Call for Abstracts Virtually Human: Philosophizing through Games and Virtual Worlds April 21-22, 2023 Molloy University Rockville Centre, NY https://philevents.org/event/show/105233 Submission deadline: February 5, 2023 The Molloy University Philosophy Department and New Media Department welcome submissions to our conference, “Virtually Human: Philosophizing through Games and Virtual Worlds,” taking place on our campus in Rockville Centre, NY, on April 21-22nd, 2023. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers from philosophy as well as game studies. The conference will include participation from undergraduates and be open to the public, so papers are encouraged to avoid excessive philosophical jargon and to be accessible to the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Human-Machine Communication: Authenticity in Communicating with Machines A pre-conference at ICA 2023, the 73rd annual conference of the International Communication Toronto, Ontario, Canada Preconference: Thursday, May 25, 2023 (Full Day; 8:30 am – 5:00 pm) Venue: on-site at the ICA23 conference venue https://humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-conference-2023/ ICA 2023: May 25-29, 2023 https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23 Submission deadline: January 31, 2023 The 7th annual pre-conference on Human-Machine Communication (HMC) aims to facilitate discussions about theories, methodologies, findings, opportunities, and challenges related to “authenticity” in HMC. We focus on two primary areas: “authenticity in communication between humans and machines” and “authenticity in HMC research.” 1)…

Call for Papers Information design and technology Special issue of InfoDesign 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 Participation Bad Game Arcade Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Online January 23-27, 2023 https://www.badgamearcade.ca/ Hi Everyone, I am happy to invite each and every one of you to a free symposium happening (online and in-person) at Concordia University from January 23 – 27, 2023. Titled the Bad Game Arcade, this event will be investigating the benefits, challenges, and drawbacks of making educational games in and outside of Academia. The week will be as hybrid as possible featuring: 1. An arcade with over 16 educational games you can play, critique, and explore. 2. Live interviews with game developers,…

Call for Papers Conversational, Cognitive, and Affective HCI A mini-track at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023 Conference August 10-12, 2023 Panama City, Panama AMCIS 2023: https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org Track descriptions [several relate to presence –Matthew]: https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/ Submission deadline: March 1, 2023 Understanding and adapting to the cognitive and affective states of users can enable systems to interact more effectively and creates new possibilities for information systems. Emerging systems are able to incorporate information from these sensors to create more humanlike responses, to improve decision processes, and to gain a deeper understanding of how the user is thinking or feeling.…

Call for Papers The 20th International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2023) Mallorca, Spain October 1-4, 2023 Web: http://www.cdve.org Email: cdve@cdve.org Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2023 Full paper submission deadline: April 1, 2023 The 20th International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2023) will be held in Mallorca, Spain on October 1-4, 2023. See www.cdve.org for details. You are all welcome to submit papers and join us! The focus of the conference is “cooperative”. Research results concerning multiple users, multiple disciplinaries, multiple locations, multiple units, multiple sensors are within our attention. The major areas are in…

Call for Papers 26th RoboCup International Symposium July 10, 2023 In conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) Bordeaux, France (and possibly online) https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ Submission deadline: April 16, 2023 We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year’s symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they…

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…