Call for Participation: HCID 2024 Open Day Conference – Design for AllCentre for Human-Computer Interaction DesignCity St George’s, University of LondonSeptember 18, 2024, 10:30 – 18:30 (BST)http://hcidopenday.co.uk/ OVERVIEW The HCID Open Day is a mini conference run by the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design (HCID) at City St George’s, University of London. Each year we invite in guest speakers from industry and academia to talk about UX / HCI / Interaction Design and related fields. The theme is ‘Design for All’.  With the strands of People – widening participation, inclusion, accessibility, Planet – considering designs impact on the natural…

Call For Papers “Large Language Models and Games”Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Gameshttps://transactions.games/special-issue/special-issue-on-large-language-models-and-games Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2024 Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated significant potential in Game AI research in terms of playing games with abstract or negotiable rules and winning conditions, enriching interactive dialogue systems, and assisting in the development of complex game worlds. On the one hand, there is a growing interest within both academia and industry in leveraging LLMs to autonomously or semi-autonomously generate game elements such as stories, characters, dialogue, quests, and world-building. The use of LLMs to design better game content…

Call for Abstracts Silly Questions about Fiction WorkshopNovember 18-19, 2024Tilburg UniversityTilburg, Netherlands Submission deadline: September 30, 2024 When a book ends with the words “… and nobody lived to tell the tale”, how can a reader be reading about this tale? When a sound-boom operator clearly walks into the frame of a movie, how should a viewer reconcile this with this person being supposedly absent from the fictional world? When a glitch occurs in a videogame which unintentionally makes the human inhabitants of the gameworld fly like birds, is a player supposed to imagine them as flying people?…

Call for Abstracts MEDIAS – Surface, Space and In-BetweenPart of the Conference Society. Space. Screens2024 Mediated Cities SeriesDecember 11-13, 2024Onlinehttps://amps-research.com/yonsei/ Submission deadline for abstracts: October 20, 2024 As part of the 2024 Mediated Cities Series, Yonesi University, with Arizona State University and the Cesar University School, hosts an international virtual conference on art, media and design. This particular call is for the strand:  MEDIAS – Surface, Space and In-Between — Medias, technologies and digital phenomena of every kind are ubiquitous today. They have, and are, changing how we work, learn, design, create, interact and relax. They are also affecting how…

Call For Papers AAMAS 2025 – The 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent SystemsMay 19-23, 2025Detroit, Michigan, USAhttps://aamas2025.org Deadline for abstract submission: October 9, 2024Deadline for paper submission: October 16, 2024 We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS-2025, the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Detroit in May 2025. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference,…

Dear colleagues, We invite authors to contribute to our Special Issue, following the success of our INTERACT 2023 workshop (see link below). This issue aims to further scientific discussions on designing technologies for neurodivergent individuals. We seek comprehensive contributions including research papers, literature reviews, meta-analyses, case studies, provocations, and pictorials. This emerging field is crucial, with new technologies offering significant opportunities to enhance the quality of life for neurodivergent individuals. We encourage you to submit your work and help advance this important research area. Best wishes,David d Gollasch — Call for Papers Designing Technology for Neurodivergent Self-Determination: Challenges and OpportunitiesA…

Call for Papers “Storytelling in Times of Technological Changes and Challenges”November 5, 2024Prague City University[Source: http://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01223.html] Submission deadline for abstracts: September 16, 2024 This call seeks papers to be presented at a conference that will focus on the (media) storytelling and its changes and challenges that are connected with technical developments of the last decade. We seek contributions that will discuss storytelling from the perspective of production, dissemination, reception of, or interaction with technologically mediated stories – in the context of traditional media (film, television, radio) as well as new technologies (computer games, social media, algorithms, or AI).…

Call for Abstracts ARTIFICIAL GAMEThird International Video Game Studies Conference (SVI 2024)Organized by The University of Novi Sad, Academy of Arts, The Institute of Ethnography SASA, and Serbian Games AssociationDecember 17-18, 2024Novi Sad, Serbiahttps://sviconference.org Submission deadline: September 30, 2024 The third edition of the SVI video game conference is inspired by the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and aims to bring together industrial practice and academic theories. Both scholars and developers are welcomed. Addressing issues such as the place of artificial intelligence in gaming and its impact on game-making, the potential for abuse and other ethical issues, rethinking player interaction,…

Call for Submissions “Pitch Your Lab”A session at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2024 (ISMAR 2024)October 21-25, 2024Greater Seattle Area, USAISMAR 2024: https://ieeeismar.org/cfp/“Pitch Your Lab”: https://ieeeismar.org/call-for-pitch-your-lab/ Submission deadline: September 13, 2024 We invite research groups from all areas of xR (Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality) and 3D User Interface to apply for presenting in the “Pitch Your Lab” session at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2024 (ISMAR 2024). Presentations may include introduction to the group’s research area, members, equipment, current and past research projects, industrial and academic collaborations, and open positions.…

Call for Chapters Transmedia Storytelling in K-PopLexington Bookshttps://rebrand.ly/cfp-transmedia-k-pop Note: No payment from the authors will be required. Submission deadline for proposals and bio statements: November 1, 2024 I am excited to invite submissions for a new volume titled Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, which is under contract with Lexington Books—an imprint of Bloomsbury Books. Scholarship on K-pop has largely focused on its economic, historical, and political dimensions. This research has rightly highlighted the industry’s evolution from a government-supported cultural export to a global capitalist phenomenon. Additionally, scholars have drawn from fan studies to examine the development of parasocial relationships between fans…

Call for Papers: ETRA 2025: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & ApplicationsMay 26-29, 2025Tokyo, Japanhttps://etra.acm.org/2025/ Submission deadline for abstracts: October 26, 2024 Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce that the 2025 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held from May 26 to May 29, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. We cordially invite you to participate in this prestigious event, which gathers researchers, practitioners, and professionals from a wide range of disciplines with a shared interest in advancing eye tracking research and its applications. ETRA 2025 will showcase cutting-edge research and innovations in various areas,…

Call for Papers Bodies in JournalismSpecial issue of Journalism Studieshttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/bodies-in-journalism/ Submission deadline (extended): September 2, 2024 The body has been a focal point of cultural critique in humanities and social sciences research since the corporeal or bodily turn of the 1980s and 1990s, when it began to be perceived as discursively shaped by language, culture, and ideology, rather than a fixed biological entity. In journalism, bodies play a crucial role in the day-to-day performance of news work: interacting with sources, collecting sensitive information, and negotiating access are integral aspects of the emotional labour of the profession. Despite its essential role…