Call for Studies: XR Distributed Research Network (XRDRN) https://www.xrdrn.org/about/ The XR Distributed Research Network (XRDRN) is a platform for researchers in the Cross-Reality (XR/VR/AR) discipline, created in response to the Covid-19 emergency lockdown. The aim is to provide a home for researchers to upload their current XR research projects and find participants for their research. XR research often requires participants, but during the pandemic, the only way researchers can get participants is by distributing activities online. Many researchers have noted difficulty and effort in both publicising their projects and recruiting participants. We hope researchers will upload their projects, and also…

Call for Participation Workshop: Ethics, Anthropomorphism, and Robots University of Porto – Institute of Philosophy 23 June 2021 at 14h30-18h00 (Porto time: UTC+1 which is 9:30am-1pm EST) Online https://ifilosofia.up.pt/index.php/activities/workshop-ethics-anthropomorphism-and-robots Zoom link available by request: ifilosofia@letras.up.pt Keynote speakers: Sven Nyholm, Utrecht University Katie Evans, Sorbonne Université Organizer and keynote speaker: Luca M. Possati, University of Porto How should human beings and robots interact with each other? Can we consider robots and AIs as ethical agents? Humans create robots and AI (artificial intelligence) to achieve their objectives. Therefore, robots and AI should be adapted to human needs and preferences. However, this view presupposes…

Call for papers Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS) Location: Virtual Website: https://wraps-workshop.github.io/ In conjunction with UbiComp (https://www.ubicomp.org) Important dates (All deadlines are 23:59 AoE): Paper submission: extended to 22nd June, 2021 Author notification: 15th July, 2021 Final camera ready due: 23rd July, 2021 Workshop date: 25/26th September, 2021 (exact date/time to be confirmed) This workshop will bring together a range of perspectives into how we can better audit and understand the complex, sociotechnical systems that increasingly pervade our world. From tools for data capture and retrieval, technical/ethical/legal challenges, and early ideas on concepts of relevance – we…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE RO-MAN 2021 GenR WORKSHOP GENDERING ROBOTS: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics IMPORTANT DATES & INFO Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30th, 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: July 21st, 2021 Camera Ready Paper: July 28th, 2021 Main Conference Date: August 8th-12th, 2021 Workshop Date: August 12th, 2021 Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ro-man21-genr-workshop/home Twitter : @GenR_ROMAN Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genr2021 Full call for papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/GenR2021 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES Within the GenR workshop, we aim to provide researchers investigating gender in robotics with a platform to share their work and invite interested scholars to reflect with us on inclusive and ethical practices…

Call for Participation Human Factors Interventions for Surgical Systems A Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences Virtual Symposium Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 05:00 – 07:30 EDT Free https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/human-factors-interventions-for-surgical-systems-tickets-155955728783 ABOUT THIS EVENT Novel technologies have the potential to impact the health field, from augmenting education to greater efficacy in medical procedures. Despite this potential, it is important that they provide a positive user experience both for clinicians and patients. This can be achieved through a user-centred design process where user needs are considered every step of the way. To gain more understanding around this important process, our…

Call for Papers MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium and online [see Note below] https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/ Submission deadline for long and short papers: August 6, 2021 NOTE: This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to…

Call for Papers “Gender and Human-Machine Communication” Special Issue of Human-Machine Communication https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/callforpapers.html Editors: Leopoldina Fortunati (leopoldina.fortunati@uniud.it), Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy Autumn Edwards (autumn.edwards@wmich.edu), School of Communication, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America Submission deadline: January 15, 2022 DESCRIPTION: The reproductive sphere, historically the place of domestic appliances and classic media (television and radio), is now populated by various types of machines: from computers to mobile phones to social robots to virtual and voice-based assistants. Domestic work, especially in its immaterial aspects (affection, emotion, sex, information, care and support,…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN’21 – 4th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext Official workshop of the ACM Hypertext Conference ’21 Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB August 30, 2021 Online Workshop website: https://human.iisys.de/human21 HUMAN on Twitter: @HUMAN_HT Twitter hashtag:  #HUMAN21 Submission deadline:  July 23, 2021 INTRODUCTION HUMAN’21 is the third workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. It is sponsored by SIGWEB and affiliated with the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. It has a strong focus on the user and thus is complementary to the strong machine analytics research direction that could be experienced in previous conferences.…

Call for Papers First International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021) November 8-10, 2021 Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2021/ Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Journal Issue with SN Computer Science Submission Deadline: July 7, 2021 ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021) is the first of the series of International Conferences on “ICT for Societal Challenges”. It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical,…

Call for Papers: States of Immersion: Bodies, Media, Technologies Edited collection – Estimated publication 2023 Editorial Committee: Philippe Bédard (Carleton University), Alanna Thain (McGill University) and Carl Therrien (Université de Montréal). Proposals submission deadline: July 15, 2021 Full paper submission deadline: December 1, 2021 Over five days in October 2020, the conference “Immersivity and Technological Innovations” brought together more than fifty researchers and artists to address questions raised by virtual reality and, more broadly, by immersive media. To tackle the question of media immersivity and its related technological innovations, event participants addressed subjects ranging from the different “ramas” (panoramas, cyclorama,…

Call for Papers Designed to Deceive? The Philosophy of Deepfakes A Topical Collection in Synthese An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science Guest Editor: Dan Cavedon-Taylor, The Open University Submission deadline: July 30th 2022 TOPICAL COLLECTION DESCRIPTION: Deepfakes are fabricated video and/or audio recordings created by machine-learning methods. They are highly convincing in their appearance and are widely anticipated to be used for malign, deceptive purposes. Indeed, malicious use of the technology is already a reality: In April 2020, members of Extinction Rebellion created a deepfake of the Belgian Prime Minister, Sophie Wilmès, that depicted the PM…

[NOTE: The ETGG website also includes a discussion board, with (at this writing) one post titled “Anthropomorphising AI.” –Matthew] Call for Participation The Ethics and Technology Graduate Group (ETGG) Work In Progress (WIP) 2021 Sessions Online via Zoom https://techethicsgroup.wixsite.com/tethics/events Session 1: “Vulnerability, Trust and Human-Robot Interaction” Wednesday 9th of June, 2021 – 17:00 – 18:30 CET Presenter: Zachary Daus, University of Vienna ABSTRACT: Recent attempts to engineer trustworthy robotic systems often conceive of trust in terms of predictability. Accordingly, to trust a robotic system (or a human) is to be able to predict what the robotic system (or human) will…