Call for Papers Special issue of the Journal of Digital War: My War: Participation In Warfare https://www.digital-war.org/blog/2020/11/23/special-issue-my-war-call-for-papers Edited by Olga Boichak, University of Sydney and Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow Deadline for receipt of abstract/proposals: 15 January, 2021 In a time when we study, work, shop, and socialise remotely, digital media also afford unprecedented opportunities for remote participation in armed conflicts. Blurring the boundaries between military and civilian actors, physical and mediated battlefronts, weapons and witnesses, citizens and diasporas, digital technologies do not simply offer new capabilities in conducting military operations – extending the battlefronts into the realms of communication…

Call for Papers International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies (ISFFS/SIRFF)’s Second International Conference Theme: Impossible Fictions Thursday 28–Saturday 30 October, 2021 University of Chicago https://fiction.hypotheses.org/evenement-events#CFPEnglish Submission deadline for 250-word proposals: December 15, 2020 The second international conference of the ISFFS/SIRFF will be held from 28–30 October 2021 at the University of Chicago. The conference theme will be “Impossible Fictions.” Fiction has long been associated with possibility and plausibility, as far back as Aristotle’s claim that poetic narratives are governed by the laws of probability and necessity. In the modern period, the rise of the European novel has been linked…

Call for Abstracts Embedding AI in Society (online symposium) February 18-19, 2021 Deadline for abstract submissions: December 4, 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a pervasive part of our lives. From autonomous vehicles and AI personal assistants to computer-assisted surgery and automated trading systems, we are relying on AI to help us make decisions and manage our personal and professional activities. In all these cases, AI promises improvements in productivity and safety. But AI does not operate in a vacuum. Given its integration into our daily lives and social institutions, AI is directly shaping socioeconomic structures and affecting the lives of…

Call for Participation Exploring the Language of VR with The Look Club An VR World Society event Online https://www.virtualworldsociety.org/events/vwsfireside14 When: Thursday December 03, 2020 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST) Where: AltspaceVR (including 2D mode on PC) RSVP: Bit.ly/VWSFireside14 The rapidly expanding immersive media audience is confused by the plethora of forms and content becoming available. It desperately needs a common vocabulary, and ways to recognize quality in an immersive work. This emerging public needs someone to untangle the varieties of modern immersive media, and explain the wide range of techniques that today’s creators are testing and experimenting with—It needs…

CALL FOR PAPERS 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR 2021) May 20-22, 2021 Foshan, China http://www.icvr.org/ Submission deadlines: Sessions, workshops: December 5, 2020 Abstracts: January 23, 2020 Full papers: January 30, 2021 After being held in Singapore, Los Angeles (United States), Chengdu (China), and Hong Kong (2017 & 2018), Singapore successively in the last six years, 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR 2021), sponsored by IEEE and hosted by both Foshan University and Hangzhou Normal University in China, will be held during May 20-22, 2021 in Foshan, China. ICVR 2021 is a forum to…

Call for Papers CHI PLAY 2021 8th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Vienna, Austria October 18 – 21, 2021 https://chiplay.acm.org/2021/ @acmchiplay #chiplay2021 Full paper submission deadline: February 17, 2021 CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ‘player-computer interaction’. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high-quality research in games and HCI as a foundation for the future of digital play. To this end, the conference blends…

Call for Papers Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human Robot Interaction Special issue in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2021 DESCRIPTION This special issue in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics is based on the “Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human Robot Interaction – SCRITA 2020” third edition Workshop held at the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). The special issue focuses on investigating users’ trust in robots. Although the previous editions had the pleasure to welcome the participation of leading researchers in the field, and several exceptional invited…

CALL FOR PAPERS Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World April 7-9, 2021 Online conference / Erasmus University Rotterdam https://www.worldsofimagination.eu/conference/ Submission Deadline: December 1, 2020 Confirmed keynote speakers: Dal Yong Jin Sangkyun Kim Mimi Sheller Peter Dieke Lúcia Nagib Matt Hills INTRODUCTION In today’s globalized, transnational and digitalized media environment, popular culture plays a significant role in the establishment and (re)negotiation of place identities and the ways in which people relate to physical locations. Traveling to film locations, participating in fan re-enactments or visiting theme parks are some of the varied and multifaceted ways in which…

Call for Papers CUI 2021 – 3rd International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces Hybrid Event (online and on site at Bilbao, Spain) 27-29 July 2021 https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2021/ @CUI_Conference Full paper submission deadline: February 12, 2021 There has been an increasing interest in language-based interactions with technology. Driven by the commercial success of intelligent personal assistant devices such as Alexa and Google Home, the number of natural language and conversation-based interactions is growing in commercial settings. Following the successful inaugural ACM In-Cooperation conference in 2019 and the virtual conference in 2020, CUI 2021 aims to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Advances in Human-Centred Dementia Technology International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-advances-in-human-centred-dementia-technolo Manuscript submissions due: 15 March, 2021 DESCRIPTION There are approximately 46 million people living with dementia worldwide and these numbers are expected to rise to 102 million by 2040. Dementia is a syndrome of progressive and irreversible cognitive decline affecting daily functioning, commonly caused by Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia. With a complex array of dementia symptoms, people with dementia progressively lose their sense of autonomy; including engagement in activities of daily living and capacity to make decisions. Emerging research in HCI…

Call for Papers CUI@IUI: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Intelligent Conversational User Interface Interactions Workshop at the 2021 ACM Intelligent User Interface (IUI) Conference 13th April 2021 College Station, Texas, USA [see note below] http://speechinteraction.org/IUI2021/ NOTE from the IUI website: We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. KEY DATES Registration Deadline: 11th January 2021 Submission deadline: 14th January 2021 (23:59…

Call for Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops and Doctoral Consortium Academic Mindtrek 2021 Tampere, Finland and online (see note below) June 1-3, 2021 Website: https://www.mindtrek.org/2021/ Track description: https://www.mindtrek.org/2021/academic-mindtrek-tracks/ Full CfP: https://www.mindtrek.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2020/11/The-2nd-CfP.pdf Full papers, demonstrations and workshops due on January 25, 2021 Posters and doctoral consortium proposals due on April 10, 2021 NOTE: Special arrangements for virtual presentations will be made for presenters unable to travel and physically attend due to the COVID-19 related travel restrictions. Academic Mindtrek 2021 welcomes all the scientific papers that present relevant and actual studies of today, that may shape the way we interact with technologies of…