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…

Call for Papers Alt.HRI 2022 Our Robotics Futures: A Time Capsule https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/alt-hri/ HRI 2022: International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) March 7-10, 2022 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/ Submission deadline: 29 November 2021 Ever since the start of the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) conference, we read something like “Robots will soon be entering our lives…” at the beginning of almost every paper. However, in a significant number of HRI scenarios, this has not happened yet. Hence, the theme of this year’s Alt.HRI’22 track is “Our Robotics Futures: A Time Capsule.” Alt.HRI is traditionally looking for the most audacious, creative and thought-provoking ideas…

Call for Participation Telematic LASER: ALL THE WORLD’S A SCREEN Thursday 2nd December 2021, 4pm GMT You can join from anywhere in the world. Click here to find your timezone and day. Register Here: https://leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D679%26reset%3D1 On Thursday 2 December 2021 at 4:00pm GMT the Telematic LASER will present the online panel discussion ALL THE WORLD’S A SCREEN with performance, Shakespeare and technology specialists… Pascale Aebischer, Lucy Askew and Sarah Ellis. They will discuss the impact of the pandemic on the performing arts, reflecting on the histories, contemporary practices and futures of online theatre that creatively engages remote performers and audiences.…

Call for Papers Phenomenologies of the Image Studia Phaenomenologica, the journal of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology Vol. 23 (2023) Journal: https://www.pdcnet.org/studphaen/Studia-Phaenomenologica Issue editors: Emmanuel Alloa and Cristian Ciocan Deadline: 1st of June 2022 The 2023 issue of Studia Phaenomenologica will be dedicated to the question of the image and its phenomenologies. Images have been a remarkably constant preoccupation for the phenomenological tradition. From Husserl’s early investigation of “image-consciousness” on, with its threefold conceptual articulation of material Bildding, appearing Bildobjekt, and referential Bildsujet (Hua XXIII), phenomenological accounts of the image can be found in the classic works of Martin Heidegger,…

Call for Papers ROBOPHILOSOPHY 2022: Social Robots in Social Institutions August 16-19, 2022 University of Helsinki, Finland. http://www.rpc2022.org Submission deadlines: Workshop descriptions: January 15, 2022 Posters, extended abstracts, full papers: January 31, 2022 The aim of social robotics is to create entities capable of social interaction with humans. In human societies, many forms of social interaction have become social institutions, that is, complex social forms that reproduce themselves, for instance, families, governments, legal systems, healthcare services, universities, and business corporations. Institutions offer individuals incentives and sanctions to maintain their stability and to serve their goals. They also enable individuals to…

Call for Abstracts: Panel on Workplace Communication Central States Communication Association (CSCA) CSCA 2022 Annual Convention Madison, Wisconsin March 30-April 3, 2022 Conference website: https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/convention_overview Submission deadline: November 4, 2021 I am putting together a panel for Central States 2022 regarding workplace communication, specifically lessons learned during the pandemic. Workers and companies were forced to close their offices, set up shop at home and maintain the same level of productivity. As we gradually move back to the office, it is critical that as researchers, we examine the lessons learned over the past year and a half. I encourage all methodologies…

Call for Participation Museums, Immersive Experiences and Beyond COMPUTER GRAPHICS & INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES Presented by the Los Angeles ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Tuesday, 9 November 2021 A free Zoom virtual event https://lasiggraph.org/index.php/event/museums-immersive-experiences-and-beyond Meet worldwide innovators from the academic, museum and startup realms, whose projects utilize digital technologies in the service of cultural heritage preservation and issues of historical societal import. You must register with ZOOM REGISTRATION to attend this event. PRESENTERS Heather Maio Smith CEO, StoryFile, Los Angeles Sarah Kenderdine Director Digital Museology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Jeffrey Shaw New Media Visual Artist, Dean, School of Creative Media…

Call for Papers Special Issue on “The Road to Successful HRI: Trust, Acceptance, Ethics, Social Signals and AI” International Journal of Social Robotics https://www.springer.com/journal/12369/updates/19112682 Submission deadline: January 31, 2022 Dear colleagues, After the great success of the TRAITS (HRI 2021) and SCRITA (RO-MAN 2021) workshops, we are very pleased to announce the Special Issue “The Road to Successful HRI: Trust, Acceptance, Ethics, Social Signals and AI” of the International Journal of Social Robotics is open! The special issue aims at exploring successful HRIs from a multidisciplinary perspective, and how to shape the design of robots. The special issue will be…

Call for Papers Designing Enabling Technologies for Marginalised Groups Special Issue of Journal of Enabling Technologies https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jet/designing-enabling-technologies-marginalised-groups Guest Editors: Dr Marc Fabri and Dr Nigel Newbutt Submission deadline: 1 December 2021 This special issue of the Journal of Enabling Technologies will focus on the design of technologies to remove barriers and improve outcomes for marginalised groups. By marginalised groups, we refer to people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, people with mental health difficulties, minorities, socially or economically disadvantaged people, and refugees, to name a few. This special issue spans a number of disciplines, notably inclusiveness, co-design and the use of innovative technologies therein.…

Call for Participation Chatbots and Philosophy Workshop Symposium Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, October 29, 2021 at 9 am – 4 pm https://library.temple.edu/events/1089 Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 9 am – 4 pm https://library.temple.edu/events/1136 Free in person event; register at links above Join us for this two-day workshop symposium introducing you to state-of-the-art chatbot technology and other NLP machines. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Center for Hybrid Intelligence in the College of Science and Technology and the Department of Religion in the College of Liberal Arts. Feel free to stop by for any or all of the sessions. Ever…

Call for Participation AI & Moral Responsibility Responsibility Matters Workshop Series (RMWS) October 21, 16.00-20.00hrs EET (Bucharest time) Online via Zoom http://comore.ccea.ro/responsibility-matters-workshop-series-ai-moral-responsibility/ We cordially invite you to the first edition of the Responsibility Matters Workshop Series (RMWS): AI & Moral Responsibility. We are technically on the verge of deploying self-driving cars, autonomous weapon systems, robotic caregivers or artificial companions. But the perspective of scaling up such AI systems raises several ethical concerns. Who is morally responsible for the decisions taken by highly autonomous AI systems in these various domains? Whom do we blame for the effects generated by these artificial…

Call for Papers for Workshop Machines of Change: Robots, AI and Value Change 1 to 3 February 2022 TU Delft The Netherlands Abstract submission deadline: 26 November 2021 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS We invite contributions to the workshop Machines of Change: Robots, AI and Value Change, to be held from 1 to 3 February, 2022, in Delft, the Netherlands. People interested in contributing to the workshop are requested to submit a 300-word abstract to aiworkshop@valuechange.eu before 26 November 2021. You will be notified before 15 December whether you are selected for inclusion in the workshop. We expect to be able to…