Call for Submissions SEPTA for All: Augmenting Transit with Augmented Reality Challenging innovators to create augmented reality tools to make public transit more accessible for people with disabilities. Monday, June 28 – Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 phila.gov/septa-for-all https://www.phila.gov/2021-06-28-city-of-philadelphia-announces-smartcityphl-augmented-reality-challenge-to-support-public-transit-accessibility/ Applications are due August 2, 2021 Philadelphia’s public transit system should be accessible to everyone. While SEPTA [The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority] continues to make improvements to stations and vehicles to improve experiences for passengers with disabilities, technology can play an important role. We’re challenging teams of developers and designers to create augmented reality tools that will make transportation more accessible for…

Call for Contributions to Edited Volume Varieties of Immersive Experience https://sites.google.com/view/varieties-of-immersion/ Abstract submission deadline: 15 August 2021 The quality of being immersive is increasingly held to be a desirable characteristic of many types of media-interaction and social settings. Immersive experience has been studied in considerable depth in the context of digital media. In this volume, we aim to provide the first authoritative attempt to explore the analytic potential of the notion of immersion as a general phenomenon. Immersive experience for virtual reality is described by Janet Murray by the analogy of being submerged in water. It is “the sensation of…

Call for Papers Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2021 Late Breaking Reports September 14-17, 2021 Online http://www.iva2021.org Submission deadline: August 15, 2021 The Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVA 2021 will be held ONLINE as a Virtual Conference and is organized by the University of Fukuchiyama. The special theme of…

Call for Participation/Abstracts MILeS 2021 – Multimodal Immersive Learning Systems First International Workshop At EC-TEL 2021 (European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning) September 20th-21st 2021 Online MILeS 2021: https://milki-psy.de/miles-workshop/ EC-TEL 2021: https://ea-tel.eu/ectel2021 Submission deadline for extended abstracts: July 14th, 2021 DESCRIPTION Advances in the related fields of wearable sensors, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning make it possible to connect these technologies into integrated learning solutions. The intersection of these fields of emerging technologies is an area of a lot of opportunities for innovative learning systems, but likewise a field of fuzzy expectations. With this workshop we want to contribute…

CALL FOR PAPERS Conference: ‘Affecting Game Space: Theory and Practice’ Game Worlds Cluster Centre for Data, Culture and Society The University of Edinburgh Online 3rd September 2021 Abstract submission deadline: 31st July 2021 From claustrophobic confines to sublime vistas, game spaces have conjured affects since the medium’s inception. Whether it be nostalgia for the remastered landscape, the vertigo of free diving in VR, or the conviviality of gathering around landmarks in Pokémon GO, affect reciprocally connects players to physical and virtual spaces. Haptics, ray tracing and photogrammetry are allowing us to ‘feel’ game worlds in new and increasingly tangible ways.…

Call for Papers 5th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction – MA3HMI 2021 Held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021) Workshop date: September 28 or October 1, 2021 Online/virtual http://ma3hmi.cogsy.de Submission deadline: July 9, 2021 SCOPE One of the aims of building multimodal user interfaces is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible in a situation as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction can be considered how we interact with other humans. While the analysis of human-human communication…

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Egocentric Vision for Interactive Perception, Learning, and Control (EgoVIP2021) Affiliated with IROS 2021, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (https://www.iros2021.org/) October 1, 2021 Online Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/unizar.es/iros-2021-egocentric-vision/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: July 23, 2021 (AoE) Acceptance Notification (tentative): July 30, 2021 Workshop online: October 1, 2021 MOTIVATION For robots to successfully interact with their environment and carry out tasks, egocentric vision emerges as a natural solution in Robotics, mostly for robots such as mobile ones. However, despite its theoretical and practical implications, egocentric perception rarely receives the attention it deserves. Furthermore, there…

Call for Panels CHI 2022: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 30 – May 6, 2022 New Orleans and online [see below] https://chi2022.acm.org/for-authors/interacting-and-discussing/panels/ Submission deadline: December 16, 2021 Hello! We are soliciting Panels for the CHI 2022 (https://chi2022.acm.org/) conference, which will take place in early May 2022 in New Orleans. Please check out the Panels CFP here: https://chi2022.acm.org/for-authors/interacting-and-discussing/panels/ The deadline is not until December 16, 2021, but we wanted to give you plenty of notice to be able to curate your best and most exciting panel submissions! Panels will be held in their own 60-minute session…

Call for Papers ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2021 Łódź, Poland and online [see Note below] November 14 to 17 http://iss.acm.org/2021/ NOTE: ISS 2021 will be a hybrid event: Accepted papers are invited to present at the conference, and authors can choose whether or not they wish to present. Because of the evolving situation with COVID-19 and the difficulties of running a physical in-person conference, ACM ISS will allow remote participation. While we do not know what the exact format of the conference will be, we will ensure everyone can present their papers at ISS. ACM ISS 2021 has two separate…

Call for Papers: AI Perspectives Ongoing Topical Collection: Human-centered AI https://aiperspectives.springeropen.com/call-for-papers–human-centered-ai AI technologies are defining our everyday lives in ways which few other technologies have been done before. In more and more contexts, these AI technologies directly interact with humans in various ways, from self-driving cars to surveillance systems to medical diagnosis systems and human-robot teams. It is apparent from these impacts already observed that Human-centered AI can potentially have a lot of positive but also negative social impacts. To address and mitigate potential negative repercussions of AI, the international research community has started a variety of initiatives. For instance,…

Call for Papers/Posters/Demos VRST 2021 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Osaka, Japan and online December 8 – 10, 2021 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2021/ Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2021 Posters and demos submission deadline: August 15, 2021 The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers on augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR, XR for short) software and technology. VRST brings together the premier international research groups working on XR, along with many of the world’s leading companies that provide…

Call for Entries in ISMAR 2021 Contest to provide Natural Social Interactions at the Hybrid Conference of the Future ISMAR 2021: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality October 4-8, 2021 Bari, Italy http://www.ismar21.org Contest entries due: July 19, 2021 OVERVIEW This is an open invitation to anyone interested in Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR) to participate in the ISMAR Contest. The ISMAR Contest will be held during IEEE ISMAR 2021, the premier conference for AR and MR, October 4-8, 2021. PURPOSE The purpose of the ISMAR Contest is to stimulate innovative and creative…