Call for Participation International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC) 2021 March 19 – 20, 2021 and Affiliated Forum, March 21, 2021 http://iw2021.xrenlab.com/ LINKS: Registration Q&A Platform Survey The international workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC 2021) focuses on rethinking the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will be convened online via ZOOM and it will be open to all audiences around the world through webcasts and/or live-streaming platforms. The aim of this workshop is to rethink the relationship between humans and computers. The workshop will strive to achieve a common platform to advance various idea exchanges around the world, resulting…

Call for Papers Workshop on Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges At IDC 2021 – ACM Interaction Design and Children conference 2021 [Online] Athens, Worldwide 26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021 Workshop: https://www.techresearch4children.com/ IDC 2021: https://idc.acm.org/2021/ KEY DATES Deadline for Paper Submission: 12 April 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: 26 April 2021 Camera-ready Paper: 10 May 2021 Workshop Date: 26 June 2021 or 27 June 2021 ABSTRACT Research on child-agent interaction is rapidly expanding. It is, therefore, necessary to converge our collective efforts to broaden our understanding and perspectives of how virtual agents, affect and potentially improve…

Call for Papers Inclusive HRI – Special Session at RO-MAN 2021 August 8-12, 2021 – Virtual Website: https://ro-man2021.org/full-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: March 21, 2021 (regular paper submission deadline) Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2021 Camera ready papers due: June 20, 2021 Conference: August 8-12, 2021 OVERVIEW How can we improve robots’ capacity to interact successfully with all segments of the population? How can we prevent the implicit transfer of our bias into robots while designing interactions and related artificial intelligence software? Interactive robots are being deployed into homes, schools, shopping malls, hospitals, and retirement homes worldwide. Many of these…

Call for Long, Short and Blue Sky Papers 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2021) 18-22 October 2021 Montreal, Canada http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfp Submission deadline: May 26, 2021 The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada. ACM ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. We are keen to showcase novel…

Call for Registration Online Lecture and Debate Embodied, Embedded – A Talk about Theatre and AI Evening Lecture by Diana Serbanescu Wednesday March 24, 2021 at 7 pm (CET) Organized by the Working Group on Philosophy of Technology (WGPT) – https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt Register by: March 23, 2021 Based on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Grotowski’s Theatre Laboratory, Haraway’s feminist theory and REPLICA’s practice-led research project on The Shape of Things to Come, this talk discusses the potential of applied theatre for empowering communities to explore and devise embodied interactions with intelligent systems, thus becoming the co-designers of these technologies. Not…

Call for Papers: Disability and Video Games: Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming (Edited Book) Beate Ochsner & Markus Spöhrer (University of Konstanz, Germany) Deadline for Abstracts: 15.04.2021 (300 words) Deadline for papers: 15.09.2021 Please submit your abstracts: markus.spoehrer@uni-konstanz.de Concerns with the accessibility and adaptability of digital games, corresponding gaming platforms as well as peripheral devices have been uttered from different perspectives and sources during the last decades. Interestingly, subcultural or amateur DIY-accessibility practices have been documented since the mid-1970s. Counterplaying the arcade game Touch Me (Atari 1974) as a game for blind persons (cf. Kirke, 2018, p. 66;…

Call for Abstracts 24th Annual CUNY Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Artificial Intelligence: Limitations, Foundations, and New Directions Saturday, April 24, 2021 Online https://philevents.org/event/show/88190 Submission deadline: March 19, 2021 We welcome abstracts from graduate students on any topic related to artificial intelligence, broadly construed. The conference will be held virtually on Saturday, April 24. Keynote Speakers: Jesse Prinz (CUNY), TBA Contemporary research in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) is proving dramatically successful where earlier projects stalled. Image models and language models today display sophisticated (and sometimes uncanny) abilities in some narrow domains. Various flavors of machine learning see applications in many…

Call for Abstracts Changing Values, Changing Technologies International Research Conference Delft University of Technology [see note below] 12 & 13 October 2021 Deadline for abstract submission: May 15 2021 NOTE: We are currently planning to have the conference in Delft. If the situation will change due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will update our plans accordingly. ORGANIZERS Ibo van de Poel, Anna Melnyk, Steffen Steinert, and Michael Klenk (Delft University of Technology) AIMS The aim of the conference is to present and discuss research on the interrelations of values and technology. Specifically, we aim to explore how novel technological developments…

Call for Abstracts and Participation Ethics and Technology Workshop for Graduate Students April 26th 2021 https://forms.gle/XGYVRGpczFXejb4p7 We are the Graduate Research Group on Ethics and Technology. We are hoping to set up a network supporting graduate research in ethics and technology, beginning with the ‘Ethics and Technology Workshop’ on April 26th. We are welcoming any work-in-progress proposals for the group to discuss together for either this workshop or later events to come. This group is intended to be a relatively informal, meeting place for early stage researchers where we can share our research and make some connections with others who…

Call for Submissions CHItaly 2021 Interactive Experiences track 11-13 July Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and online (www) [see note below] CHItaly 2021: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it Interactive Experiences track: https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/interactive_experiences.html Submission deadline: 19th March 2021 NOTE: We are hoping to safely welcome some of you to Bolzano (Italy) in July but, in case it is not possible, online participation will also be available. INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES CHItaly 2021 Interactive Experiences track is a venue for exploring, representing, and challenging the frontiers of HCI through co-located and distributed interactive experiences. The track welcomes prototypes and installations that demonstrate and question how digital technologies mediate personal, collaborative, and…

Call for Papers FTC 2021 – Future Technologies Conference 2021 28-29 October 2021 Vancouver, Canada and/or online [see note below] https://saiconference.com/FTC2021/CallforPapers Submissions due: 15 March 2021 NOTE: In view of the COVID-19 uncertainty, we want to reassure everyone that if travel is not feasible, you will be able to participate online/virtually. The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers. Join us for FTC 2021, the world’s pre-eminent…

Call for Papers Targeting Environmental Challenges Using Interactive Visual Technology A special issue of Sustainability Journal https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/environmental_challenges Final deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2021 (manuscripts are reviewed when they are submitted) Environmental concerns have now become global challenges faced by the entire world. Human-centered technologies, tools, and services are, therefore, urgently needed to assist people in dealing with these challenges. Interactive visual technologies can play an important role in helping users to become better aware of environmental issues and challenges, and understand their causes, as well as their socio-economic impacts. As a consequence, users can then take environmentally-conscious and…