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…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Human-centred AI in healthcare: Challenges appearing in the wild To appear on ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction http://bit.ly/HCIAIHealth Deadline [extended]: November 12th, 2021 DESCRIPTION: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise to improve our healthcare systems. Current AI-based systems already support drug development, triage, screening, diagnosis, and patient follow-up; and the potential is to completely reconfigure the way our healthcare systems work. In the face of such strong potential, many scientists have devoted their research to the development of AI-based systems, and PubMed has seen a tenfold increase in the number of publications mentioning AI,…

Call for Papers ENVIRONMENTS BY DESIGN: HEALTH, WELLBEING AND PLACE THEME: CONNECTIVITY – Joining-up approaches to Health and Wellbeing across design and health disciplines Dates: 1-3 December, 2021 Place: Virtual https://architecturemps.com/northumbria/ Deadline for abstracts: 25 October, 2021 [Round Two] The COVID-19 pandemic, and the social distancing and ‘lockdown’ measures that have been implemented in response, have refocused the attention of many on the importance of connections to human health. This includes not only the social connections which have been shown to prevent mental health problems (Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2010) but also connections to nature which have been shown to result…

[Note: There are several other Areas that might be relevant for presence, including Communication & Digital Culture, Psychology and Popular Culture, Radio and Audio Media and Virtual Identities and Self-Promoting. See https://pcaaca.org/areas for details. –Matthew] Call for Papers: Game Studies Area 2022 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference April 13-16, 2022 Seattle, WA [see below re: COVID-19] https://pcaaca.org/area/game-studies https://pcaaca.org/conference/2022 Deadline for Paper Proposals and Grant Applications: November 15, 2021 COVID-19 PLANNING AND RESPONSE UPDATES: The Popular Culture Association is monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely.  At this point, we are proceeding with plans for our 2022 conference to be held,…

Call for Contributions ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7-9 September, 2022 St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 SCOPE The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online…