Call for Papers

Papers are accordingly invited on specific aspects of the following topics, in rough chronological order:
1. Stage and live performance narratives
2. Visual storytelling in traditional arts and crafts
3. Storytelling in the plastic arts 4. Narrating the landscape: from recording travel to the age of Instagram
5. Museums, physical and virtual
6. Photographic narrative forms
7. Cinema – from the silent days to modern digital and CGI forms
8. Graphic Novels
9. Comic Books and comic strips
10. Cartoons
11. Children’s books
12. Television – entertainment, news media and the use of the image
13. Music videos – narrating the song
14. Storytelling in advertising and marketing
15. The campaign video
16. Visual Narratives on/of the city: graffiti and street art
17. Video Game narratives
18. YouTube and online filmmaking
19. Graphic fan fiction
20. The business of visual storytelling

We welcome submissions in English, by the 31st March 2022, to be sent to Professors David Callahan (callahan@ua.pt) and Clara Sarmento (clarasarmento@gmail.com) with the following information:

• Title;
• Author(s), institutional affiliation, contact email(s);
• Conference topic (see list above);
• Extended Abstract (200 words);
• Bionote (100 words).

Confirmed Key-note Speakers

Hanna Musiol, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Miguel Sicart, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Registration Fees:

100 euros – Employed Academics
50 Euro – Graduate Students
Registration is free for members of CLLC, U.Aveiro and CEI, ISCAP-P.PORTO

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS / CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR THESES

ICIEMC 2022: June 30 – July 1 (virtual format)

Theme “Tackling the Challenges & Seizing the Opportunities of Tomorrow”

INTRODUCTION

The COVID-19 pandemics has changed the life of practically everybody in some way, in less than a year, inducing a systemic shock effect on citizens and economies (Ashford et.al., 2020). In the 2021 edition of ICIEMC we focused on (post)pandemic changes in marketing and consumer behaviour. The pandemics is far from over, and yet we see that economies, organizations and people have changed their behaviors and adjusted their strategies. Facing a crisis, we adapted in order to survive and continue to thrive.

So, at ICIEMC 2022 (6th edition) we continue the approach we started last year, yet we look more closely at what has been done and what can be done to tackle the challenges that this new world entails. Also, we seek new perspectives on how we may seize the opportunities that future may bring us, with a focus on the role of data, intelligence and the emergence of new business models.

We welcome scientific contributions related to overcoming challenges related to the pandemics, applied to any industry or service area and we value specific contributions linked to business and marketing strategies used to explore future opportunities.

AWARDS

At ICIEMC we distinguish the Best Papers and Best Theses with specific awards. You may see the awards granted in the last two editions on our site (http://iciemc.pt/iciemc-awards/).

IMPORTANT DATES & DETAILS FOR ABSTRACT & PAPER SUBMISSION

Abstract submission: March 11, 2022
Abstract acceptance notification: March 18, 2022
Procedure for abstract submission: send an abstract of maximum 250 words together with the title, author names, affiliation and track you are submitting by email to isca-iciemc@ua.pt<mailto:isca-iciemc@ua.pt>
Paper submission: May 16, 2022
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2022
Camera-Ready papers: June 20, 2022
Procedure for paper submission: send your paper of maximum 5.000 words (references included) in the ICIEMC paper template using the CMT Platform for paper submissions:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICIEMC2022
Author registration & payment: June 10, 2022

IMPORTANT DATES & DETAILS FOR THESES ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

ICIEMC 2022 welcomes the possibility to run for a prize of Best Thesis in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Strategy, Tourism or Technology. To be eligible, applicants must have defended their thesis (Master in Science or PhD) in 2020 or in 2021. Proof of defense will be requested for selected applicants for the prize.

Thesis Abstract submission – May 16, 2022
Thesis acceptance notification: May 31, 2022
Thesis Submission Procedure: send an abstract of your thesis (500 – 1000 words), together with the title, author name, supervisor(s) name(s), degree, scientific area of the degree, institution that granted the degree and country to isca-iciemc@ua.pt<mailto:isca-iciemc@ua.pt> by May 16, 2022.

