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.…

Call for Participation UNITE GamiFOREST Coffee Talks #2 LUDIC SPATIAL STRATEGIES & FOREST SPACES by Mattia Thibault Date: March 18, 2022 Time: 13:00 (Helsinki Time) Zoom Link: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67954634202 How can the organisation of a space favour playfulness, creativity and curiosity? If we look at existing spaces designed to host playfulness (theme parks, arenas, interactive museums, playgrounds, casinos, treetop parks and so on) we can try to outline a series of spatial strategies that are put in place exactly to this end. But how can these strategies be applied to a space with an emergent morphology and an intrinsically open-ended configuration?…

CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Virtual Consumerism Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking https://home.liebertpub.com/cfp/special-issue-on-virtual-consumerism/366/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2022 Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is developing a special issue dedicated to virtual consumerism. Ushered in by Amazon and fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual consumerism (VC) is more than simply the act of buying products on the Internet. The term encompasses entire economies and the study of each facet of these intricate new systems. Modern technologies, buoyed by current world conditions and trends, have enabled the creation of a seemingly inexhaustible parade of consumer products and services, forming new markets,…

Call for Papers Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality,Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022) October 26-28, 2022 Rome, Italy Session: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-10 Conference: https://metroxraine.org/ Extended abstract submission deadline: March 18, 2022 Final paper submission deadline: July 30, 2022 SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that…

Call for Participation A Workshop at ACM CHI 2022 AI-Generated Characters: Putting Deepfakes to Good Use Hybrid Workshop April 30, 2022 Workshop: http://deepfakes.media.mit.edu/ CHI 2022: https://chi2022.acm.org/ Submission deadline: March 5, 2022 AI-generated characters (more infamously known as “deepfakes”) are a form of digital media generated by deep neural networks, which feature the human appearance and appear authentic to human beings. Such realistic renderings are made possible through advances in generative machine learning for the hyper-realistic synthesis, recreation, and modification of prose, images, audio, and video data. While the technology is perhaps most widely associated with media manipulation and misinformation, it…

[Note: See the conference website for information about these other special sessions: Hand-Object Interaction: from Human Demonstrations to Robot Manipulation Short- and Long-Term Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-care Service Robots Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI Safe Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manufacturing Environments Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots –Matthew] CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION Theory of Mind for social HRI 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) August 29th – September 2nd, 2022 Naples, Italy and Online [See NOTE below] http://ro-man2022.org Important dates for Regular…

Call for Papers Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022 Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 Submission deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on “ICT for Societal Challenges”. It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation…

[Note: See conference website for other Calls. –ML] CALLS FOR JOURNAL PAPERS ISMAR 2022: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality October 17-21, 2022 Singapore https://ismar2022.org/call-for-journal-papers/ OVERVIEW The IEEE ISMAR is the leading international academic conference in the fields of Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. The symposium is organized and supported by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE VGTC and ACM SIGGRAPH. The first ISMAR conference was held in 2002 in Darmstadt, Germany. The creation of the conference emerged from the fusion of two former academic events dedicated to this research field: the International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR) and…

Call for Registration Hybrid-Workshop: “What is Proprioceptive Art?” 9-11 March 2022 University of Duesseldorf https://proprioceptive.art What is Proprioceptive Art? Many works of art are predominantly visual or auditory in nature (visual arts such as drawing, painting, photography or performing arts like music). Only some art works (happenings, fluxus, performance) might also crucially involve the audience’s own physicality and thereby intentionally provoke the recipients’ perception of their own body, i.e. their proprioceptions. In the context of the workshop, we want to debate a radical question: Could there be works of art that are either primarily or predominantly proprioceptive in nature: i.e.,…

Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET 2022) Technical co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (Approval is Pending) 4-7 October 2022 Limassol (main conference) and Nicosia (exhibition), Cyprus https://imet.cyens.org.cy/ Submission deadlines: Paper: 8th March 2022 Short Paper, Poster: 16th April 2022 Demo: 16th May 2022 Workshop proposal: 15th April 2022 IMET is the flagship conference of CYENS Centre of Excellence (http://www.cyens.org.cy). CYENS constitutes a centre of excellence and a joint venture between the three public universities of Cyprus (University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology and Open University of Cyprus), the Municipality of…

CALL FOR PAPERS EC-TEL 2022: Seventeenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning Theme: Educating for a new future: Making sense of technology-enhanced learning adoption Toulouse, France 12-16 September 2022 https://ea-tel.eu/ectel2022/cfp Submission deadlines: Research papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: 24 March 2022 – Mandatory submission of an abstract Workshops: 4 May 2022 – Submission of workshop proposal Doctoral Consortium: To be announced The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. EC-TEL 2022 will take place on 12-16 September 2022 in Toulouse, France with…

Call for Papers Special Issue of Publizistik “Human-Machine Communication” https://www.springer.com/journal/11616/updates/19728790 Guest Editors: Katrin Etzrodt (TU Dresden), Peter Gentzel (Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg), Sonja Utz (Tübingen University), Sven Engesser (TU Dresden) Submission deadline: 30 April 2022 Smart AI-powered machines such as virtual agents, chatbots, and social robots are increasingly pervading everyday lives. They are increasingly able to perceive their environment and act autonomously. As a result, we are witnessing a profound change in which communication through technologies is extended by communication with technologies—machines turn into interlocutors. This implies several theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges for communication and media research, such as applying,…