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…

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of the online journal Gamvironments: Revisiting Teaching and Games: mapping out ecosystems of learning edited by Björn Berg Marklund, Jordan Brady Loewen and Maria Saridaki Deadline for 300-word abstracts 1. April 2021 Games educate us, challenge us, and generate novelty in how we relate to ourselves and each other. They help us learn that failure can be fun and encourage us to explore. Yet, it is worth asking ourselves: when we think about the potential of gameplay for teaching, how can we better consider the ecosystem of unique relationships between players, creators, and those who…

In memory of Prof. George Samaras Call for Papers HAAPIE 2021: 6th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments In conjunction with ACM UMAP 2021 21-25 June 2021 ONLINE from Utrecht, the Netherlands http://haapie.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ Paper submission deadline: 26 March 2021 HAAPIE 2021 is the 6th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments that will be held ONLINE in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2021, 21-25 June 2021 from Utrecht, the Netherlands. SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES State-of-the-art approaches in adaptation and personalization research consider user models that mostly maintain information regarding the “traditional” user characteristics…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AI-2021: 41st BCS SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence Cambridge, UK [see note below] December 14th-16th 2021 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2021/ NOTE: The SGAI annual conference series returns to Cambridge. Subject to COVID-related problems our annual conference will return to its usual venue, Peterhouse College, Cambridge, this year. In the event of serious COVID issues still remaining in the UK as the date approaches, or significant international travel restrictions, special arrangements will be made. Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society). The leading series of…

Call for Abstracts/Proposals Fourteenth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Online Only University of the Aegean – Rhodes Campus Rhodes, Greece 5–6 May 2021 https://ubi-learn.com/2021-conference Late proposal deadline: 5 April 2021 Fifteenth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Blended (In-Person & Online; see note below) Changhua City, Taiwan 15-16 April 2022 https://ubi-learn.com/2022-conference Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15th March 2022 NOTE: Reimagining the Scholarly Conference To support the range of options, and flexibility needed in our current climate, we will offer a blended conference experience. You do not need to commit either to a place-based or virtual presentation at the…

CALL FOR PAPERS DesAIn – International Conference on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Contemporary Design 25 May, 2021 Online https://design.hit.ac.il/desaign/ Deadline for abstracts: 25 March 2021 In the new and complex techno-human reality in which designers function today, the clear distinction between humans and machines that has characterized modern Western thought in the past is becoming increasingly blurred: Computer systems and code logic are embedded in the most essential characteristics of human existence, while automated machines are acquiring traits typical of living systems. Thanks to new developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), these new algorithm-based machines…