CALL FOR PAPERS: Ludonarratives: Narrative complexity in video games L’ATALANTE 31 (issue to be published January 2021) http://revistaatalante.com/index.php?journal=atalante&page=announcement&op=view&%20path%5B0%5D=68 Acceptance of proposals for the Notebook section: from July 1st 2020 to September 1st 2020 In recent years, narratives in video games have grown increasingly complex, evolving from serving merely as a context designed to present the rules and mechanics of the game towards the development of much deeper and more complicated structures, plots and characters, and the exploration of new thematic perspectives. Narrative complexity is already a central part of the gaming experience in games like Telling Lies (Sam Barlow, 2019),…

Call for Papers Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society: After Covid-19: Crises, Ethics, and Socio-Technical Change Confirmed Guest Editors: Rafael A. Calvo, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London Sebastian Deterding, Digital Creativity Labs, University of York Catherine Flick, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University Christoph Luetge, Institute for Ethics in AI, Technical University of Munich (TUM) Alison Powell, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science Jack Stilgoe, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London Karina Vold, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Special Issue on Digital Romance and Dating, Including COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Impacts https://home.liebertpub.com/cfp/special-issue-on-digital-romance-and-dating-including-covid-/276/ Guest Editors: Jayson L. Dibble, PhD, Hope College, Holland, MI Brandon T. McDaniel, PhD, Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation, Fort Wayne, IN Manuscript submission deadline: September 1, 2020 Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is developing a special issue dedicated to current digital dating, romance/sex, and dating apps. This also includes, but is not limited to, pandemic-related impacts (e.g., social distancing due to COVID-19, quarantining) on dating, sex, and romance. Special consideration is given to articles that go beyond…

Call for Participation Champions in Higher Education of XR (CHEX) Consortium Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Calling all leaders and champions of VR/AR/MR (XR) initiatives at universities and colleges Champions in Higher Education of XR (CHEX) is a new consortium formed under the umbrella of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org/) that brings together both administrators as well as faculty/staff grassroots leaders who are championing the adoption and use of XR and immersive technologies at colleges, universities, and college/university systems around the world. Many of these champions have oversight of XR initiatives at a campus, institution, or system-wide…

Call for Participation Respecting Human Autonomy through Human-Centered AI A multidisciplinary workshop at NordiCHI 2020 October 25th or 26th (will be confirmed in August) Location: Talinn, Estonia (or possibly virtual) Workshop website: https://sway.office.com/b7kcCzg0kRJkGGPm?ref=Link Deadline for submissions: 28th August, 2020 NOTE: Owing to the current circumstances related to Covid -19, the conference organizers will make a decision about having a physical conference or a virtual conference. This workshop will follow the guidelines mentioned here- https://nordichi2020.org/#/ . We will update the information as soon as it is made available to us. AI is becoming more pervasive in our everyday lives and people…

CALL FOR PAPERS HUMAN-SYSTEMS INTERACTION Session 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference Yellowstone Conference Center Big Sky, Montana, March 6-13, 2021 http://aeroconf.org/ Abstracts are currently being accepted, due July 1, 2020 Dear all, We are now calling for abstracts for paper, for the session Human-Systems Interaction at the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana. This session consistently draws a fascinating group of innovators in our field for stimulating discussions in a fantastic setting. [TOPICS] Humans are the most critical element in system safety, reliability and performance. Their creativity, adaptability and problem-solving capabilities are key to resilient operations across the different aerospace…

Call for Papers and Late-Breaking Work OzCHI 2020 – 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Conference 2-4 December 2020 http://www.ozchi.org/2020/ Abstract submission deadline: 7 August 2020 Papers and Late-Breaking Work deadline: 14 August 2020 OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) and Australia’s leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds and include interaction designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and…

Call for Abstracts Edited volume: Live Streaming Culture Editors: Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher Persaud https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8W7er3wrnNNxS98EoyJwCBZ60sCtnqbAZ1ikqYBkL8 Abstract Deadline: July 17, 2020 Live streaming is a rapidly growing phenomenon that is having profound effects on the contemporary landscape of digital media, entertainment, and online culture. Across the internet, live streaming takes an array of forms: from gaming-focused sites like Twitch and Mixer, where millions of viewers watch live video gameplay, to social media sites like Facebook and YouTube, where streamers translate their day-to-day lives into broadcasts. As with all technological platforms, live streaming is deeply shaped…

Call for Abstracts Online Education: Teaching in a Time of Change A virtual conference coordinated by Routledge, AMPS and PARADE April 21-23, 2021 https://architecturemps.com/online-ed-conference/ Abstracts due June 30, 2020 (Early Review) Abstract Submission Form (.docx) CONTEXT: Recent events across the world of academia have brought into full light the various agendas around online education and research. As universities, schools and colleges closed across the world in 2020, researchers, teachers and students scrambled to adapt to a whole host of new pedagogical tools, communicative techniques, learning methods and teaching styles almost overnight. Some survived, others thrived, while some struggled and ultimately…

Call for Papers and Art Sound, Image and Interaction Design Symposium (SIIDS) 2020 Online [see note below] https://siids.arditi.pt/ Deadline for submissions: 26 June 2020 Submissions now open: siids.arditi.pt/submissions NOTE: SIIDS 2020 will take place 4/September/2020 as an online conference. Optionally, and if COVID-19 restrictions allow, there will also be co-located presentations at Madeira Tecnopolo (Funchal, Portugal). There has been a growing interest in the study of sound and music computing from a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective. This coincides with the shift to a third wave of HCI towards applications in broader cultural contexts. In the last few years, researchers have…

Call for Papers “Actuated and Performative Architecture: Emerging Forms of Human-Machine Integration” SPOOL (A journal from TU Delft) https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/spool/announcement/view/301 Submission deadline: July 15, 2020 Human-Machine Interaction is expanding its reach beyond displays and objects to its next frontier: the built environment. This involves not only known visions of ubiquitous computing and adaptive environments but sensor-actuator networks, large-scale interfaces, and the Internet of Things. More than and including these systems, Actuated and Performative Architecture renders the built environment as a cyber-physical system aiming to address urgent challenges of accommodating an aging population and a mass-urbanized population by increasing spatial performance, even…

Call for Papers Ethics, Law, and Psychology towards Responsible Robotics for the Society Advanced Robotics Special Issue https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/est-tadr-2020si1/ Submission deadline: 31 August 2020 Robot technology has been expanding from closed spaces such as factories to open spaces such as homes and streets. Cleaning robots have already been introduced in many houses, and many robots for social communication with humans have been developed. Furthermore, it is envisioned that many automated vehicles will drive around cities in the near future. The spread of these robots and artificial intelligence technologies will drastically change our society and is expected to bring unprecedented affluence and…