundamental to building cohesive…

Call for Papers ACM IUI 2020: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2020 Conference Cagliari, Italy March 17-20, 2020 http://iui.acm.org/2020/ Contact: program2020@iui.acm.org Upcoming deadlines: Abstract: Oct 1, 2019 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 8, 2019 ACM IUI 2020 is the 25th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging…

Call for Applications Workshop on ‘A Phenomenology of Virtuality?’ Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile 22nd-24th January 2020 Application deadline: 17th September 2019 Dear all, This is a Call for Applications for a workshop on ‘A Phenomenology of Virtuality?’ at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, 22nd-24th January 2020. In a second of three workshops on virtuality, this one will concentrate on the question as to whether a phenomenology of virtuality is possible and, if so, what would it look like? Indeed, with the high rise and influence of recent virtual technologies such as social media and online gaming, as well…