Call for Papers Designing Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 2023) INTERACT 2023 Workshop 28 August 2023 York, UK [and in remote or hybrid mode if necessary] Workshop: http://avcd.aalto.fi/mapii2023/ INTERACT 2023: https://interact2023.org Submission deadline: May 29, 2023 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Maps, in their many forms, have long been used to guide and coordinate different human activities, ranging from local to global, and small scale to large scale. As such, maps continue to play a central role as the basis for a wide variety of interactive tools and applications in our modern digital age as well. This workshop aims to bring together…

Call for Papers AIC 2023: 9th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition Co-located with the International EASE Fall School on Cognitive Robotics University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany September 14-15, 2023 Workshop: https://ease-crc.org/aic-2023/ EASE Fall School on Cognitive Robotics: https://ease-crc.org/fall-school-2023/ Abstract submission deadline: June 16, 2023 (strict) Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2023 (strict) ABOUT AIC 2023 AIC 2023 is the 9th international appointment of the International Workshop Series AIC on “Artificial Intelligence and Cognition”. The AIC series  (see http://www.aicworkshopseries.org/) started in 2013, stemming from the need of creating an international scientific forum for the discussion and the presentation of…

Call for Participation “Chatbots and a new kind of responsibility gap?” A talk by Guido Löhr of Eindhoven University of Technology May 17, 2023 at 15:00 CET Institute of Philosophy, Leuven (Belgium) and online The KU Leuven Chair Ethics and AI and Working Group on Philosophy of Technology are pleased to invite you to a talk by Guido Löhr of Eindhoven University of Technology entitled Chatbots and a new kind of responsibility gap? The event will take place Wednesday May 17, 2023, at 15:00 (CET) at the Institute of Philosophy, Leuven. No registration is required for in-person attendance. If attending…

Call for Chapters Springer Book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) SecondDeath. Experiences of Death Across Technologies Submission deadline: Expressions of interest requested ASAP; Chapters: December 2024 Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the international academic publisher Springer is planning the release of the “SecondDeath. Experiences of Death Across Technologies” (2024) in the book series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE). This book edition has been entrusted to Alger Sans Pinillos (University of Pavia), alger.sanspinillos@unipv.it, Vicent Costa (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC), and Jordi Vallverdú (ICREA Academia – Autonomous University…

Call for Participation XR Access 2023: Seizing Advancements for Access June 15-16, 2023 Cornell Tech campus in New York City and online https://xraccess.org/symposium/ ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The last few years have seen amazing technological breakthroughs in software and hardware alike. Join us for the 5-year anniversary of the XR Access Symposium, hybrid in New York for the first time since 2019, and learn about how these technological advancements can be used to make virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (collectively XR) more accessible for people with disabilities. This 1.5 day conference will take place on June 15-16 at the Verizon Executive…

Call for Papers From C-3PO to HAL: Opening the Discourse about the Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents A hybrid workshop at the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023 conference July 19, 2023 at 13:00 – 17:00 (UTC+2) Eindhoven, The Netherlands and online Workshop: https://www.digital-media-lab.uni-bremen.de/multimodaldarkpatterns CUI 2023: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2023/ Submission deadline: June 2, 2023 Overview: Communicative bots such as voice assistants, social (ro-)bots, and taskbots are increasingly becoming part of everyday life, with work showing how we integrate these agents in our daily routines while creating emotional bonds with them. As these artificial agents grow in numbers and level of sophistication,…

CALL FOR PAPERS Gaming, Entertainment and Media (GEM) 2023 conference: Where Technology and Art Collide Sponsored by IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) November 19-22, 2023 Bridgetown, Barbados (Hybrid – In-Person + Virtual) https://ieeegem.org/ Paper/demo submission deadline: June 30, 2023 Get ready to witness what happens when technology and the arts collide at IEEE CTSoc International GEM 2023 conference. This premier conference brings together leading researchers, academics, and industry professionals to explore the intersection of games, entertainment, media and the arts. With exciting networking opportunities, you’ll have the chance to share and discover cutting-edge research, ideas, and experiences on the future…

[Note: For other HICSS tracks and minitracks related to presence see https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/ –Matthew] Call for Papers Mediated Conversation minitrack https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ HICSS – Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 3-6, 2024 In Waikiki at Hilton Hawaiian Village (Oahu, Hawaii, USA) http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2023 Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. The deadline to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack is June 15. Conversations are at the core of human communication.  Mediated…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AIofAI ‘23: 3rd Workshop on Adverse Impacts and Collateral Effects of Artificial Intelligence Technologies In conjunction with the 32nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2022) Macao, China August 19-21, 2023 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/aiofai2023/home IJCAI-2023: https://ijcai-23.org Submission deadline: May12, 2023 – EXTENDED! The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in people’s everyday life has grown exponentially over the last decade. Currently, individuals rely heavily on intelligent software applications across different domains including healthcare, logistics, defence, and governance. Particularly, AI systems facilitate decision-making processes across these domains through the automatic analysis and classification of large data sets and the subsequent identification…

Call for Chapters Three companion books on Artificial Intelligence in Education: K-12, Higher Education, and Adult Training To be published by Routledge Deadline for 500-word chapter proposals: August 1, 2023 Artificial intelligence (AI) permeates our 21st century lives. Artificial Intelligence in Education has been a field of scholarly study for the past 30 years (Luckin et al., 2016). Recently, there has been an increased scholarly interest in how AI can be used to extend and enhance education for students of all ages (Crompton & Song 2021). Indeed, with the release of ChatGPT, our awareness of AI capabilities has been heightened.…

Call for Panels, Research & Creative Work Broadcast Education Association (BEA) On-Location Conference With a special emphasis on Immersive Technologies University of South Carolina October 19-21, 2023 https://www.beaweb.org/OL/ Submission deadlines: June 15, 2023 On-Location provides professional development with a series of hands-on training sessions, and an opportunity to promote academic scholarship through research and creative sessions and competitions. This year’s conference will include special sessions on virtual reality, augmented reality, 360° video, including panels, speakers, and demonstrations. RESEARCH: BEA’s On-Location conference accepts the following full paper and research-in-progress submissions, and the following types of research: General research related to any…

Call for Papers: Sensing Stories. Approaches on Multisensory Narration in Arts and Media International and transdisciplinary online lecture series https://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/kalender/termin/call_for_papers__sensing_stories-24600.html Organizers: Prof. Dr. Patrick Rupert Kruse (FH Kiel) and Nora Benterbusch (Universität des Saarlandes) Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 30, 2023 The dream of virtual reality has always been the creation of a digital world that is indistinguishable from our physical world. This is illustrated by current technological innovations, whose goal seems to be the development of ever more complex virtual environments as well as increasingly multisensory experience designs. Digital objects can be touched via tactile interfaces such as the…