Call for Papers

2nd Workshop on Eudaimonia in Digital Games
At the 2024 Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) Conference
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Workshop: May 21, 2024
https://sites.google.com/view/eudaimonia-in-games/

FDG 2024: May 21-24, 2024
https://fdg2024.org/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 7, 2024 AoE
Notification: March 27, 2024
Camera ready: March 31, 2024
Workshop date: May 21, 2024

OVERVIEW

Researchers and practitioners interested in the eudaimonic emotional experience that can arise from video game design and play are invited to submit to the 2nd Workshop on Eudaimonia in Digital Games at FDG2024.

All fields and viewpoints are welcome and encouraged! Please share with your colleagues and circulate amongst your networks.

Related topics include but are not limited to the following:

• games for change/games with a purpose
• empathy games/deep games
• designing for the mixed affect / reflective emotional experience
• emotional attachment to game characters
• user experience studies of games players
• AI for empathic and/or emotionally engaging NPCs
• exploring different types of challenge and agency in the context of emotionally resonant games
• player motivational models

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The concept of eudaimonia in the study of video games has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years, especially as juxtaposed to the idea of hedonia which is often assumed as lying at the heart of most video game play experiences.… read more. “Call: 2nd Workshop on Eudaimonia in Digital Games, at FDG 2024”

Call for Art Submissions

CVPR AI Art Gallery 2024
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024
https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2024/CallForAIArt

Deadline for art submissions: March 10, 2024

Computer vision techniques have long been used to make art, with tools such as GANs, Stable Diffusion and NeRF gaining popularity in recent years to create novel aesthetics, imagine new ways of seeing the world and investigate the potential of human-machine collaboration in the arts. Apart from that, artists have been looking critically into the workings and applications of object and facial recognition, producing works that highlight the limitations of the current state of technology, critique the machine’s view of the world and use the technology in unexpected ways.

At CVPR 2024, we will present a gallery of AI artworks in a dedicated space at the conference. We encourage submissions from anyone interested in AI art, whether you’re a computer vision researcher with visually engaging results or a professional artist.… read more. “Call: AI Art Gallery at IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024”

[From a January 22, 2024 post in the Educause Extended Reality (XR) Community]

Research Study Seeking Participants – XR implementation in STEM education

My name is Bhargav Upadhyay. I am a Ph.D. student at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, and my research focuses on using extended reality (XR) technologies for education and training. Our team at Clemson University is working on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project to explore using extended reality (XR – VR, AR , MR) technologies to support STEM technician education. I am contacting educators from technical colleges and universities to request an interview regarding their approach to implementing XR technologies for instruction. This research aims to investigate and analyze various instruction and training methods, resources, technology, and equipment used for teaching students that equip them to handle tasks that they might perform on the job. By examining the strategies employed by educational institutions, I seek to gain valuable insights into the practical implementation of XR technology as an instructional medium.… read more. “Call: Participation in study on XR implementation in STEM education”

Call for Abstracts

The era of artificial intelligence and the merging of human and machine: New perspectives on humanistic and socio-pedagogical knowledge
September 19-21, 2024
Alghero, Italy
https://philevents.org/event/show/116685

Submission deadline: May 31, 2024

The speed of socio-cultural transformations resulting from the advent of the internet, social media and artificial intelligence together with the presence of growing economic interests around data traffic poses serious questions regarding the sustainability of these changes, which have and will have increasingly an impact on the development of cognitive, critical and participation skills in the public sphere of future generations. Alongside optimistic considerations on these technologies, which allow access to enormous quantities of data and communication almost without space-time boundaries, the dysfunctions linked to an uncritical use of the internet resource are increasingly evident. Artificial intelligence is able to process a mass of data that grows every day through the browsing of individual users (it is estimated that today the same mass of data is archived in two days that has been archived since the dawn of civilization to 2003, i.e.… read more. “Call: The era of AI and the merging of human and machine: New perspectives on humanistic and socio-pedagogical knowledge (conference)”

Call for Participation

Delphi Study about Expert Consensus on Reporting Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) User Studies

[Posted on the AI-SGES e-list on February 8, 2024]

Dear colleagues,

A team of global HRI researchers will be conducting a Delphi study to generate expert consensus on reporting human-robot interaction (HRI) user studies. This online study seeks to refine a checklist for conducting HRI studies, synthesized from academic publications, to enhance the standardization of reporting practices in the field. We are interested in recruiting HRI experts around the world to help us review and refine the checklist.

