[See also August 2017 call for conference submissions in ISPR Presence News. –Matthew] Call for contributions to the anthology “Emotional Machines. Perspectives from Affective Computing and Emotional Human-Machine Interaction” Accepted by Springer, Series Futures of Technology, Science and Society Editors: Catrin Misselhorn and Maike Klein Submission deadline of extended abstracts: 30 April 2018 Humans have emotions, machines do not. This seems to be a truism: Human beings are made of flesh and blood; they do not just act rationally but impulsively and emotionally. They make decisions, feel attracted to objects or subjects or repelled by them. They mourn others, are…

Call for Papers FTC 2018 – Future Technologies Conference 2018 15-16 November 2018 Vancouver, BC, Canada https://saiconference.com/FTC2018 Paper Submissions Due: 01 April 2018 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers. Join us for FTC 2018, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security and Communications. The 2017 and 2016 conferences successfully brought together technology…

Call for Papers: “Collaboration in Mixed-Reality” for Frontiers in Robotics and AI In collaboration with the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI, section Virtual Environments we are organizing an article collection on “Collaboration in Mixed-Reality” (Guest Editors: Anthony Steed, Gregory Francis Welch, Thierry Duval). The aim of this project is to bring together international experts to provide a comprehensive view of this topic. Would you like to participate as a contributing author? The full description of this project can be found here: http://www.frontiersin.org/Virtual_Environments/researchtopics/Collaboration_in_Mixed_Reality/7506. The submission deadline is Sep 30, 2018. Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and, if accepted for publication, will be…

Call for conference papers Social Experiences of Film | Film Experiences of Sociality New Approaches in Film-Philosophy 14-15 June 2018, New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study (Bucharest) Keynote speakers: Julian Hanich (Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands) Author of The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh UP, 2017) Rupert Read (Univ. of East Anglia, United Kingdom) Author of Film as Freedom: Ecology and Enlightenment in Cinema (Routledge, forthcoming) Extended deadline for abstract submission: 1 April 2018 Attempts at theorizing film have long stressed the potential of this medium to generate new forms of intersubjectivity and of sociality. In…

Call for Papers: Philosophy of Photography Panorama section of Laocoonte Laocoonte invites paper submissions on the philosophy of photography for its monographic Panorama section of volume 5, 2018. Papers may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2018. Laocoonte is the journal of the Spanish Society for Aesthetics and Art Theory (Sociedad Española de Estética y Teoría de las Artes, SEyTA): Laocoonte: https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/LAOCOONTE SEyTA: http://www.seyta.org Since its inception photography has motivated numerous reflexions about the nature of images and about their artistic modes of production. Photography has engaged thinkers both as a medium…

[For more on the new book, see Amazon. –Matthew] Virtual Futures Salon: Robot Sex – with John Danaher Monday 19 March 2018 06:30 PM – 09:00 PM LIBRARY London, 112 St. Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4BD Register to Attend Virtual Futures presents lecturer John Danaher, in conversation with Dr. Kate Devlin, on his new co-edited book, ‘Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications’ (The MIT Press, 2018). Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people’s sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture’s fascination with the…

Realities360 AR – VR – Simulations for Learning June 26-28, 2018 San Jose, California http://bit.ly/2Fj3OXB Sponsored by The eLearning Guild Register By March 23 For $200 Off! “Easily the best conference that I’ve been to in terms of an actual mix of practical discussions and big-picture discussion.” –Randy Van Wagnen, Washtenaw Community College Realities360 forges a path unlike any other conference, providing you with a hands-on opportunity to explore the potential of augmented reality, virtual reality, and simulations for learning. Join the community that’s shaping the possibilities these technologies present for our work in training and development. LET’S CREATE THE…

Call for Papers LONG(ER)-TERM DESIGN THINKING NSF-Sponsored Workshop 29-31 May 2018 Seattle, WA Rolling submission deadline for 1-2 page position papers; we will begin to review papers on March 10 Design thinking and approaches to problems that are long(er) term – on the order of 20, 50, or 100 years — have a distinct cast. With this workshop, we seek to enable a conversation at the intersection of long(er) timeframes and the role of design thinking and practice. Increasingly, researchers and designers of technology are investigating both individual and societal problems that require a long(er)-term design thinking approach to grapple…

Call for Papers, Special Sessions, Tutorials and Industry Contributions IEEE Games, Entertainment, & Media (GEM) 2018 National University of Ireland Galway, August 15th –  17th http://sites.ieee.org/ieeegem/calls-for-papers/ Submission deadlines: 31st March 2018 Continuing the grand tradition & broadening the scope of the IEEE International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC, 2009-2013) and IEEE Games Entertainment & Media (GEM, 2014- 2016) we introduce IEEE GEM 2018 located in the Alice Perry Engineering Building, National University of Ireland Galway, August 15th –  17th. INTRODUCTION The Games, Entertainment and Media (GEM) Conference began in London 2009, and moved to venues in the US and Canada until 2016.…

Call for Papers Special Issue of Journal of Interaction Studies: Groups in Human-Agent Interaction Submissions due: 1 May 18 As robots and artificial agents become more prominent in human lives, they also increasingly become parts of groups and teams. Group interaction of humans and agents include applications as diverse as: a digital assistant for the home, a social robot operating in a mall, a group of robots and artificial agents supporting first responders. Research on group interactions between multiple humans, artificial agents and robots is important and poses novel challenges as compared to studying dyadic interaction. However, most research on…

[Note the focus on medium-as-social-actor presence. –ML] Call for Papers The 10th Beyond Humanism Conference 18-21st July 2018 in Wroclaw, Poland Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism, University of Lower Silesia Cultures of the Posthuman www.beyondhumanism.org www.beyondhumanism2018.org Download the brochure of the 10th Beyond Humanism Conference Registration Deadline for abstracts: 1st of April 2018 Trans- and posthumanist reflections—as well as their meta-versions—seem to significantly undermine established definitions of culture and question a traditional division into culture and nature. These divisions are difficult to defend in the context of contemporary biotechnology, gene therapy, and easy genome modification available thanks to technologies…

Call for Participation / Submission The 31st ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium October 14-17, Berlin, Germany https://uist.acm.org/ Paper submission deadline: April 5, 2018 The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) is the premier forum for innovations in human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together people from diverse areas including graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size and intensive program make UIST an ideal opportunity to exchange…