Final CfP and Deadline extension: the 6th Image Schema Day, January 2022, Jönköping, SWE

 (Apologies for potential cross-posting)

*Call for papers and participation!*
The Sixth Image Schema Day
Workshop on the 20-21st of January, 2022
On-site at Jönköping University, Sweden
https://imageschema.net/image-schema-day

** Deadline extension:* 15th of December (strict)
** Title and abstract submission:* 10th of December


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*-- Updated comment on the COVID pandemic -- In Sweden, ca 70% of the
population is fully vaccinated and the number of local cases is kept
relatively low despite the global increase. However, as the global
situation remains unstable, we are uncertain about the general interest in
travel at the moment. Therefore, we ask all researchers who intended to
submit to and join ISD6 to upload a preliminary version on Easychair by the
original deadline of 10th of December. In the case, that the number of
submissions is lower than expected, we will postpone ISD6 to a later date
so ISD6 can be the networking event we designed it to be. Accepted papers
at that point, will naturally also remain accepted despite any
postponement. --*

After two years of hibernation, we are happy to announce that the Image
Schema Day (ISD6) is returning in its sixth reincarnation: at a new venue,
with new research, but with the same purpose.

In broad terms, image schemas are spatiotemporal relationships between
objects and agents that are learned in early infancy such as containment,
support and linkage. These relationships are hypothesised to construct the
information skeleton found in object affordances, linguistic and artistic
metaphors, the conceptualisation of event segmentation and analogical
reasoning. Traditionally studied in cognitive linguistics, these abstract
patterns gained increased interest to solve some of the semantic grounding
issues in AI and cognitive robotics, but are also a familiar sight in
interaction design, art and literary analysis, developmental psychology,
and gesture interpretation, to name but a few.

To offer a platform to discuss this topic across the disciplines, the
workshop* The Image Schema Day *was born in 2015, and so far, it gathered
researchers on five different occasions. The workshop is primarily a
networking event that invites researchers on image schemas and related
notions from a broad range of scientific disciplines to present their
research and discuss ideas for future projects. Unlike many other workshops
focused on different topics in one discipline or using one methodology, the
ISD6 invites researchers from all disciplines and methodologies but focuses
on one topic.

For the first time organised outside of Italy, the event will be held fully
on-site in the beautiful 1850's villa Mariedal that, since its renovation,
features as Jönköping University's representation venue. Jönköping is a
mid-sized town beautifully located between several lakes, tucked in the
deep Swedish forests and hilly mountains. If we are lucky, January might
treat us to some white snow as well!

The workshop accepts three forms of *submissions with deadline 15th of
December (Title and abstract deadline on the 10th of December) *(more
information can be found on the website):

   - Abstracts for presentation (2 pages) - (*NOTE*: *not included in the
   proceedings.*)
   - Extended abstracts (at least 5 pages) of either preliminary work and
   ideas or summaries of previously published articles.
   - Research papers (5-10 pages) discussing novel research not published
   (or under review) at another venue.

Topics of interests with (the broadest of interpretation of) an
image-schematic focus include, but are not limited to:

   - conceptual metaphors
   - affordances
   - spatiotemporal reasoning
   - force dynamics
   - conceptual modelling
   - embodied and spatial cognition
   - general artificial intelligence
   - commonsense reasoning
   - analogical reasoning
   - cognitive robotics
   - interface design
   - art and literature analysis

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by a highly diverse PC and accepted
contributions will be included in the ISD6 proceedings (either as a
standalone volume or as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO - held
later in 2022). Submitted abstracts will have a chance to turn their
contributions into full research papers after the workshop. Papers that are
accepted after a second round of reviewing will be included in the
proceeding.

Please share this invitation with colleagues and students that you think
might be interested and consider joining us this January!

We hope to see you in Jönkoping in January!
ISD6 organisers,
Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz