UbiComp / ISWC 2024, 5—9 October

UbiComp / ISWC is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous, pervasive, and wearable computing and promote the understanding of human experiences and social impacts that these technologies facilitate. UbiComp will again be collocated with the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC). Keynote speakers will be Genevieve Bell (Australian National University) and performance artist Stelarc. This event will be held in Melbourne, Australia.

VRST 2024, 9—11 October

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology is an international forum dedicated to virtual and augmented reality software and technology. This year, VRST 2024 will be dedicated to the imperative theme of reproducibility. Papers being presented cover subjects including “Exploring Presence in Interactions with LLM-Driven NPCs,”Exploring the Impact of Visual Scene Characteristics and Short-term Learning Effects on Rotation Gain Perception in VR”, “Neural Motion Tracking,” and more. Keynote speakers are Maud Marchal (University Rennes), and Brian Nosek (University of Virginia). The event is being held in Trier, Germany.

RecSys 2024, 14—18 October

The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques in the broad field of recommender systems. Workshops and tutorials will include “Deep Recommendation using Graphs,” “Computational Methods for Designing Human-Centered RecSys,” “Economics of Recommender System,” “Conducting User Experiments in Recommender Systems,” and more. Keynote speakers are Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley), Mounia Lalma ( Spotify), and Mark Riedl (Georgia Tech) . This year’s conference will be held in Bari, Italy.

ASSETS 2024, 28—30 October

The ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility explores the design, evaluation, and use of computing and information technologies to benefit people with disabilities and older adults. Workshops include “The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI,” “Teaching Accessibility in Different Disciplines: Topics, Approaches, Resources, Challenges,” “Challenges and Considerations for Accessibility Research Across Cultures and Regions,” “accessFinTech: Designing Accessible Financial Technology” and more. Keynote speakers will be Chieko Asakawa (IBM). The event will be held in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

MM 2024, 28 October—1 November

The ACM Multimedia Conference is the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. The conference will offer an extensive program of sessions, presentations, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations and workshops including: “Human-centric Multimedia Analysis,” “Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports,” “Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing,” and more. Keynote speakers are Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology), Judy Kay (University of Sydney), Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester), and Benoit Huet (Median Technologies). The event will be held in Melbourne, Australia.