Call for Participation EMPATHY COLLOQUIUM IN ART-SCIENCE-PHILOSOPHY CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON Amphitheatre FCiências.ID, Ciências ULisboa & Zoom October 6, 2022, 10:30-16:30 (Lisbon time) https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/empathy-colloquium-in-art-science-philosophy/ In recent years empathy has become very popular, both as a term used in our daily lives (often conflated with pity and compassion), and as a process investigated by the arts, humanities and sciences. Such continued interest marks the ongoing need by human beings to understand the complexity of how they experience the world and, in turn, of how they may conceive the Other’s experience of the world. In this…

Call for Panel Contributions “Robust and flexible interactive language technology for human empowerment” IPrA 2023, the 18th International Pragmatics Conference organized by the International Pragmatics Association Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Brussels, Belgium July 9 – 14, 2023 Panel: https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~hbuschme/files/ipra2023-panel-interactive-language-technology.pdf IPrA 2023: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023 Convened by Andreas Liesenfeld (Radboud University) and Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University) Abstracts submission deadline: November 1, 2022 Beyond flashy PR and AI hype, language technology has the potential to change many people’s lives, as it makes available new interactional resources and communicative modalities. Better hearing aids for deaf users or disaster early warning systems for small language…

Call for Papers EICS 2023: The 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems June 27–30, 2023 Computational Foundry, Swansea, Wales, UK https://eics.acm.org/2023/ Submission deadline (for the second round): October 24, 2022 OVERVIEW EICS 2023 is the fifteenth international conference devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems. Work presented at EICS covers the full range of aspects that come into play when “engineering” interactive systems, such as innovations in the design, development, deployment, verification and validation of interactive systems. Topics of interest include the design and development of systems incorporating new interaction techniques and multimodal interaction, multi-user,…

Call for Research Contributions Nordic DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) 2023 April 27-28, 2023 Uppsala, Sweden https://www.im.uu.se/nordicdigra2023/ Submission deadline: November 18, 2022 The Nordic DiGRA Conference returns in spring 2023, this time in Uppsala, Sweden. This will be a fully in-person two-day event on 27 – 28 April 2023. Nordic DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) invites research contributions in the form of extended abstracts. We accept deviations from the format as well as creative interpretations (such as panels, workshops, demos, etcetera). We invite contributions from within and across any discipline committed to advancing knowledge on games. The conference theme this…

Call for Papers 4th European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ECIAIR 2022) Virtual via Zoom December 1-2, 2022 https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/eciair Late submissions being accepted [as of September 21, 2022] The virtual 4th European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ECIAIR 2022) is accepting late submissions of papers, presentations and virtual posters. The conference which is hosted by ACI and supported by EM Normandie Business School, Oxford Campus, UK will run fully virtually on 1 – 2 December 2022. The motivation to launch the European Conference on the Impact of AI and Robotics (ECIAIR 2022)…

Call for Papers COMPSAC 2023 IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications Theme: Resilient Computing and Computing for Resilience in a Sustainable Cyber-Physical World University of Turin, Italy June 26-30, 2023 https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2023/ Main conference/symposium papers due: January 15, 2023 COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. For almost 50 years, COMPSAC has been a central international forum for academia, industry, and government to present and discuss research results and advancements, emerging challenges, and future trends in computer hardware, software technologies, systems, and applications. The theme of COMPSAC 2023 is “Resilient Computing…

Call for Participation HCAI@NeurIPS2022 Human Centered AI workshop at NeurIPS 2022, the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems A VIRTUAL workshop December 9, 2022 Workshop: https://hcai-at-neurips.github.io/site/ NeurIPS 2022: https://hcai-at-neurips.github.io/site/ Submission deadline: September 22, 2022 Many institutions, researchers, and thought leaders have recently promoted the notion that AI systems should be human-centered. Although there is no consensus definition for what human-centered AI means, it commonly refers to a set of principles that AI systems ought to be (a) reliable, safe, and trustworthy; (b) relatively free from bias and not promote or reinforce existing structural inequalities; (c) empowering people by supporting…

Call for Papers Persuasive 2023: The 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands April 19-21, 2023 https://persuasivetech.org/ Paper Submission deadline: December 9, 2022 In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors…

Call for Papers Developing and Communicating Identity via Technology Special Issue of Human Communication & Technology Submissions deadline: December 9, 2022 Identity plays a fundamental role in social and personal communication, and technologies serve as important venues for identity development, refinement, and display. Dr. Erin Sumner (Trinity University) and Dr. Andrew High (Penn State University) are editing a special issue of Human Communication & Technology entitled “Developing and Communicating Identity via Technology.” We are accepting submissions that examine the role of technologies and/or communication modalities with regard to the development of identity (e.g., development of sense of self, and/or identity…

CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications February 19 – 21, 2023 Lisbon, Portugal [and online: Although the conference is back to the normal mode (i.e., in-person) speakers are allowed to present remotely if unable to travel to the venue (hybrid support).] https://hucapp.scitevents.org Submission deadline: October 10, 2022 [See Important Dates below for more deadlines] SCOPE The International Conference on Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Human Computer Interaction. The conference will be structured along four main tracks, covering different…

Call for Participation MIN2022: Museums Immersive Network: Got Tech? A free webinar focused on the meaningful application of immersive technology in museums and heritage organisations By Cornwall Museums Partnership September 7, 2022, 13:00 – 15:15 BST Online https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/399409302977 The Museums Immersive Network team will be hosting our next webinar on 7th September 2022, 13:00-15:00 BST. This event will be a deep-dive into making technology work for your organisation and audience. Colleagues from Museums, Heritage, and Digital organisations share their experiences of making the most of technology to enhance the experience of audiences. ‘Got Tech?’ is a deep dive into making…

Call for Participation 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2023) March 13-16, 2023 Stockholm, Sweden [and online] https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/ Full paper submission deadline: October 3, 2022 Workshop and tutorials submission deadline: October 7, 2022 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is a premier, highly-selective venue presenting the latest advances in Human-Robot Interaction. The 18th Annual HRI conference theme is “HRI for all.” We encourage the community to consider ways to both make the field a more inclusive place for those who may not feel included, as well as to encourage inclusion within our research methods and practices.…