Call for Papers (Virtual) Workshop – Challenges of Agent Identity in Multimodal Communication To be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 25 October 2020 To be held remotely due to COVID-19 ICMI 2020: http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=home Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/agentidentity/home Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caimc2020 Submission deadline: 21 August 2020 NOTE: This workshop is co-located with the 2020 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020). Given that the current situation with COVID-19 is continuously evolving, we are still finalizing the final format of the workshop. We are going to decide on the format according to the format of the ICMI…

Call for Papers “Designing for Orchestration in Mixed and Virtual Reality: Challenges and Best Practices” NordiCHI 2020 workshop 25th of October 2020, 9:00 – 17:30 https://www.unitylab.de/designing-for-orchestration-in-xr-nordichi-2020-workshop Paper submission deadline: 1st of September 2020 NOTE: The workshop will be held as a full-day workshop containing four sessions with distinguished activities. We aim for an interactive workshop with space for discussion and expression. Due to the current CoVid-19 pandemic, we plan to offer this workshop online, mediated using online conferencing tools and web-based shared virtual spaces. In case of the conference taking place in Tallinn, the workshop can easily be offered on-site.…

Call for Papers Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology Special issue: Phenomenology and Virtuality https://www.nisc.co.za/news/137/announcements-and-notices/call-for-papers-phenomenology-and-virtuality Edited by Gregory Swer and Jean du Toit Submissions due before: 24 August 2020 Our age is typified by technology (Kroes & Meijers, 2016: 12), but it is the question of the virtual that has particularly come to the forefront after the turn of the century. The contemporary era of emergent digital technologies has seen the multiplication of virtual spaces – our civilizations are indeed steeped in the virtual – which has resulted in complex changes to the dimensions of our existence and experience. While thinkers such…

Call for Papers AI Fiction / Artificial Intelligence and Fiction 3 to 5 June 2021 Paris, France https://cis.cnrs.fr/ia-fictions/ Submission deadline: 30 September 2020 This international conference, organized by the University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, in partnership with the Center for Internet and Society, will be held in Paris from 3 to 5 June 2021. A call for papers is open until 30 September 2020. This is the first conference ever organized on the theme of artificial intelligence in fiction (literature, series, films, comics, video games): the focus will be on representations of AI and their meanings, as well as the…

Call for Papers ACM IUI 2021: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2021 Conference College Station, TX March 18-21, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/2021/ Contact: program2021@iui.acm.org Upcoming deadlines: Abstract submission: October 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: October 9, 2020 NOTE: 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. ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent…

Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Action Modelling for Interaction and Analysis in Smart Sports and Physical Education (MAIStroPE) To be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Workshop website: http://smart-sports-exercises.nl/maistrope/ Paper submission deadline: 23 August 2020 [NOTE: See ACM ICMI 2020 website for information about conference format due to COVID-19 –ML] The workshop to be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction intends to bring together the research in Machine Learning, Interactive Technology and Sports & Movement Science to propose multimodal and interactive systems which can be utilized by coaches/trainers…

**REVISED** CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) November 14-16, 2020 Golden, Colorado Now Online https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/ TL;DR: ICSR is fully virtual and so we invite proposals for a broader-than-normal range of online based activities to be co-hosted with the conference. Simple 2 page proposals outline key activity details due by 31st July to kw1600@my.bristol.ac.uk. You may have seen the news that ICSR 2020 is going to be fully virtual this year and so we’re really hoping to do something fresh with the workshop provision and invite you to be as creative and…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Manipulation Online: Philosophical Perspectives on Human-Machine Interactions Edited volume & online workshop series Deadline for abstract submission: August 24th 2020 EDITORS Fleur Jongepier (Radboud University Nijmegen) & Michael Klenk (Delft University of Technology) AIMS We invite submissions of extended abstracts (700-1000 words) for an online workshop series and an open-access edited volume to be published with Routledge (or similar). TOPIC We increasingly interact with artificially intelligent machines like virtual assistants, robot care-takers, or algorithmic systems used for behavioural targeting. Such systems influence our (online) lives and the decisions we make in various ways. Recently, both the public…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DELbA 2020: Workshop on Designing and Facilitating Educational Location-based Applications Held online at EC-TEL 2020 (Heidelberg, Germany): Virtual workshop September 15, 2020 https://www.delba2020.net Submission deadline for full and short papers: July 15, 2020 The workshop on Designing and Facilitating Educational Location-based Applications (DELbA 2020) will be organized as part of the EC-TEL 2020 conference and will be held online on September 15th 2020. Mobile devices and mobile internet are the prerequisites for location-based apps, which interpret the current location for providing position-sensitive information. In form of games, location-based apps are extremely popular. For example, 2013 Ingress generated…

Call for Lightning Talks for Virtual Conference Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era Conference Date: August 7, 2020 Submission Deadline: July 10, 2020 Information: http://dartgo.org/covid-xr-conf Submit Proposals at https://forms.gle/yzHWHgNjPSgVLb5X8 Register to Attend at http://dartgo.org/covid-xr-conf-reg Send Questions to covid.xr.conf@gmail.com Recent large-scale engagement with remote learning has brought to the fore the challenges of teaching and learning in an online environment. While technologies like videoconferencing and learning management systems have drawn a great deal of critical review and pedagogical development, we can also apply the lessons of higher education’s sudden foray into mass remote teaching to other…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION NordiCHI 2020 Workshop – Co-Designing Personas for User Experience and Engagement in Automation Workshop date: October 26, 2020 Location: Talinn, Estonia (or possibly virtual) https://iti.larsys.pt/co-designing_personas_for_user_experience_and_engagement_in_automation/ Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2020 NOTE: In the context of COVID-19, we can say the workshop WILL happen in whichever format is possible at the time of the conference. See the Workshop website and NordiCHI 2020 website for updates. Grounded on principles of co-designing and user experience engagement in design, this one-day workshop will offer an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners aiming to actively engage in co-design of…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN’20 – 3rd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext Official workshop of the ACM Hypertext Conference ’20 Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB December 4, 2020 Online Workshop website: https://human.iisys.de/human20 HUMAN on Twitter: @HUMAN_HT Twitter hashtag:  #HUMAN20 Submission deadline:  September 27, 2020 NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that HT’20 is held virtually, the HUMAN’20 workshop will take place online later in 2020. This will make it easier for participants to follow both events HT’20 and HUMAN’20. As a service to the research community, we make the participation in the HUMAN’20 workshop free to anyone. For…