Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Multisensory Augmented Reality (MAR 2021) 31 August 2021 Bari, Italy [see note below] https://usehci.org/mar2021/ In conjunction with INTERACT 2021 https://www.interact2021.org/ Submission deadline: May 1st, 2021 NOTE: We will adhere to the Interact 2021 Policy on conference participation which is “The evolution of the pandemic will be carefully monitored and those who cannot travel due to COVID-19 will be allowed to present and participate remotely in the conference”. The 1st International Workshop on Multisensory Augmented Reality (MAR2021) will be held on 31 August 2021 in conjunction with INTERACT 2021, Bari, Italy (30th Aug –…

Call for Papers 1st workshop on the Gamification of the Learning Processes (GaLePro) https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/tracks/workshops/galepro To be held in the 11th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) Salamanca (Spain) 6th-8th October, 2021 https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Deadline for paper submission: April 30, 2021 SCOPE Thanks to recent technological developments in several fields, the learning process can now be augmented in many different ways, achieving goals such as teaching personalization, efficient communication processes, better content management, among others. While these developments are relevant in any form of learning, they are much more so in Blended or Distance Learning. In…

Call for Participation VIRTUAL EVENTS IN THE METAVERSE A co-production of LA ACM SIGGRAPH and the Producers Guild of America’s New Media Council Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 6:30 PM (PDT) Online (Zoom) https://lasiggraph.org/event/virtual-events-metaverse DESCRIPTION: This panel introduces producers, developers and digital artists to the new world of online events using real-time 3D massively multiplayer online virtual worlds (loosely referred to as “the metaverse”). Panelists will introduce platforms, present case studies and discuss current day challenges and future directions. The panel will be moderated by Chapter Past Chair and PGA New Media Council board delegate Ed Lantz. Moderator: Ed Lantz, President…

Call for Papers ICIDS 2021 The 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 9-12 November 2021 Santa Cruz, California [see note below] https://ardin.online/conferences/icids-interactive-storytelling/icids-2021-santa-cruz/ https://ardin.online/conferences/icids-interactive-storytelling/icids-2021-santa-cruz/icids-2021-calls/ A downloadable version of this call can be found here: pdf | plain text Submission deadline (full, short papers and poster/demo): June 25, 2021 NOTE: Provisions with regards to the Covid-19 pandemic: If none of the authors of a paper can attend the conference due to the current pandemic or in case the situation requires us to run the conference virtually, publication of the proceedings will go ahead, and will be conditional on registration and remote…

Call for Papers International Workshop on Human-Centered Software Engineering for Changing Contexts of Use organized by IFIP Working Group 13.2 on Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design August 31, 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/hcse-workshop-interact2021/ at INTERACT 2021 – The 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 30 – September 3, 2021 Bari, Italy [see note below] https://www.interact2021.org/ Submissions: Position papers reporting original academic or industrial research relevant to the workshop’s theme (PDF files, 6-10 pages in Springer LNCS format – https://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021 NOTE (from INTERACT 2021 website): The aim is to run the conference in Bari.…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021) Virtually Everywhere November 9-11, 2021 http://hai-conference.net/hai2021/ Deadlines for Paper Submissions: June 21, 2021 People are increasingly interacting with computerized agents. Examples include autonomous and tele-presence robots in homes, healthcare, or search and rescue, virtual characters in the expanding gaming industry or for serious games, and agents representing other people through on-line social and interactive meeting places. Although these broad areas have their own unique research challenges, there is a clear commonality to be addressed in the investigation of how people interact with agents, whether they have physical or…

Call for Papers Guiding the Conversation: New Theory and Design Perspectives for Conversational User Interfaces Special Issue of Human Computer Interaction Journal https://madpickle.net/hcij/publicInfo/cfp_cui.pdf Proposals due: 2nd June 2021 Conversational speech and text-based interfaces are growing in popularity, through the increased uptake of speech systems like Amazon Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. We have also seen the proliferation of chatbot interfaces in service contexts. This special issue aims to start building further critical mass around research on user-centric issues in CUI interaction, specifically investigating how theory, methods and empirical research can inform the development, understanding and design of CUIs.  It aims…

Call for Papers GHItaly21 – 4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction 11 to 13 of July 2021 Online http://ghi.di.unimi.it/ In Conjunction with CHItaly 2021 – The biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/ Submission deadline: April 23, 2021 The 4th Workshop on Games-Human Interaction – GHItaly21 is the fourth edition of a series of workshops focused on the multifaceted issues related to the design and development of human-game interfaces. GHItaly21 aims at establishing a common venue for scholars and industry practitioners, where they can exchange ideas on all the topic related to this multidisciplinary field, and possibly create new…

Call for Participation Immersed in Restoration: With Guest Speakers Glen Fraser, John Harrison and Jacki Morie Thursday March 25th, 2021 at 9 am PST Museum of Other Realities (MOR) – Online (https://www.museumor.com/) https://www.museumor.com/blog/immersed-in-restoration-with-guest-speakers-glen-fraser-john-harrison-and-jacki-morie Our next talk event on March 25th, 2021 at 9 am PST stirs up the pressing question concerning the temporality of VR art. We’re honoured to host and extend the perspective of VR long-timers Glen Fraser, John Harrison and Jacki Morie as our guest speakers for ‘Immersed in Restoration’. While it might surprise contemporary VR artists in 2021 to hear about the first three decades of VR art…

Call for Paper Proposals “Narratives of Temporality: Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures” International Conference 24-25 July 2021 Cambridge/Online Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research http://spatiality.temporality.lcir.co.uk/ Proposals up to 250 words due by 30 April 2021 This conference will provide a deeper look into the dynamic and complex relation between construction, codes, language, expression, on one side and the crisis of representations, traumas, discontinuities and tensions in discourses, on the other. This will be conducted according to three research areas: The anachronism Narratives and discourse The temporality of trauma and subjectivity The aim of this conference is to develop a multidisciplinary reflection…

Call for Chapters “Playful Materialities”- A Clash of Realities edited volume Timeline: By May 1, 2021 selected abstracts will be invited to submit full chapters, which will be due by September 30 Gaming culture has always been closely linked to material culture. This applies both to analog forms of rule-based play (ludus), which would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards (Clüver 2020), and also to the act of free play (paidia) we can observe in children who transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way (Herron/Sutton-Smith 1971, Giddings 2014). Furthermore, materiality also affects digital…

Call for Papers SLERD 2021: 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development – SLERD Reload Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the pandemic June 24-25, 2021 Bucharest, Romania (blended) slerd2021.uniroma2.it Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): March 31, 2021 SLERD 2021 will feature: keynotes by: Inger Birkeland (University of South-Eastern Norway) – June 24 Place-conscious education and regional development: Facilitating ecologies of place Danielle McNamara (Arizona State University) – June 24 Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science: Enhancing Literacy from a Multidimensional Perspective Sébastien Turbot (eko6 and WISE research fellow) – June 25 Accelerating Learning Ecosystems: a Living Lab Approach…