Call for Papers Presence and Communication Special issue of Review of Communication https://bit.ly/Presence_Communication Special Issue Editor: Stephanie Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University, sekelly@ncat.edu Manuscript submission deadline: 01 October 2022 Presence variables play a role in any communication context. In an early discussion of presence technologies such as virtual reality, 3-D films, television, and telephones, Lombard and Ditton (1997) explained that what these types of technologies have in common is that they are, “designed to give the user a type of mediated experience that has never been possible before: one that seems truly ‘natural,’ ‘immediate,’ ‘direct,’ and ‘real,’ a mediated experience…

Call for Papers Revisiting Patient-Clinician Interaction in 2022: Challenges from the Field and Opportunities for Future Research Workshop held in conjunction with ECSCW 2022, The 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Coimbra, Portugal June 28th, 2022 https://bit.ly/RevisitingPatientClinicianInteraction Submission deadline: April 15th, 2022 The goal of this workshop is to revisit the concept of patient-clinician interaction, a classical concept of CSCW research in healthcare. While the CSCW community has been working on patient-clinician interaction for decades, the last years have seen a number of changes to care provision, motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the strong uptake of remote care technologies,…

Call for Submissions International Conference on Meaningful Play 2022 October 12-14, 2022 East Lansing, Michigan, USA https://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/ https://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/submissions.php Deadline for all submissions: June 14, 2022 Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Meaningful Play 2022 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.…

Call for Papers Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 2022) AVI 2022 Workshop 07 June 2022 Rome, Italy [and possibly online – see WORKSHOP STRUCTURE] http://avcd.aalto.fi/mapii2022/ Submission deadline: 20 March 2022 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Maps and map-like visualizations are increasingly being used as the basis for many types of interactive tools and applications. This workshop aims to bring together research on such map-based interfaces which is currently dispersed through different publication venues and disciplines. This workshop will act as a common space for sharing map-related research expertise coming from the fields of visualization, user interface design and interaction design. This workshop…

Call for Panelists “Communication in a Blended Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities of Blurring Temporal and Geographical Boundaries” At NCA 2022, the 108th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association November 17-20, 2022 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA https://www.natcom.org/nca-108th-annual-convention-honoring-place-people-liberation-advocacy-community-and-environment Submission deadline: March 28, 2022 Panel organizer and chair: Leigh Maxwell, Edgewood College, lmaxwell@edgewood.edu I am seeking panelists for the following Panel Proposal for NCA 2022. I am planning to submit to the Association for Business Communication NCA Affiliate. If you are interested in joining this relevant and timely panel, please email me, Leigh Maxwell (lmaxwell@edgewood.edu) with a brief overview of your potential…

Call for Research Papers [and other contributions] VL/HCC 2022 – IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing September 12-16, 2022 Rome, Italy [see NOTE below] https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2022 NOTE: The Symposium is planned to be in presence. In any case, we are monitoring the Covid situation and will act according to decisions of the authorities to insure the safest and widest participation. Deadlines: Research paper abstracts only: March 23, 2022 Research paper submission: March 30, 2022 From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AIofAI ‘22: 2nd Workshop on Adverse Impacts and Collateral Effects of Artificial Intelligence Technologies In conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2022) Vienna, Austria July 23-25, 2022 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/aiofai-2022/ IJCAI-2022: https://ijcai-22.org Submission deadline: May 13, 2022 The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in people’s everyday life has grown exponentially over the last decade. Currently, individuals rely heavily on intelligent software applications across different domains including healthcare, logistics, defence, and governance. Particularly, AI systems facilitate decision-making processes across these domains through the automatic analysis and classification of large data sets and the subsequent identification of…

Call for Abstracts The State of the Avatar: A DiGRA 2022 Workshop July 7, 2022 (the day before the main DiGRA conference) Kraków, Poland Workshop: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bo0UP20wuF_7jV-wYTWrh15lBH2zusjV/view DiGRA 2022: http://www.digra2022.org/ Submission deadline: March 31st, 2022 “Avatar theory,” or the study of avatars and related phenomena (player figures, playable characters, player-controlled components, etc.) is continuously expanded as scholars dive deeper into the configurations of interaction with and within digital games and the worlds they project. The topic has been approached from a variety of perspectives, ranging from theoretical investigations rooted in phenomenology (Klevjer, 2007; Vella, 2015; Kania, 2017) and game design (Jørgensen,…

Call for Abstracts ICDVRAT 2022: 14th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies September 6 to 8, 2022 Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal https://icdvrat2022.ulusofona.pt/ Submission deadline: March 31, 2022 In 2022, ICDVRAT will be held in the beautiful island of São Miguel, Portugal, between 6 & 8 September. CONFERENCE TOPICS In addition to ICDVRAT’s usual topics listed below this edition will have an additional focus on AI applications of immersive technologies. Virtual, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality environments Physical rehabilitation Cognitive rehabilitation Clinical assessment Clinical intervention AI | Machine learning Affective computing Synthetic Agents Input devices Remote/Telecare Game Based…

Call for Abstracts Representing Pasts – Visioning Futures A conference at the intersection of History, Art, Design, Architecture and Film December 1-3, 2022 Virtual https://amps-research.com/conference/visioning/ Submission deadline for abstracts: 01 July 2022 (Round 1), 20 October 2022 (Round 2) One century ago the City Symphony was at the cutting edge of visual representation. It was the site of some of the most challenging concepts and ideas the art world had ever seen. Its ruptures in spatiotemporal representation were seen as natural extensions of the avant-garde: cubist painting in the mode of Braque, the architectural visions of Vladimir Tatlin, the spatio-sculptural…

Call for Abstracts and Symposium Proposals IACAP 2022 – The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) 2022 Conference July 22-24 2022 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA [and online] https://www.iacap.org/iacap-2022-cfa/ Following the highly successful online-only INSEIT/IACAP-2021 at the University of Hamburg, organized by Judith Simon and the many dedicated scholars in her research group, IACAP is delighted to announce a return to Silicon Valley with the 2022 meeting being hosted by Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering, with support from SCU Philosophy faculty and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Pending any necessities of the pandemic, IACAP is…

Call for Papers Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022 20-21 October 2022 Vancouver, Canada and online [see NOTE below] https://saiconference.com/FTC2022/CallforPapers Submissions due: 15 March 2022 NOTE: We are aware that the situation regarding COVID-19 is a cause for apprehension. There will be an option for virtual participation (with reduced registration fee), for anyone who cannot or chooses not to travel. The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers.…