Call for Papers Building Bridges and Not Walls: Expanding Human-Machine Communication Connections Within HRI A Virtual Workshop at the 2021 International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021) March 12, 2021 (Afternoon Session) https://www.combotlabs.org/hmchri2021.html Submission deadline: February 1, 2021 OVERVIEW Sitting at the nexus between HRI and communication studies/science, human-machine communication (HMC) scholarship seeks to blend these perspectives by “building bridges and not walls” (a reference to one of the first communication textbooks that sought to bring similar frameworks together in the 1970s.  HMC researchers, often located in media and communication sciences departments, are examining processes of message production and reception,…

Call for Papers International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media IJPADM 2022 Special Issue 18.1: Covid-19: Theatre goes Digital – Provocations. Journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpdm20/current Submission deadline: 31st May 2021 One day, it happened; we were advised to stay at home. To not go out; not go to school; not travel to work; not attend theatres; not visit restaurants and bars; not see friends. Our lives became enclosed in small intimate spaces; and our social exchanges became mediated. Life on the Screen (Turkle 1997) as we have never experienced it before. The impact of Covid-19 on live theatre and performance…

Call for Participation Emergent Interaction: Complexity, Dynamics and Enaction in HCI A CHI 2021 Workshop 15th May, 2021 Online https://emergentinteraction.github.io/ IMPORTANT DATES: 31st January 2021 (19:00 GMT): Deadline for workshop position papers (see Call for Participation, above. Submission details coming soon) 21st February 2021: Final workshop acceptances released 15th May 2021: Workshop ORGANISERS: Dan Bennett, Alan Dix, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Feng Feng, Tom Froese,  Vassilis Kostakos, Sebastien Lerique, Niels van Berkel ABOUT: Join us to investigate the contribution that approaches from complexity theory, dynamical systems theory, and enactivist cognitive science can make to our understanding of human interaction with technology. There is a…

CALL FOR PRESENTERS! 2021 INTERNATIONAL SIMULATION THEORY eCONFERENCE March 20-21, 2021 https://www.gcrr.org/simulationtheoryconference Abstract Proposal Deadline: February 21st, 2021 The Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) is hosting the 2021 International Simulation Theory eConference, which will bring together scholars, specialists, and philosophers from all over the world to discuss the different problems, proofs, and solutions in current simulation theory. The purpose of this multidisciplinary virtual conference is to advance the scientific and philosophical understanding of how the simulation hypothesis may or may not answer important cosmological, metaphysical, and even theological questions plaguing humanity. This two-day academic eConference will provide an interdisciplinary…

Call for Presentation Proposals Narrative, Media and Cognition Conference “RECONFIGURATIONS: New narrative challenges in moving images” 15th and 16th of October 2021 Via Zoom; Free registration Submission deadline: April 12, 2021 The 6th edition of the conference Narrative, Media and Cognition aims to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it meaning. The 2021 edition of the conference is hosted by the Theatre and Film School of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, in Portugal, in association with the WG of the Audiovisual…

Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Games Special Issue on User Experience of AI in Games http://transactions.games/CFP_UserExperienceofAIinGames.pdf Guest editors: Henrik Warpefelt, Christoph Salge, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Jichen Zhu and Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari Submission deadline: 28 February 2021 A commonly quoted aim of AI in Games research is the idea that we are not building AIs to beat a game, but to create a better user experience – but how do we do this, and maybe even more importantly, how do we know when we are successful? How do players experience Artificial Intelligence (AI) in games? How do they feel about…

Call for Papers IVA 2021 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents University of Fukuchiyama, Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto, Japan [and/or online – see note below] 14th – 17th September 2021 http://www.iva2021.org Submission deadline: May 1, 2021 NOTE: Due to the ongoing global pandemic, it is not yet possible to say whether IVA 2021 will be held as an on-site conference, a fully virtual conference, or a hybrid conference. We will monitor the situation closely and make the decision in spring. This will be communicated to the community no later than the 1st of June when the notifications of the…

Call for Papers MIT Press PRESENCE Journal: VR/AR Special Issue on User Experience “User Experience and Engagement in the Reality-Virtuality Continuum“ https://www.mitpressjournals.org/pb-assets/pdfs/Calls%20for%20Papers/PresenceSpecialIssueCallDRAFTv3-1607564620763.pdf Guest Editors: Tim Collins (t.collins@mmu.ac.uk) and Sandra Woolley (s.i.woolley@keele.ac.uk) Journal: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/pvar Author Guidance: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/journals/pres/sub FEES WAIVED (“PRESENCE have waived all page fees until September 2021. There are no fees charged for publications unless the authors are opting for Open Access options”). Paper submission deadline: April 26, 2021 CALL AND SCOPE: There are new and exciting opportunities for user experience and engagement across the reality-virtuality continuum of virtual-, augmented-, mixed-, mediated- and shared-reality. But the gaps between expectations and…

Call for Papers DISEÑA # 20: Design and Somatic Sensibilities http://revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/announcement/view/67 Guest editors: Claudia Nunez-Pacheco, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, claudia2@kth.se Marianela Ciolfi Felice, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, ciolfi@kth.se Vasiliki Tsaknaki, IT University of Copenhagen, vats@itu.dk Submission deadline: May 2, 2021 In his Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty (1962) made a radical claim, stating that we are our bodies and that subjective experiences cannot be separated from our objective reality. Our somatic sensibilities − shaped by subjective experience − make us who we are. Additionally, Gendlin (1980) claimed that our imagination is bodily and that our bodies are interactional, influencing…

@ the Crossroads ::: where do we go from here? /// Telematic LASER presented by Third Space Network, University of Brighton School of Art, & Leonardo/ISAST ///ONLINE PUBLIC DIALOGUE Randall Packer (US) (moderator), Ghislaine Boddington (UK), Steve Dixon (SG) & Paul Sermon (UK) /// GLOBAL TIME Saturday, Jan. 16th 2021, 9am ET / 2pm UK / 3pm CET / 10pm Singapore /// ONLINE REGISTRATION Save Your Spot on Crowdcast https://www.crowdcast.io/e/telematic-laser-crossroads/register ///OVERVIEW In the wake of Covid-19, we have witnessed a mass migration to the third space, that telematic region of shared networked space that lies between the local and the…

Call for Papers 2VT: Visions, Technologies, and Visions of Technologies for Understanding Human Scale Spaces Part of the CHI 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems May 8-9, 2021 Online https://crowdcomputing.net/2vt-workshop Submission deadline: February 19, 2021 Interested in spatial experiences, urban environments, technology speculation, and HCI? We bring you a multi-disciplinary workshop to be held at CHI 2021 and we are looking for your submissions! Please find more info below. DESCRIPTION The workshop provides an international agora for practitioners from various backgrounds to exchange information, stimulate discussion, and explore issues that attend to human scale spaces in the smart…

Call for Papers Robo-Identity: Artificial identity and multi-embodiment Co-located with the 2021 International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021) Boulder, Colorado, USA (Virtual) March 12, 2021 Website: sites.google.com/view/agentidentity Submission deadline: 29 January 2021 Interactive robots are becoming more commonplace and complex, but their identity has not yet been a key point of investigation. Identity is an overarching concept that combines traits like personality or a backstory (among other aspects) that people readily attribute to a robot to individuate it as a unique entity. Given people’s tendency to anthropomorphize social robots, “who is a robot?” should be a guiding question above…