Call for Papers “Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI” A half-day, hands-on Workshop at HRI 2019, the 14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Daegu, Korea 11 March 2019 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Date: 25 February 2019 Notification Date: 28 February 2019 Workshop Date: 11 March 2019 More information: https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-social-good-hri19 Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsg2019 INVITED SPEAKERS Selma Sabanovic, Associate Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) Chi Hyung Jeon, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, KAIST (Korea) Ana Paiva, Full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and coordinator of the Intelligent and Social…

Call for Papers CHI 2019 Workshop: The Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People Workshop at CHI 2019 in Glasgow Saturday 4th May 2019 Workshop website: http://www.ittgroup.org/about-workshop IMPORTANT INFORMATION Submission Deadline: (on or before) 12 February 2019 Notification of acceptance: (on or before) 1 March 2019 Workshop day: Saturday, 4th May, 2019, Glasgow UK Submission template: CHI Extended Abstracts. Please use the appropriate template, available for both LaTeX and Word (Windows and Mac). Submission format: All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirchi2019 Review process: Submissions will be peer reviewed based on their quality, relevance,…

Call for Papers 2nd Body as Starting Point (BAaST) Workshop on Inbodied Interaction: Applying Inside Body Knowledge for Inbodied Design Sunday May 5 At CHI2019, Glasgow https://bodyasstartingpoint.tumblr.com/ Submission deadline: February 21; you’ll hear back from us by February 28 BAaST – that’s Body As a Starting Point. That starting point is for interactive technology design, and our question is: if we start designs that will touch bodies from an understanding of how those bodies operate (from macro processes like sleep to micro processes like hormonal signalling of metatonin) how might this knowledge inform/change our designs for health and wellbeing, for…

Call for Papers CHIRA 2019 – 3rd International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications September 20 – 21, 2019 Vienna, Austria http://www.chira.scitevents.org/ Submission Deadline: April 29, 2019 CHIRA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication CHIRA 2019 will be held in conjunction with icSPORTS 2019 and NEUROPhyCS 2019. Registration to CHIRA allows free access to the icSPORTS and NEUROPhyCS conferences (as a non-speaker). SCOPE The purpose of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA) is to bring together professionals, academics and students who are interested in the advancement…

Call for Abstracts PLAY/PAUSE Symposium Theme: Immersion | Dissonance 22 May 2019 University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK http://playpauseuob.wordpress.com Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2019 For our second annual symposium, PLAY/PAUSE is looking for 20-minute papers that interrogate the continuum between immersion and dissonance within videogames and virtual reality. We therefore welcome papers from any disciplinary background that relate to (but are not limited to) the following topics: New immersive media (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality) Embodiment and virtual environments Glitches and breaking immersion Flow and gaming expertise Identification and social gaming Constructed authenticity Queerness and the player body Detail,…

Call for papers: Embodied Drawing TRACEY Drawing Research Network Conference 18-19th July 2019 Conveners: Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University Deadline: Friday 1st February 2019 The conference aims to explore the notion of embodied drawing. By embodied drawing we suggest that ‘embodied’ could be synonymous with the act of drawing, that drawing is an act of embodiment. As such, the making of a mark expands to become an act of mediation. Yet if all bodies are mediat(ing)ed, they too mark the skins and surfaces of other bodies in the briefest immediacies – in traces of gesture, events, at and through the…

Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417; impact factor 1.698) “Ambient Assisted Living and Cognitive Assistants” https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Ambient_Assisted_Living_and_Cognitive_Assistants Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2019 INTRODUCTION Recent studies have shown that people who stay in their homes have a higher quality of life, often better than those who are institutionalized. Another important social factor is the high cost of institutional care, which a great number of families are unable to pay, thus being the only option to keep their elderly relatives at home. To respond to these issues, the services and care available in the institutions must be replicated in the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Virtual Reality Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder Special issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Latest Impact Factor: 2.689 Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2019 (Submitting Authors: Please indicate in your Cover Letter that your paper is for the VR ASD Special Issue) As we embark on our third decade of virtual reality and behavioral health, we are continuing to expand the uses of VR to diagnosis, assess, and treat a myriad of disorders. We are also tapping into the power of VR to better facilitate skills training. mHealth is revolutionizing how and where behavioral health services…

Call for proposals Connected Learning Summit 2019 October 2-5, 2019 University of California, Irvine http://2019.connectedlearningsummit.org/ Online submissions open: January 11, 2019 Deadline for submissions: March 8, 2019 Notifications of Acceptance: June 2019 We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the second annual Connected Learning Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the Connected Learning Summit brings together leading researchers, educators, and developers. The program includes a mix of engaging presentation and workshop formats ranging from speculative design, to game walkthroughs, sharing works in progress, and research panels. We encourage…

CALL FOR PAPERS Multimodal Technologies and Interaction – Open Access Journal Special Issue “Multimodal Conversational Interaction and Interfaces” https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/multimodal_Interfaces Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2019 In face-to-face interaction, multiple communicative behaviors including verbal information and nonverbal signals, such as gestures, facial expressions, and gaze, are exchanged between the conversation participants. They also interpret the combination and co-occurrence of verbal and nonverbal behaviors to understand the conversation. In multiparty communication, where more than two people participate in the conversation, patterns of multimodal information become more complex. Aiming to shed light on such a complex process of face-to-face communication, studies on…

Call for Participation Challenges Using Head-Mounted Displays in Shared and Social Spaces Workshop at CHI 2019 May 5th, 2019 Glasgow, UK https://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/socialhmd/ Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2019 Everyday mobile usage of Head-Mounted Displays (AR and VR) is becoming a feasible consumer reality. The current research agenda for these devices has a strong focus on technological impediments (e.g. locomotion, tracking, input devices). This ignores significant challenges in the usage and perception of HMDs in shared and social spaces where HMD users are co-located with non-HMD users and are likely to be observed while interacting. We invite academics, artists, designers and practitioners…

Call for Papers CYPSY24: 24th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference June 24 – June 26, 2019 Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy24/ Abstract submission deadline: January 15th, 2019 It is our pleasure to invite you to join us at the 24th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference. CYPSY24 will take place Monday June 24 through Wednesday June 26, 2018 at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Jointly organized by Norfolk State University’s Psychology Department and in collaboration with the Interactive Media Institute, this conference is an international networking and sharing platform for researchers, clinicians, policymakers…