Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
3D DNA OF HUMAN MOTION (In the Intersection between Technologies, Humanities and Health)

23-24 April 2026
Sofia, Bulgaria

As today’s information and communication technologies support and interfere with almost all spheres of life, we become increasingly interested in how science and research might be influenced, enhanced and even further inspired. Scientific projects become more and more multi- and interdisciplinary, thus widening the scope of approaches and points of view on certain topics, while rethinking or offering new scientific paradigms.

Following these ideas, we are exploring topics in the intersection of IT, the humanities, and healthcare, believing that it is one of the most rapidly evolving areas of human knowledge, bringing together technical innovation, clinical practice, and human-centred understanding – including legacies such as cultural heritage and traditions.

We are pleased to invite scholars and researchers from all fields of Information Technologies, Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine and Healthcare, to present and discuss their approaches, analyses, interpretations, and findings, reflecting topics in the following areas:

- Motion capturing – innovations, analyses, solutions, implementations;
- Human-machine interaction, human-robot interaction, sensors and augmented reality, cyber-physical systems;
- Internet of Things (IoT);
- Big data – data analysis, processing/management, data mining; knowledge discovery;
- Movement in healthcare prevention – dance and sports practices, benefits and challenges;
- IT for medicine and healthcare;
- IT for cultural heritage and cultural practices – digitization, safeguarding, data analyses, archives;
- 3D digitization and visualization in healthcare and cultural heritage preservation;
- AI and ethics in science;
- AI for medicine;
- AI for cultural heritage and humanities.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format (in-person and online).
Conference language: English.

Interested authors are invited to send their proposals:
- a title and abstract (200–250 words);
- five keywords;
- the author’s full name, email, institutional and disciplinary affiliation;
- a short biography (including research interests, relevant academic experience, and up to two representative publications).

We expect submissions until 1 March 2026 at email: 3d.ich.dance@gmail.com

Important dates:

1 March 2026 – submission deadline;
9 March 2026 – participation approval;
9 April 2026 – preliminary programme;
16 April 2026 – final programme and Book of abstracts.

No participation fee is required.
Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals!

The conference will be held within the project BG-RRP-2.011-0008-C01 “3D Cultural Heritage Data Through Three-Dimensional, Automated, Science-Based Digitization”, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, through the Recovery and Resilience Facility to implement an investment under C2.I2 “Enhancing the innovation capacity of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in the field of green and digital technologies” of the Recovery and Resilience Plan.