CALL FOR PAPERS Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age Issue 2 (2022) Immersivity. Philosophical Perspectives on Technologically Mediated Experience // Immersività Prospettiva filosofiche sulla mediazione tecnologica dell’esperienza http://www.azimuthjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CfP-Azimuth-2-2022.pdf Editors: Jacopo Bodini (Université de Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, Post-doc Research Fellow) Alessandro De Cesaris (Università di Torino, Post-doc Research Fellow) Submission deadline: April 30th, 2022 The notion of “immersivity” is a pivotal element in the description of technologically mediated experience, designating an inherent quality of objects, spaces and experiences able to produce an impression of immersion. The term has become very widespread in the context of the analysis of…

[Note: Visit the A11yVR website for more on past and future events. –Matthew] Call for Participation Paradigm Shifts in Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People An online event sponsored by A11yVR – Accessibility Virtual Reality Group https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/ The event took place on November 11, 2021 and is now available via YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-JkpU-AXI OVERVIEW Zoom has thrived since March 2020. Obviously, COVID-19 prompted an interesting fundamental change in how to socialize and network with people remotely. But what about the 3D virtual space? Professor Wendy Dannels will point to some challenges and opportunities deaf individuals using American…

Call for Participation “Vulnerability in Human-Computer Interaction” Symposium At the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) and online December 2, 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/vulnerability-and-hci/ Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to a symposium we are hosting in conjunction with my PhD defense. See for details below. Best regards, Jelte van Waterschoot — We would like to invite you to participate in the 4TU symposium “Vulnerability in Human-Computer Interaction”. This hybrid symposium will take place on December 2nd at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and online, from 9:00 until 13:00 [CEST; followed by lunch and doctoral defense]. The goal of the…

Call for Papers AVI 2022: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces – 30TH ANNIVERSARY 6-10 June 2022 Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel, Frascati, Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/ SUBMISSION DEADLINES (all 23:59, AoE): Workshop and tutorial proposals: Sunday, January 16, 2022 Long and short papers: Abstract submission: Sunday, January 23, 2022 Paper submission: Sunday, January 30, 2022 Posters and Demo papers: Sunday, April 10, 2022 Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2022 Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from…

Call for Abstracts FACING THE FUTURE, FACING THE SCREEN 10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary A blended physical-online event November 17, 2022 http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/FFF/ FFF.pdf Organizing Committee: Dr. Petra Aczél, Corvinus University of Budapest Dr. András Benedek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dr. Kristóf Nyíri, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Dear All, the Committee for Communication and Media Theory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Corvinus University of Budapest have begun to organize the 10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference, to be held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on November 17, 2022, as a blended…

Call for papers and participation! The Sixth Image Schema Day Workshop on the 20-21 of January, 2022 On-site at Jönköping University, Sweden https://imageschema.net/image-schema-day Submission deadline: December 10, 2021 After two years of hibernation, we are happy to announce that the Image Schema Day (ISD6) is returning in its sixth reincarnation: at a new venue, with new research, but with the same purpose. In broad terms, image schemas are spatiotemporal relationships between objects and agents that are learned in early infancy such as containment, support and linkage. These relationships are hypothesised to construct the information skeleton found in object affordances, linguistic…

Call for Papers Alt.HRI 2022 Our Robotics Futures: A Time Capsule https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/alt-hri/ HRI 2022: International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) March 7-10, 2022 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/ Submission deadline: 29 November 2021 Ever since the start of the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) conference, we read something like “Robots will soon be entering our lives…” at the beginning of almost every paper. However, in a significant number of HRI scenarios, this has not happened yet. Hence, the theme of this year’s Alt.HRI’22 track is “Our Robotics Futures: A Time Capsule.” Alt.HRI is traditionally looking for the most audacious, creative and thought-provoking ideas…

Call for Participation Telematic LASER: ALL THE WORLD’S A SCREEN Thursday 2nd December 2021, 4pm GMT You can join from anywhere in the world. Click here to find your timezone and day. Register Here: https://leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D679%26reset%3D1 On Thursday 2 December 2021 at 4:00pm GMT the Telematic LASER will present the online panel discussion ALL THE WORLD’S A SCREEN with performance, Shakespeare and technology specialists… Pascale Aebischer, Lucy Askew and Sarah Ellis. They will discuss the impact of the pandemic on the performing arts, reflecting on the histories, contemporary practices and futures of online theatre that creatively engages remote performers and audiences.…

Call for Papers Phenomenologies of the Image Studia Phaenomenologica, the journal of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology Vol. 23 (2023) Journal: https://www.pdcnet.org/studphaen/Studia-Phaenomenologica Issue editors: Emmanuel Alloa and Cristian Ciocan Deadline: 1st of June 2022 The 2023 issue of Studia Phaenomenologica will be dedicated to the question of the image and its phenomenologies. Images have been a remarkably constant preoccupation for the phenomenological tradition. From Husserl’s early investigation of “image-consciousness” on, with its threefold conceptual articulation of material Bildding, appearing Bildobjekt, and referential Bildsujet (Hua XXIII), phenomenological accounts of the image can be found in the classic works of Martin Heidegger,…

Call for Papers ROBOPHILOSOPHY 2022: Social Robots in Social Institutions August 16-19, 2022 University of Helsinki, Finland. http://www.rpc2022.org Submission deadlines: Workshop descriptions: January 15, 2022 Posters, extended abstracts, full papers: January 31, 2022 The aim of social robotics is to create entities capable of social interaction with humans. In human societies, many forms of social interaction have become social institutions, that is, complex social forms that reproduce themselves, for instance, families, governments, legal systems, healthcare services, universities, and business corporations. Institutions offer individuals incentives and sanctions to maintain their stability and to serve their goals. They also enable individuals to…

Call for Abstracts: Panel on Workplace Communication Central States Communication Association (CSCA) CSCA 2022 Annual Convention Madison, Wisconsin March 30-April 3, 2022 Conference website: https://www.csca-net.org/aws/CSCA/pt/sp/convention_overview Submission deadline: November 4, 2021 I am putting together a panel for Central States 2022 regarding workplace communication, specifically lessons learned during the pandemic. Workers and companies were forced to close their offices, set up shop at home and maintain the same level of productivity. As we gradually move back to the office, it is critical that as researchers, we examine the lessons learned over the past year and a half. I encourage all methodologies…

Call for Participation Museums, Immersive Experiences and Beyond COMPUTER GRAPHICS & INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES Presented by the Los Angeles ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Tuesday, 9 November 2021 A free Zoom virtual event https://lasiggraph.org/index.php/event/museums-immersive-experiences-and-beyond Meet worldwide innovators from the academic, museum and startup realms, whose projects utilize digital technologies in the service of cultural heritage preservation and issues of historical societal import. You must register with ZOOM REGISTRATION to attend this event. PRESENTERS Heather Maio Smith CEO, StoryFile, Los Angeles Sarah Kenderdine Director Digital Museology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Jeffrey Shaw New Media Visual Artist, Dean, School of Creative Media…