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…

Call for Abstracts AI and Communication Practices MedieKultur Special Issue https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/1069 Deadline for abstract submission: May 1, 2023 Theme editors: Ib T. Gulbrandsen (Associate Professor, Roskilde University), Martina S Mahnke (Associate Professor, Roskilde University), Emma Christensen (Postdoc, Roskilde University), Julie Vulpius (Postdoc, Roskilde University), and Simon Karlin (PhD Fellow, Roskilde University) Issue editor: Martina S Mahnke (Associate Professor, Roskilde University) Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only shaping contemporary communication processes but is actively contributing to and participating in them. Customer service chatbots communicate with us, prediction and surveillance models communicate about us, and content generators communicate instead of us. AI…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media Special Edition: Live Performance in Digital Environments Guest Editors: Dr Kerry Francksen and Prof Sophy Smith Submission deadline: June 30, 2023 Digital performance practices continue to proliferate in response to a fast-moving technological landscape; one where artists have persisted in their adaptations towards a post-pandemic vista. Yet, whilst our attention was sharply focused through the pandemic (as highlighted in the recent ‘Covid-19: Theatre Goes Digital’ Special Issue), it is the case that having to use technologies fundamentally changed how artists and practitioners composed and realised their artwork. As we…

Call for Papers HRI4Wellbeing: The 2nd Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Applications in the Real World Co-located with IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Paradise Hotel, Busan, Korea and Online August 28, 2023 Workshop: https://hri4wellbeing.github.io/ RO-MAN 2023: http://ro-man2023.org/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2023 The main topic of our workshop will be robotic applications for wellbeing in the real world, which is strongly in line with the RO-MAN 2023 theme of “Design a New Bridge for H-R-I”, which seeks to address the challenges of developing intelligent robots for human health. Robots are becoming…

Call for Papers MUM 2023, 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 3-6, 2023 Vienna, Austria https://mum-conf.org/2023 Submission deadline: August 22, 2023 MUM 2023, the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Vienna, Austria, December 3rd – 6th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such as interaction techniques, user research, system development, software solutions, and devices. This edition of MUM aims to continue the tradition of…

Call for Special Collection Papers: “Virtual Reality in Medical Education“ Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking https://home.liebertpub.com/cfp/call-for-special-collection-papersandnbsp-virtual-reality-in/458/ Guest Editors: Frank D. Buono, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA (buono@yale.edu) Asher Marks, MD, Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA (marks@yale.edu) Deborah Lee, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (webdeb@med.umich.edu) Submission deadline: July 31, 2023 Virtual reality (VR) technologies have been around for over 30 years. Recent advances in hardware and software are rapidly accelerating the possibilities for impactful uses in healthcare and health education.…