Call for Papers PLEY – Eye Tracking in Play and Sports Workshop* Co-located with ETRA 2023 – ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research & Applications May 30 – June 2, 2023 (exact day TBA) | Hybrid Workshop: https://pleyws.wordpress.com/ ETRA 2023: http://etra.acm.org/2023/ Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2023 Among the many application areas of eye tracking, games and sports have become an increasingly popular domain for leveraging this technology to 1) build novel experiences for players and sportsmen and 2) to gain a better understanding of players’ cognitive processes during gameplay and sports activities. Games and sports pose unique challenges for…

[From the Gamesnetwork e-list] Call for Submissions and Participation LOSTAGAIN/NOSTALGIA Symposium February 4, 2023 Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada https://projectlostagain.wixsite.com/nostagain/call-for-symposium Submission deadline: January 19, 2023 Dear Friends of Game Studies, My name is Richy Srirachanikorn. I am an MA student affiliated with the Technoculture, Arts and Games (TAG) Research Centre at Concordia University. On the 4th February 2023, we are hosting a day-long symposium “LOSTAGAIN/NOSTALGIA” at the Milieux Institute. I would like to invite any colleagues with research interests on time, nostalgia, collective memory, the social/coping utility of emotional video games, identity, and play in a serious world to consider…

CALL FOR PAPERS POSTHUMAN AGENCY: NONHUMAN AND HUMAN ACTORS September 5-7, 2023 Venue: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Purkyne University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic http://kritickyposthumanismus.cz (to be updated soon) Submission deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2023 In our second instalment in the critical posthumanism series we intent to explore the concepts of actor and agency. A posthuman perspective means, among other things, acknowledging that we live in more than human or not only human world. The post-human world is co-inhabited and co-constituted by other than human actors. Although this epoche is characterized as anthropocene, it doesn’t mean that “nature…

Call for Papers, Special Sessions and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication August 28-31, 2023 Paradise Hotel, Busan, Korea and Online http://www.ro-man2023.org Initial paper submission deadline: March 17, 2023 Special session proposal submission deadline: January 13, 2023 Workshop/tutorial proposal submission deadline: February 3, 2023 Dear Esteemed Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to cordially invite you to take part in 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2023), which will be held in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 28 to 31 August 2023. This conference is…

CALL FOR PAPERS Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community (DEI HRI 2023) A Workshop at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2023) Stockholm, Sweden, as well as virtually on Hopin and Zoom March 13, 2023 HRI 2023: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/ Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/dei-hri/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Paper and Survey Submission: January 15th, 2023 Paper Acceptance Notification: February 1st, 2023 Camera-Ready Paper: March 1st, 2023 Workshop date: March 13th, 2023 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES Although being a pressing issue, an understanding of how robotic systems can replicate and amplify inequalities and injustice among underrepresented communities is still…

Call for Papers Special Issue in Elsevier Cognitive Systems Research (CSR/CogSys): The Interplay between Affect and Cognition in Development: From Humans to Robots and Back Submission deadline: April 15, 2023 Dear Colleagues, Following up on the show of interest in the ICDL 2022 workshop FEEL-COG: The Role of Affect in the Development of Cognition, we are pleased to announce a special issue in the Elsevier Cognitive Systems Research (CSR/CogSys) journal on related topics. Extended versions of the submitted workshop papers in FEEL-COG 2022, or of the published conference papers from ICDL 2022 are welcome, but they should have at least…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Animex Research and Innovation Conference April 17-18, 2023 Teesside University, UK Hybrid Conference: In-Person and Online https://www.tees.ac.uk/animexconference/index.cfm Submission deadline: January 6, 2023 We are delighted to announce the inaugural Animex Research and Innovation Conference. The Animex Research and Innovation Conference is the latest addition to the Animex family and brings students and practitioners together from across the animation, games and VFX landscape to share their research in these disciplines. TOPICS We are seeking proposals for a variety of formats from animation, games and VFX. All related proposals will be considered but we encourage you to consider the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Trusting and Distrusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature University College Dublin, Ireland June 7-9, 2023 https://trustlit.org/conference-2023/ Keynote Speakers: Prof. William Davies (Goldsmiths, University of London) Prof. Ellen Rutten (University of Amsterdam) Submission deadline: February 13, 2023 This conference aims to connect two prominent scholarly conversations of the contemporary moment: concerning, on the one hand, the ways in which the digital age has shaped (and been shaped by) human trust relations; and on the other, how digital technologies have intersected with the traditions and practices of imaginative literature. We seek to bring together scholars interested in either…

Call for Papers THE STRUGGLE IS (FOR) REAL: CULTIVATING AUTHENTICITY IN THE “BEREAL” AGE Flow Volume 29 Special Issue 4 https://ecrea.eu/page-18206/13024948 Deadline: January 13, 2023 The viral popularity of BeReal prophesizes the next generation of social media and social sharing platforms. The image-centric sharing platform, launched in 2020 by Alexis Barreyat and Kevin Perreau, promotes itself as a platform for people who hate social media. The platform’s 10 million active users receive a daily notification reminding them it is “time to BeReal” while allowing two minutes to snap their current moment. Already recognized as the “antidote to social media fakery”…

Call for Papers InfoDesign – Special issue Information design and technology https://infodesign.org.br/infodesign/announcement/view/24 Submission deadline: February 28, 2023 For some time there has been a growing interest in investigating the use of technology in various activities and areas of information design, both in physical and digital environments. As technology becomes more interconnected and indispensable in our everyday lives, this has become an important and urgent area of research. With this special issue, we aim to bring together contributions that focus primarily on the relationship between information design and technology, and report on emerging issues within this topic. Related topics include, but…

Call for Papers Special Issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics on “The Future of Work, Play, and Education in the Metaverse” https://mopp-journal.org/go-to-main-page/calls-for-papers/ Guest Editors: Nir Eisikovits (Director, Center for Applied Ethics, UMass Boston) James Hughes (IEET Executive Director and Associate Provost, UMass Boston) Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston Post-Doctoral Fellow) Submission deadline: July 1, 2023 With Facebook’s rebranding to Meta in 2021, the concept of ‘the metaverse’ became a ubiquitous term overnight, inviting both excitement and intense skepticism about the possibilities of our digital future. Broadly speaking, ‘the metaverse’ refers to the emerging online network of three-dimensional, virtual worlds facilitated by…

Call for Papers Reti, saperi, linguaggi – Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences Special Issue: Making Visible: Bodies, Environments, and Apparatuses Editors: Prof. Chiara Cappelletto and Giulio Galimberti Call: https://groups.google.com/g/ISR-HPS-STS/c/nptBBleJh80 Journal: https://www.rivisteweb.it/rivisteweb/journaldetails/index/issn/2279-7777 Submission deadline: September 4, 2023 Dear all, in this special issue of Reti, saperi, linguaggi, a peer-reviewed A-ranked journal released by Il Mulino, we want to address the topic of imaging technologies. Sixty years ago new visualization strategies came to the public floor displaying “pictures” of our living bodies and our cerebral and reproductive functions. These strategies make visible– that is, they visibilize–biological processes that are not visual per…