If you have been actively working in the field of HRI for over five years, we invite you to join the participant pool. If selected, you will be involved in two asynchronous online rounds (~30 minutes each), where you will fill out an anonymous survey to assess and refine the checklist.… read more. “Call: Delphi study about expert consensus on reporting human-robot interaction user studies”

Call for Papers

SPM 2024 – The Society for Phenomenology and Media 25th annual conference
May 14-19, 2024
Tallinn University, Estonia
https://www.societyforphenomenologyandmedia.org/call-for-papers-2024

Deadline for considerations of abstracts and panels March 1, 2024
Applications must be made through EASYCHAIR

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dermot Moran – Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College
Sara Heinämaa – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä
Katrin Tiidenberg – Professor of Participatory Culture at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University

The Society for Phenomenology and Media encourage submissions for the 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM2024).

We invite abstracts for papers on the ever-growing influence of digitalisation on our lives and life-worlds. The arrival of large language models capable of producing huge amounts of text with near-human quality has recently stirred the attention of everyone from school children to academics and business circles.… read more. “Call: Society for Phenomenology and Media 25th annual conference”

Call for Papers

ICAIR 2024 – 4th International Conference on AI Research
(formally the European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics)
December 5-6, 2024
Universidade Lusófona,
Lisbon, Portugal
https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/icair/

Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2024

The International Conference on AI Research (ICAIR) is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, and consultants from around the world who are involved in the study, management and development of artificial intelligence related issues in education, in business or in the public sector to publish and present their research. There are several strong strands of research and interest that are developing in the area including the consequences of AI and robotics on work and society, the governance of AI, risks and benefits of AI, ethical dilemmas related to AI, the employment of Chatbots and GenAI. We also welcome applications of AI to solving some of the World’s global challenges such as to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people in growing urban environments around the world; to help civilisation migrate from hydrocarbons to non-fossil sources of energy and other activities to mitigate the climate crisis; to contribute to the continued eradication of extreme poverty in the World.… read more. “Call: ICAIR 2024 – 4th International Conference on AI Research”

Call for Participation

Stories of/by/for the Field of Play Study
https://press.etc.cmu.edu/blog/Stories_of_by_for_the_Field_of_Play

Please help define and reflect on the field of play by participating in an exploratory qualitative study led by Drew Davidson at Carnegie Mellon University. You are invited to participate in a questionnaire to help explore the current state of the field around play, specifically in games and related areas (mixed reality, themed entertainment, tech, etc.). The concept of play is rather broad and diverse—from social studies to health and enjoyment, from education and learning to games and technology, and more. As such, this is less a focus on a discipline and more an exploration of the extensive ideas around play. Results will be published open access by ETC Press. We will share stories of/by/for this vast field of play in the global relationships amongst education institutions, industry companies, professional organizations, foundations, and government groups focused on the creative and entertainment technology industries.… read more. “Call: Stories of/by/for the Field of Play Study”

Call for Papers

“Transformative Games Revisited”
Special issue of G|A|M|E – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment
The Italian Journal of Game Studies
https://www.gamejournal.it/n122024-transformative-games-revisited/

Edited by Kristine Jørgensen, Doris C. Rusch, Astrid Ensslin, Riccardo Fassone

Full paper submission deadline: May 1, 2024

Games designed for a purpose beyond entertainment and recreation have a long history, spanning educational games, newsgames, and critical games. With the maturation of the medium, there has also been an emergence of games that invite ethical reflection and self- critical involvement, such as Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment 2012) and Shadow of the Colossus (Team Ico 2006), and games that aim for social change such as Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (Ustwo 2020) and Depression Quest (Quinn, Lindsey and Schankler 2013). Another emerging, but lesser explored approach is transformative games; games that aim to foster personal capacity building, mindfulness, and spiritual development.… read more. “Call: “Transformative Games Revisited” issue of GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment”

Call for Papers, Artwork or Performance Proposals

STORYTELLERS + MACHINES 2024
July 2-4, 2024
School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, UK
https://storytellersandmachines.xyz/

Submission deadline: February 15, 2024

Following on from the series symposium in June 2023, Storytellers + Machines 2024 will be a two-day conference shaping debate on AI narrative, art and media at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Theme of the conference is “Controlling the Narrative: agency, interaction and influence in creative AI”.

Storytellers+Machines 2024 is a transdisciplinary conference that champions the contributions of artists, creative practitioners and technologists, alongside other voices from academia, industry and cultural sectors in the lively and contested creative AI space.

The open call for submissions to the conference is now open.

Deadline: 15 February 2024.

Submit 300-word paper, artwork or performance proposal

THIS YEAR’S THEME:
CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE: AGENCY, INTERACTION AND INFLUENCE IN GENERATIVE AI STORYTELLING AND ART

The theme for this year’s conference asks presenters to submit 300-work proposals for papers, artworks and performances related to three overarching topics for discussion:

1. AGENCY
2. INTERACTION
3. INFLUENCE

THEME 1 – AGENCY

AI generative systems are possibly the first tools depicted as having their own creative agency.… read more. “Call: Storytellers + Machines 2024”