Invitation and International Call for Presentations 3RD JOINT UAE SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL ROBOTICS (JSSR2018) 4-7 February 2018 New York University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates University Registration: SocialRoboticsUAE@uaeu.ac.ae Updates: http://conferences.uaeu.ac.ae/jssr2018/en Submission deadline: December 30, 2018 THE FUTURE IS HERE A future in which robots will be our social companions and will assist us in many of our activities is quickly approaching. To get ready for tomorrow, a new kind of integrated research is gaining unprecedented traction: the study of interactions between humans inspires the development of more sophisticated autonomous agents, scaffolding the creation of the next generation of social robots.…

Call for Proposals Connected Learning Summit August 1-3, 2018 MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Learn More & Apply: http://clsummit.news/CLScfpGRN Application Deadline: January 5, 2018 We are proud to announce the First Annual Connected Learning Summit (CLS) to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. On alternating years, it will be held at the University of California, Irvine. The mission of the CLS is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. It represents a merger between three community events with this shared…

Call for Chapters: Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Technologies in Foreign and Second Language Instruction Editor Mariusz Kruk (University of Zielona Góra, Poland) https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3054 Proposals Submission Deadline: January 30, 2018 Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2018 Submission Date: August 30, 2018 INTRODUCTION Over the last few years there has been a quite specific interest in using virtual technologies in education, including foreign/second language education. This is because virtual technologies, such as virtual worlds, are particularly relevant to language teaching/learning in view of the fact that, among other things, they present language learners with situations similar to these found in the…

Call for Papers International Journal of Social Robotics Special Issue: The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction Submission deadline: January 31, 2018 TOPIC OVERVIEW The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and has shown great promises in different fields. Robots were introduced in industry decades ago, and nowadays, robotic systems support humans as assistants, team-mates, caretakers, and companions, in diverse contexts such as education, health and eldercare, the home, retail, and in search and rescue. Discussions of the emotional, psychological, ethical, and societal consequences of these developments have emerged alongside technical advances. Studies in human-robot interaction have…

Call for Papers Post-cinema – VR and AR: a Postcinematic Modernity II Film Forum – XVI Magis International Film Studies Spring School Gorizia, Università degli studi di Udine-Italy March 3rd-7th 2018 Deadline for 1-page proposals: November 30th, 2017 Address questions and proposals to: (goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com) Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), as well as establishing new identities and expanding the perceptions of existing users and the technologies they use, also represent two cardinal points in the (re)definition of participative and political practices in current media landscape. In this sense the Postcinema section would like to explore the “community/knowledge/power”…

Call for Papers What’s Next? The Future of Digital Entertainment A Special Issue of Communication Research Reports https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xLQnZftTONP7oE6OktwZHulBN0caFNN_OjLUynDjPQ/mobilebasic Guest Editors: Allison Eden (Michigan State University) Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (University of Georgia) Editor-in-Chief Nicholas D. Bowman (West Virginia University) Priority submission deadline: January 15, 2018 In the past years, with the advent of technology such as streaming media services, combined with market penetration of smartphones, tablets, and highly interactive platforms, such as immersive virtual environments (popularly known as “virtual reality”) and augmented reality, there has been a dramatic uptick in the number of hours per day we spend with digital…

Call for Papers Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics: Topical Issue on Roboethics https://www.degruyter.com/page/1498 Submission deadline (extended): December 20, 2017 EDITED BY Editorial Board/Guest Editors: Fiorella Operto (lead GE), The School of Robotics, Italy (email: operto@scuoladirobotica.it) Raja Chatila, ISIR, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France Guido Nicolosi, University of Catania, Italy George Bekey, University of Southern California, USA Mariachiara Tallacchini, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy Editorial Advisory Board: Gianmarco Veruggio, CNR-IEIIT, Italy DESCRIPTION Employed by human society in numbers and applications larger than today, robotics is going to trigger widespread social and economic changes, opening new social and ethical…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Social Robots, Emotions, and Social Cognition: Conceptual, Empirical, and Ethical Perspectives Special Issue in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (Expected: Volume 23, Issue 2, 2019) Guest Editors: Johanna Seibt Raffaele Rodogno Research Unit for Robophilosophy School for Culture and Society Aarhus University, Denmark SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st, 2018 So-called ‘social robots’ are embodied artificial agents that move in the physical space of human social interaction and can be perceived as social agents or social interaction partners—due to their appearance, their movements, and their behavioral functionalities. The affordances of social robots also include the capacity to elicit…

CALL FOR PAPERS Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) 2018 Academic Summit Wednesday, June 6 Minneapolis, Minnesota https://segd.org/sites/default/files/2018-segd-academic-summit-call-for-papers.pdf Submission deadline: March 2, 2018 SEGD | Society for Experiential Graphic Design is soliciting submissions for the 2018 Academic Summit to be held on Wednesday, June 6, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Potential papers should address the educational, institutional, technological, social, and cultural issues that have relevance to the overarching discipline of Experiential Graphic Design (XGD), which encompasses environmental graphic and information design, exhibition design, wayfinding and signage design, branding, interactive and immersive environments, and technology integration. Situated the day before the 2018 SEGD…

Call for Papers MULTIMODAL CORPORA 2018: Multimodal Data in the Online World LREC 2018 Workshop 12 May 2018, Phoenix Seagaia Conference Center, Miyazaki, Japan http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/ Deadline for paper submission: 12 January 2018 INTRODUCTION The creation of a multimodal corpus involves the recording, annotation and analysis of several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, gaze, etc. An increasing number of research areas have transgressed or are in the process of transgressing from focused single modality research to full-fledged multimodality research, and multimodal corpora are becoming a core research asset and an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange of…

Call for Papers Minds & Machines special issue on “What is a computer?” GUEST EDITOR István S. N. Berkeley, Ph.D. Philosophy, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Deadline for paper submissions: 30 January 2018 INTRODUCTION Computers have become almost ubiquitous. We find them at our places of work, and even on our persons, in the form of ‘smart phones’ and tablets. Around twenty years ago, The Monist published the contributions from several philosophers on the question, “What is a computer?”. Yet a robust, philosophically adequate conception of what actually constitutes a computer still remains lacking. The purpose of this special…