Call for Papers ACM Symposium on Applied Perception September 22-23, 2022 Online http://sap.acm.org/2022/ Deadline for abstract submission: May 30, 2022 Deadline for paper submission: June 3, 2022 The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, virtual reality and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side. The interdisciplinary focus of this conference acknowledges that the various scientific disciplines in perception research…

Call for Papers Special Session: Social and Biometric data for Applications in human machine interactions: Models and algorithms (SOBIOAPPS) In Conjunction with the 7th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2022) September 12-15, 2022 Calabria, Italy http://cyber-science.org/2022/dasc/acceptworkshops/ http://cyber-science.org/2022/assets/files/ws-ss/cst/SOBIOAPPS2022_CFP.pdf CyberSciTech 2022: http://cyber-science.org/2022/cyberscitech/ Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society EMPATHIC: http://www.empathic-project.eu/ MENHIR: http://menhir-project.eu/ SIROBOTICS: https://www.exprivia.it/en/show-info-event-full.php?id_event=7907 ANDROIDS: https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/android-project Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2022 The aim of this SPECIAL SESSION is to provide an overview of ideas and methods for developing autonomous systems capable to act as socially and emotionally believable assistive interfaces. To this aim, data gathered from behavioural…

Call for Papers HAID 2022 – 11th International Workshop on Haptic & Audio Interaction Design August 24-25-26, 2022 Queen Mary University of London, UK [and online; see below] https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ Submission deadlines (final): Papers: 22 May 2022 Demos: 26 June 2022 Work in Progress: 26 June 2022 Since its conception by Stephen Brewster in 2006, the aim of the HAID workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who share an interest in finding out how the haptic and audio modalities can be used together in human-computer/machine interaction. The research challenges in the area are best approached through user-centred design, empirical…

Call for Papers HRI4Wellbeing: The 1st Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Socially Adaptive Robots Co-located with RO-MAN22 September 2, 2022 Hybrid format, join our workshop: In-person: Royal Continental Hotel, Via Partenope, 38, 80121 Napoli NA, Italy Naples, Italy or Remotely: TBD Workshop: https://hri4wellbeing.github.io/ ; https://easychair.org/cfp/hri4wellbeing IEEE RO-MAN 2022: http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2022 The main topic of our workshop will be socially adaptive robots for wellbeing, which aligns strongly with the RO-MAN 2022 theme in making robots adaptive and emotional to be socially accepted in different contexts (i.e., clinical and not clinical) – “robots capable of being welcomed as our…

Call for Papers Workshop on Augmenting Usability Evaluation In conjunction with the Mensch&Computer [Humans and Computers] 2022 conference Darmstadt, Germany Workshop: https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/de/unitylab-mensch-computer-conference Conference: https://muc2022.mensch-und-computer.de/en/ Important Dates: June 15, 2022 – Deadline for workshop submission July 13, 2022 – Notification of Acceptance July 27, 2022 – Deadline for the camera-ready paper September 07, 2022 – Workshop Day (in the morning) OBJECTIVE: The aim of the workshop is to collect, share and discuss novel approaches that support and augment the (semi-)automatic evaluation of (complex) interactive applications focusing on the user interface. CONTEXT: There exist many guidelines, norms, and standards on how usability…

Call for Participation “Sound Design(ed) Futures: New realities, spaces, technologies” One-day international conference Date: 27 May 2022 10.00-18.30 Place: Online & Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris, France) Organisation: Eleni-Ira Panourgia & Andrea Giomi Conference: https://lisaa.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/actualites/actualite/sound-designed-futures-new-realities-spaces-technologies Free registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sound-designed-futures-new-realities-spaces-technologies-tickets-276697348217 As part of the CCAMAN Team (Confluences, Cinematographic, Audiovisual, Musical and Digital Arts) and the Literature, Knowledge and Arts Research Lab (LISAA), a one-day international conference will be devoted to the future directions of sound design through artistic and scientific approaches. Sound is omnipresent in the physical and virtual spaces that surround us in our everyday life, and is becoming increasingly important in…

Call for Papers GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment The Italian Journal of Game Studies Special Issue: “Interactive Digital Narratives: Counter-Hegemonic Narratives and Expression of Identity” https://www.gamejournal.it/n-112023-idn/ Edited by Ilaria Mariani, Mariana Ciancia, Judith Ackermann Submission deadline: July 29, 2022 The discourse on IDNs is today growingly prominent in scholarly debates (Koenitz, 2018; Koenitz et al., 2015), fed by an unceasing technological evolution that opens vaste possibilities and potentialities with relevant implications in terms of expression – both from the perspective of authors and players. The eleventh issue of G|A|M|E digs into interactive storytelling and interactive digital narratives (IDNs)…

Call for Papers Workshop on “New Trends in Sports and HCI” At MobileHCI 2022 October 1, 2022, AoE Online Workshop: https://mobilehci22-hci-and-sports.dfki.de/ Mobile HCI 2022: https://mobilehci.acm.org/2022/ Submission deadline: June 1, 2022, AoE The field of HCI for sports is evolving under the push of new technological developments and worldwide natural events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. Recent technological advancements have widened the possibilities of HCI in the sports domain by paving the way to augmented humans, inbodied interactions, esports, new forms of sociality thanks to virtual reality and the metaverse, and new ways for engaging the audience thanks…

Call for Participation Human Factors and VR Training with Professor Bob Stone An event by Immerse Australia Friday, May 6, 2022 Livestream available via link below at 5.30pm AEST, 3.30pm AWST [8:30am in London] If you’re based in Brisbane there will also be an in-person meetup and networking event to watch the livestream: Brisbane Meetup: 5.00pm to 7.00pm AEST Google Calendar / ICS [Source: https://immerseaustralia.org/events/human-factors-bob-stone ] Link for Livestream via Teams: https://bit.ly/immerse-bobstone Venue for Brisbane Meetup: Compono Pty Ltd, Level 3, 32 Duncan St, Fortitude Valley, QLD Cost: Free The study of Human factors is concerned with understanding human capabilities, and then…

Call for Papers International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling December 4-7, 2022 Santa Cruz, California, USA [and online; see first paragraph below and last paragraph before KEY DATES] https://icids2022.ardin.online/ Submission deadline: July 15, 2022 ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied design lenses. The annual conference is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. ICIDS 2022 is the 15th edition of the conference and will be presented as a fully hybrid…

CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSALS Intellect journals https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/1547/call-fo-special-issue-2022.pdf Deadline: July 1, 2022 Intellect is seeking new special issue proposals to place within a number of our journal titles. We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for special issues on the following topics: Contemporary cinematic theory and practice Sound studies Theatre studies Dance studies Visual culture (particularly in relation to politics and public communication) Design research Art and technology Creative technologies Augmented reality If you would like to propose a special issue, please complete a Guest Editor form, which is available to download from our Publish with Us page: https://www.intellectbooks.com/why-publish-with-us Please…

Call for Papers CEEGS 2022: Ludic Realities Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference (CEEGS) October 13-15, 2022 Tallinn University, Estonia [see NOTE below] https://web.htk.tlu.ee/ceegs2022/ Submission deadlines: Abstracts: June 10, 2022 Workshop proposals: June 20, 2022 After two consecutive postponements in 2020 and 2021, the Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference (CEEGS) is back this year and will take place in Tallinn, Estonia. The binary opposition between games and reality, between the playful and the serious, is a concept present in many cultures and deeply ingrained in the Western popular imaginary. And yet, the assumption that games are “not…