REGULAR TRACKS

1. Business Models
2. Consumer Behaviour & Neurosciences
3. Consumer Protection & Data Privacy
4. Digital Transformation in Entrepreneurship and Marketing
5. Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Small Business Marketing
6. Marketing Communications, Social Media, Public Relations, Advertising & Promotion
7. Marketing in Specific Industries
8. Relationship Marketing, Sensory & Experiential Marketing
9. Strategic Marketing & Value Creation
10. Services Marketing & Customer Experience
11. Sustainable Marketing, Social Responsibility & Ethics
12. Teaching & Learning in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Marketing
13. Tourism Marketing

SPECIAL TRACKS

1. Advances in Intelligence & Data for Business, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour – Ciro Martins & Jorge Rodrigues
2. Challenges & Opportunities in Business, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour – Irina Saur-Amaral & Sandra Filipe
3. Digital Marketing Perspectives – Belém Barbosa
4. Niche Tourism & (Post)Pandemic Tourism Marketing Perspectives – Bruno Barbosa Sousa

CONFERENCE DETAILS & CONTACTS

Conference Chairs: Irina Saur-Amaral & Sandra Filipe

Host Institution: ISCA – Universidade de Aveiro // Commemorative Edition – 50th anniversary of ISCA-UA

E-mail: isca-iciemc@ua.pt<mailto:isca-iciemc@ua.pt>

Site: http://iciemc.pt

The International Journal of Business Innovation (IJBI) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal, a recent initiative of the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration, University of Aveiro (ISCA-UA).  We are currently preparing the first issues of the journal, and therefore we would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to submit a paper for consideration in volume 1 (2022) of IJBI.

Considering that the IJBI is a new project, which intends to become an international scientific reference in the near future, any contribution would be extremely important at this early stage to strengthen and foster the project.

Topics

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Accounting & Finance

• Accounting, Auditing and Finance Education
• Accounting, Auditing, and Performance Evaluation
• Accounting Standards and Regulations
• Banking and Finance
• Carbon Accounting and Climate Change
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Creative Accounting and Earnings Management
• Derivatives and Structured Financial Products
• Environmental Accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Forensic Accounting and Fraud
• Management Accounting
• Management of Financial Institutions
• Monetary Economics and Finance
• Not-for-Profit Accounting
• Public Sector Accounting
• Regulations of Financial Markets
• Risk Management and Internal Control
• Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
• Tax Accounting

Management & Marketing

• Business Models
• Circular Innovation
• Competitiveness
• Consumer Behavior
• Consumer Protection
• E-Business
• E-Commerce
• Entrepreneurship
• Internationalization
• Knowledge Management
• Leadership
• Management Studies
• Social Media
• Strategic Marketing
• Sustainability

Tourism & Society

• E-Government
• E-Learning
• E-Participation
• E-Society
• E-Tourism
• Innovation in Teaching & Learning
• Smart City
• Social Economy
• Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management

Technology & Information Systems

• Accounting Information Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Auditing Technology
• Big Data
• Business Intelligence
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Auditing and Reporting
• Control and Auditability of Information Systems
• Data Analytics
• Digital Strategy
• Digital Transformation
• Blockchain
• Enterprise Information Systems
• Information Systems
• Information Systems Assurance
• Internet of Things
• Robotic Process Automation

Article Processing Charges (A.P.C):

There are no Article Processing Charge or any other fees. The publication is fully open access, and no fees are applied, either to authors or readers, at anytime.

Call for EuroGraphics 2022 Doctoral Consortium Submissions

The Eurographics Doctoral Consortium is a networking event that provides PhD students, working in all areas of computer graphics, with an excellent opportunity to present their work and interact with distinguished and experienced researchers in the field. They will receive feedback and mentoring, as well as a different perspective from senior researchers outside their home institution. In addition, the Doctoral Consortium provides a unique forum for PhD students to share their work and experience among their fellow PhD students. The Doctoral Consortium will take place within the Eurographics’2022 conference, April 25-29, 2022.

