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,…

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…