Call for Abstracts 26th Cyberpsychology, Cybertherapy & Social Networking Conference Being together in Paris, improving digital mental health worldwide July 11-13, 2023 On-site in Paris, France Conference website: https://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy26/ Twitter: @CYPSYConference Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087103711076 Instagram page: cypsy26 Contact: cypsy26@u-paris.fr Deadline for abstracts: January 16, 2023 We are very pleased to invite you to join us at the 26th Cyberpsychology, Cybertherapy & Social Networking Conference CYPSY26 that will take place on July 11 to 13, 2022 at the headquarters of Université Paris Cité in Paris, France. The conference will be on-site only (not virtual/online). Jointly organized by the Interactive Media Institute,…

Call for Papers Party! The 19th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar May 4-5, 2023 Tampere University, Finland Free of charge https://springseminar.org/ Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2023 As part of its 20th Anniversary festivities, Tampere University Game Research Lab invites scholars to an international seminar exploring the diverse connections between parties/partying and games/play. Various age-old rituals, ceremonies and celebrations can be understood as play, or at least to include aspects of play. Today important life events like weddings or memorial services are organized in virtual game spaces, and many kinds of festivals, carnivals, and fiestas are routinely…

Call for Papers The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2023 March 12-14, 2023 Glasgow, UK https://augmented-humans.org/ Submission deadlines: Full/short [apers:  December 2, 2022 Posters/demos and workshop proposals:  January 13, 2023 Hi everyone, The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference will be held in Glasgow, UK in the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC, University of Glasgow) on March 12-14th, 2023, focusing on physical, cognitive, and perceptual augmentation of humans through digital technologies. The plural – humans – emphasizes the move towards technologies that enhance human capabilities beyond the individual and will have the potential for impact on societal scale. There are many…

Call for Papers Faultlines of Experience in Social Transformations Early-Career-Workshop of the DGAP (German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy) Heidelberg, Germany March 24, 2023 https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/zpm/psychatrie/fuchs/DGAP-Workshop_Faultlines_of_Experience_in_Social_Transformations_engl..pdf Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 11, 2022 Our everyday life is characterized by interpersonal interactions that are in multiple ways determined by norms. Written and unwritten rules open up and structure social spaces, but they also have a delimiting and exclusionary effect. Not only states of exception such as wars of aggression or a pandemic can temporarily suspend these orders; gradual cultural shifts, technological developments, and virtualization are also changing social interactions.…

Call for Participation: Responsible Robotics: Agency, virtues and art Part of the Responsibility Matters Workshop Series (RMWS) Organized by the Research Center in Applied Ethics (University of Bucharest) Hybrid event: University of Bucharest and Zoom November 10, 2022 at 15.00-19.30hrs EET (Bucharest time) http://comore.ccea.ro/responsibility-matters-workshop-series/ We cordially invite you to the second edition of the Responsibility Matters Workshop Series (RMWS): “Responsible Robotics: agency, virtues and art”. The workshop explores the topic of “Responsible Robotics” at the crossroads between agency, virtues and art, with respect to moral, social and environmental stakes in an era in which robotic AI systems are beginning to…

Call for Papers and Proposals AAAI 2023 – Bridge Program Bridge Session on AI and Robotics Part of the Thirty-Seventh Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence February 7 – 14 2023 Washington, DC, USA Bridge Session: https://www.istc.cnr.it/en/content/aaai-23-bridge-session-artificial-intelligence-and-robotics AAAI Bridge Program: https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23/bridge-program/ Submission deadline: November 18, 2022 CONTEXT Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics are strongly connected areas since the early days of AI. On the one hand, AI principles and methods play a crucial role in several areas of Robotics research and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures. On the other hand,…

Call for Papers UMAP ‘23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 – 29, 2023 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Deadline for paper abstracts: January 19, 2023 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of…

CALL FOR PAPERS Second edition of the workshop “sociAL roboTs for peRsonalized, continUous and adaptIve aSsistTance” (ALTRUIST) Held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022) Florence, Italy December 13-16, 2022 Workshop: Date TBD Workshop: http://altruist.istc.cnr.it Conference: https://www.icsr2022.it/ Contact: ecosociobotics2022@gmail.com Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2022 The second edition of the workshop “sociAL roboTs for peRsonalized, continUous and adaptIve aSsistTance” (ALTRUIST) will be held during the 14th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022), December 13th-16th, 2022. AIM Increased life expectancy is an achievement of modern societies thanks to the technological progress in health, living places, and quality…

[While this Call is not explicitly or directly about presence there are clear overlaps with presence topics; e.g., see “Telepresence after Death” in the journal PRESENCE. –Matthew] Call for Submissions DYING.DIALOGUES January 27, 2023 Toronto, Canada and online https://www.dyingseries.ca/ Submission deadline: December 15, 2022 Dying.dialogues invites participants to share and reflect on design practice as it relates to end of life and grief – whether these be speculative exploratory works, community engagements, or interventions for specific groups or circumstances. The symposium will enable dialogue across multiple stakeholders, including – designers, artists, scholars, health care practitioners and the wider public. These…

Call for Participation: “Object-Based Media: Foundations of Interactive Storytelling with Audio and Video” Professor Marian Ursu, School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York Monday October 31, 2022 at 13:00  UTC/GMT Free online: Join with Zoom: https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98314794142?pwd=QllhOWcwQzd1MWhRM21GS1FOYkpHdz09 The latest in a series of BCS Monthly Online Seminars on Human Computer Interaction and User Experience Presented by British Computer Society Interaction Group and the journal Interacting with Computers https://hciuxseminars.org/ Everyone who is interested in HCI and UX is welcome to join, whether you are a student, practitioner, researcher, teacher or just interested. Seminars will be a mix of presentations by…

Call for Abstracts Eco-socio-botics 2022 – Social Robotics for sustainability @ The 14th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022) Florence, Italy December 13-16, 2022 Workshop: December 16, 2022 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/ecosociobotics2022/home Conference: https://www.icsr2022.it/ Contact: ecosociobotics2022@gmail.com Important Dates: Paper submission: November, 14, 2022 Notification of acceptance: November, 20, 2022 Workshop: December, 16, 2022 We are interested in submissions of original research on Social Robotics and sustainability, or related transdisciplinary research in fields relevant to Social Robotics. The submissions, in the form of abstracts (min 500, max 1000 words), should explore one or more specific aspects of the relationship between Social Robotics…

Call for Papers 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023) June 6-8, 2023 Cagliari, Italy https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/ Regular and Short papers submission deadline: March 1, 2023 End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in technology development, to create their own technology to address their specific needs. These technologies might include mobile, web or software systems, IoT solutions, physical computing devices or machine learning systems. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event, that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices.…