Call for Participation Mixed Reality in Cultural Heritage online Symposium Organized by Brunel University London Wednesday 3 June 2020 11:00 – 13:00 BST Free, online via Zoom (link will be sent to all registered participants the day before the event) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mixed-reality-in-cultural-heritage-online-symposium-tickets-97744290805 Brunel University London is organising a timely symposium with the aim to scope current challenges facing Mixed Reality Technology to identify opportunities in developing Cultural Heritage immersive experiences. This Symposium will bring together professionals across cultural heritage, museums and galleries, digital media design and immersive technologies, and serious games, along with a variety of scholars for a two hours…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Rethinking Dialogue in the Age of New Challenges and Opportunities Journal of Dialogue Studies http://www.dialoguestudies.org/ Abstracts submission deadline: 15th of June, 2020 In its forthcoming issue, the Journal of Dialogue Studies invites papers addressing ‘dialogue’ through the lens of the challenges and opportunities, brought about by the current age of new technologies, populism and new dialogue spaces.…

Call for Papers Workshop on Modeling Socio-Emotional and Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data in the Wild At ICMI 2020: The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 25-29 October 2020 To be held remotely due to COVID-19 ICMI 2020 website: http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=home Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/modeling-multimodal-data/home Submission deadline: 17 August 2020 This workshop is part of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) to be held remotely due to COVID-19. Machine Learning (ML) on sensor data of human users in the wild poses numerous technical, theoretical, and ethical challenges. Modeling of intelligent adaptive systems in human-computer or human-robot interaction (HCI, HRI)…

Call for Papers Workshop on “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus” An event of SIGCHItaly (ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter) in collaboration with CINI AIIS Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab) Rome, July 7th, 2020 Dip. Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale “Antonio Ruberti” Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Ariosto, Roma http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/ Submission deadline: June 15th, 2020 NOTE: The safety and well-being of prospective participants is our priority. We are therefore ready to hold the workshop online if restrictions due to COVID-19 will not allow us to conduct it physically in Rome. MOTIVATIONS Compared with traditional technologies, AI-based technologies…

Call for Papers FRUGALTHINGS 2020 1st Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Frugal Smart Objects In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2020 – The 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 21st, 2020 virtual (online) conference http://www.grc.upv.es/frugalthings2020/ Submission deadline: June 5, 2020 (FIRM) Frugal innovation employs a creative approach to problem solving which starts from user needs and works to develop contextually appropriate solutions that have to be scalable, durable and environmentally sustainable, while using state-of-the-art technologies and know-how. Frugal innovation explores the introduction of emerging technologies to new populations, by developing ubiquitous computing systems, designing interaction…

Call for Papers Minds & Machines special edition on: Artificial Speakers – Philosophical Questions and Implications https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17912410/data/v1 Deadline to submit full paper: October 1st, 2020 DESCRIPTION With the increasing ubiquity of natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, interacting with “conversational artificial agents” such as speaking robots, chatbots, and personal assistants will be an everyday occurrence for most people. In a rather innocuous sense, we can perform a variety of speech acts with them, from asking a question to telling a joke, as they respond to our input just as any other agent would. However, in a stricter, philosophical sense, the question…

GLOBAL LASER / KICKOFF Pandemic Encounters ::: being [together] in the deep third space Saturday, May 23rd, 12pm ET-US Online Location/Registration: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/pandemic-encounters A Networked Performance Installation by Paul Sermon in collaboration with Randall Packer, Gregory Kuhn. The project is organized by the Third Space Network in collaboration with Leonardo LASER Hosts. (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Pandemic Encounters is a networked performance installation inhabited by the live chroma-figure of Paul Sermon. Participants are invited to enter into the deep third space to engage & perform a ritual action as a reflection on the Covid-19 state of being [together] remotely.…

From Peter Andrew Clarke NELSON (peteracnelson@hkbu.edu.hk) Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to a small game studies seminar called Mod Theory that I will be streaming over the next two weeks. Mod Theory began in 2019 as an experimental method for discussing landscape in computer games, with a focus on platform studies and the political unconscious. Prompted by the geographical restrictions of 2020 and our interest in using virtual environments as a place for theoretical discussion, this new seminar series will be held in the sandbox environment Garry’s Mod (Facepunch Studios 2003), streamed live, then edited and re-uploaded.…

[From the BCS-HCI elist] Dear colleagues, The Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) is a joint project launched by professional computing societies to examine the current curricular guidelines for academic degree programs in computing and provide a vision for the future of computing. “Humans and Organizations” is one of the 6 knowledge domains in all curricular guidelines, with “User Experience Design” or “Human-Computer Interaction” as an important knowledge area. We have now produced a final draft report and invite you and your colleagues to review the draft report and complete the survey. The stakeholders of the report are, industry and employers, current…

Call for Papers: Moral and Political Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence For the journal Moral Philosophy and Politics Guest editor: Mathias Risse, Harvard University Papers should be submitted before November 1, 2020 Many experts consider it likely that some kind of general artificial intelligence becomes possible in the 21st century (the kind of AI that approximates human abilities across a broad range). To be sure, many ethical issues arise already with regard to the kind of innovation that becomes possible through a combination of machine learning, Big Data, computational capacities and robotics. Governments have new tools at their disposal for screening…

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (4A’20) https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/4a Organized within the framework of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2020), Track 2 Sofia, Bulgaria 6-9 September, 2020 http://www.fedcsis.org/ https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/css Paper submission deadline (sharp/no extension): May 15, 2020 NOTE: COVID-19 Information: We would like to assure everybody that FedCSIS 2020 will take place, the submitted and accepted papers will be published and sent for indexations as usual. In case the conference cannot be staged in real setting of beautiful Sofia, we will provide a virtual web-based avenue for it. We look forward to…

Request for Proposals Facebook Research Explorations of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/explorations-of-trust-in-ar-vr-and-smart-devices-request-for-proposal/ Applications due by June 12, 2020 Facebook is pleased to invite university faculty to respond to this call for research proposals on exploring unique challenges, threats, attacks, mitigations, and other considerations in the burgeoning space of AR, VR, and smart devices.…