Call for Papers CyberSciTech 2021 – The 6th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress October 25-28, 2021 Calgary, Canada http://cyber-science.org/2021/ Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2021 CONGRESS INTRODUCTION Cyberspace, the seamless integration of physical, social, and mental spaces, is an integral part of our society, ranging from learning and entertainment to business and cultural activities, and so on. There are, however, in addition to its technical challenges, a number of pressing issues such as safety and trust associated with the cyberspace. For example, how do we strike a balance between the need for strong cybersecurity and preserving the privacy of…

Call for Papers ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 16-17 September, 2021 Rennes (France) at the Inria Rennes and remotely [see note below] http://sap.acm.org/2021/ Deadline for abstract submission: May 25th Deadline for paper submission: May 27th NOTE: As of now, ACM SAP 2021 is planned to be held as a hybrid conference both in Rennes (France) and virtually on the 16th and 17th of September, 2021. Although we encourage in-person attendance, the organizers plan to have online streaming and interaction options for virtual attendance for both attendees and speakers. More details will be provided as the situation evolves. The ACM Symposium…

Call for Participation Virtues, Robots and Good Lives: Who Cares? Key Note by Charles Ess Online event on May 13th, 2021, 18:00 CET https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/209917 In order to register for the Key Note, please send your name, email-address and affiliation to magdalena.heckner @ izew.uni-tuebingen.de . You will receive a confirmation via email within 24 hours. We will send a zoom link to the email address shortly before the event. ABSTRACT: A good deal of the ethical considerations regarding our possible lives with robots draws from various forms of virtue ethics. As a first catalyst, I briefly recall my initial discussion in…

Call for Participation PROMOTING IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES: WHY, HOW & WHAT? A FREE one-hour insight into why many immersive experiences aren’t being promoted to their optimum and how to do this well! Thursday 20 May, 2021 at 07:00 – 08:00 EDT Online via Zoom Book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/promoting-immersive-experiences-why-how-what-tickets-151487534293 There’s no doubt that the time for immersive experiences have come, but XR remains difficult to communicate to people who haven’t experienced it before. Marketing is now one of the biggest challenges facing the growth of the immersive sector, with many people still associating VR & AR with futuristic tech. If XR…

Call for Participation “Institutional Factors Shaping XR Technology Accessibility Policy & Practice in Academic Libraries” An online survey https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Ya9id4uCXoktLv Survey closes: May 15, 2021 (extended) Hello, This invitation to participate in a survey is being sent out to those responsible for managing and providing XR technologies in academic libraries. This survey is part of a study titled “Institutional Factors Shaping XR Technology Accessibility Policy & Practice in Academic Libraries.” The principal investigator (PI) is Dr. Zack Lischer-Katz, PhD (Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Arizona) and the co-principal investigator (Co-PI) is Jasmine Clark (Digital Scholarship Librarian, Temple University). An…

Call for Papers HALF-DAY WORKSHOP: Pilot Implementation: Testing Human-Work Interaction Designs Bari, Italy and online 31 August 2021 https://barbara-barricelli.unibs.it/HWID/events/Pilot4HWID/ At INTERACT 2021 – The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction https://www.interact2021.org/ Deadline for submission (subject to change): June 1, 2021 This workshop on pilot implementation will take place preceding INTERACT2021, in Bari, Italy, on 31 August 2021. Online attendance will also be allowed. This workshop on pilot implementation has three main objectives: To help mature pilot implementation as a technique for evaluating human-work interaction designs during the process of their development and implementation. To collect case studies…

Call for Papers “Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare: Understanding and Generating Multimodal Nonverbal Cues” A workshop at ICMI 2021, the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Montreal, Canada October 18-22 (specific date TBA) https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/ Paper submission deadline: June 18, 2021 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce our workshop titled “Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare: Understanding and Generating Multimodal Nonverbal Cues” which takes place as part of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2021 in October 2021 in Montreal, Canada. For more information, please see https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/. CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in the areas of face and gesture analysis, computational…

Call for Abstracts CANTERBURY 2022 (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): A conference on design, culture and technology – past, present, and future Canterbury, UK / Virtual Organisers: University of Kent Dates: 15-17 June 2022 https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-2022/ Deadline for abstract submissions (early): 01 July 2021 CONTEXT The buildings, towns and cities we inhabit are physical entities created in the past, experienced in the present, and projected to inform the future. The same can be said of the artefacts we use daily: designed furniture in the home, the mobile devices in our hands, the vehicles we see on our streets. However, each of these places, buildings…

Call for Papers “Intricacies of Child-Robot Interaction” Special issue [or book] to be published by the open-access journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/Child_Robot_Interaction Submission deadline: September 1, 2021 Dear colleagues, We invite contributions for a Special Issue on “Intricacies of Child-Robot Interaction”, to be published by the open-access journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE: In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in interest around the child-robot interaction (CRI). The possibilities of using social robots for educational or therapeutic purposes in schools, hospitals, and domestic settings have captured the attention of researchers, institutions, and stakeholders alike. In…

Call for Contributions The Construction of the Robot in Language and Culture Theme issue of Technology and Language Submission deadline: January 10, 2022 The second issue of Technology and Language has just appeared – and with it a new call for contributions. Individual papers and the whole issue are freely available at https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/issue/2/. “In the Beginning was the Word: The Word as a Technical Artefact”  features contributions from Irina Belyaeva, Chandrima Christiansen, Christopher Coenen and Alexandra Kazakova, Thomas Froy, Tatiana Kazarina, Ulrike Ramming, Walker Trimble, Viktoria Vorotnikova and Sergey Karlin, and Joseph Wilson. New Call for Contributions: The Construction of…

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals 3rd Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling 30 September – 2 October, 2021 Organized in Budapest, at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in partnership with ARDIN [see note below] https://zip-scene.mome.hu Deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals: May 15, 2021 NOTE: We aim to carry out this conference preferably as an offline event based in Budapest, should the circumstances of the current pandemic permit. The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the event program. When sending the abstract, please indicate whether you are planning to attend physically the event or you would prefer to…

Call for Papers 33rd British Human Computer Interaction Conference Conference Theme: Post-Pandemic HCI – Living digitally 19-21 July (Online) London, UK – University of West London https://hci2021.bcs.org/ https://twitter.com/BCSHCI2021 hci2021@bcs.org Submission Deadline: 30th of April, 2021 The 2021 conference theme is “Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally” highlighting current and future efforts for digital innovations in socio-technical systems and related challenges and opportunities. The theme invites to think beyond the current pandemic and be hopeful. ‘Living digitally’ calls for interpreting and imagining how human-computer interactions and collaborations in all areas of human life may be shaped by the pandemic. The conference accepts…