Who should apply?

PhD students working in all areas of computer graphics are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage applications from students who are in the first half of their PhD work, especially those who already have a clear research direction (possibly with some published results), as they have sufficient time ahead to profit from their participation in the Doctoral Consortium. Students who are close to finishing their doctorate degree, or have very recently finished it, are also welcome to share their experience and to discuss their ongoing research and future research plans.

The applicants are strongly encouraged to consider submitting a poster of their work to the poster track in parallel.

Timeline

* All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC

Submission guidelines

Submission website: Eurographics Submission and Review Management (SRM) system.

Template: The format should be in accordance with Eurographics Author’s guidelines.

Eligible Doctoral Consortium students who would like to participate in the Doctoral Consortium should submit the following documents as a single PDF file:

1. Research Statement: A 3-4 pages extended abstract summarizing their dissertation research, singly authored by themself. The submissions should NOT be anonymous. The use of figures is encouraged. This document should include:

1. university doctoral program context in which the work is being conducted, including starting date and expected graduation date;
2. motivation that drives the dissertation research;
3. research objectives/questions;
4. background and related work that informs the author’s research;
5. research approach, methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate);
6. dissertation status and a description of the remaining work;
7. current and expected contributions.

The research statement should transcend the scope of a single publication or project, and instead focus on the general research theme or agenda for the student’s PhD thesis.

2. Supervisor’s letter of support: A one-page signed letter from the PhD student’s supervisor, supporting her/his participation in the Doctoral Consortium, and providing the following information:

1. the student’s status with respect to the institution’s PhD requirements;
2. the expected date of thesis/dissertation defense or graduation;
3. why attendance at this Doctoral Consortium would be particularly beneficial to the student;
4. what contributions the student is likely to make to the event if invited to attend.

3. Curriculum vitae: A 1-2 pages CV plus the list of all publications.

All three documents must be written in English.

Review Process

The review process is single-anonymous. The review and decision of acceptance will take into account: (1) Quality of the submission (potential contribution and impact of the research to the field of computer graphics) and the author’s stage of doctoral research; (2) the benefits of the consortium for the author’s PhD research; (3) the author’s contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds and profiles that will integrate the Consortium.

Each accepted author will be paired with a panelist, a senior researcher in her/his research field, with whom they will be interacting in a one-to-one manner.

Participation

All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium, where they will present their work to a panel of experts, selected by the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs to match at best the topics related to the accepted submissions.

The doctoral consortium event will be a closed event with only the authors and the panelists present. The authors will start by presenting their work (around 10 minutes each) followed by discussion with the panelists and other authors. Afterwards, there will be time for one-to-one discussions between each author and their paired panelist.

Eurographics 2022 Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Julie Digne, LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, France
Noeska Smit, University of Bergen, Norway

For any questions concerning submissions, please do not hesitate to contact the doctoral consortium program co-chairs via chairs-eg2022dc@eg.org.

7th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

2022: TOWARDS THE POLYPHONIC CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW NORMALITY
July 5-6, 2022
Bucharest, Romania (blended)
slerd.uniroma2.it

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Deadline for paper submission: March 31, 2022
call for papers
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SLERD 2022 is organized by University Politehnica of Bucharest in collaboration with ASLERD.

The intention of the organizing committee is to hold SLERD 2022 as a hybrid conference with the possibility to alternatively attend it physically or virtually.

If the pandemic is not attenuated, SLERD will take place in a fully blown virtual conference format such as the previous two editions of SLERD.

Short Intro

After the shock of the pandemic, learning ecosystems – and in particular schools, universities, and territorial learning communities – all over the world – are facing a new phase characterized by the search for and the experimentation of ways to their “new normality“. This is within a world that seeks to protect at best and incentivize the economic recovery that although relevant is still subjected to enormous risks. Among the main areas on which most of the industrialized countries and Europe are focusing on, there are: the transitions towards a green and circular economy, smart digitization of the production processes, social innovation, active citizen participation supported by technologies, and, finally, the education for all. In such a context, collaboration is emerging as an approach and an attitude of considerable relevance that stays also at the basis of the polyphonic construction of the future of learning ecosystems.

