[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…

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…