Call for initial abstracts for Book Chapters: Virtual Reality Gaming: Embodiment, Presence, Immersion Submission deadline: August 1, 2023 Virtual Reality (VR) is not a new technology by any stretch of the imagination. Regardless of how futuristic VR might appear in popular culture, VR encompasses a rich and varied history that began to surface in the 1980s and 1990s when VPL Research produced a number of commercial devices (e.g. the DataGlove and Audiosphere). As exciting as these systems were, the technology simply could not live up to the hype (Evans, 2018). The level of ‘immersion’ associated with these developments was just…

Call for Papers Workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation IFIP Working Group 13.8 on Interaction Design and International Development Preceding INTERACT 2023 (https://interact2023.org) York, UK and online August 28 or 29, 2023 (TBC) https://ifipwg138.wordpress.com/hci-democracy/ Deadline for four-page position papers: May 31, 2023 MOTIVATION This workshop will explore and discuss how Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a field of knowledge and practice can contribute to develop platforms for digital democracy and participation. These issues are mainly seen at two levels: (1) the optimal design of the digital environment of citizen participation platforms, and (2) explore how HCI can…

Call for Papers Practice-research in Games 2023 (PinG’23) June 22, 2023 University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK https://bit.ly/PinG-23 Important Dates: Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Friday 19th May 2023 Notification of Acceptance: Friday 26th May 2023 Deadline for Camera-Ready Submission: Tuesday 13th June Conference Date: Thursday 22nd June Chairs: Peter Howell, Matthew Higgins (University of Portsmouth) Practice-research in Games 2023 (PinG’23) is a one-day conference for game design professionals. The event will provide a platform for showcasing, disseminating, examining, and discussing practice-research from across the games research, design, and development spectrum. This event is based in the UK, but we invite work…

[NOTE: Follow the link for several other tracks related to presence. –Matthew] Call for Papers ACADEMIC MINDTREK 2023 CONFERENCE Human-Nature Interaction track October 3-6, 2023 Tampere (Finland) and online https://www.mindtrek.org/2023/academic-2023/ Deadline for full papers & workshops: June 8, 2023 Deadline for posters, demos & doctoral consortium submissions: August 17, 2023 Chairs: Ferran Altarriba (Tampere University), Velvet Spors (Tampere University), Katherine Isbister (University of California, Santa Cruz), Pat Brundell (University of Nottingham) On behalf of my co-chairs at the Academic Mindtrek 2023 conference I invite you to  submit your work to our Human-Nature Interaction track. The conference will take place in…

Call for Contributions OzCHI 2023: Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference Theme: Design from a distant world Victoria University of Wellington, School of Design Innovation, Te Aro campus Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, Aotearoa | New Zealand December 4-6, 2023 http://www.ozchi.org/2023/index.html Submission deadlines: Long papers: June 14, 2023 Short papers: August 16, 2023 Workshops: July 12, 2023 Doctoral colloquium: August 23, 2023 Demos: October 4, 2023 It’s been a long time but OzCHI is returning to New Zealand! The theme for this year’s OzCHI is Design from a Distant World, recognising that Australia and New Zealand are physically distant from much of the…

Call for Participation CHAIR 2023: Connecting Human-AI Interaction Researchers 2023 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human/AI Interaction June 23, 2023 University of Nottingham, UK and online https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-human-ai-interaction-researchers-2023-tickets-603549070517 Organised by the Department of Philosophy, UoN, Department of Computer Science, UoN and Horizon, UoN AIM The aim of the CHAIR workshop is to contribute to network building and create an infrastructure to kick-start new partnerships and research collaborations between the different disciplines working on the field of Human/AI Interaction e.g. Computer Science, Law, Philosophy, Psychology, Engineering, Sociology, Anthropology, Arts, etc. DATE 23 June 2023 10.45-16.00 (at Monica Partridge C10, UoN) DESCRIPTION This workshop combines…

Call for Contributions 3rd ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2023) September 6-8, 2023 Lisbon, Portugal http://goodit.campusfc.unibo.it/ Submission deadline: May 15, 2023 SCOPE The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. The latter is defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public, such as clean air, clean water, internet access, education, or healthcare. However, new media innovations and the proliferation of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good can now reflect global citizens uniting to unlock…

CALL FOR PAPERS mWELL@ACII2023: International Workshop on Affective Computing for Mental Wellbeing: Challenges, Opportunities, and Promising Synergies At ACII 2023, the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction September 10, 2023 MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA Workshop: https://mwell.tbm.tudelft.nl/ ACII 2023: https://acii-conf.net/2023/ Submission deadline: April 28, 2023 The prevalence of mental illness is globally on the rise, leading to high individual and societal burdens. Many people in need do not seek professional help, the ones that do are confronted with limited availability of practitioners, and despite considerable progress, the success rate of therapies remains limited. While more and…

Call for Papers TEI 2024: 18th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction February 11-14, 2024 Cork, Ireland https://tei.acm.org/2024/ Abstract submission deadline: July 25, 2023 Full submission deadline: August 1, 2023 Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that the call for papers for TEI 2024 is now out! TEI 2024 is the 18th annual conference presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. 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. The conference theme will be “On the…

[This call for papers was posted on Facebook by James Mackay on April 1. Although it’s not “real” (!), some version of an AI-generated conference certainly could provide interesting illustrations of media as social actor presence. –Matthew] Announcing the world’s very first fully AI-generated conference – please consider submitting! Submissions are invited for the world’s first fully AI conference in July 2023. This gathering intends to explore the potential of “artificially intelligent co-pilots” to increase the efficiency of academia by removing human academics from the process as much as possible. Papers may be on any topic, in any discipline –…

Call for Abstracts: Governing Artificial Intelligence Mancept Workshops September 11-13, 2023 University of Manchester, UK and Online https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/mancept/mancept-workshops/ Convenor: Markus Furendal (Department of Political Science, Stockholm University) Submission deadline: May 21, 2023 As the development of increasingly capable Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues at a striking speed, questions around the social and ethical impact of AI technology – and how it ought to be shaped politically – are more pressing than ever. For instance, as government agencies and public institutions turn to automated or AI-assisted bureaucratic decision-making, AI begins to wield public authority. As complex generative AI systems begin creating text…

Call for Contributions The 20th EuroXR International Conference – EuroXR 2023 November 28-30, 2023 Rotterdam, Netherlands https://www.euroxr-association.org/conference2023 Submission deadline for scientific papers: April 24, 2023 The EuroXR Association (https://www.euroxr-association.org/) would like to invite researchers and practitioners in the field of XR to contribute to the 20th EuroXR International Conference – EuroXR 2023. This year, the EuroXR Conference will be collocated with Immersive Tech Week (formerly VRDays). It will be held with in-person attendance so that participants will get a more satisfying and enriching experience. We seek original, high-quality contributions in all areas related to virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality,…