Call for Submissions and for Participation Designing Conversational User Interfaces for Older Adults A Workshop on Theoretical, Methodological, and Practical Design Perspectives on Designing CUIs for Older Adults At the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023 conference July 19, 2023 Eindhoven, The Netherlands Workshop:  http://speech-interaction.org/CUI-OA2023 CUI 2023: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2023/ Submission deadline: Submitted papers will be lightly reviewed by the organizing committee within 10 days of submission (there is no formal deadline) This multidisciplinary workshop aims to tackle the significant gaps in theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and exploration of new paradigms within the research and design of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) for…

Call for Papers ETHICOMP 2024 21st International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT Smart Ethics: The Leading Role of Ethics in the Digital World Logroño, Spain March 13-15, 2024. https://www.unirioja.es/ethicomp/2024/index.html Extended abstract submission due: June 15, 2023 We are living in a smart world, where everything looks smart. The use of the term “smart” is a buzzword. Technology becomes the backbone of virtually every aspect of our life: work, relations, health, education, leisure, … In our next international conference, ETHICOMP 2024, we wonder if the current state of technological revolution is truly smart. What does “smart” really…

CALL FOR ARTICLES Journal SEMEIOSIS – Special Issue on “AI Aesthetics” https://semeiosis.com.br/special-issue About the Journal: https://semeiosis.com.br/about-semeiosis Guest Editors: Alexander Gerner (amgerner@fc.ul.pt) Renata Souza (renatynhass@usp.com) Vinícius de Aguiar (vjdaguiar@fc.ul.pt) Submission deadline: June 15, 2023 “For it is evident that it is in esthetics that we ought to seek for the deepest characteristics of normative science, since esthetics, in dealing with the very ideal itself whose mere materialization thickens the attention of practices and of logic, must contain the heart, soul, and spirit of normative science.”  Peirce (1906, CP 5551). The question of the mere ontological (im-)possibility of “the” creative machine does…

Call for Papers/Posters/Demos VRST 2023 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Christchurch, New Zealand / In-person only October 9-11, 2023 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2023/ Submission deadlines: Abstracts: June 12, 2023 Papers: June 19, 2023 Posters and demos: July 2, 2023 The 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, from Monday-Wednesday, 9-11 October 2023. The event is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH. VRST is a premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers on virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR, XR for…

Call for Papers AI and Fandom Special issue of open-access journal Transformative Works and Cultures https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/131 Submission deadline: January 1, 2024 Due in part to well-publicised advancements in generative AI technologies such as GPT-4, there has been a recent explosion of interest in – and hype around – Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. Whether this hype cycle continues to grow or fades away, AI is anticipated to have significant repercussions for fandom (Lamerichs 2018), and is already inspiring polarised reactions. Fan artists have been candid about using creative AI tools like Midjourney and DALL-E to generate fan art, while fanfiction writers…

Call for Papers New Perspectives on Joint Attention Special issue of Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy https://www.springer.com/journal/11245/updates/23781996 Guest editors: Anna Bloom-Christen (University of California, Los Angeles, abc22@g.ucla.edu) Michael Wilby (Anglia Ruskin University, Michael.Wilby@aru.ac.uk) Deadline for manuscript submission: May 31, 2023 INTRODUCTION: Joint attention has generated a lot of discussion within a range of areas, most notably developmental psychology and philosophy (Eilan et al 2005; Seemann 2011; Metcalfe and Terrace 2014; Seemann 2021). It is often thought to be deeply implicated in our understanding of other minds (Heal 2005; Schmitz 2014, Martens 2021), our understanding of communicative utterances (Campbell 2019;…

Call for Papers CONVERSATIONS 2023 – 7th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Applications and Design University of Oslo, Norway and online November 22-23, 2023 https://2023.conversations.ws/ Submission deadline: September 10, 2023 Welcome to CONVERSATIONS 2023, a two-day workshop on chatbot research, applications, and design. This is the 7th CONVERSATIONS workshop. With the surge of interest in chatbots powered by large language models over the last few months, the workshop is possibly more relevant than ever before. Join in for sharing and collaborating between researchers and practitioners in the field. The workshop is located in Oslo, Norway. However, to accommodate for participation…

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…