Call for Papers ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Special issue on First-Person Research in HCI https://dl.acm.org/journal/tochi/firstpersonhci Guest Editors: Audrey Desjardins (University of Washington) Andres Lucero (Aalto University) Marta Cecchinato (Northumbria University) Oscar Tomico Plasencia (ELISAVA and Eindhoven University of Technology) Carman Neustaedter (Simon Fraser University) Abstract submission deadline:  September 8, 2020 Full paper submission deadline:  October 22, 2020 As an addition to the array of HCI methodological tools, first-person research methods offer a chance for researchers to not only investigate the mundane, ongoing, and ubiquitous presence of technology in everyday life, but also to acknowledge their own positionality in research…

CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL TRACK ON XR & IMMERSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS at IEEE 2020: An International Conference on Engineering, Technology & Learning 8-11 December 2020 Online/Virtual http://tale2020.org/special-track-1/ Submission Deadline: 17 August 2020 Organized in conjunction with the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org), the Special Track on XR & Immersive Environments for Learning at IEEE TALE 2020 will focus on the use of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and related technologies for creating environments and experiences that excite, inspire and engage learners in immersive ways. Of interest are reports of both research studies and applications…

Call for Papers Understanding Each Other when Communicating in Emerging Technology Mediated Environments Communication Studies https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/comm-emerging-tech/ Special Issue Editor(s): Rhonda McEwen, PhD, University of Toronto Mississauga, rhonda.mcewen@utoronto.ca Michelle Lui, PhD, University of Toronto Mississauga, michelle.lui@utoronto.ca Submission deadline: 15 January 2021 Classic definitions of communication focus on the process of exchange of information — instrumental and expressive — and with the goal of mutual understanding of the content among the participants. The structure and format of in-person communication is a particular instantiation of engagement for which we have accumulated a wealth of research within the field. As we move to remote…

Call for Papers Living Through a Crisis: Special Issue on How COVID-19 Has Transformed the Way We Work, Learn, and Live Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices https://www.springer.com/journal/10606/updates/18188320 Guest Editors: Kori Inkpen, Microsoft, kori@microsoft.com John Tang, Microsoft, johntang@microsoft.com Geraldine Fitzpatrick, TU Wien, Austria, geraldine.fitzpatrick@tuwien.ac.at Juho Kim, KAIST, South Korea, juhokim@kaist.ac.kr Paul Luff, King’s College London, UK, Paul.luff@kcl.ac.uk Naomi Yamashita, NTT Research Labs, naomiannyam@gmail.com Deadline for submission: 4th December 2020 Submission guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606 The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed all aspects of our lives, including the way we work, the nature of our schools, and…

Call for Contributions and Participation Storytelling and the Body 2nd Global Inclusive Conference Friday 12th March 2021 – Saturday 13th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal http://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/storytelling/storytelling-and-the-body/conferences/ 300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and other forms of contribution and participation should be submitted by Friday 4th September 2020 NOTE: Due to the postponement of this event in relation to the Covid pandemic, we are delighted to be able to unexpectedly reopen the Call for Submissions for the newly rescheduled dates. Bodies of all kinds surround us. Glamorous bodies, modified bodies, healthy or unhealthy bodies, engineered bodies, trafficked bodies, in/visible bodies, dismembered bodies, persecuted…

Call for Papers God(s) and the Digital. Theological Perspectives and Religious Metaphors. Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (JRAT) ed. by Gemma Serrano and Alessandro De Cesaris https://www.religionandtransformation.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_religions_transformation/J-RaT/Call_for_papers_-_God_s__and_the_Digital.pdf Proposals due by September 30th, 2020 The Interdisciplinary “Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society” (JRAT) is an interdisciplinary, international, online open-access journal with a double-blind peer-review process. It was established in 2015, since 2019 it is published with BRILL. Every issue has a distinct thematic focus which is approached from different disciplines. The journal aims at investigating the contribution of religions to the cultural, political, juridical, and aesthetic…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities 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 http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call46fs Guest Editors: Callum Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia Soojeong Yoo, The University of Sydney, Australia Waldemar Jenek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University, South Korea…

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue: “Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics” International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer; Impact Factor 2.516 in 2019) Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/12369 Manuscript submission due date: 28 February 2021 AIM OF THE ISSUE: The development and diffusion of social robots gives increasingly rise to ethical and legal concerns related to, e.g., responsibility assignments in cooperative tasks, implementation of moral rules in robots, possible dual uses and misuses of artificial agents, unintended modifications of social, cognitive, emotive and communication abilities in humans interacting with robots. The urgency of developing effective ethical inquiries related to these issues leads specialists…

Call for Papers SPT 2021: Technological Imaginaries The Society for Philosophy and Technology June 28-30 Université Catholique de Lille Université de Technologie de Compiègne https://lillethics.com/spt-2021/ Submission deadline: December 1, 2020 THEME: Technological Imaginaries Technologies are always more than the sum of their mechanical parts. Indeed, technologies are entangled in symbolic forms of a social and cultural nature. Technologies also contribute to the construction of new worldviews and new forms of life. Technological imaginaries are far more than phantasies detached from technological innovation. They are at the heart of innovation itself, of the invention as well as of the implementation and…

Call for Papers (Virtual) Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH) To be held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 29 October 2020 ICMI 2020: http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=home Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/wsamih/home Workshop papers or abstract due: 23 August, 2020 Organizers: Hiroki Tanaka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Jean-Claude Martin (CNRS-LIMSI, France) Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, France) Social Skill Training is often used in the multimodal Interaction research community as an umbrella term for systems that aim at training social skills: managing appropriately verbal and nonverbal behaviors…

[Note: Follow the links below for the questionnaire, which includes detailed information on this topic. –ML] Call for Participation [Views regarding] The ethical issues of conversational agents National Digital Ethics Steering Committee (CNPEN) https://www.ccne-ethique.fr/en/actualites/cnpen-ethical-issues-conversational-agents Submission deadline: 30 September 2020 The National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) was established in December 2019 at the request of the [French] Prime Minister. Composed of 27 members, this committee brings together digital specialists, philosophers, doctors, lawyers and members of civil society. One of the three referrals submitted by the Prime Minister to the CNPEN concerns the ethical issues of conversational agents, commonly known…