CALL FOR PAPERS Somaesthetics of AtmosphereNovember 7-8, 2024Florida Atlantic UniversityBoca Raton, Florida, USAhttps://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture/uconfern/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: August 20, 2023 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Florida Atlantic University invites paper proposals for a conference on “Somaesthetics of Atmosphere” that is planned for November 7-8, 2024 at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The conference’s call for papers is as follows: Atmosphere is a topic that commands increasing attention not only with respect to climate change but also in the humanities, particularly in philosophy, design, and the arts. Besides its climatological meaning, atmosphere indicates the pervading tone, mood, or…

CALL FOR PAPERS Big Visual Data Analytics (BVDA) Workshop at ICIP 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing October 27-30, 2024 Abu Dhabi, UAE https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cfp-bvda-icip24-workshop/ Paper submission deadline: May 9, 2024 We invite researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of big visual data analytics to submit their work to the Big Visual Data Analytics (BVDA) Workshop, organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2024. The ever-increasing visual data availability leads to repositories or streams characterized by big data volumes, velocity (acquisition and processing speed), variety (e.g., RGB or RGB-D or hyperspectral images) and complexity…

Call for Papers: Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife Conference The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) October 3-5, 2024 University of Helsinki, Finland https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-death-transforming-history-rituals-and-afterlife/digital-death-transforming-history-rituals-and-afterlife-conference Abstract/panel submission deadline: April 26, 2024 How do the dead live among us today? What kinds of relationships can be established between the living and the dead in today’s society? How can we achieve immortality in the present-day digital society? The 7th International Research Symposium of the Death Online Research Network Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife addresses the cultural and social transformation of human death in modern society…

Call for Papers: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2024 October 7-8, 2024 Trier, Germany https://sui.acm.org/2024/index Submission deadline for papers: June 10, 2024 (posters/demos: August 2, 2024) We invite papers, posters, and demo contributions to ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, which is taking place in Trier, Germany, October 7-8, 2024. All topics that are directly or indirectly relevant to spatial user interactions and interfaces are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: design practices; spatial interaction design; evaluation; perception and cognition; human factors and ergonomics; ethical and social factors; inclusion and accessibility; privacy and security;…

Call for Papers GALA 2024: 13th Games and Learning Alliance Conference Organized by the Serious Games Society in collaboration with Berlin School of Economics and Law | HWR Berlin November 20-22, 2024 Berlin, Germany https://conf.seriousgamessociety.org/ Submission deadline: July 3, 2024 You are cordially invited to submit papers to the 13th Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GALA Conference 2024). GALA Conference 2024 is an international conference organized by the Serious Games Society in collaboration with the Berlin School of Economics and Law (Business Faculty). The conference will take place in Berlin (Germany) from 20th November to 22nd November. The objective of…

Call for Abstracts 4TU.Ethics ESDIT Conference on Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology October 2-4, 2024 University of Twente The Netherlands https://conference2024.ethicsandtechnology.eu Submission deadline: April 24, 2024 The deadline for the abstract submission for the joint Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) / 4TU.Center for Ethics and Technology international conference on “Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology” is approaching. The deadline is 24 April 2024. The conference will take place from October 2nd to October 4th at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. With the theme of “Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology”, this conference aims to address the question of what…

Call for Papers Academic Mindtrek 2024 – 27th International Academic Mindtrek conference October 8-11, 2024 Tampere, Finland and Online https://www.mindtrek.org/academic-mindtrek-2024/ Deadline for submissions of full papers and workshops: May 2, 2024 We are very pleased to announce that the 27th International Academic Mindtrek conference will take place between the 8th and 11th of October 2024. We are hoping to host a hybrid event in Tampere, Finland—in person, and live-streamed online. The conference will welcome proposals for full papers, workshops, demonstrations and poster presentations on a variety of topics (see tracks below) as well as a Doctoral Consortium. The International Academic…

Call for Participation Stanford University “Design For XR” user need survey (10 min) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8SEG6ES16V1uu-9N5SZcD6bkCU_gO_FyjUmV5FVIkAV-Xpw/viewform Do you want to be among the first to experience an innovative XR project developed by Stanford engineers? We are a team of students from Stanford University, participating in the Design for Extended Realities course (DESIGN284). Our assignment is to design and develop an XR project that tackles real-world challenges. To ensure our project truly meets user needs and is based on actual behaviors with XR technology, we’re conducting a survey to gather insights. By participating, you’ll not only contribute valuable information that will shape the…

[NOTE: See the GoodIT 2024 website for more presence-related topics and special tracks. –Matthew] Call for Papers Games as Entertainment and Educational Instruments Special Track at the ACM 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT ’24) September 4-6, 2024 Bremen, Germany Special Track: http://csc.dei.unipd.it/serious_games_at_goodit_2024/ GoodIT 2024: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/ Submission deadline: May 17, 2024 Serious games and gamification techniques are often used to capture and maintain the user’s attention, engagement, and motivation in a wide variety of subjects and contexts, including but not limited to health and lifestyle, workplace training, formal, informal, and adult education, social inclusion, and social…

Call for Abstracts The 4th European Culture and Technology Lab+ Annual Conference Transdisciplinary perspectives on AI: Alternative Histories, Current Practices and Possible Futures October 18-19, 2024 Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Cluj Innovation Park Campus Romania https://www.univ-tech.eu/the-4th-european-culture-and-technology-lab-annual-conference Keynote speakers: David Bates – Department of Rhetoric – University of California, Berkeley Adrian Groza – Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca Submission deadline: May 15, 2024 The 4th Annual Conference hosted by the European University of Technology and organized by the European Culture and Technology Laboratory ‘ECT Lab+’ aims to bring together experts from the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology, and other fields exploring ways…

Call for Papers “Grief in the Digital Age” Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences https://link.springer.com/collections/edacfccgdd Submission deadline: February 1, 2025 Dear all, We are inviting submissions of articles for a Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences titled “Grief in the Digital Age.” The Special Issue aims to explore the role of digital technologies for grief experiences. Description: Grief is a complex phenomenon that can be characterised as an emotional process in response to the irrevocable loss of a significant person. In recent years, research at the intersection of phenomenology and empirically informed philosophy of mind has…

Call for Abstracts International Conference on Virtue Ethics and Technology September 19-20, 2024 KU Leuven, Belgium https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt/conference Submission deadline (extended): April 15, 2024 The KU Leuven Working Group on Philosophy of Technology and the Belgian Royal Military Academy are delighted to announce a 2-day international conference on the interplay between virtue ethics and the philosophy of technology (with one day dedicated to military technologies), to be held (in-person) at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium 19-20 September 2024. CONFERENCE THEMES: The conference aims to explore the possibilities for understanding and addressing the ethical, political and societal challenges raised by…