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…

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,…