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…

Call for Papers 37th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference July 15-17, 2024 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK https://bcshci.org/call-for-papers/ Submission deadline for long and short paper: April 11, 2024 (extended) The International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference is a vibrant and established multidisciplinary HCI conference in its 37th year. The 2024 conference will be hosted by the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK on 15-17th July. We welcome submissions that report original work that addresses areas relevant to HCI research and UX practice (see Areas of Interest listed below for examples). The types of papers accepted are: Full Papers up…

Call for Papers CONVERSATIONS 2024 – 8th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Human-Centred AI Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece [and online] December 4-5, 2024 https://2024.conversations.ws Submission deadline: (firm): September 25, 2024 Welcome to CONVERSATIONS 2024, a two-day workshop on chatbots and human-centred AI. This is the 8th workshop in the CONVERSATIONS series. We invite researchers and practitioners with an interest in the workshop topics to submit papers reporting research outcomes, preliminary findings or positions for sharing and discussion at the workshop. Accepted full papers will be published in the workshop proceedings at Springer LNCS. This year…

Call for Papers: Topical Collection on Trust and Opacity in Artificial Intelligence for Philosophy & Technology (Springer) https://link.springer.com/collections/dibibiaidb Guest Editors: Martin Hähnel (University of Bremen) and Rico Hauswald (TU Dresden) Submission deadline: June 1, 2024 As artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of our everyday lives, we are faced with the question of how to use it responsibly. In public discourse, this issue is often framed in terms of trust – for example by asking whether, to what extent, and under what conditions trusting AI systems is appropriate. In this context, the philosophical debates on practical, political, and epistemic trust…

Call for Participation IMMERSIVE FILMMAKING FOR SPHERES AND DOMES An LA SIGGRAPH event April 13, 2024, 12:00pm PDT Free online via Zoom https://lasiggraph.org/event/immersive-filmmaking-spheres-and-domes You must register with ZOOM REGISTRATION to attend this event Explore the forefront of immersive filmmaking with a global lineup of emerging and established artists sharing their experiences producing animated films for large-scale dome theaters. Produced by LA SIGGRAPH in cooperation with Dome Fest West. DESCRIPTION Explore the forefront of immersive filmmaking with a global lineup of emerging and established artists sharing their experiences producing animated films for large-scale dome theaters. Includes case studies showcasing select projects…

CALL FOR PAPERS THE LYCEUM PROJECT: AI ETHICS WITH ARISTOTLE June 20, 2024 Athens, Greece https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/lyceum-project-ai-ethics-aristotle Submission deadline: April 30, 2024 Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI, in collaboration with Stanford University, Greece’s National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos“, and the World Human Forum will hold a one-day conference on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), ‘The Lyceum Project’, in Athens on June 20, 2024. The venue for the event will be the Athens Conservatory which is adjacent to the ancient site of Aristotle’s school, the Lyceum. The Lyceum Project is premised on the belief that Aristotelian ethics contains…