Call for Papers IVA 2022 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal September 6th-9th, 2022 https://ivaconference2022.ualg.pt/ Submission deadline: May 2, 2022 The Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, and gesture. IVA 2022 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, as…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS CHI ’22 Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Training for Challenging Contexts April 25, 2022 Online (CHI is a hybrid conference in/from New Orleans, LA) Workshop: https://xcelab.tech-experience.at/CHI22-workshop.html CHI 2022: https://chi2022.acm.org/ Important dates: Submission deadline (11:59pm, AoE): February 24, 2022 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2022 (subject to change, depending on the deadline for early bird registrations) One-day workshop (9AM – 5 PM) held online at CHI 2022, April 25, 2022 Dear colleagues, We are happy to invite you to our workshop on Collaborative Virtual Training for Challenging Contexts. Please find all important information and the description below. About the…

Call for Papers The 23d International Working Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS’2022) Theme: “Reflections on human-human interaction and responsibility in a virtual environment” Held in conjunction with CAiSE’2022 6-7 June 2022 Leuven, Belgium BPMDS’2022: http://www.bpmds.org CAiSE’2022: https://caise22.ugent.be/ Submission deadline: March 7th, 2022 SPONSORS: Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). BPMDS is linked on an ongoing basis to the CAiSE conference series since 2011. International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1 (IFIP WG 8.1). BPMDS proceedings are published in a Springer LNBIP proceedings volume, “Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling”, since 2009. The Business Process…

Call for Abstracts/Articles Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (2022) »Mixed Reality Images: Trilogy of Synthetic Realities III« Deadline for Abstracts: April 22, 2022 Deadline for Articles: October 21, 2022 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting articles from researchers, artists, designers, technical developers, graphic artists, computer scientists, game designers and film makers for the seventh issue, which is the final part of the »Trilogy of Synthetic Realities« concept, entitled »Mixed Reality Images. Trilogy of Synthetic Realities III«. The first issue has focussed on »Virtual Images« (in 2020), the second on »Augmented Images« (in 2021) and…

Call for Participation EDUBOTS: “Best practice of chatbots in higher education” – Findings and insights from 2 years of applied research Free online event Tuesday January 18, 2022 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM EST [follow the registration link below to see the time in your location –ML] https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/best-practice-of-chatbots-in-higher-education-tickets-228807678927 ABOUT THIS EVENT This edu conference gives you a “best of” overview of all insights the EDUBOTS consortium has gained from conducting two years of applied research that span across Europe. As part of the conference we will also release the “Chatbots for Education – CMOOC 2.0”. Agenda of Topics (times are…

Call for Papers PLEY – The 3rd Eye Tracking in Games and Play Workshop Co-located with ETRA 2022 – ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research & Applications June 8-11, 2022 (exact day tba) Online Workshop: https://pleyws.wordpress.com/ ETRA 2022: http://etra.acm.org/2022/ Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2022 Among the many application areas of eye tracking, games have become an increasingly popular domain for leveraging this technology to 1) build new and novel experiences for players and 2) to gain a better understanding of players’ cognitive processes during gameplay. Games, however, pose unique challenges for using gaze technology due to their complex, dynamic,…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE ICDH 2022 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health Barcelona, Spain July 10-16, 2022 https://conferences.computer.org/icdh/2022/cfp/ Submissions due: March 1, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) is a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of digital health technologies, emerging research topics, and the future of digital health. ICDH aims to bring together leading researchers, community leaders and visionaries from academia and industry, end-users, and healthcare professionals, in the area of digital health to share their research, practical experience, and…

Call for Proposals European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) ECREA 2022: 9th European Communication Conference Digital Games Research Section [NOTE: See full CFP for other presence-related sections. –ML] 19 to 22 October 2022 Aarhus, Denmark https://conferences.au.dk/ecrea2022/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submissions of proposals for papers, panels, and posters:  17 January 2022 Dear all, The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in partnership with the Aarhus University call for papers to be presented at the 9th European Communication Conference, to be held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 19 October to 22 October 2022. The theme of the conference is “Rethink Impact”. The…

Call for Papers: Special Session on Knowledge Representation and Robotics At KR 2022, the 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning July 31 – August 5, 2022 Haifa, Israel https://kr2022.cs.tu-dortmund.de/cfp_special_session_kr_and_robotics.php IMPORTANT DATES Submission of title and abstract: February 2, 2022 Paper submission deadline: February 9, 2022 Author response period: March 29-31, 2022 Author notification: April 15, 2022 Camera-ready papers: May 7, 2022 Conference: July 31 – August 5, 2022 DESCRIPTION In recent years, the fast-paced evolution of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics fields has facilitated the development of scalable and cost-effective robotic solutions. Indeed, autonomous agents have…

Call for Chapter Proposals: Zoom: Performance, Precarity, and Performativity in the Age of COVID-19 Co-Editors: Mark Nunes & Cassandra Ozog Deadline for abstract, summary and bio submission: January 31, 2022 In March of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries across the globe declared nationwide shutdowns that resulted in profound changes in the daily life of millions of individuals. While many workers in the hospitality and travel industries were suddenly left unemployed, countless others found themselves working—and playing—through video chat software platforms. And of those platforms, Zoom quickly emerged as the default modality for remote engagement, rapidly morphing…

Call for Participation On-line lecture: The Implication of Human-Robot Interaction for Human-Human Relations Piercosma Bisconti (Ph.D. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) 16 January 14h (Portugal time) [i.e. Western European Time – visit timeanddate for details] Via Zoom; see request email below Over the last 20 years the research on Social Robots, namely machines specifically conceived and designed to produce a social interaction with users, gained growing interest both in the academic field and in public opinion. Within this group of robots, often anthropomorphic both in appearance and behaviour, we can further distinguish Companion robots, in which the establishment of a…

Call for Submissions C&C 2022: The 14th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition 20-23 June 2022 Venice, Italy https://cc.acm.org/2022 First submission deadline (for papers): January 10, 2022 Creativity and Cognition 2022 brings together artists, scientists, designers, educators, and researchers to more deeply understand how people engage individually and socially in creative processes and how computation and other technology can affect creative outcomes. C&C 2022 invites papers, pictorials, artworks, workshops and tutorials as well as posters, demonstrations and graduate student symposium submissions investigating how interactive computing systems and socio-technical processes affect creativity. Of particular interest are contributions that relate to this…