CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) Affiliated with HRI 2024 March 11, 2024 Boulder, CO, USA [and online] VAM-HRI 2024 Workshop: https://vam-hri.github.io/ HRI 2024 Conference: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024 Submission deadline: Due to the early registration deadline for HRI, we have implemented rolling submissions with updated deadlines. Make sure to submit by Jan 17th if you want notification before the HRI 2024 early registration deadline. Final submissions will close February 16, 2024 UTC-12. The 7th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) will bring together HRI, robotics,…

Call for Abstracts Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media An international conference as part of the Irish Research Council Laureate Award project “From Cinematic Realism to Extended Reality: Reformulating Screen Studies at the Precipice of Hyper-reality” (2022-2026) June 4-5, 2024 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-s4bwWFVdPN4hQRRDdpjRpac3TedM/view Keynote speaker: Professor Jenna Ng, Head of Creative Technologies and Professor of Digital Media and Culture and the University of York Deadline for abstracts: February 20, 2024 The world is increasingly grappling with an existential crisis of what constitutes the real. Contemporary “post-truth” societies are mired by so-called fake news…

[Note: See the INTERACT! website for information on many other upcoming presence-related talks. –Matthew] Call for Participation INTERACT! ZOOM LECTURE “On attitudes towards AI” Christian Montag (Ulm University) January 11, 2024, 4pm CET via Zoom We would like to announce our first Zoom lecture in 2024 in the context of our project INTERACT! – New forms of social interaction with intelligent systems at Ruhr-University Bochum: Thursday, January 11th., 16:00 (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien) Christian Montag (Ulm University) “On attitudes towards AI” Abstract: Since the rise of generative AI people around the globe discuss how AI will impact societies. In…

Call for Abstracts Philosophy of Avatars: Avatars that represent humans: Moral, legal, and social considerations March 2, 2024 University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, Scotland [and online] https://philevents.org/event/show/117733 Submission deadline: January 19, 2024 DESCRIPTION Increasingly, avatars represent humans in ways that differ importantly from the familiar avatar/gamer relation. For example, ‘continuing bonds’ representations of deceased people and Hollywood replicas present as being the represented person, in a way that a gaming avatar does not. This workshop explores questions arising from avatar/human representation: around the nature and limits of avatar representation, avatar ownership, responsibility for avatar’s actions and the potential impact of increased…

Call for Papers Symposium: SHIFTING NATURES March 14-15, 2024 ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry https://www.ici-berlin.org/call-for-papers-symposium-shifting-natures/ Deadline to send an abstract: January 28,2024 The very concept of nature has been the subject of thorough critique for quite a while. From a Western deconstructive perspective, nature is a signifier standing for naive immediacy or reactionary normativity. Poststructuralist and queer paradigms have shifted from an idea of nature as a being and of the natural as a given to a conception of them as effects of discursive, performative practices. These critiques marked a turning point in the centuries-long debate on the concept…

Call for Papers Special issue of Safety Research: The Use of Extended Reality Technologies in Safety Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/safety-science/about/call-for-papers Guest editors: Dr. Daniel Paes, Massey University Dr. Zhenan Feng, Massey University A/Prof. Nan Li, Tsinghua University A/Prof. Ruggiero Lovreglio, Massey University Submission deadline: February 28, 2024 Many contemporary human activities carry inherent risks to people’s safety, and there is growing recognition of the need to improve safety records and reduce injury and fatality rates across various sectors worldwide. As a result, industry practitioners and academics are exploring the use of Extended Reality technology solutions to enhance safety. As technology advances and…

Call for Papers In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual Confernce June 10 & 11, 2024 University of Lucerne, Switzerland https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-law/institutes-academies-research-centres/institute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies-lucernaiuris/events/in-the-thick-of-images-law-history-and-the-visual/#tab=c156596 Submission deadline: January 19, 2024 “Suppose that whatever we’ve done, felt, and thought has always happened in the thick of images.” (Anand Pandian, Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation) The ‘visual turn’ has long been turning in critical and cultural studies of law (see Douzinas & Nead 1999). In the past twenty-five years, a growing body of scholarship has evolved that emphasises law’s “constitutive imbrication” (Crawley 2020) with an array of visual forms, and elaborates on…

Call for Papers Journalism Practice Special Issue on Generative AI Age in Journalism: Unveiling Artificial Intelligence’s Potential and Challenges in the News Industry Worldwide https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/jp-generative-ai-age-journalism-unveiling-artificial-intelligences-potential-challenges-news-industry-worldwide/ Guest Editors: Allen Munoriyarwa Department of Media Studies, University of Botswana Department of Communication and Media, University of Johannesburg Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam Digital Media and Society Observatory (DMSO), Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) Deadlines: Abstract Submission: January 5, 2024 Paper Submission: June 30, 2024 Expected Publication Date: Q4 2024 – Q1/2025 In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in journalism and media production has sparked a…

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals Robophilosophy Conference 2024 SOCIAL ROBOTS WITH AI: PROSPECTS, RISKS, AND RESPONSIBLE METHODS August 20-23, 2024 Aarhus University, Denmark [and online; see below] https://cas.au.dk/en/robophilosophy/conferences/rpc2024 Submission deadline for proposals for workshops and panels: January 31, 2024 Submission deadline for short research papers and posters: February 15, 2024 The recent technological leap in AI capacities can be expected to engender a transformative paradigm shift in social robotics. Multimodal AI’s will soon allow social robots to respond to human verbal commands with autonomously generated simulations of human actions. In fact, social robots can be expected to act in…

Call for Papers Spatial Cognition 2024 Technological University Dublin, Ireland June 25-28, 2024 https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/ Submission deadline: January 15, 2024 The 2024 Spatial Cognition Conference will take place in TU Dublin, June 25-28, and is organised in partnership with SellSTEM – Spatially Enhanced Learning Linked to STEM – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network investigating the role of spatial ability in and for STEM learning. Workshops, symposia, posters, abstracts and papers on various aspects of spatial cognition are all welcome. The conference will be in-person only. Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, development, representation, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial objects…

Call for Papers Multispecies Urbanism: Future of Inclusive Smart City Design An Open Panel at EASST-4S 2024, the 11th quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Amsterdam, Netherlands July 16-19, 2024 Panel: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14439 Conference: https://www.easst4s2024.net/ Submission deadline: February 12, 2024. Dear colleagues, We want to share the CfP for a Traditional Open Panel at the 4S/EASST conference 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations. We are inviting submissions to the open panel 355. Multispecies Urbanism: Future of Inclusive Smart City Design, which will take…

Call for Papers (and Exhibition Proposals) WEARABLES COLLECTIVE Symposium: Weaving Innovation into Stages of Life March 25-26, 2024 University of California-Davis https://wearablescollective.ucdavis.edu/ Deadline for submission of full and short papers: January 1, 2024 Deadline for exhibition proposals: January 15, 2024 WEARABLES COLLECTIVE is a two-day symposium focused on e-textiles, smart clothing and other forms of wearable technology applications for health and wellbeing, organized by University of California-Davis in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London. The symposium aims for deep exploration and cross disciplinary discussion in wearables of all forms, smart material explorations and tangible human computer/robot interfaces for…