Call for Papers HRI 2024: 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction March 11-14, 2024 Boulder, Colorado, USA [and online – see below] https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/ Deadline for full paper submissions: September 29, 2023 We are excited to announce the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI 2024 is the 19th annual conference for basic and applied HRI research. Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in the field. The conference theme for HRI 2024 is “HRI in the…

Call for Papers 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23) Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) September 18-22, 2023 Singapore IntRS’23: https://intrs2023.wordpress.com/ RecSys 2023: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/ Important dates: Paper submission deadline: August 3rd, 2023 Author notification: August 27th, 2023 Camera-ready version deadline: September 10th, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intrs23 OVERVIEW Recommender systems are a popular kind of information access systems that provides personalized recommendations to users based on their preferences (i.e., current and past), behaviors, and feedback. These systems are widely used in e-commerce, social networking, and content sharing platforms,…

[Important note: I usually avoid posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I add an explicit note near the top of the post noting the fee requirement. For more information about the specific fees follow the link near the end of the Call, and for general information about publication fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew] Call for Papers…

Call for Contributions: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR … Diversity, Culture, Virtual Reality A mixed media anthology English: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call Plain English (via GPT-3): https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-Plain Deutsch: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-DE Einfache Sprache: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-Einfach Editors: Katharina Haverich (Performance and media artist) Lucas Kuster (Design researcher and experimental artist) Deadline for submission of abstracts: August 4, 2023 TIMING August 4, 2023. Deadline: Abstract / Preliminary project information (max. 1,500 characters) August 30, 2023. Decision on contributions October 15, 2023. Deadline: Submission of contribution consisting of Total contribution (max. 15,000 characters for text) Short bio (max. 400 characters) FORM OF PUBLICATION Mixed-media anthology (Free PDF and printed edition…

Call for Participation: Survey on the Teaching of Extended Reality Technologies and Synthetic Media in Screen Media Programmes [From Jennifer O’Meara (omearaja@tcd.ie): ] Dear Colleagues, Please consider taking part in a new survey investigating the teaching of extended reality and deceptive technologies in Higher Education screen media programmes. You can access the survey and the participant information leaflet here: https://forms.office.com/e/mPcDEjYkyM You are invited to participate in this study if you work in the Higher Education sector and teach on screen media programmes (such as those related to Film Studies / Media Studies / Digital Media Studies). Participation is invited from…

Call for Papers The 13th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT’23) WICT 2023 Theme: ICT in the Generative AI World December 14-15, 2023 Onsite and On the World Wide Web http://www.mirlabs.org/wict23/ Onsite Venues: Olten, Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olten Porto, Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto Vilnius, Lithuania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius Kochi, India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2023 ABOUT WICT 2023 After the success of the 12th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2022), we are organizing WICT 2023 to provide an opportunity for the researchers from academia and industry to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in the…

Call for Unpublished Work for Meta-Analysis on Human-like Chatbot Characteristics https://sosci.iwm-tuebingen.de/callforunpublishedwork/ Submission deadline: September 15, 2023 Dear colleagues, As part of my dissertation project, I am currently conducting a meta-analysis on the impact of human-like characteristics of text-based chatbots on user-related outcomes. Human-like characteristics refer to verbal (e.g., conversational style), visual (e.g., human-like picture), or chronemic (e.g., dynamic response times) social cues. User-related outcomes include variables that refer to users’ attitudes, perceptions, positive or negative affect, the user-chatbot relationship, trust, or user behavior. Specifically, I want to answer the following research questions: (1) What is the overall effect of human-like…

[Note: Use the ‘Language’ link at the journal’s website to find out more about Enrahonar.  –Matthew] CALL FOR PAPERS: Monograph: “Current narratives in digital society: Disinformation, fake news and ethical-political dynamics” For the Journal Enrahonar-Quaderns de Filosofia, an international journal of theoretical and practical reason Guest editors: Miguel Palomo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Walter Federico Gadea Aiello (Universidad de Huelva) Submission deadline: March 31, 2024 Please submit your paper through OJS: https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar Fake news, infodemic, deepfakes, hoaxes, post-truth, conspiracy theories… are all notions that have begun to form a part of the range of terminology needed to explain the reality…

CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI) at the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023) November 6 – 9, 2023 Rome, Italy NL4AI Workshop: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ AIxIA 2023: http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/ IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline:  September 11, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance:  September 29, 2023 Camera-ready version deadline:  October 9, 2023 Workshop (at AIxIA 2023):  November 6 – 9, 2023 INTRODUCTION: The goal of the NL4AI workshop is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities…

Call for Papers “Transformational Experiences. The Role of Immersive Arts and Media in Individual and Societal Change” An issue of AN-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images Edited by Federica Cavaletti and Katrin Heimann https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/anicon/announcement/view/826 Submission deadline: December 15, 2023 We live in times of humanitarian and environmental crises. The effects of climate change add to the economic, physical, and mental suffering caused by social discrimination (e.g. gender, class, and race inequalities), while ultimately not only affecting those lowest in the power structure. These crises are unlikely to be resolved with technology alone – as post-work society and similar frameworks encourage to…

Call for Papers Technology special issue of the Journal of Continental Philosophy https://www.pdcnet.org/jcp/Journal-of-Continental-Philosophy Submission deadline: August 18, 2023 Reflections on technology throughout the twentieth century centered largely on instrumental or anthropological accounts of machines, analog technologies, and industrial automation. As powerful new digital forms of technology recast modes of human activity and experience, contemporary reflections on technology have become much more expansive, encompassing not only machines and artefacts but entire ways of thinking, being, and relating to the world. Recent developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning (as well as robotic automation, behavioral analytics, cloud computation, etc.) have only made…

Call for Papers IDEATExR – 2nd Annual ISMAR workshop for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency, and Ethics in XR To be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2023) Sydney, Australia and Online Workshop: https://ideatexr.carrd.co/ October 16, 2023 ISMAR 2023: https://ismar23.org/ October 16-20, 2023 Submissions deadline: July 23, 2023 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Due to the important, evolving, and shifting nature of inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, transparency, and ethics in XR, this workshop has five main goals: To provide a vehicle through which to understand better the pulse of the community surrounding these issues…