CALL FOR PAPERS The 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021) 10-13 November 2021 Singapore and Online Conference format: Hybrid with joint programme with the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021; https://hai-conference.net/hai2021/) www.colips.org/conferences/icsr2021 Submission deadline: 13th June 2021 GENERAL INFORMATION The 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the interaction between humans and intelligent robots and on the integration of robots into the fabric of our society. ICSR 2021 will take place in Singapore as a hybrid conference on 10-13 November 2021. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings…

Call for Proposals FLAT journal – Issue 0.2: Touch https://flatjournal.com/cfp/ Submission deadline: August 1st, 2021 To our readers, writers, and passersby, We are living with the unmistakably eerie feeling that perception has been broken down for parts and recombined into something else.  Something built for and by blue-light screens, tiny monophonic speakers, and just enough tactility to find the right key to press or swipe on a glass screen. For this year’s issue, we are looking for co-conspirators (despite the dangers of breathing together) to rebuild our understanding of touch and its necessity to perception, bodies, and being in the…

Call for Papers: CONVERSATIONS 2021 – 5th International Workshop on Chatbot Research November 23-24, 2021 Online virtual event hosted by the University of Amsterdam https://conversations2021.wordpress.com Paper submission deadline: September 1, 2021 Chatbot researchers and practitioners are invited to join CONVERSATIONS 2021, a two-day workshop on chatbot research and design. This is the fifth CONVERSATIONS workshop, where researchers with an interest in chatbots and conversational user interfaces collaborate and share. The workshop is free of charge. Following from the pleasant experience of last year’s virtual event, also CONVERSATIONS 2021 will be fully online. Paper presentations and groupworks are important parts of…

Call for Papers The Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021) Co-located with the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference 19th July, 2021 Online https://hci2021.bcs.org/workshop-1/ Submission deadline: 15th June, 2021 The Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021) will be held online on the 19th July and is co-located with the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (https://hci2021.bcs.org) INTRODUCTION The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners from national and international cultural heritage (CH) organisations together with those from across HCI and related fields. We aim to establish how an alertness to tertiary embodiment (mind-body-artefact)…

[Important note: I have avoided posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but will now do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I will add an explicit note near the top of the post specifying the fee. For more information about these fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew] Call for Papers “Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction” A special issue of Big Data and Cognitive…

Call for Participation Amazing Folks in Tech: VR in the Medical Field A free online event from LA ACM SIGGRAPH June 8, 2021 https://lasiggraph.org/event/amazing-folks-tech REGISTER FOR FREE WITH ZOOM until May 26, 2021 PRESENTERS: Andrew Melchior, Founder, 3rd Space Agency JohnLeah, Founder, 3rd Space Agency Greg Ruthenbeck, Director, Exagen Oy Daish Malani, Founder, Technical Director, Add Life Technologies Kyle Carlin, Moderator DESCRIPTION: As medical professionals strive to use VR with accuracy: learn from three medical professionals using VR. VR in the Medical Field will be LA ACM SIGGRAPH’s June 8th event. Join us here at LA SIGGRAPH for a magical…

Call for Papers Dis/abling Spaces and Cultures in Times of Crisis Special issue of Space and Culture journal, forthcoming online in 2022 Michael Schillmeier, Editor https://www.spaceandculture.com/2021/04/05/call-for-papers-dis-abling-spaces-and-cultures-in-times-of-crisis/ Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2021 With the COVID 19 pandemic we experience the adverse effects, ambiguities, uncertainties, insecurities of a global crisis that links and separates embodied, personal, social and cultural lives. Although the crisis may affect everyone, it is obvious that people who are disabled, marginalized, discriminated, vulnerable, ill, and/or live through precarious situations are at high risk to be become more disabled, more discriminated, more vulnerable or ill, and precarity deepens…

Call for Papers Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction (SCRITA) Workshop In conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2021 conference 12 August, 2021 https://scrita.herts.ac.uk Deadline for submissions: June 13th, 2021 This workshop will be a full day event on 12 August, 2021 in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2021 conference, which is organised by the University of British Columbia and University of Waterloo, Canada. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES Trust is a fundamental aspect that helps to foster effective collaboration between people and robots. It is imperative that people trust robots to not create a hazardous situation, such as starting a fire when trying to…

Call for Papers Joint Conference on Serious Games 2021 7th -8th October 2021 Staffordshire University, UK and Online https://www.staffs.ac.uk/events/joint-conference-on-serious-games/2021 Submission deadline for full and short papers: 31 May 2021 The IFIP Joint Conference on Serious Games (JCSG) 2021 will be a hybrid conference both hosted online and in person at Staffordshire University Stoke-on-Trent UK. JCSG is fully dedicated to serious games and its interdisciplinary characteristics combining game concepts and technologies required in the different application domains. The conference proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS. KEY DATES Scientists and practitioners are cordially invited to present their latest research achievements and…

Call for Papers ‘Digital Living and its Impact on Cognition- Healthy or Harmful?’ 1-day Workshop co-located with the 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (https://hci2021.bcs.org/) 19th of July, 2021 Online https://bhcidigitalliving.wordpress.com/ Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 28th May Notification of acceptance: 25th June Workshop: 19th July WORKSHOP FOCUS Since the start of 2020 there has been a huge shift to online living. Most meetings and workplaces are now organised virtually, and education is conducted via online classrooms. However, the impact of long term technology on cognitive abilities is yet to be fully understood. While this has been a concern before the…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN-SYSTEMS INTERACTION Session 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference Yellowstone Conference Center Big Sky, Montana March 5-12, 2022 http://www.aeroconf.org Abstracts are currently being accepted, due July 1, 2021 Dear all, We are looking for abstracts (papers for peer reviews due in October) for the session Human-Systems Interaction at the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana. This session consistently draws a fascinating group of innovators in our field for stimulating discussions in an impressive setting. TOPICS Humans are the most critical element in system safety, reliability and performance. Their creativity, adaptability and problem-solving capabilities are key to resilient operations…

[Sorry for the short notice! –Matthew] Call for Participation Music & VR: A Unique Conversation Live-Streamed from the Real, and Virtual Worlds! Hear from fellow musicians, DJs, producers, and developers who are making waves in the music and VR space Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-vr-music-tickets-149618453823 You will receive the Zoom link to attend after you register. Featuring: Young Guru: Head of Music, Collimation Gimel Androus Keaton, better known by his stage name Young Guru, is an American audio engineer, record producer, disc jockey, and record executive from Wilmington, Delaware. In 2019, Young Guru…