CALL FOR PAPERS VJ 2023 – 13th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts November 28-30, 2023 University of Aveiro, Portugal https://videojogos2023.spcvideojogos.pt Submission deadline: July 31, 2023 SCOPE Don’t be superstitious about thirteen! The number 13 may be an unlucky number for some, but it is the time that our divine conference Videojogos will also occur. Welcome to the 13th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts. This year’s event takes place at the University of Aveiro from November 28-30, 2023. It is organized by the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, DigiMedia research centre, jointly with…

[Note: There’s a 1:38 minute video explainer on the Immersive Experience Network website (also available on YouTube). –Matthew] Call for Participation Immersive Experience Network Huddle 4: Designing Immersive Experiences October 9, 2023, 10 am – 7 pm London https://immersiveexperience.network/immersive-experience-design-symposium The Immersive Experience Network’s Huddle 4 is going to be a big deep dive into one of the most requested topics that creators have been asking us to explore: Designing Immersive Experiences. This is such a huge topic that we want to ask you, the creator community, to tell us what specific areas you want to explore and who you want to…

Call for Papers Embodied Conversational Systems for Human-Robot Interaction Special Issue of the Dialogue & Discourse journal https://www.carlstrathearn.co.uk/d-d-special-edition Submission deadline: October 1, 2023 Submission link: http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/index.shtml We are delighted to announce the Special Issue on Embodied Conversational Systems for HRI in the Dialogue & Discourse journal. TOPIC AREA Conversational systems such as chatbots and virtual assistants have become increasingly popular in recent years. This technology has the potential to enhance Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and improve the user experience. However, there are significant challenges in designing and implementing effective conversational systems for HRI that need to be addressed (cf. Devillers et…

Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Multimodal Virtual Agents for Mental Health and Wellbeing – A new world with foundation models To be held in conjunction with the 23rd ACM International Conference on Virtual Agents (IVA 2023) Würzburg, Germany September 19-22, 2023 https://iva.acm.org/2023/1st-workshop-on-multimodal-virtual-agents-for-mental-healthand-wellbeing-a-new-world-with-foundation-models/ Submission deadline: July 19, 2023 We are pleased to announce the 1st IVA Workshop on “Multimodal Virtual Agents for Mental Health and Wellbeing – A new world with foundation models”, which will be held in conjunction with the 23rd ACM International Conference on Virtual Agents taking place in Würzburg, Germany, from Sept 19th -22nd, 2023. The workshop…

CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges (DSAI4SG’2023) https://www.wincom-conf.org/WINCOM_2023/?page=special-session To be held in conjunction with The 10th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM 2023) October 26 to 28, 2023 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey https://www.wincom-conf.org/WINCOM_2023/ All Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. (Scopus, DBLP, ISI,…) Hybrid mode: Onsite and Online options: In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or…

Call for Papers The Journal of Human-Technology Relations (JHTR) https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/about The inaugural issue of the Journal of Human-Technology Relations has just been published at https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr. This is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes submissions from design researchers. Plus, it is completely free for authors and readers (Diamond Open Access). We are currently looking for individual submissions and special issue proposals. Aims and Scope: Technologies have come to play a central role in human lives and societies. They help to shape how humans are born and die, learn and live, behave and are being treated, work and relax, have families and friendships,…

Call for Papers Decoding Artificial Sociality: Technologies, Dynamics, Implications Special Issue in New Media & Society Journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/nms Special Issue Editors: Iliana Depounti, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, i.depounti@lboro.ac.uk Simone Natale, University of Turin, Italy, simone.natale@unito.it Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2023 The emergence and development of technologies enabling communications between humans and machines sparked a rethinking of the scope and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this context, software that mimics social interaction is becoming available to vast masses of users around the world. Yet we still lack interpretative frameworks and conceptual tools that go beyond the analysis of…

Call for Papers 1st Joint Workshop on Cross Reality To be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2023) Sydney, Australia and Online Workshop: http://cross-realities.org October 16, 2023 ISMAR 2023: https://ismar23.org/ October 16-20, 2023 Submissions deadline: July 17, 2023 We invite researchers, practitioners, and designers to participate in the 1st Joint Workshop on Cross Reality (CR). SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP Cross Reality (CR) is an emerging technology that focuses on the concurrent usage of or the transition between multiple systems at different points on the reality-virtuality continuum (RVC), including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented…

Call for Presentations 5th Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling In cooperation with Art*VR Festival TOPIC: Dimensions of Empathy. How Empathy and the Concept of Ethics Changed between the Holodeck and the Metaverse? How our trust and sense of criticism shapes the ways we understand old and novel interactive digital narratives? November 2-4, 2023 Prague, Czech Republic; DOX: Centre For Contemporary Art, Poupětova 1, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice https://conf.zip-scene.com/ Submission deadline: July 15, 2023 The concept of the Metaverse embodies a boundless and interconnected sense of compatibility and engagement, which amplifies our expectations for immersive forms of media. In the early…

Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on AI: Special Issue on Conversational AI https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/ieee-transactions-on-ai-special-issue Submission deadline: July 30, 2023 Conversational AI is an emerging interdisciplinary research and innovation field, involving diverse topics ranging from machine learning, speech and natural language processing, understanding and generation, to ethics, sociology and psychology. It has gained increasing popularity in recent years through effective integration in commercial personal assistants such as Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Personal Assistant, ChatGPT, and many others. State of the art in conversational AI is being advanced through a number of global initiatives, including the Amazon Alexa prize competition and NeurIPS…

Call for Papers “Deception and Illusion” special issue of Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie (JTPhil; Yearbook of Philosophy of Technology) and the journal Technikgeschichte Submission deadline for topic outlines (1- 2 pages): October 15, 2023 Submission deadline for complete articles: January 15, 2024 If what is claimed turns out to be false, we feel deceived. If an artifact is able to pretend something miraculous, we speak – often admiringly – of a successful illusion. So, is fake… ambivalent? Photos of people who don’t exist, videos showing real people saying things they never said, posts expressing anger or reviewing products originating from bots: Recently,…

Call for Abstracts The Second Annual Philosophy of Video Games Conference Theme: Virtual Reality and Gaming Florida Atlantic University Jupiter, Florida, USA February 9-10, 2025 https://philevents.org/event/show/112498 Submission deadline: October 15, 2023 Video games are more popular than ever, and gaming is an increasingly common hobby. However, gaming raises a number of complex ethical issues. Perhaps the most familiar is the question of whether violent video games are morally appropriate or not. But beyond questions about the morality of gaming and what is appropriate content, we might wonder what the overall value of gaming is. Gamers are quite passionate about their…