Call for Submissions: Features wanted for the National Communication Association (NCA)’s digital magazine spectra special issue on Communication and AIAugust 8, 2024NCA: https://www.natcom.org/spectra: https://www.natcom.org/spectrahttps://telegra.ph/CALLS-FOR-SUBMISSIONS-Features-wanted-for-NCAs-digital-magazine-spectra-special-issue-on-Communication-and-AI-08-08 Passionate about AI? Do you have unique insights, fresh perspectives, or thoughtful observations on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the field of Communication? Have you had experiences researching this topic that you believe offer valuable lessons or observations for the NCA community? spectra invites you to share your expertise and perspectives on this important subject. We welcome all submissions on issues of Artificial Intelligence and the field of Communication that are relevant to NCA membership,…

Call for Papers Design, Practice, and Critique of Narratives as Entertainment in the Video Game Art FormAn article collection in the Cogent Arts & Humanities Journalhttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_collections/design-practice-and-critique-of-narratives-as-entertainment-in-the-video-game-art-form/ Guest Advisors:Dr Peter Howell & Dr Matthew Higgins (Creative Technologies Research Lab, School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth) Submission deadline: January 3, 2025 Stories are a fundamental form of communication for humanity and are a central facet to human culture. Stories can be highly engaging both emotionally and intellectually, and can bring people and communities together. Video games and interactive digital narratives expand the landscape of storytelling and engage players…

Call for Papers: Communicating Generative AI and ChatGPT: Theory, Research, and PracticeSpecial issue of Human-Machine Communicationhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/callforpapers.html Editors: Seungahn Nah (University of Florida) and Patric Spence (University of Central Florida) Submission deadline: September 1, 2024 DESCRIPTION: The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and advanced conversational models, such as ChatGPT, has ushered in a new era in human-machine interactions. These technologies, with their capacity for generating human-like text and engaging in meaningful conversations, have transcended disciplinary boundaries, impacting fields beyond communication studies (Hepp et al., 2023; Nah, 2023). This special issue aims to explore the intricate dynamics of human-AI communication and…

Call for Participation Impact of Embodiment in VR on Attitudes, Perceptions, and BehaviorFree online talkBy Sofía Seinfeld (Open University of Catalonia)August 18, 2024 at 2-4 PM (CEST)https://sites.google.com/fisppa.it/prinonground/events/fid You are warmly invited to the 4th session of FID (Filosofia Inter-Disciplinare), which will be held online on: Friday, 18 October 2024, 2pm–4pm (CEST) SPEAKER: Sofía Seinfeld (Open University of Catalonia) TITLE: The Impact of Embodiment in Virtual Reality on Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors ABSTRACT: When people see and control a life-size virtual body from a first-person perspective in VR, they might experience the illusion that the artificial body is their own real…

Call for Papers 11th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’24)Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)October 14-18, 2024Bari, ItalyIntRS’24: https://intrs2024.wordpress.com/RecSys 2024: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/ Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: August 23rd, 2024 Paper submission deadline: August 30th, 2024 Author notification: September 20th, 2024 Camera-ready version deadline: September 27th, 2024 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys2024workshops OVERVIEW A fundamental challenge in the design of the user interface for recommender systems lies in striking the right balance between personalization, diversity, and serendipity. While users want recommendations aligned with their tastes and past behavior, excessive personalization risks creating…

CALL FOR PAPERS Figuring the Invisible. Animation and Science Outreach in Contemporary Audio-Visual Culture International ConferenceNovember 20-21, 2024University of PaduaPadua, Italyhttps://www.consultacinema.org/2024/07/11/figuring-the-invisible-animation-and-science-outreach-in-contemporary-audio-visual-culture/ Submission deadline: October 10, 2024 The use of animated models and simulations in contemporary science outreach poses a major epistemological problem. This especially pertains the visualisations of the “invisible” sides of reality: they are mostly offered to the audience “as they are”, without any warning that they are based on non-optical evidence. Because of this, they get misunderstood for true-to-nature representations, and as such they circulate also in audio-visual entertainment, reinforcing the wrong belief that those objects would exactly…

Call for Papers HRI 2025: 20th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot InteractionMarch 3-6, 2025Melbourne, Australiahttps://humanrobotinteraction.org/2025/ Submission deadline for abstracts: September 24, 2024 We are excited to announce the 20th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI is the annual conference for basic and applied HRI research, where researchers from across the world present their best work to exchange ideas about theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in the field. There are many ways to participate in HRI 2025, including full papers archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library, as…

Call for Papers “Atmospheres and Architectonics” ConferenceFebruary 10-12, 2025Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapesthttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2407&L=PHD-DESIGN&P=R7658 Hosted by: Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest & Aetmostudio (MOME) Conference Partners: Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics; University of Naples “L’Orientale”; Somaesthetics and the Arts Center of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, and the European Somaesthetics Network. Peer conference: Somaesthetics of Atmosphere at Florida Atlantic University, 7-8 November 2024, https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture/uconfern/ Keynotes: Steven Holl, Richard Shusterman, Sarah Robinson, and Vittorio Gallese Conference Submission deadline: October 10, 2024 The Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest warmly invites you to…

Call for Papers Digital Games through Muddled Pasts and Modded HistorySpecial issue of Digital Culture & Societyhttp://digicults.org/callforpapers/cfp-digital-games-through-muddled-pasts-and-modded-history/ Edited by: Eduardo Luersen (Zukunftskolleg, Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz) and James Wilson (Zukunftskolleg, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz) Submission deadline for expressions of interest/initial abstracts and short bios: August 25, 2024 “My men do not fear death, they welcome it and the rewards it brings” In recent decades, digital games have become an increasingly ubiquitous medium for popular engagement with history. For many players, these digital representations provide a deeper level of engagement with…

Call for Symposia Proposals Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Convention 2025January 14-16, 2025University of the West of England UWE, Bristol, UKhttps://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025/ Submission deadlines: August 2, 2024 (priority); August 30, 2024 (regular) The society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (the AISB) annual convention will be held at UWE Bristol, UK on 14-16 January 2025. The convention will follow the same overall structure as previous conventions, namely a set of co-located, parallel symposia, as well as invited and plenary lectures and sessions. We are currently seeking proposals for these symposia. Typical symposia last…

[Note: See especially the second-to-last bullet-pointed topic. –Matthew] Call for Papers Digital Battlefields: Communication Technology, Conflict, and the Struggle for Global Attention Journal of Communication Technologyhttps://www.joctec.net/special-issue-calls Submission deadline: September 1, 2024 The Journal of Communication Technology (ISSN 2694-3883), the official journal of the Communication Technology division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is pleased to announce a Special Call for Papers for an issue on Digital Battlefields.  Note: If you submitted a manuscript to the previous special issue call on “The Digital Armed Conflict: The Battle for Ukraine Online,” please submit it again to be considered…

Call for Abstracts “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition” WorkshopSeptember 26-27, 2024Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris (and online)https://sites.google.com/view/sense-reality-workshop-2024 Submission deadline: August 1, 2024 Dear colleagues, On behalf of the organizers, Lucas Battich (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Francesca Righetti (RUB), and myself (Sofiia Rappe, RUB), I would like to announce a call for papers for the upcoming hybrid workshop “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition.” There is more to perception than mere sensory contents: we typically have the feeling that what we perceive is real and not, for example, merely imagined. We have a sense of reality.…