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…

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…