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…

Call for papers Psychologically Inspired Cognitive Systems Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cognitive-systems-research/about/call-for-papers Manuscript submission deadline: April 30, 2023 SPECIAL ISSUE INFORMATION: We live in a rapidly changing world. The current challenge for artificial cognitive systems, including virtual and physical artifacts, is to rise to the human level of social-emotional intelligence and become socially acceptable for humans. Therefore, this special issue is intended to promote, facilitate, and integrate studies from many disciplines, unified by the challenge of developing psychologically inspired cognitive systems. Solutions in the form of embodied agents are expected based on symbolic cognitive modeling, deep learning models,…

Call for Contributions GSGS 2023 – 8th International conference on Gamification & Serious GameS June 26-30, 2023 Neuchâtel, Switzerland https://gsgs.ch Submission deadline: January 27, 2023 CONTEXT The GSGS addresses the demand of really user-centered products by falling within the needs of the industrial fabric and the innovation produced by the applied research. This annual event backs the fundamental relation between pragmatic academy and economy, at a regional scale for short and dynamic projects as well as at a national or global scale to set up long-term synergies. CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIAL GAMIFICATION The main idea consists in answering the real needs…

Call for Papers The First Workshop on Human-AI Interaction through Play Held in conjunction with the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2023 Conference April 11-14 ,2023 Lisbon, Portugal Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/hai-play-2023-workshop/home FDG 2023: http://fdg2023.org IMPORTANT DATES: Submission date:  January 27, 2023 Notifications sent:  February 17, 2023 Camera-ready:  March 3, 2023 Workshop Date:  April 11, 2023 MOTIVATION AND GOALS Human-AI Interaction is a rapidly growing research area. As Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) increasingly take over tasks previously performed only by humans, it leads to more situations where humans and machines need to cooperate. Compared to their traditional supportive role,…

Call for Papers Ludo2023 – Twelfth European Conference on Video Game Music and Sound University of Edinburgh, Scotland [and online; see below] March 23-25, 2023 https://www.ludomusicology.org/2022/11/11/ludo2023-call-for-papers/ Abstract submission deadline: January 6, 2023 The Ludomusicology Research Group is pleased to announce the Ludo2023 Twelfth European Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, to be held at the University of Edinburgh, 23-25 March next year. The organizers of Ludo2023 are now accepting proposals for research presentations. We welcome proposals on all aspects of sound and music in games. This year, we are particularly interested in papers that support the conference theme of ‘Sound and Music Beyond the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Fourteenth International Conference on The Image Special Focus: Images Do Not Represent Us, They Create Us: The Image and its Transforming Power University of San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain and Online November 15-16, 2023 https://ontheimage.com/2023-conference/call-for-papers Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces. Submission deadlines: Advance Proposal Deadline: 15 January 2023 Early Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2023 Regular Proposal Deadline: 15 August 2023 Late Proposal Deadline: 15 October 2023 Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function…