<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Please forward on to interested parties! </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I thought this might be of interest to those working with animals and tech with the conference being close-ish by :). </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Warmth,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Ilyena</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b class="">----------------</b></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction ACI'22 – General CFP </strong></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Website:</strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.aciconf.org/aci2022" class="editor-rtfLink" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">https://www.aciconf.org/aci2022</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Date & Location:</strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> 5-8 December 2022, hosted by Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">ACI2022 is the leading conference in animal computing. For ACI2022, the conference's ninth edition, we invite a wide range of contributions that can share and discuss work and topics related to the research and design of computing-enabled and interactive technology for animals and foster the development of ACI as a discipline. </span></div><p class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </span></p><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Submissions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted submissions are included in the ACI2022 Conference Proceedings. The publications include accepted research papers, workshop proposals, emerging work and doctoral consortium submissions. </span></div><p class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </span></p><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">This year's conference theme is Defining Tomorrow. The theme acknowledges the rapid growth in technology for animals with new products coming onto the market, normalising the use of technology in many human-animal relationships, and asks: where should we go next? </span></div><p class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Submission Tracks and deadlines:</span></div><ul class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; list-style-type: disc;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Research papers (abstracts 19 May 2022, complete submissions 26 May 2022)</span></li><li class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; list-style-type: disc;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Workshop proposals (19 May 2022)</span></li><li class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; list-style-type: disc;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Emerging Work (11 August 2022)</span></li><li class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; list-style-type: disc;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Doctoral consortium tracks (18 August 2022)</span></li></ul><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Enquiries on submissions can be addressed to the Program Chairs: </span><a target="_blank" href="mailto:ilyena.hirskyj-douglas@glasgow.ac.uk" class="editor-rtfLink" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> and </span><a target="_blank" href="mailto:robertsd@csc.ncsu.edu" class="editor-rtfLink" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">David L. Roberts.</span></a></div></body></html>