Call for Chapter Proposals Video Games as Ecomedia: Nature, Technology, and Play Editor: Melissa Bianchi, Nova Southeastern University Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2023 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Video games have been increasingly recognized as valuable tools for environmental storytelling and ecological simulation. In response, scholars have examined the ways specific video games depict nature, the environmental implications of game design and development, and the use of games for education and activism. Notably, Alenda Chang (2019) makes a compelling case for the study of games as ecomedia because these cultural artifacts continue to extend and challenge long traditions of environmental representations. To…

Call for Papers Nordic Explorative Workshops Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Existentialism for Games Jyväskylä, Finland October 16-18, 2023 https://nordicgamephilosophy.w.uib.no/cfp-phenomenology-for-games/ Submission deadline for abstracts and bios: September 15, 2023 Some time ago, an Innocent Bystander, after glancing through a copy of Mind, asked me, “Why do philosophers talk so much about Games? Do they play them a lot or something?” (Midgley, “The Game Game”, 1974, p. 231) University of Jyväskylä in Finland and Nordic partners call for papers and student presentations for a workshop on the philosophy of games to be held in Jyväskylä, 16–18 October 2023. Games are a source of…

Call for Abstracts/Articles Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (2023) “Cinematic Images: The Digital Condition of Moving Images” https://www.movingimagescience.com/call-for-papers/ Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2023 Deadline for articles: February 12, 2024 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting abstracts from researchers, artists, designers, technical developers, graphic artists, computer scientists, game designers and film makers for the eighth issue “Cinematic Images: The Digital Condition of Moving Images” that will address the aesthetics, cognition, and technological structure of Cinematic Moving Images. YoMIS will be enriched by disciplines like media theory, film studies and philosophy, art and design, artistic…

Call for Participation Wanted: Research Teams for Virtual Meeting Study with Compensation up to $250 Are you working in a research team? Do you regularly meet online? Funded by the Sloan Research Foundation, Dr. Anita Blanchard and Dr. Joe Allen are conducting a study on how distributed research teams develop and maintain their connections during and between their virtual meetings. We are currently seeking a wide variety of research teams in STEM, social sciences, and humanities to create a recruitment pool for this project. Research teams can have a variety of purposes including but not limited to basic research, applied…

Call for Papers The Natural World in the Cinema Special section of Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/announcement/view/67 Submission deadline: January 15, 2024 This special section of Aniki aims to map the relationship between cinema and what we call ‘the natural world’, recognizing the human as a mediating element of this articulation, while responding and reacting to the tendency towards anthropocentrism that is found in both film production and the plurality of critical approaches canonized in the context of film studies. It will promote a broad discussion of this problem without any specific focus on a time period,…

Call for Papers and Panels Communication and Technology Interest Group CSCA 2024: Central States Communication Association Annual Convention Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA April 2-7, 2024 Interest Group Call: https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sd/news_article/516386/_PARENT/layout_details/false CSCA 2024: https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/convention_overview Submission deadline: October 7, 2023 The Communication and Technology Interest Group invites submissions of competitive papers, extended abstracts, and panel proposals for the 2024 CSCA Convention. The purpose of the Communication and Technology Interest Group is to promote dialogue and scholarship on the role of technology in communication. In conjunction with the convention theme, we are seeking innovative and insightful research that explores how we use technology to…

Call for Abstracts 2nd International Workshop on Accessibility Research and Users with Multiple Disabilities or Complex Needs Part of ASSETS ’23: The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Online October 28, 2023, 12-5pm (CEST, UTC +2) https://www.mdcnworkshop.com/ Submission deadline: September 15, 2023 Dear all, The 2nd International Workshop on Accessibility Research and Users with Multiple Disabilities or Complex Needs invites presentation proposals from researchers and practitioners interested in designing accessible technologies with and for users with multiple disabilities or complex needs. We invite plural contributions from scholars in human-computer interaction, engineering, humanities, disability studies, and other sub-domains.…

Call for Abstracts Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience Aesthetics & Critique VII Kunsthalle Friart & University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland December 14-16, 2023 https://projects.unifr.ch/aesthetics-critique/workshop/ Submission deadline: September 30, 2023 Confirmed keynote speakers: Aurora Hoel (NTNU) Oliver Krüger (U. Fribourg) Lars Bang Larsen (Art Hub Copenhagen) Andrea Pinotti (U. Milan) Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucińska (U. Antwerp) The philosophical debate concerning virtuality has so far privileged metaphysical issues, asking whether or not virtual spaces and objects should be considered as real or illusory. With this conference, we suggest bracketing such metaphysical questions for a while and focus instead on the relationship between virtuality…

[Note: Several other ICA divisions and interest groups may be appropriate for presence-related submissions. See their Calls at https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24-cfps –Matthew] Call for Papers 74th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference Gold Coast, Australia June 20-24, 2024 https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24 Human-Machine Communication Interest Group https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HMC_CFP Jihyun Kim, Vice-Chair & 2024 Planner Nicholson School of Communication and Media University of Central Florida jihyun.kim@ucf.edu Submission deadline: November 1, 2023 at noon EST The Human-Machine Communication (HMC) Interest Group supports and promotes scholarship regarding communication between people and technologies designed to enact the role of communicator. Such technologies include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence…

Call for Papers ACM IUI 2024: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2024 Conference Greenville, South Carolina, USA March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/index.html Deadlines: Abstract submission:  October 2, 2023 Full Submission: October 9, 2023 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques and systems. In addition to traditional IUI themes, we add this year…

Call for Submissions 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2024) Chicago, Illinois June 24-26, 2024 https://cc.acm.org/2024/ Submission deadlines: See below We invite you to attend and submit content to the annual ACM Creativity & Cognition conference to be held on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago June 24-26, 2024. We hope you will join us for an architectural boat tour on the Chicago River, attend the conference reception at the Chicago Architecture Center, and experience an evening of interactive art at the Bridgeport Art Center. Since 1993, the conference series brings together artists, scientists, designers,…

Call for Participation Inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium Where are we? And where are we going? September 19-20, 2023 Yale School of Medicine Orange, Connecticut, USA https://pediatrics23.ivrha.org/ On September 19 and 20 the Yale XR Pediatrics and IVRHA (International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association) are co-sponsoring the inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium. The first evening of the conference features a reception at the brand new Yale XR Pediatrics Lab facility (with an OptiTrack mo-cap system and other goodies). There is a fantastic line-up of leading med-XR voices on the agenda. It will be a great opportunity…