Call for Papers MANCEPT 2024 Workshop: The Future of RelationshipsSeptember 4-6, 2024Manchester, United KingdomWorkshop: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/mancept/mancept-workshops/list-of-panels-a-z-2024/the-future-of-relationships/MANCEPT 2024: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/mancept/mancept-workshops/ Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2024 Intimate relationships of various kinds play important roles in our lives. From romantic relationships and close friendships to relationships with colleagues and neighbors, they affect our well-being and the structure of our lives in profound ways. There have been many attempts to reimagine societies by focusing on changes to the public sphere: to how we work, how society is structured, and how we will be governed. Less attention has been directed to changes in our intimate relationships.…

Call for Abstracts 11th Budapest Visual Learning Conference: ENVISIONING AN ELECTRIFYING FUTURENovember 13, 2024Budapest, Hungary and onlinehttp://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/EEE/EEE_Opening_page.pdf Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 1, 2024 The 11th Budapest Visual Learning Conference: ENVISIONING AN ELECTRIFYING FUTURE event will take place on November 13, 2024, from 13:00 to 19:20 CET. General information, suggested topics How to submit Plenary speakers Pre-conference network of submissions displayed Reference to earlier conferences in this series Conference homesite — 1. This will be a blended (physical and online) conference. Venue: Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN RCH), 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street.…

Call for Participation Revisiting CEAIT: Music & Early Telepresence (Free discussion panel)Organized by EZTV and LA-SIGGRAPH in collaboration with the Center for Media & Design of Santa Monica College (SMC)Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 2-4 pm PDTSMC’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery1310 11th Street Santa Monica, CA 90401https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revisiting-ceait-music-early-telepresence-tickets-781155435937 The CEAIT discussion panel is informed by ongoing scholarly research on the legacy of the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology (CEAIT) – founded in 1989 by Morton Subotnick at the California Institute of the Arts School of Music. In the 1990s, before the institution acquired its own performance…

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…