Call for Abstracts and Papers International Cross-Cultural Communication Conference Theme: Digital Futures of Cross-Cultural Communication 15 September 2022 (5pm – 9pm ICT) Online; Hosted by Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) https://www.commarts.chula.ac.th/th-th/news-detail.html?id=881 Deadline for abstract submissions: August 15, 2022 The years of Covid pandemic have completely transformed how we communicate – from maintaining connections with friends via FaceTime calls to conducting university classes via Zoom. More and more business interactions happen online as well. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of virtual communication technologies, and also created an impetus for further development of these technologies. Online communication tools and platform became so sophisticated…

Call for Papers Workshop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency and Ethics in XR (IDEATExR) To be held in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2022) Monday October 17, 2022 Hybrid https://ismar2022.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/W20_CFP_IDEATExR.pdf Abstract deadline: July 4, 2022 Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2022 ABSTRACT The potential benefits of XR should be for all, regardless of their cultural background, gender identity, race, neurodiversity, ethnicity, economical status, age, etc. However, our community is still facing challenges preventing everyone from being involved in XR. Most research within this space relies on the M-WEIRD population and researchers…

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH) A workshop in conjunction with the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022) 7 or 11 November, 2022 Bengaluru (Bangalore), India SAMIH Workshop: https://ahcweb01.naist.jp/samih2022/ ICMI Conference: https://icmi.acm.org/2022/ Workshop papers due: July 26, 2022 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION This workshop is looking for works describing how interactive, multimodal technology such as virtual agents can be used in social skills training for measuring and training social-affective interactions. Sensing technology now enables analyzing user’s behaviors and physiological signals (heart-rate, EEG, etc.). Various signal processing and machine learning methods can be…

Call for Papers 17th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI) February 26 – March 1, 2023 Warsaw, Poland https://tei.acm.org/2023/ Abstract deadline: July 29, 2022 Full submission deadline: August 5, 2022 TEI 2023 is the 17th annual conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. The ACM TEI conference has gained substantial visibility and activity over the past decade. It brings together researchers, practitioners, businesses, artists, designers and students from various disciplines, including engineering, interaction design, computer science, product design, media studies and the arts. Topics and application areas are diverse, including:…

Call for Papers Special issue: Computational Cognitive Models for Human-Automated Vehicle Interaction International Journal of Human-Computer Studies http://www.cpjanssen.nl/IJHCS22/ Submission deadlines: September 30, 2022: 1-page letter of intent (optional) December 31, 2022: Complete submissions This special issue is focused on the development, evaluation, and discussion of computational cognitive models of human-automated vehicle interaction. The capabilities of automated vehicles are rapidly increasing and change human interaction with the vehicle. Yet, at the same time, fully automated vehicles that do not require human interaction are not available. Therefore, systems are needed in which the human and the vehicle interact together. Computational cognitive models…

Call for Submissions 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia November 27-30, 2022 Lisbon, Portugal https://mum-conf.org/2022/ Submission deadlines: Short and full papers: August 16, 2022 Workshops and tutorials: September 2, 2022 Other tracks: September 29, 2022 The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) is a leading annual international conference, which provides a forum for presenting the latest research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. The conference brings together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges, in a comfortable and effective single-track conference format. The 21st International Conference…

Call for Virtual Experience The 14th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2022) 21-24 June, 2022 Sophia Antipolis, France EICS 2022 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo6zSFKPS3EMx8t6KUDXZog More information about the keynotes: https://eics.acm.org/2022/ As part of the Virtual Experience of ACM EICS 2022, the opening and closing keynotes will be streamed live from YouTube: 22 June 2022: OPENING KEYNOTE: Engineering Interactive Geospatial Visualizations for Cluster-Driven Ultra-high-resolution Wall Displays Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France https://pages.saclay.inria.fr/emmanuel.pietriga Ultra-high-resolution wall-sized displays feature a very high pixel density over a large physical surface, typically several square meters. They provide effective support for collaborative work sessions that…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Fictional Persons and Characters International Online Workshop October 12, 2022 Submission deadline: June 20, 2022 It is tempting to think of fictional characters as if they were fictional persons. The inhabitants of a fictional world, where they live and engage in meaningful interactions as we do in the real world. However, this conception is problematic. First, because the concept of “person” is far from being clear. Are persons to be defined in physical or mental terms? And even if we restrict ourselves to a Lockean framework where persons are defined in mental terms, regardless of their physical…

CALL FOR PAPERS ‘AFFECTING GAME TIME: THEORY & PRACTICE’ 2nd September 2022 Online https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/files/2022-06/Game%20Worlds%20CFP%202022%20-%20AGT.pdf Submission deadline: July 7, 2022 All games are felt in time. Whether they are live service or archived emulations, interruptible mobile play or unrepeatable roguelikes, quick situational happenings or laborious games of death and resurrection, play is an investment through, in and with time. Last year was a year of looping games that confronted us with both the medium’s core unit of design and the temporal affects of lockdown (Deathloop, 2021; Returnal, 2021; Loop Hero, 2021; Twelve Minutes, 2021; Overboard!, 2021). However, the temporal affects games…

Call for Papers “Impossible experiences in extended reality” Workshop NordiCHI 2022 workshop October 8th OR 9th, 2022 Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Workshop: https://impossibleexperiences.wordpress.com/ NordiCHI 2022: https://conferences.au.dk/nordichi2022 Submission deadline: July 20, 2022 Previous research has suggested a typology of VR research that involves the dimensions of realism-fantasy and immersion, which are instrumental to flow (e.g., Velasco, Barbosa Escobar, Petit, & Wang, 2021). However, the term “impossible”, as defined “incapable of being or of occurring”. In that sense, the first part refers to real-fantasy objects, and the second to laws governing the objects. In our view, then, a more encompassing “Impossible experiences”…

Call for Papers/Posters/Demos VRST 2022 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Tsukuba, Japan and online November 29 – December 1, 2022 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2022/ Submission deadlines: Abstracts: July 18, 2022 Papers: July 22, 2022 Posters and demos: August 22, 2022 The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is a premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers on augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR, XR for short) software and technology. VRST brings together the main international research groups working on XR, along with many of the world’s leading…

Call for Papers Workshop on Symbiotic Society with Avatars: Social Acceptance, Ethics, and Technologies (SSA) In conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) Naples, Italy and Online September 2, 2022 (Half day morning session) Workshop: https://www.asedc.org/RO-MAN2022_SSA_workshop RO-MAN 2022: http://www.ro-man2022.org/ Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2022 1. Statement of objectives Although COVID-19 pandemic caused many problems in the society, new technologies emerged to overcome the difficulties. One aspect is communication. Using a telepresence robot, people can exist in a distant physical space and meet other people there. In a metaverse environment, the user…