Call for Participation “Sound Design(ed) Futures: New realities, spaces, technologies” One-day international conference Date: 27 May 2022 10.00-18.30 Place: Online & Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris, France) Organisation: Eleni-Ira Panourgia & Andrea Giomi Conference: https://lisaa.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/actualites/actualite/sound-designed-futures-new-realities-spaces-technologies Free registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sound-designed-futures-new-realities-spaces-technologies-tickets-276697348217 As part of the CCAMAN Team (Confluences, Cinematographic, Audiovisual, Musical and Digital Arts) and the Literature, Knowledge and Arts Research Lab (LISAA), a one-day international conference will be devoted to the future directions of sound design through artistic and scientific approaches. Sound is omnipresent in the physical and virtual spaces that surround us in our everyday life, and is becoming increasingly important in…

Call for Papers GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment The Italian Journal of Game Studies Special Issue: “Interactive Digital Narratives: Counter-Hegemonic Narratives and Expression of Identity” https://www.gamejournal.it/n-112023-idn/ Edited by Ilaria Mariani, Mariana Ciancia, Judith Ackermann Submission deadline: July 29, 2022 The discourse on IDNs is today growingly prominent in scholarly debates (Koenitz, 2018; Koenitz et al., 2015), fed by an unceasing technological evolution that opens vaste possibilities and potentialities with relevant implications in terms of expression – both from the perspective of authors and players. The eleventh issue of G|A|M|E digs into interactive storytelling and interactive digital narratives (IDNs)…

Call for Papers Workshop on “New Trends in Sports and HCI” At MobileHCI 2022 October 1, 2022, AoE Online Workshop: https://mobilehci22-hci-and-sports.dfki.de/ Mobile HCI 2022: https://mobilehci.acm.org/2022/ Submission deadline: June 1, 2022, AoE The field of HCI for sports is evolving under the push of new technological developments and worldwide natural events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. Recent technological advancements have widened the possibilities of HCI in the sports domain by paving the way to augmented humans, inbodied interactions, esports, new forms of sociality thanks to virtual reality and the metaverse, and new ways for engaging the audience thanks…

Call for Participation Human Factors and VR Training with Professor Bob Stone An event by Immerse Australia Friday, May 6, 2022 Livestream available via link below at 5.30pm AEST, 3.30pm AWST [8:30am in London] If you’re based in Brisbane there will also be an in-person meetup and networking event to watch the livestream: Brisbane Meetup: 5.00pm to 7.00pm AEST Google Calendar / ICS [Source: https://immerseaustralia.org/events/human-factors-bob-stone ] Link for Livestream via Teams: https://bit.ly/immerse-bobstone Venue for Brisbane Meetup: Compono Pty Ltd, Level 3, 32 Duncan St, Fortitude Valley, QLD Cost: Free The study of Human factors is concerned with understanding human capabilities, and then…

Call for Papers International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling December 4-7, 2022 Santa Cruz, California, USA [and online; see first paragraph below and last paragraph before KEY DATES] https://icids2022.ardin.online/ Submission deadline: July 15, 2022 ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied design lenses. The annual conference is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. ICIDS 2022 is the 15th edition of the conference and will be presented as a fully hybrid…

CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSALS Intellect journals https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/1547/call-fo-special-issue-2022.pdf Deadline: July 1, 2022 Intellect is seeking new special issue proposals to place within a number of our journal titles. We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for special issues on the following topics: Contemporary cinematic theory and practice Sound studies Theatre studies Dance studies Visual culture (particularly in relation to politics and public communication) Design research Art and technology Creative technologies Augmented reality If you would like to propose a special issue, please complete a Guest Editor form, which is available to download from our Publish with Us page: https://www.intellectbooks.com/why-publish-with-us Please…

Call for Papers CEEGS 2022: Ludic Realities Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference (CEEGS) October 13-15, 2022 Tallinn University, Estonia [see NOTE below] https://web.htk.tlu.ee/ceegs2022/ Submission deadlines: Abstracts: June 10, 2022 Workshop proposals: June 20, 2022 After two consecutive postponements in 2020 and 2021, the Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference (CEEGS) is back this year and will take place in Tallinn, Estonia. The binary opposition between games and reality, between the playful and the serious, is a concept present in many cultures and deeply ingrained in the Western popular imaginary. And yet, the assumption that games are “not…

Call for Abstracts Ernst Mach Workshop X: David Chalmers on Virtual Reality July 7-8, 2022 Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic https://emw.flu.cas.cz/ Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2022 The Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, invites speakers for the annual Ernst Mach Workshop, whose focus in 2022 is going to be David Chalmers’s philosophy of virtual reality, as laid out in his new book Reality+: Virtual Reality and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). Prof. Chalmers will summarize the main themes of his book in a keynote lecture and respond to each talk. Originally a province…

Call for Papers Fighting Pandemics with Computer Graphics and Applications IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Special Issue https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/cg/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-fighting-pandemics-with-computer-graphics-and-applications Submissions deadline: May 28, 2022 Publication: November/December 2022 When pandemics strike societies, they can destroy critical infrastructures, such as healthcare and economic systems. When COVID-19 struck the planet, many technological research developments were proposed, some of them even leading to tools for citizens or governments, with the objective of supporting this complicated period for the entire planet. The vague knowledge available at the time made it difficult to develop computer graphics applications that could be robust and reliable enough to be used…

Call for Papers SPECIAL ISSUE: EMBODIED AGENTS FOR WELLBEING International Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR) – Impact Factor 5.126 (2020) Journal: https://www.springer.com/journal/12369 Special issue: https://www.springer.com/journal/12369/updates/20296154 Submission deadline: November 30, 2022 The current COVID-19 pandemic has led to societal changes (such as social isolation and work-from-home arrangements) that have severely impacted the mental wellbeing of the worldwide population, causing depressive and anxiety symptoms. This need has resulted in a greater interest in technology-based interventions to support people and promote their mental wellbeing. Embodied agents (e.g., virtual agents, robots) are finding their way into helping to improve their wellbeing and are currently…

CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS International Conference on Graphics and Interaction – ICGI’2022 November 3 and 4, 2022 At the University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal [the organizers are prepared for remote participation if necessary; see below] https://gpcg.pt/icgi2022/call-for-papers/ Deadline for paper submission: July 18, 2022 Deadline for poster submission: October 3, 2022 [See below for related Call for submissions for Computers & Graphics Journal, Special Section on Recent Advances in Graphics and Interaction.] The 2022 edition of the International Conference on Graphics and Interaction – ICGI’2022 – will be held on November 3 and 4, 2022 at the University of Aveiro (UA),…

Call for Papers The Ethics of Digital Healthcare Special issue of Digital Society Submission deadline: January 2, 2023 The digitalization of healthcare already has a long history. Today, digitized medical images and patient records are integrated parts of routine healthcare all over the world. What is new, however, is the pace at which new uses of digital information technology are entering healthcare. Video meetings are used both to complement and replace traditional visits to the doctor’s office. Patients undergoing training such as gait rehabilitation are assisted by a robot that partly replaces the physiotherapist. Routine microscopic evaluations of tissues are…