CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Understanding Visitor Experience at Holocaust Museums and Memory Sites https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6497471/call-book-chapters-understanding-visitor-experience-holocaust Deadline for abstract submissions: November 30, 2020 Holocaust education and commemoration are becoming more visitor centric. Given this shift, the opinions, and perceptions of the ordinary members of the public interacting with Holocaust exhibitions, works of art, memorial museums and memory sites urgently need to be better understood. Gaining understanding of visitor experience in all its dimensions is essential also given the importance of human rights, social inclusion, and collective responsibility which inform Holocaust education and memorial work. As many museums and memorial institutions around the…

Call for Abstracts Virtual entities in science: A virtual workshop 5, 12, and 19 March 2021 Online Conference Germany https://indico.cern.ch/event/951512/page/20902-call-for-abstracts Submission deadline: 15 November 2020 Not only since the sudden increase of online communication due to the COVID-19 situation has the concept of the “virtual” made its way into everyday language. In this context, it mostly denotes a digital substitute of a real object or process. “Virtual reality” is perhaps the best known term in this respect. With these digital connotations, “virtuality” has been used also in science and research: Chemists use virtual laboratories, biologists do virtual scanning of molecular…

Call for Papers First International Workshop on Cross-Reality Interaction At ACM ISS 2020, 14th ACM conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces November 8-11, 2020 Lisbon, Portugal (ALL VIRTUAL) https://xr.famnit.upr.si/ Deadline for submissions: October 7, 2020 The 14th ACM conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2020) is taking place from November 8 to 11 in all virtual conference mode. As part of the conference we organize the first International Workshop on Cross-Reality Interaction. You are invited to submit a position or work-in-progress paper (2-4 pages, single column) to the first international workshop on Cross-Reality (XR) Interaction that describes the…

Call for Papers Electronics: Special Issue on “Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics” Full call at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/mobile_robotics_control Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2021 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit contributions to a special issue on “Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics” to be published in Electronics. Since the first experiments with Shakey at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Robotics Institute, the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics fields have been intimately connected. Several movies ranging from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina have helped to cement this tie in the collective imagination. Indeed, the two are…

Call for Papers ICTeSSH 2021: International Conference on Information-Communication Technologies enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities Online June 28th – 30th, 2021 https://ictessh.uns.ac.rs/call-for-papers/ Deadline for abstract submission: December 1st, 2020 SSH researchers should be awakened to the huge possibilities and avenues for research based on ICT. The future of science is about multidisciplinary collaboration and applying new technologies. ICT tools for SSH researchers already exist, such as research-oriented social networking sites and tools to support scientific research, to manage labs and data, and to enable better communication. These tools could change the way SSH researchers carry out research, collaborate, disseminate and…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Pedagogical Approaches, Ludic and Co-Design Strategies & Tools supporting Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing). Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7CQ3GKSSG CFP: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call47 Guest editors: Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark Traian Rebedea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Important dates: Deadline: December…

Call for Papers Child-Robot Interaction: Present and Future Relationships A Workshop at the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) November 14-16, 2020 Online Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/child-robot-interaction/ ICSR: https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/ KEY DATES: Submission Deadline: October 16, 2020 (11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth) Acceptance Notification: October 23, 2020 Camera-ready Deadline: October 30, 2020 ABSTRACT: Robots will become more pervasive in society, playing different roles from tutors to physical therapy assistants to playmates, to name a few. The relationship between children and robots starts before the actual interaction. Researchers are faced with the question of when to involve children in this process. Children…

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…