Call for Papers “Rethinking human-technology relations” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection https://www.nature.com/collections/fabejegiac Guest Editors: Orsolya Friedrich (FernUniversität in Hagen) Sebastian Schleidgen (FernUniversität in Hagen) Johanna Seifert (FernUniversität in Hagen) Submission deadline: November 13, 2023 Human-technology relations (HTR) are of crucial interest in the humanities and social sciences. In sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, and psychology, the implications, effects, and dynamics of human-technology relations are controversially debated and analysed. This Article Collection aims to address these debates and provide a systematic overview of different disciplinary approaches to the topic of human-technology relations by shifting the focus from human-machine interactions…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies November 8–9, 2023 NOVA University Lisbon Portugal https://ifilnova.pt/en/cognitive-ecologies-values-and-disruptive-technologies/ Submission deadline: September 23, 2023 Confirmed speakers to include: David Spurrett (University of Kwazulu-Natal) Gloria Andrada (NOVA University Lisbon) Jesus Vega-Encabo (Universidad Autónoma da Madrid) John Sutton (University of Stirling & Macquarie University) Lucy Osler (Cardiff University) Robert W Clowes (NOVA University Lisbon) The Lisbon Mind, Cognition and Knowledge Group, in collaboration with the GENAI Project, is excited to announce the workshop on Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies. This intellectually stimulating event will take place on the 8th and 9th of November…

Call for Proposals The Digital Worlds Workshop Online April 19-21, 2024 https://digitalworldsworkshop.wordpress.com/ Extended abstracts submission deadline: January 15, 2024 The Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley invites submissions for a virtual workshop to be conducted remotely on April 19-21 2024. We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, or alters our experience of our lived worlds. The distinction between “being on the internet” and “being in the real world” is eroding. People can increasingly be said to “live on their phones” or other devices. This workshop aims to interrogate…

Call for Papers Teaching Beyond the Curriculum A virtual conference on Teaching and Learning – International Perspectives Focus on Pedagogy 2023 An AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) event Virtual: UK, USA, China November 15-17, 2023 https://amps-research.com/conference/teaching-2023/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 5, 2023 The number of ways we have thought about education over time is vast. From Socrates to John Dewey, and Jean Piaget to Paulo Freire, our understanding of learning has evolved and morphed. The concepts and theories we manage range from learning for learning’s sake to vocational training; from a liberal arts education to on-the-job training; and…

Call for Submissions Student Design Challenge (SDC) 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024) Boulder, Colorado March 11-14, 2024 Student Design Challenge: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/student-design-challenge/ HRI 2024: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/ Deadline for initial submission (draft paper + video): December 8, 2023 Calling all robotics students, designers and educators! We are excited to share details of this year’s Student Design Challenge (SDC) associated with the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024) to be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 11-14 2024. The SDC is designed to provide university student teams (of any level/discipline) with an opportunity to design and develop a…

Call for Participation Researchers for Online Seminars about Digital Surveillance University of Pisa Pisa, Italy Dear All, The University of Pisa is organizing a series of online seminars about Digital Surveillance. The seminars will be once a month and each researcher will reflect on a different nuanced aspect about the topic of surveillance. We are currently looking for researchers that work in this field, so we can create a dialogue during the meeting. The topics requested are (but not limited to): Surveillance in virtual reality (i.e. Metaverse, Video games, or more in general Social Network) Surveillance in Medicine Surveillance in…

Call for Papers HRD-BOND: The What, Why, How of Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads A special session at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2023 Doha, Qatar December 4-7 2023 Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2023 We welcome you to submit to our special session, HRD-BOND: The What, Why, How of Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads, at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2023 in Doha, Qatar (December 4-7 2023). DESCRIPTION: We are heading towards a society where interactions between humans and social robots will no longer be reserved for rare occasions (e.g. in a research laboratory as part…

Call for Papers E3: Enhancing the Esports Experience A workshop at CHIRA 2023, the 7th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications Rome, Italy November 16-17, 2023 https://e3workshop.wordpress.com/ Submission deadline: September 15, 2023 Hi everyone, Laura Herrewijn and I are co-chairing E3: Enhancing the Esports Experience, a workshop at CHIRA 2023 (7th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications) that will take place in Rome (Italy) on November 16-17, 2023. Together with our program committee (consisting of Simone Kriglstein, Günter Wallner and Pejman Mirza-Babei), we are looking for contributors who are working in the diverse field of esports…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS iLRN 2024: 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference theme: “Tech4Good” June 3-5, 2024: Online & in Virtual Reality June 10-13, 2024: University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland https://www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2024/call-for-papers/ Special Track Deadline: September 17, 2023 Tutorial Deadline: October 31, 2023 Full Paper Submission Deadline: November 17, 2023 The 10th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2024) will be innovative and interactive gatherings online and face-to-face for a flourishing global network of researchers and practitioners collaborating to develop the scientific, technical, and applied potential of immersive learning. It is the premier…

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…