Alongside collaboration, on the technological side, it continues to rise the relevance of intelligent systems, generically collected under the label of Artificial Intelligence (AI); concurrently, on the pedagogical side, competences have become the goal of future education, also in the attempt to close the skill gap, which represents one of the greatest dangers for the transition towards smarter productive systems and societies.

Competences and AI, by the way, are also topics that intersect and influence each other and rise questions of ethical nature. Last but not least, they are likely to require an organizational and didactic revolution of the learning ecosystems, thus requiring to question the possible consequences in order to build a more adequate future. In turn, this step requires inspiration from best practices to leverage the advantage of the growth of individuals and the expectations of the communities.

What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world” as a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents?

Smart referred to learning ecosystems, in ASLERD and SLERD contexts, does not simply means “technology enhanced”. The smartness is a more complex multilayered construct related to the wellbeing of the players operating in the ecosystems and is affected by the improvement of any relevant aspects of the learning processes and ecosystem functioning, especially if connected with territorial development and social innovation.
Technologies are mediators. Hopefully they should be included but they are not a “sine qua non”.
The achievement of the learning ecosystems’ smartness is a process that need a long term vision, multidisciplinary competences, an attitude to understand people and contexts and to mediate point of views, a dynamic resilience to keep on track to achieve, step by step, the foreseen goals.

Topics of interests

SLERD 2022 is proud to invite colleagues – researchers and practitioners – from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development.

can be grouped under three big themes:

places for smart education

• • future of institutional learning
  • interplay between formal and informal learning
  • new educational models and settings
  • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning
  • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education
  • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches
  • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region

people in place centered design for smart education

• • general frameworks and methodological advances
  • design, data and other relevant literacies
  • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences
  • communities and co-design in smart learning
  • sharing & participatory practices
  • open access to any resource and disparity
  • cultural influences

supportive learning technologies for smart education

• intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces
• semantic web technologies and applications
• text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• real/virtual communities and social network analysis
• interoperability and application of open/smart data and services
• safety & security in education
• IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies
• adaptability to educational contexts and citizens
• role of VR in education

Important dates:

• Deadline for papers submission: March 31, 2022
• Notification to the authors: April 30, 2022
• Camera ready paper: May 15, 2022
• Conference: July 5-6, 2022

Submissions:

SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 pages).

Papers should be written according to the Spinger Instruction for Authors of the  series Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies:
https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Link to the paper submission page on easy chair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2022

Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration

JDMI no.12 – July 2022

Dossier on Emotion and Cognition in Engagement

Submission deadline: May 20, 2022

In recent years there has been a growing concern with how we psychologically engage with digital media, not only in behavioral terms, but also in terms of our cognitive functions as well as the emotionality carried over into the experiences created. This dossier aims to deepen some of the concepts in the broader spectrum.

Topics

Engagement studies
Interaction studies
Memory and Engagement
Attention and Engagement
Emotion and Engagement
Learning and Engagement
Metrics for Engagement
Attention and Interest
Dark Patterns
Digital Attention
Emotion and Interaction
Emotion and Creativity
Emotions in Games
Experience design
..
Other topics related to Digital Engagement.

Guidelines for authors

Articles and Reviews can be submitted in English, Portuguese, French or Spanish.
All submissions must be made through the OJS platform of the journal JDMI.
Follow the authors’ guidelines and use the .doc template.

Next Calls for papers:
Dossier on Responsive Environments, no.13, December 2022
Dossier on Meaning-Making in Digital Media, no.14, July 2023
Dossier on Digital Life and Wellbeing, no.15 – December 2023

All information  available on the website of JDMI:  https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi/call_papers.

Any doubts or questions, please contact: deca-jdmi@ua.pt