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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (2023-2027)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sensing Extended Realities<\/strong>
Bodies, Interaction, Technologies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by<\/strong> ROUTLEDGE SENSORY STUDIES SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Chris Salter, Lorenza Mondada & Philippe Sormani<\/strong>
Sensing XR<\/em>\u00a0is a thematically organized, interdisciplinary collection on Extended Reality \u2014 the umbrella term for computer-generated environments accessed through worn headsets and body interfaces. Gathering scientific, social-cultural, technological, artistic and design-oriented approaches, it addresses three core questions:\u00a0What user experiences has XR time and again been promised to enable? How are the senses practiced via XR technologies? And how do situated practices \u2014 embodied, multiple, contingent \u2014 reconfigure XR technologies?<\/strong>\u00a0Drawing on science, technology and media studies, the volume probes XR as a sociotechnical assemblage in which human and machine sensoria operate in tandem, bringing together historical, ethnographic and performative approaches to \u201cXR in action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEMATIC AREAS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Genealogies of XR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Imaginaries of XR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Aesthetics of XR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Interaction with XR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposals should name the thematic section the chapter would best fit.<\/strong> Contributions from researchers and artists\/designers in Asia, South America and Africa are particularly welcome. The volume will be complemented by a multi-media platform documenting the performances, installations and artworks in XR that accompany its texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS<\/strong>: 1 November 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Send an extended abstract of 300 words to:\u00a0sensingxr@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
Acceptance:<\/strong>\u00a015 November 2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
First drafts:<\/strong>\u00a01 March 2027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midterm Meeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, 30th June & Wednesday 1st July 2026, Immersive Arts Space <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since November 2023, the SNSF-funded project Probing XR\u2019s Futures: Design Fiction, Bodily Experience and Critical Inquiry <\/em>has brought together an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Immersive Arts Space (IAS). The project has informed complementary lines of inquiry in and across perceptual experiments, design fiction, and interaction analysis, as well as transversal interest in breaching experiments and engagement with critical disability. In the process, the research team has probed form, fiction, and interaction in various configurations of collaboration and across contrasting settings (the studio lab, street corners, bars, and more). On this basis, many conference presentations and publication projects have seen the light of day, including a several CHI<\/em> papers, a forthcoming special issue of New Media & Society<\/em>, and a coedited volume entitled Sensing XR: Bodies, Technology, Interaction<\/em> (Salter, Mondada & Sormani, in preparation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This two-day midterm meeting took stock of the running project, its empirical results and multiple insights, while identifying next moves and promising crossovers for project finalization (until\u00a0\u00a0\u00a031 October 2027, the scheduled closing date of\u00a0Probing XR\u2019s Futures<\/em>). The meeting program may thus be summarized in three familiar questions: \u201cWhat have we done? What have we learned? And what\u2019s next?\u201d. In answer to these questions, Day I invites its participants, and the research team members in particular, to assemble and revisit their principal results, insights, and pending questions, be it in terms of form [1], fiction [2], and\/or interaction [3], if not breaching experiments, critical disability, and more\u00a0\u00a0[4]. On this basis, Day II invites discussion on epistemic implications, aesthetic possibilities, and crossover experimentation \u2013 that is, in and across form, fiction, and interaction, the project\u2019s main strands of interdisciplinary inquiry so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n