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…

Call for Participation Human Factors Interventions for Surgical Systems A Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences Virtual Symposium Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 05:00 – 07:30 EDT Free https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/human-factors-interventions-for-surgical-systems-tickets-155955728783 ABOUT THIS EVENT Novel technologies have the potential to impact the health field, from augmenting education to greater efficacy in medical procedures. Despite this potential, it is important that they provide a positive user experience both for clinicians and patients. This can be achieved through a user-centred design process where user needs are considered every step of the way. To gain more understanding around this important process, our…

Call for Papers MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium and online [see Note below] https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/ Submission deadline for long and short papers: August 6, 2021 NOTE: This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to…

Call for Papers “Gender and Human-Machine Communication” Special Issue of Human-Machine Communication https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/callforpapers.html Editors: Leopoldina Fortunati (leopoldina.fortunati@uniud.it), Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy Autumn Edwards (autumn.edwards@wmich.edu), School of Communication, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America Submission deadline: January 15, 2022 DESCRIPTION: The reproductive sphere, historically the place of domestic appliances and classic media (television and radio), is now populated by various types of machines: from computers to mobile phones to social robots to virtual and voice-based assistants. Domestic work, especially in its immaterial aspects (affection, emotion, sex, information, care and support,…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN’21 – 4th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext Official workshop of the ACM Hypertext Conference ’21 Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB August 30, 2021 Online Workshop website: https://human.iisys.de/human21 HUMAN on Twitter: @HUMAN_HT Twitter hashtag:  #HUMAN21 Submission deadline:  July 23, 2021 INTRODUCTION HUMAN’21 is the third workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. It is sponsored by SIGWEB and affiliated with the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. It has a strong focus on the user and thus is complementary to the strong machine analytics research direction that could be experienced in previous conferences.…

Call for Papers First International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021) November 8-10, 2021 Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2021/ Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Journal Issue with SN Computer Science Submission Deadline: July 7, 2021 ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021) is the first of the series of International Conferences on “ICT for Societal Challenges”. It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical,…

Call for Papers: States of Immersion: Bodies, Media, Technologies Edited collection – Estimated publication 2023 Editorial Committee: Philippe Bédard (Carleton University), Alanna Thain (McGill University) and Carl Therrien (Université de Montréal). Proposals submission deadline: July 15, 2021 Full paper submission deadline: December 1, 2021 Over five days in October 2020, the conference “Immersivity and Technological Innovations” brought together more than fifty researchers and artists to address questions raised by virtual reality and, more broadly, by immersive media. To tackle the question of media immersivity and its related technological innovations, event participants addressed subjects ranging from the different “ramas” (panoramas, cyclorama,…

Call for Papers Designed to Deceive? The Philosophy of Deepfakes A Topical Collection in Synthese An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science Guest Editor: Dan Cavedon-Taylor, The Open University Submission deadline: July 30th 2022 TOPICAL COLLECTION DESCRIPTION: Deepfakes are fabricated video and/or audio recordings created by machine-learning methods. They are highly convincing in their appearance and are widely anticipated to be used for malign, deceptive purposes. Indeed, malicious use of the technology is already a reality: In April 2020, members of Extinction Rebellion created a deepfake of the Belgian Prime Minister, Sophie Wilmès, that depicted the PM…

[NOTE: The ETGG website also includes a discussion board, with (at this writing) one post titled “Anthropomorphising AI.” –Matthew] Call for Participation The Ethics and Technology Graduate Group (ETGG) Work In Progress (WIP) 2021 Sessions Online via Zoom https://techethicsgroup.wixsite.com/tethics/events Session 1: “Vulnerability, Trust and Human-Robot Interaction” Wednesday 9th of June, 2021 – 17:00 – 18:30 CET Presenter: Zachary Daus, University of Vienna ABSTRACT: Recent attempts to engineer trustworthy robotic systems often conceive of trust in terms of predictability. Accordingly, to trust a robotic system (or a human) is to be able to predict what the robotic system (or human) will…

Call for Papers FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference – Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction Supported by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg November 15-17, 2021 Online Zoom-Meeting https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/veranstaltungen/nachwuchskonferenzen/SpoHuMa21 Easychair: https://easychair.org/cfp/SpoHuMa21 Paper submission deadline: September 3, 2021 This three-day international conference is targeted at early career researchers (Master’s students, PhD students, Post-Docs) in the area of spoken human-machine interaction who take a human-centered approach to the topic. While we would like to emphasize linguistic aspects, we also invite researchers from related fields such as psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and computer science to contribute their perspectives.…

Call for Papers The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Mixed reality Implications on Cultural Heritage Experience – MrICHE 2021 In conjunction with the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2021 – ismar21.org) Bari, Italy October 4, 2021 https://fcrlab.unime.it/calls/mriche2021 Papers submission deadline: June 23, 2021 MISSION: The main aim of the workshop is discussing, ideating, and prototyping use-cases for creating immersive Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality experiences for the purpose of making both new functions and reuse of the existing cultural heritage, as well as promoting the born of a new cultural heritage based on digital technology. Moreover, the…

Call for Papers Minds & Machines special issue on The sociotechnical systems approach for Artificial Intelligence Guest Editors: Olya Kudina, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology Ibo van de Poel, Professor, Delft University of Technology Deadline for paper submissions: September 1, 2021 DESCRIPTION A sociotechnical systems approach is a generally recognized lens to look at complex technologies by underscoring the intrinsic entanglement of their technical, social and institutional dimensions that together produce specific use patterns and ethical concerns (e.g. Franssen 2015; Kroes et al. 2006). What distinguishes Artificial Intelligence (AI) from traditional sociotechnical systems is the presence of artificial agents,…