CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2022 9th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Bremen, Germany and anywhere on earth November 2 – 5, 2022 https://chiplay.acm.org/2022/ @acmchiplay #chiplay2022 Submission deadline for full papers: February 23, 2022 CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high-quality research in games and HCI as a foundation for the future of digital…

Call for Papers Asian Journal of Business Ethics Special Issue: Business Ethics in the Virtual Work Environment: Challenges to Educators and Practitioners https://www.springer.com/journal/13520/updates/19277588 Submission deadline for manuscripts: January 31, 2022 NEED OF STUDY The recent COVID-19 pandemic has forced business organizations to operate more fully in the virtual world. This necessitates, amongst other things, a thorough re-look into business ethics and in particular business ethics education. With the majority of the workforce (in some cases all) operating virtually now and possibly continually into the future, a paradigm shift seems imminent as far as business ethics and values in practice are…

Call for Participation The Future of Filmmaking: AI for Volumetric Capture and Reconstruction Presented by Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH Monday, December 6, 2021 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM PST Online – Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87278482517?pwd=MlYzbHBGVEtpZjlQREtmZFVQYzUvdz09 TALK DESCRIPTION: One picture is worth a thousand words, so what have been told with videos? What about 100 simultaneous videos to reconstruct every frame of life in a 10.000 sq. ft dome? Is it enough to reconstruct and digitize us realistically? Similar to other industries, the entertainment industry is also being reshaped by AI, especially towards AR/VR consumption. Before the democratization of AI and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Persuasive 2022: The 17th International Conference on Persuasive Technology 2022 Including Special Session on Socially Interactive Agents Hamad Bin Khalifa University [and online; see COVID-19 NOTE below] Doha, Qatar 29-31 March 2022 https://persuasivetech.org/ Abstract Submission deadline: 25 November 2021 Paper Submission deadline: 30 November 2021 [Strict] Please register your abstract and submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=persuasive2022 COVID-19 NOTE: PT2022 is currently planned to be held as a hybrid conference. We will monitor the COVID-19 situation carefully. If traveling is not possible, it will change to a virtual conference. The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS regardless.…

Call for Papers 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2022) 20-23 June 2022 Biarritz, France http://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr/ More detailed information is available on the conference website. You can also download the pdf version of this CFP and share it with your contacts and colleagues. IMPORTANT DATES: Conference paper submission:  1 December 2021 Communication of results:  15 February 2022 Camera ready:  28 March 2022 The 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2022) will be held in 2022 in Biarritz, France, from June 20th to June 23rd. The IE Conference is recognized as a major annual venue in the area. It has been…

Call for Participation European Commission study of eXtended Reality (XR) in Europe Survey link: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6596008/9cda4cc6472e Deadline: 14 December 2021 Dear expert of the European extended reality industry, Private research institute Visionary Analytics is conducting a survey for a study about the eXtended Reality (XR) in Europe commissioned by the European Commission (more information about the study is available here). The study aims to assess the European XR research situation and market potential as well as to identify good practices and practical proposals for engaging vulnerable groups of users in XR. By participating in this survey, you will provide us with…

CALL FOR PAPERS Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age Issue 2 (2022) Immersivity. Philosophical Perspectives on Technologically Mediated Experience // Immersività Prospettiva filosofiche sulla mediazione tecnologica dell’esperienza http://www.azimuthjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CfP-Azimuth-2-2022.pdf Editors: Jacopo Bodini (Université de Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, Post-doc Research Fellow) Alessandro De Cesaris (Università di Torino, Post-doc Research Fellow) Submission deadline: April 30th, 2022 The notion of “immersivity” is a pivotal element in the description of technologically mediated experience, designating an inherent quality of objects, spaces and experiences able to produce an impression of immersion. The term has become very widespread in the context of the analysis of…

[Note: Visit the A11yVR website for more on past and future events. –Matthew] Call for Participation Paradigm Shifts in Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People An online event sponsored by A11yVR – Accessibility Virtual Reality Group https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/ The event took place on November 11, 2021 and is now available via YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-JkpU-AXI OVERVIEW Zoom has thrived since March 2020. Obviously, COVID-19 prompted an interesting fundamental change in how to socialize and network with people remotely. But what about the 3D virtual space? Professor Wendy Dannels will point to some challenges and opportunities deaf individuals using American…

Call for Participation “Vulnerability in Human-Computer Interaction” Symposium At the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) and online December 2, 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/vulnerability-and-hci/ Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to a symposium we are hosting in conjunction with my PhD defense. See for details below. Best regards, Jelte van Waterschoot — We would like to invite you to participate in the 4TU symposium “Vulnerability in Human-Computer Interaction”. This hybrid symposium will take place on December 2nd at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and online, from 9:00 until 13:00 [CEST; followed by lunch and doctoral defense]. The goal of the…

Call for Papers AVI 2022: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces – 30TH ANNIVERSARY 6-10 June 2022 Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel, Frascati, Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/ SUBMISSION DEADLINES (all 23:59, AoE): Workshop and tutorial proposals: Sunday, January 16, 2022 Long and short papers: Abstract submission: Sunday, January 23, 2022 Paper submission: Sunday, January 30, 2022 Posters and Demo papers: Sunday, April 10, 2022 Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2022 Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from…

Call for Abstracts FACING THE FUTURE, FACING THE SCREEN 10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary A blended physical-online event November 17, 2022 http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/FFF/ FFF.pdf Organizing Committee: Dr. Petra Aczél, Corvinus University of Budapest Dr. András Benedek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dr. Kristóf Nyíri, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Dear All, the Committee for Communication and Media Theory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Corvinus University of Budapest have begun to organize the 10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference, to be held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on November 17, 2022, as a blended…

Call for papers and participation! The Sixth Image Schema Day Workshop on the 20-21 of January, 2022 On-site at Jönköping University, Sweden https://imageschema.net/image-schema-day Submission deadline: December 10, 2021 After two years of hibernation, we are happy to announce that the Image Schema Day (ISD6) is returning in its sixth reincarnation: at a new venue, with new research, but with the same purpose. In broad terms, image schemas are spatiotemporal relationships between objects and agents that are learned in early infancy such as containment, support and linkage. These relationships are hypothesised to construct the information skeleton found in object affordances, linguistic…