Call for Papers Web3D 2022 – The 27th International Conference on 3D Web Technology November 2-4, 2022 In a hybrid format (in-person and online) Telecom SudParis, in Evry-Courcouronnes, Paris, France https://web3d.siggraph.org/cfp/ Submission deadline: July 30, 2022 (extended) Search engines trends show that the world, at large, discovered the concept of metaverse in October 2021. Since then, more and more people and organizations use the term as a buzzword, connecting it with various types of innovative products and services. Still, what is commonly agreed in many of these communications is the reference to 3D representation of content and to the online…

CALL FOR PAPERS: 7th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference December 8-9, 2022 Gdańsk, Poland In person/ Online https://www.inmindsupport.com/nostalgia-conference Organizer: InMind Support Scientific Committee: Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Deadlines for abstracts and bios: onsite presenters – by 18 September 2022 online presenters – by 30 September 2022 The 7th edition of the “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on December 8, 2022,  in-person at Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel in Gdańsk (Poland) and on December 9, 2022, online (via Zoom…

Call for Papers: Playing While the World Burns: Games in a Time of Crisis Thematic issue of the open access journal Arts & Cultural Studies Review (Przegląd Kulturoznawczy) https://www.culturalstudiesreview.eu/calls-for-papers/playing-while-the-world-burns-games-in-a-time-of-crisis/ Submissions are open until September 25, 2022 The world is in peril, and yet we are still playing. In  the midst of the climate emergency and environmental disasters of the Anthropocene; in the third year of a global pandemic; as wars rage in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere; as nationalistic and far-right discourses move closer to the political mainstream sphere; as authoritarianism rears its head, freedom of speech is curtailed, and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Post-phenomenology and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence Themed issue of the journal Scenari Edited by L. Possati, L. Taddio, and F. Ferro https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/scenari/call-for-papers-2-22-2 Deadlines: For submitting proposals (title and abstract): July 25, 2022 For submitting the papers: September 30, 2022 As advances in AI occur at a rapid pace, there is a growing need for us to explore and understand what impact these will have on society. Policymakers, opinion leaders, researchers, and the general public have many questions. Can we distinguish between actions and behavior of an AI system? Who or what is responsible for the behavior…

[This isn’t a typical call for papers here, but there’s a clear connection to presence (and “digital technologies” are mentioned in one of the topic examples). –Matthew] Call for Book Chapters Sensory Rhetorics: (Re)Making Sense in Perilous Times Steph Ceraso and Jon Stone, Eds. Proposals and bios due by September 1, 2022 Book chapters due in February 2023 This collection aims to explore sensory rhetorics as a generative, capacious area of scholarly inquiry. There is a growing corpus of transdisciplinary scholarship on the senses, affect, and bodily ways of knowing/being (Massumi, Cvetkovich, Panagia, Ott). Sensory studies has also become an…

Call for Submissions Workshop on Prototyping Cross-Reality Systems To be held in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2022) October 17th or 21st, 2022 (Monday or Friday) Hybrid Workshop: https://crossreality.hcigroup.de ISMAR 2022: https://ismar2022.org Submissions deadline: July 21, 2022 (Thursday) (EXTENDED) We invite researchers, practitioners, and designers to participate in the first workshop on prototyping cross-reality systems. Cross-reality (CR) systems offer different levels of virtuality to their users, enabling them to either transition along the reality-virtuality continuum or collaborate with each other across different manifestations. Many Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) systems are…

Call for Papers ACM IUI 2023: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2023 Conference Sydney, Australia March 27-31, 2023 https://iui.acm.org/2023/call_for_papers.html Deadlines: Abstract submission:  October 7, 2022 Full Submission:  October 14, 2022 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2023 is the 28th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners will meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques, and systems. The theme for this year will be Resilience, covering a wide…

Call for Research For Inclusion in Meta-Analysis of the Persuasive Effects of 360 VR Videos Dear colleagues, We are working on a meta-analysis that examines the persuasive effects of 360 degree VR videos. In particular, we are interested in including experimental studies that expose participants to a 360 video and measure its persuasive impact (e.g., empathy, beliefs, attitudes, intentions, behaviors). We have searched multiple databases to ensure that we include all published studies in this area. We also hope to include unpublished work (e.g., conference papers) in our analysis. If you have an unpublished study relevant to our analysis, please…

Call for Papers Fourth Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems (KaRS 2022) In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022) September 18 – 23, 2022 Seattle, WA, USA https://kars-workshop.github.io/2022/ Submission deadline: August 5, 2022, AoE SCOPE We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022) Seattle, WA, USA, from September the 18th to September the 23rd, 2022. In the last few years, a renewed interest of the research community on conversational recommender systems…

Call for Papers IEEE VR 2023: The 30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 25-29 March, 2023, Shanghai, China [and online; see first paragraph below] https://ieeevr.org/2023/contribute/papers/ Abstract submission deadline: October 7, 2022 (REQUIRED) Paper submission deadline: October 14, 2022 OVERVIEW IEEE VR 2023, the 30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces will be held from March 25th through March 29th, 2023 at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai, China. Our goal is to provide the best hybrid conference experience for physical and virtual attendees, learning from the historical footsteps of the successful physical or…

Call for Papers: Designing Everyday Experience. Objects, Environments, Habits Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) Budapest, Hungary May 11-13, 2023 https://philevents.org/event/show/101422 Submission deadline: December 31st, 2022 EVANET – Everyday Aesthetics Network and the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), warmly invite paper proposals for the three-day international conference ‘Designing Everyday Experience’. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of MOME’s doctoral school, the event will offer an opportunity for those with an interest in the philosophy and aesthetics of everyday life and design to share and discuss work, in the hope of furthering dialogue in this area. Keynote Speakers: Michalle Gal (Shenkar…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN-SYSTEMS INTERACTION Session 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference Yellowstone Conference Center Big Sky, Montana March 4-11, 2023 http://www.aeroconf.org [See Session 10.07 on page 23 in the full call for papers at https://aeroconf.org/cms/content_attachments/26/download] Submission deadline: October 14, 2022 Humans are the most critical element in system safety, reliability and performance. Their creativity, adaptability and problem-solving capabilities are key to resilient operations across the different aerospace applications. This session focuses on the technologies and techniques leading to effective interfaces between humans and spacecraft, robots, and other aerospace systems. Specific topics of interests for this session include HCI-HMI, multimodal sensory integration…