CALL FOR PAPERS Conference: ‘Affecting Game Space: Theory and Practice’ Game Worlds Cluster Centre for Data, Culture and Society The University of Edinburgh Online 3rd September 2021 Abstract submission deadline: 31st July 2021 From claustrophobic confines to sublime vistas, game spaces have conjured affects since the medium’s inception. Whether it be nostalgia for the remastered landscape, the vertigo of free diving in VR, or the conviviality of gathering around landmarks in Pokémon GO, affect reciprocally connects players to physical and virtual spaces. Haptics, ray tracing and photogrammetry are allowing us to ‘feel’ game worlds in new and increasingly tangible ways.…

Call for Papers 5th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction – MA3HMI 2021 Held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021) Workshop date: September 28 or October 1, 2021 Online/virtual http://ma3hmi.cogsy.de Submission deadline: July 9, 2021 SCOPE One of the aims of building multimodal user interfaces is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible in a situation as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction can be considered how we interact with other humans. While the analysis of human-human communication…

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Egocentric Vision for Interactive Perception, Learning, and Control (EgoVIP2021) Affiliated with IROS 2021, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (https://www.iros2021.org/) October 1, 2021 Online Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/unizar.es/iros-2021-egocentric-vision/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: July 23, 2021 (AoE) Acceptance Notification (tentative): July 30, 2021 Workshop online: October 1, 2021 MOTIVATION For robots to successfully interact with their environment and carry out tasks, egocentric vision emerges as a natural solution in Robotics, mostly for robots such as mobile ones. However, despite its theoretical and practical implications, egocentric perception rarely receives the attention it deserves. Furthermore, there…

Call for Panels CHI 2022: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 30 – May 6, 2022 New Orleans and online [see below] https://chi2022.acm.org/for-authors/interacting-and-discussing/panels/ Submission deadline: December 16, 2021 Hello! We are soliciting Panels for the CHI 2022 (https://chi2022.acm.org/) conference, which will take place in early May 2022 in New Orleans. Please check out the Panels CFP here: https://chi2022.acm.org/for-authors/interacting-and-discussing/panels/ The deadline is not until December 16, 2021, but we wanted to give you plenty of notice to be able to curate your best and most exciting panel submissions! Panels will be held in their own 60-minute session…

Call for Papers ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2021 Łódź, Poland and online [see Note below] November 14 to 17 http://iss.acm.org/2021/ NOTE: ISS 2021 will be a hybrid event: Accepted papers are invited to present at the conference, and authors can choose whether or not they wish to present. Because of the evolving situation with COVID-19 and the difficulties of running a physical in-person conference, ACM ISS will allow remote participation. While we do not know what the exact format of the conference will be, we will ensure everyone can present their papers at ISS. ACM ISS 2021 has two separate…

Call for Papers: AI Perspectives Ongoing Topical Collection: Human-centered AI https://aiperspectives.springeropen.com/call-for-papers–human-centered-ai AI technologies are defining our everyday lives in ways which few other technologies have been done before. In more and more contexts, these AI technologies directly interact with humans in various ways, from self-driving cars to surveillance systems to medical diagnosis systems and human-robot teams. It is apparent from these impacts already observed that Human-centered AI can potentially have a lot of positive but also negative social impacts. To address and mitigate potential negative repercussions of AI, the international research community has started a variety of initiatives. For instance,…

Call for Papers/Posters/Demos VRST 2021 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Osaka, Japan and online December 8 – 10, 2021 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2021/ Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2021 Posters and demos submission deadline: August 15, 2021 The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers on augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR, XR for short) software and technology. VRST brings together the premier international research groups working on XR, along with many of the world’s leading companies that provide…

Call for Entries in ISMAR 2021 Contest to provide Natural Social Interactions at the Hybrid Conference of the Future ISMAR 2021: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality October 4-8, 2021 Bari, Italy http://www.ismar21.org Contest entries due: July 19, 2021 OVERVIEW This is an open invitation to anyone interested in Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR) to participate in the ISMAR Contest. The ISMAR Contest will be held during IEEE ISMAR 2021, the premier conference for AR and MR, October 4-8, 2021. PURPOSE The purpose of the ISMAR Contest is to stimulate innovative and creative…

Call for Studies: XR Distributed Research Network (XRDRN) https://www.xrdrn.org/about/ The XR Distributed Research Network (XRDRN) is a platform for researchers in the Cross-Reality (XR/VR/AR) discipline, created in response to the Covid-19 emergency lockdown. The aim is to provide a home for researchers to upload their current XR research projects and find participants for their research. XR research often requires participants, but during the pandemic, the only way researchers can get participants is by distributing activities online. Many researchers have noted difficulty and effort in both publicising their projects and recruiting participants. We hope researchers will upload their projects, and also…

Call for Participation Workshop: Ethics, Anthropomorphism, and Robots University of Porto – Institute of Philosophy 23 June 2021 at 14h30-18h00 (Porto time: UTC+1 which is 9:30am-1pm EST) Online https://ifilosofia.up.pt/index.php/activities/workshop-ethics-anthropomorphism-and-robots Zoom link available by request: ifilosofia@letras.up.pt Keynote speakers: Sven Nyholm, Utrecht University Katie Evans, Sorbonne Université Organizer and keynote speaker: Luca M. Possati, University of Porto How should human beings and robots interact with each other? Can we consider robots and AIs as ethical agents? Humans create robots and AI (artificial intelligence) to achieve their objectives. Therefore, robots and AI should be adapted to human needs and preferences. However, this view presupposes…

Call for papers Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS) Location: Virtual Website: https://wraps-workshop.github.io/ In conjunction with UbiComp (https://www.ubicomp.org) Important dates (All deadlines are 23:59 AoE): Paper submission: extended to 22nd June, 2021 Author notification: 15th July, 2021 Final camera ready due: 23rd July, 2021 Workshop date: 25/26th September, 2021 (exact date/time to be confirmed) This workshop will bring together a range of perspectives into how we can better audit and understand the complex, sociotechnical systems that increasingly pervade our world. From tools for data capture and retrieval, technical/ethical/legal challenges, and early ideas on concepts of relevance – we…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE RO-MAN 2021 GenR WORKSHOP GENDERING ROBOTS: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics IMPORTANT DATES & INFO Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30th, 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: July 21st, 2021 Camera Ready Paper: July 28th, 2021 Main Conference Date: August 8th-12th, 2021 Workshop Date: August 12th, 2021 Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ro-man21-genr-workshop/home Twitter : @GenR_ROMAN Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genr2021 Full call for papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/GenR2021 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES Within the GenR workshop, we aim to provide researchers investigating gender in robotics with a platform to share their work and invite interested scholars to reflect with us on inclusive and ethical practices…