Call for Papers European Conference on the Impact of AI and Robotics (ECIAIR 2019) 31 October – 1 November Oxford, UK https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/eciair/eciair-call-for-papers/ Abstract submission deadline: 11 April 2019 This is a first call for papers for the European Conference on the Impact of AI and Robotics (ECIAIR 2019) being hosted by EM-Normandie Business School, Oxford, UK 31 October – 1 November. The European Conference on the Impact of AI and Robotics (ECIAIR 2019) has come about as a result of the maturing of artificial intelligence and robotics, particularly of the cognitive computing kind, which is producing an unprecedented revolution in…

Call for Papers ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference – IVA 2019 2-5 July 2019 Paris, France https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019 The 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) will be held on July 2-5 2019 in Paris, France. The conference is organized by CNRS, Sorbonne University and Paris-Saclay University (France), and sponsored by ACM-SIGAI. The IVA conference started in 1998 as a workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Brighton, UK, which was followed by a similar one in 1999 in Salford, Manchester, UK. Then dedicated stand-alone IVA conferences took…

University of Padova, Aesthetics Lecture Series 2018/2019 “The Appreciator’s Performance. Virtual Reality and The Ontology of Art” Enrico Terrone (University of Barcelona) Monday, December 10, 2018, 16.30-18.30 (CET) The talk will be live-streamed and will remain available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOmB1kCTJ9c&feature=player_embedded Remote participants can contribute to the Q&A via the YouTube Live Chat service. Due to copyright restrictions, slides shown during the talk won’t be filmed. Abstract: The talk begins with an investigation on the ontological status of works of virtual reality. I argue that these are types whose instances are appreciators’ experiences. This introduces an ontological discrepancy between works of…

Call for Papers 32nd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2019) July 1-3, 2019 Paris, France https://casa2019.sciencesconf.org Submission deadlines: March 1, 2019 (full papers), April 15, 2019 (short papers) The 32nd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2019) will be held on July 1-3, 2019 in Paris, France. The conference is organized by Sorbonne (France), in cooperation with ACM-SIGGRAPH, under guidance of the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). CASA was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. In the last…

[Note the potential connections to presence in topic area 1. below. –Matthew] CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Book Title: HUMANIZING HIGHER EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: 15th January, 2019 Final Full Chapters Due: April 1, 2019 Target Book Release: April 2, 2020 Submissions should be submitted electronically to: https://www.hetl.org/emerald-humanizing-education-submission-form/ Tentative Volume Titles (topic areas): Note: The series editors expect to receive enough chapter proposals across the range of subtopics in Humanizing Higher Education in Higher Education to publish more than one volume. At present, the editors are looking at least three potential volumes under the subheadings of: Humanizing Higher…

Call for participation in an online workgroup to develop an evaluation instrument for social agents Our vision is to create a validated standardised questionnaire instrument to evaluate human interaction with a social agent. This instrument will help researchers to make claims about people’s perceptions, attitude and beliefs towards their agent. It will allow agents to be compared across user studies, and importantly, it helps in replicating our scientific findings. This is essential for the community if we want to make valid claims about the impact that our social agents can have in domains such as health, entertainment, and education. We…

Call for Abstracts: Informed Experiences, Designing Consent Workshop, April 6, 2019 Chicago https://www.hastac.org/opportunities/cfp-informed-experiences-designing-consent Submission deadline: January 23, 2019 Informed Experiences, Designing Consent is a symposium interrogating the intersections of consent and the design of interactive media and technologies. The symposium is hosted at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and the HASTAC Scholars fellowship program on April 6, 2019. It is organized by Michael Anthony DeAnda, Elisabeth Hildt, Kelly Laas, and Leilasadat Mirghaderi. Informed Experiences, Designing Consent is a one-day event intended to bring together researchers, scholars, practitioners,…

Call for Papers Storytelling and the Body: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference 15th to 16th July 2019 Verona, Italy http://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary- projects/storytelling/storytelling-and-the-body/conferences/ Submission deadline: 22nd February 2019 We live in an era where stories about bodies – in/visible bodies, glamorous bodies, engineered bodies, trafficked bodies, dismembered bodies, persecuted bodies – are omnipresent. While bodies are literally made of flesh and blood, our understanding of bodies is constructed through fictional and non-fictional stories that shape perceptions of what constitutes the body, how a body should look, how a body should behave, how a body should experience the world and how bodies should interact…

Call for Papers Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Issue on Impact of Immersive Environments https://www.jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/94-cfp-impact To be edited by: Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK (Prime) Tuncer Can, University of Istanbul, Turkey Michael Vallance, Future University, Japan Abstracts deadline: December 20, 2018 MOTIVATION AND SCOPE Over the last two decades research on virtual worlds and immersive environments has engaged with a wide variety of stakeholders and beneficiaries across many disciplines and fields that naturally involve high stakes, engaging with participants with learning and physical disabilities to the military, citizen democracy and digital civics. In this issue we want to…

Call for Papers: Design Innovation Management Conference London 18 to 21st June 2019 https://designinnovationmanagement.com/conferences/academy-for-design-innovation-management-conference-2019/ REAL WORLD DESIGN FUTURES TRACK #RealWorldDesign John Knight, Aalto University, Finland Chirryl-Lee Ryan, Idean, US Francesca Tassistro, Avanade,Italy Arne van Oosterom, Design Thinkers Group, Netherlands Joyce Yee, University of Northumbria, UK Daniel Fitton, University of Central Lancashire, UK Louise Valentine, University of Dundee, UK Satu Miettinen, University of Lapland, Finland Track contact: john.knight@aalto.fi Submit relevant papers for double-blind peer-review by 29th January 2019 EXPLORING THE REAL WORLD OF THE DESIGN IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY This track explores current trends, collaborations, theories and practices in digital design…

Call for Abstracts Conference: (Clinical) Neurotechnology meets AI: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications May 8-10, 2019 Munich, Germany www.bit.ly/neurotechmeetsai Deadline for submission: January 15, 2019 Organized by the project INTERFACES at the Institute for Ethics, History and Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. Project partners are located in Hamburg, Granada and Montreal. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, as part of the ERANET Neuron program. Imagine the coffee machine starts to brew your urgently needed morning coffee as soon as you think the command “start the coffee machine” while still in bed.…

Call for Chapters: Teaching, Learning, and Leading With Computer Simulations https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3542 Editors: Dr. Yufeng Qian Louisiana State University Proposals Submission Deadline: January 11, 2019 Full Chapters Due: March 22, 2019 Submission Date: June 17, 2019 INTRODUCTION Computer simulation is becoming increasingly popular in education, especially in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and healthcare and medical disciplines. There has also been growing interest in social sciences and humanities to use computer simulations to facilitate students’ understanding and exploration of abstract and complex systems in social- and human-related disciplines. Decades of research on computer simulations have evidenced that computer simulation, as a powerful…