Call for Submissions Essay Challenge: On creating AI in Virtual Worlds Lab42 https://lab42.global/essay-virtualworlds/ Submission deadline: March 31, 2023 Dear all, From the early days of computing, scientists and dreamers alike were captivated by the idea of creating machines that could think and reason like humans. As the decades passed, a sense of tension grew as pioneers in the field made strides in developing increasingly sophisticated AI systems, while skeptics warned of the dangers of creating machines that might outstrip human intelligence. The tension reached a fever pitch in the 1990s, with the rise of expert systems and neural networks, and…

Call for Participation Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism A (free) transdisciplinary conference May 13, 2023 & May 14, 2023 John Cabot University, Guarini Campus, Rome, Italy https://calendar.johncabot.edu/event/technology-art-and-the-posthuman-the-end-or-a-new-beginning-for-humanism-1/ Submission deadline: March 6, 2023 A transdisciplinary conference seeks to foster transdisciplinary and intercultural conversations among artists, technologists, humanists, and natural scientists presenting their work in areas such as literature, philosophy, ethics, psychology, music, fine arts, bodywork, and intercultural knowledge. The conference accepts papers and art works that encourage scholars, artists, intellectuals, scientists, and technologists to reflect on the emerging cultural and humanist paradigm that…

Call for Papers Special Track: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on XAI xAI 2023: First World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence July 26-28, 2023 Lisbon, Portugal https://xaiworldconference.com/special-track-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-xai/ Submission deadline: April 20, 2023 As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent, concerns about biased decision-making, mistrust, safety, and gaps in responsibility as well as accountability become increasingly pressing. While eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is seen as a crucial and central means of mitigating these risks, a more comprehensive understanding of XAI is still required that considers not only technical aspects but also societal, psychological, legal, and ethical requirements of AI explanations. The special track Interdisciplinary…

Call For Papers The 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023) December 4-7, 2023 Gothenburg, Sweden https://hai-conference.net/hai2023/ Submission deadlines: Full paper submissions: May 26, 2023 Poster submissions: TBA, August 2023 Workshop submissions: TBA, August 2023 The Eleventh International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023) aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. HAI will gather researchers from fields spanning engineering, computer science, psychology and sociology, and will cover diverse topics, including: human-robot interaction, affective computing, computer-supported collaborative…

Call for Papers Bodies, Images, Networks. Digital space as public space Lessico di Etica Pubblica XIV, n. 1, 2023 http://www.eticapubblica.it/call-for-paper/ Edited by Flora Geerts (University of Turin), Andrea Osti (University of Genova) & Francesco Pisano (University of Naples “Federico II”) Submission deadline: April 15, 2023 Issue 1/2023 of Lessico di Etica Pubblica aims to investigate the transformations of public space and the subjects that inhabit it in light of its intertwining with the so-called “digital space”. Even if we limit ourselves to a narrow notion of public space as a collective place of encounter, interaction, sharing, and mutual negotiation of…

Call for Abstracts Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress September 20-23, 2023 Washington, D.C. #MediaAndMinds23 https://www.childrenandscreens.com/2023-digital-media-and-developing-minds/ Full Call: https://www.childrenandscreens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Call-for-Abstracts-Full-Information.pdf Submission deadline: March 17, 2023, 11:59 pm ET Please submit abstracts in PDF format to congress@childrenandscreens.com. Here is a Sample Abstract. Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development invites submissions for the 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress. The Congress will bring together a diverse mix of global interdisciplinary experts — researchers, clinicians, educators, government agency representatives, and others with expertise in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, pediatrics, communications, social work, public health, and education…

Call for Participation MORAL AGENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSITIONS: ETHICS, POLITICS, DESIGN A one-day workshop @ CHI 2023, ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference Workshop: In-person, Hamburg, Germany: April 23 or 28, 2023 (to be confirmed) Remote: May, 2023 (exact day to be determined) https://moralagents.org CHI 2023 Conference: April 23-28, 2023 Hamburg, Germany https://chi2023.acm.org/ Submission deadline: February 23, 2023 Imagine things start engaging us in ethical debate, and demand we regard them as moral counterparts. Such moral agents present a potential new form of human-technology relation, and a new way of driving sustainability – with autonomous systems that transparently state and deliberate…

Calls for Contributions HHAI 2023: Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Conference June 26-30, 2023 Munich, Germany https://www.hhai-conference.org Main track abstract submission deadline: February 17, 2023 In this call: Call for Main Track Papers (Updated deadlines) Call for Posters and Demos Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers The full text of each call is available on our website: https://www.hhai-conference.org In this message, we shortened each call to their essentials. All deadlines are at the end of the day specified, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2023) is the second international conference focusing on the study of Artificial Intelligent systems that cooperate synergistically,…

Call for Book Chapters New Realities and New Pathways: Mediated Communication Pedagogy Revisited Editors: Ahmet Atay and Deanna L. Fassett Deadline for proposals (no more than 500 words): February 20, 2023 We seek chapters that explore and engage with mediated critical communication pedagogy in a post-pandemic higher education landscape. Our earlier work framed “mediated” in pre-pandemic terms, as the use of tools (whether traditional forms of media like films or more “new” forms, such as social media platforms and posting) that impede, enhance or transform teaching and learning environments that strive for social justice. The last three years have transformed…

CALL FOR PAPERS IVA 2023: ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents Special topic: IVAs in future mixed realities” September 19-22, 2023 Würzburg, German https://iva.acm.org/2023/ Abstract submission: April 14, 2023 Paper submission: April 18, 2023 The annual ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the development, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents with a focus on the ability for social interaction, communication or cooperation. Such artificial agents can be embodied graphically (e.g. virtual characters, embodied conversational agents) or physically (e.g. social or collaborative robots). They are capable of real-time perception, cognition,…

Call for Papers V CRISA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE American Archives: Virtuality, Memory, Media Archaeology Rome, Italy September 18-20, 2023 http://crisa.uniroma3.it/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 28, 2023 As acts inscribed and archived on some form of material medium — paper or digital — documents are traces that allow collective and individual memories to establish social and historical realities. The archives that collect such traces play a central role because, through them, processes of elaboration, reworking, and questioning of interconnected national and transnational collective memories become possible. Archives thus allow us to rethink the cultural heritage of a community, contributing to…