Call for Papers EICS 2021: The 13th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 8-11 June, 2021 Eindhoven, The Netherlands https://eics.acm.org/eics2021/ Submission deadline (round 2): October 23rd, 2020 EICS 2021 is the thirteenth international conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all processes at any stage of the development life-cycle (requirements, specification, validation and verification, testing, deployment, maintenance). Any of the following topics of interest may be addressed as long as their engineering contribution is…

Call for Papers The 2nd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2021) Stanford, California, US [see note below] August 8, 2021 https://www.iceipi.org/ First round submission deadline: December 1, 2020 NOTE: Possible Actions on COVID-19: This conference is planned to be held in Stanford University, California. Presently, under the influence of COVID-19, there have been restrictions on travel and gatherings to avoid the spread of the virus. The world is making every effort to fight against the pandemic and we hope it can soon reach its conclusion. However, if the current situation continues as the set date of…

Call for Papers Ergonomics & Human Factors 2021 19-21 April 2021 online 22 April 2021, London https://conference.ergonomics.org.uk Submission deadline: 1 November 2020 Taking place over four days, the format of Ergonomics and Human Factors 2021 will reflect all that is best about events: Multiple, engaging and informative live online sessions with presenter and audience interaction. A large range of on-demand recorded content available through a single sign-in website. A day of face to face live lectures, discussion and debate on contemporary topics in a quality London venue. Social networking time including an online quiz and a face to face annual…

Call for Applications Two-day international workshop on ‘The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology 22nd-23rd January 2021 Online Submission deadline: 31st October 2020 This is a Call for Applications for a two-day international workshop on ‘The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology’, to be held fully online the 22nd-23rd January 2021, roughly 10:00-18:00 each day Chilean time. In the third and final workshop on virtuality, this one will concentrate on some of the concrete social, moral and political impacts of virtual technology, now and going forward. With the high rise and influence of recent virtual technologies…

Call for Participants Trust in home: Rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI*) design workshop 19-20 November, 2020 Online https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/Trust-in-home-rethinking-interface-design-in-the-Internet-of-Things Call closes: October 15 Participant selection: November 1 We would like to invite colleagues from all career stages (including PhD students) and all relevant fields (IoT, security, HCI, design, sociology, law, etc) for a two-day online design workshop “Trust in home: rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI)” on 19-20 November. The idea is to identify some of the gaps in design and regulation of UI for IoT technologies by co-designing the solutions for a range…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Methodologies of Sonic Thinking (between Artistic Research and Phenomenology) November 23 – 25, 2020 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic Keynote speaker: Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) Main organizer: Martin Nitsche (CAS Institute of Philosophy, Prague, CZ) Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 8, 2020 Human reasoning (incl. philosophy, language, arts, politics, leisure, etc.) is predominantly built on visual experience. Sonic thinking (a term that is gaining attention thanks to the volume edited in 2017 by our keynote speaker, Bernd Herzogenrath) challenges the primacy of visual and claims that human thinking should be transformed according to aural experience.…

Call for Papers Towards development of mediatization research IV Mediatization of everyday life: Media and love – transformation of emotions and relationships Workshop with Mark Deuze, Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam 16 November 2020 Online https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl/event/towards-development-of-mediatization-research-iv/ Submission of proposed topic and 5 sentence description: September 15, 2020 All researchers of mediatization are cordially invited to submit their proposals for the closed workshop Towards development of mediatization research IV organized by the Institute of Social Communication and Media Science, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin, Poland and Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub. The workshop will take place online…

[Note that presence-evoking technologies can be used to both encourage and discourage the ‘inhuman’ impulses explored in this conference. –Matthew] Call for Contributions The Art of Being Inhuman A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 16th April 2021 – Saturday 17th April 2021 Vienna, Austria https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/series/interdisciplinary-perspectives/social-values/being-inhuman/conferences/ Submission deadline: Friday 2nd October 2020 The global novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has transformed the world as we know it, seemingly overnight. Every passing day bears witness to the best and the worst of humankind as we grapple with not only the health crisis, but also its reverberating impacts on every facet of society. We…

Call for Submissions Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021 10th–13th June 2021 School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong https://www.cityu.edu.hk/artmachines2/ Submission deadline: 15th December 2020 We are now calling for submissions for Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021, which will take place between 10th–13th June 2021 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. “Art Machines 2,” will bring together Academics, Artists, and Professionals in the field of Computational Media Art in a four-day symposium on the topic of Machine Learning and Art. After the…

Call for Papers 10th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2020) On the World Wide Web December 16-18, 2020 http://www.mirlabs.org/wict20 http://www.mirlabs.net/wict20 Indexed by: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of Science, DBLP etc. Proceedings of WICT’2019: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030493387 History of WICT series: http://www.mirlabs.net/wict20/previous.php WICT 2020: Scopus Proceedings: All accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due: October 15, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 25, 2020 Conference: December 16-18, 2020 ABOUT WICT 2020:…

Call for Submissions Games Research User Experience (GRUX) Online Conference November 27, 2020 9AM to 3PM GMT, 1AM to 9AM PST Streamed free on our YouTube channel https://grux.org/summits/grux-online/ Deadline for submissions: September 11, 2020 ABOUT A free online conference dedicated to the design of player experience. Please join us for #GRUXOnline! This smaller event will be in addition to our mainline #gamesUR Summits (NA / EU)! Games ‘User Experience’ (UX) is a vibrant professional discipline of researchers, designers, data scientists, artists, and production staff with one goal: design and deliver superb experiences in commercial video game development. #GRUXOnline is a…

Call for Participation: The human in the loop: perspectives and challenges for robots’ behaviours in RoboCup 2050 Deadline for submission of a proposal: September 30th, 2020 Inspired by the success of the workshop held in conjunction with the Virtual Humanoid RoboCup Open Workshops (V-RoHOW) 2020 we are bringing together leading researchers to contribute to an article on: The human in the loop: perspectives and challenges for robots’ behaviours in RoboCup 2050. ABOUT THE RESEARCH TOPIC The long term goal of RoboCup is to develop a robotic soccer team that is capable of challenging the best human soccer team in a…