CALL FOR PAPERS CHI 2023 Workshop on Intervening, Teaming, Delegating: Creating Engaging Automation Experiences At ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference Workshop: Hamburg, Germany and online (hybrid) April 23, 2023 http://everyday-automation.tech-experience.at CHI 2023 Conference: April 23-28, 2023 Hamburg, Germany https://chi2023.acm.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of position papers: February 14, 2023 Decision to authors: March 3, 2023 Camera-ready versions due: March 31, 2023 Workshop: April 23, 2023 Automated systems are becoming increasingly common and transitioning towards active communication partners, embodied as vehicle cockpits, connected homes, self-checkout machines and manufacturing tools. With the advent of more flexible and powerful settings of automation, for example…

Call for Papers PETRA 2023: The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) Conference Corfu Island, Greece July 5-7, 2023 http://www.petrae.org/ Paper submission deadline (extended): February 15, 2023 ABOUT: The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics,…

Call For Papers “The Imperfectly Relatable Robot: An interdisciplinary workshop on the role of failure in HRI” Co-located with HRI 2023, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Workshop: March 13, 2023 (half day workshop, afternoon session) Hybrid format https://sites.google.com/view/hri-failure-ws/home HRI 2023: March 13-16, 2023 Stockholm, Sweden https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/ Deadline for workshop abstract submission: February 14, 2023 (extended) What happens when robots fail? How does this impact human expectations of social robots? What if encountering a robot who is a little less than perfect might actually make it more relatable? Focusing on failure as a way to improve human-robot interactions represents a…

Call for Submissions Experiential Learning in Communication Division 2023 National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention November 16-19, 2023 National Harbor, Maryland, USA https://www.natcom.org/nca-109th-annual-convention-freedom Deadline: March 29, 2023 The Experiential Learning in Communication Division welcomes your submissions for our sessions in National Harbor, Maryland, Nov. 16-19, 2023. Experiential learning involves creating and facilitating direct, practical learning experiences for students and asking them to reflect on the learning process. This division focuses on the practice of experiential learning with the goal of understanding the process and impacts of the communication process in our world. Forms of experiential learning include: Community-Based Learning Internships…

Call for Papers “Atmospheres in Film” Special issue of Ambiances, International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space https://journals.openedition.org/ambiances/4423?lang=en Submission deadline: February 17, 2023 Ambiances, International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space is accepting submissions for its special issue 2023 on “Atmospheres in Film”. PRESENTATION The term “atmosphere” may derive from the scientific lexicon, but for more than 20 years now it is commonly used in the humanities and social sciences (eg. philosophy, human geography, urban studies, theatre and performance studies, cinema studies, information and communication sciences, such as psychology, phenomenology or aesthetics). As such, the word…

Call for Papers Well Played Journal Special Issue: AR and VR Games https://press.etc.cmu.edu/news/well-played-journal-special-issue-cfp-ar-and-vr-games Edited by Ira Fay and Dan Roy Submission deadline: April 30, 2023 AR and VR games are growing in popularity and access, while also increasing in the variety of experiences players can have. They offer multiplayer embodied experiences, ranging from augmented reality games that tap into GPS and have you walking around like Pokemon Go, to virtual reality games in a headset like Beat Saber, to mixed reality experiences that are location-specific like Ghostbusters: Dimension. We welcome submissions of analyses and studies of AR and VR games…

Call for Participation “Secret Agents: The Real and Imagined Inner Lives of Interactive Robots” Utrecht University Embodied AI Talk by dr. Tom Williams February 2, 2023 15:00 to 16:00 CET Online on MS teams Registration can be done here: https://forms.gle/SvmJAwgwWMhpPtdH9. We will email the Teams link to the registered participants For more information about the Embodied AI Initiative: https://embodiedaiuu.wixsite.com/home ABSTRACT Robots are Secret Agents. By this I mean that while computer scientists and roboticists may not view their robots as being fully autonomous, interactive, and adaptive, everyday users perceive them as such nonetheless. This creates a whole host of user…

[See also the Call for ACII 2023 Workshop proposals, which has the submission deadline of February 17, 2023. –Matthew] Call for Papers ACII 2023: International Conference on Affective Computing + Intelligent Interaction MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, USA September 10-13, 2023 https://acii-conf.net/2023 Main track submission deadline: April 14, 2023 The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on September 10th – 13th, 2023. The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is…

Call for Papers Technical Papers for IBC 2023 September 15-18, 2023 RAI Amsterdam Technical papers: https://show.ibc.org/conference/technical-papers-2023 IBC 2023: https://show.ibc.org/ Submission deadline for 300-word synopses: February 10, 2023 IBC is the world’s most inspiring content and technology event. It draws together the global media, entertainment and technology industry for a compelling live experience that enables every attendee to gain critical insights, share expertise and unlock business opportunities. Created ‘by the industry, for the industry’ – a principle established on its founding in 1967 that carries through to today – IBC has continued to evolve with each new trend and technology over…

Call for Submissions ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023 Theme: Designing for inclusive conversation Eindhoven, The Netherlands July 19–21, 2023 https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2023/ Submission deadlines: Papers: February 15, 2023 Workshops: March 2, 2023 Provocations, posters, demos, doctoral consortium: April 17, 2023 ACM CUI 2023 will be in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 19–21st July 2023. CUI has now been welcomed into the ACM family, and is now a SIGCHI sponsored conference! There has been an increasing interest in language-based interactions with technology. Driven by the commercial success of intelligent personal assistant devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, the number of natural…

Call for Papers 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) October 9-13, 2023 Paris, France https://icmi.acm.org/2023/ Submission deadline: May 1, 2023 The 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) will be held in Paris, France. ICMI is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling such as representations, fusion, data and systems. The study of social interactions englobes both human-human interactions and human-computer interactions. A unique aspect of ICMI is its multidisciplinary nature which values both scientific discoveries and…

Call for Papers IDEA: Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents International Workshop co-located with AAMAS 2023, The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems London, United Kingdom IDEA Workshop: May 29 or 30, 2023 https://en.uit.no/project/idea/call_for_papers AAMAS 2023 conference: May 29 – June 2, 2023 https://aamas2023.soton.ac.uk/ Submission deadline: February 14, 2023 DESCRIPTION The Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents (IDEA) workshop is a one full-day workshop organized within the AAMAS2023 conference (29-30 May, London, United Kingdom). Emotion Sensitive Agents (ESA), i.e. agents equipped with emotional sensitivity, may it be for accounting for (human-centered) or replicating (human-like) emotion, are an…