16th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference

Call for Abstracts

June 19th – 22nd, 2011 in Gatineau, Canada

This year’s theme is: Evidence-Based Clinical Applications of Information Technology

This year the Interactive Media Institute (IMI) and Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) are organizing the 16th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference (CT16), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR). IMI and UQO are proud to announce the first call for abstracts CT16. The abstract submission deadline is January 15th, 2011. In addition to two and a half days of scientific presentations, a full day of new pre-conference workshops will be held, presenting several hands-on tutorials. Once again, there will also be exhibits and an interactive Cyberarium held as part of the conference, where attendees will be able to try the latest simulations and discuss possible collaborations. In addition, several funding agency representatives, policymakers, and industrial partners will be given the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the latest technologies and speak one-on-one with the scientists. The conference will seek input from a wide segment of the scientific community, and is interested in attracting experts in clinical therapy and rehabilitation, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, social sciences, and computer sciences.

Conference website: http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/CT16 Read more on Call: 16th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference…

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions: 29 October 2010
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2011
Avila, Spain, 10 to 12 March 2011
(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)

CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS

The IADIS Mobile Learning 2011 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of mobile learning research. In particular, but not exclusively, we aim to explore the theme of mobile learning under the following topics:

• Pedagogical approaches and theories for mobile lifelong learning. For instance, situated, contextual and authentic mobile lifelong learning
• Social software for mobile learning
• Gaming, simulations and augmented reality for mobile learning
• Mobile learning in formal educational institutions
• Mobile learning in informal setting
• Tools, technologies, and platforms for mobile learning
• User studies of mobile learning
• Research methodologies and evaluation of mobile learning
• Ethical issues regarding mobile learning

Conference special theme: Mobile Lifelong Learning (mL3)

Lifelong learning (L3) has been defined as “All learning activity undertaken throughout life, with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competencies within a personal, civic, social and/or employment-related perspective” (European Commission, 2002 p. 7). L3 qualifies a society as a context in which there are learning possibilities for those who want to learn (Fischer, 2001) and implies a shift from “provider-driven ‘education’ toward individualised learning” UNESCO (1999). Lifelong learning is: often self-directed, interest and needs driven; it occurs predominantly in informal and too-rich environments; and frequently implies a collaborative activity (Fischer & Sugimoto 2006) among learners transiting through learning events in life.

Early research in the design of mobile technologies for lifelong learning (Sharples, 2000) pointed to highly portable, individual, unobtrusive, available anywhere, adaptable to the learner’s development, persistent, useful for everyday needs, and intuitive personal tools. Technological advancements have delivered mobile devices and applications which meet and surpassed early requirements and which have positioned mobile technologies as an essential part of the new ecology for lifelong learning.  Read more on Call: IADIS Mobile Learning 2011…

The world’s first live performance with simultaneous motion capture from three continents will happen this Nov 4^th, hosted at the International Digital Media Arts Association Conference 2010, in Vancouver. Live Performers in Japan, Vancouver, New York City and Florida will dance together in the virtual world – you can watch this historic production at In the Same Space at the Same Time.

Read more on Call: CONNECTING the EDGES: An Inter-Continental LiveVibe…

Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage

A conference organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, İstanbul Technical University and the Department of Anthropology, Yeditepe University in İstanbul, Turkey on May 25-29, 2011.

http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com/

Keynote Speakers:
Ian Hodder (Stanford University)
Richard Handler (University of Virginia)
Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University)
Charles Stewart (University College London)

We are organizing a conference on the interrelated themes of memory, materiality and cultural heritage that will appeal to scholars from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and history. We invite papers that particularly address the uses and management of ancient sites, monuments and objects at the local and global scales from different social spaces and sectors of societies such as houses, ritual-architectural spaces, netscape, museums, touristic scapes, media industry, ethnoscapes and nation-states. Many different processes play a role in the particular contemporary uses of ancient objects and monuments such as the making of public/official or alternative histories and education, nationalism, cultural preservation efforts, place-making, object and profit oriented capitalist material practices, violence, archaeological practices, and the politics of the production and/or erasure of memory about the past, present and future. Despite the efforts of countries to geographically and culturally ‘preserve’ ancient monuments and objects, there has been a process of deterritorialization in the sense that they constantly move across space and time in the form of actual reproduction in different socio-spatial contexts, web-based information and computer simulation. In these new contexts they are reappropriated and attributed new meanings and senses and/or intentions to evoke the ancient potent meanings, becoming objects of new materialities and also containers and/or producers of new immaterialities. They become part and parcel of new historicities.

In addition to particular case studies we are specifically interested in papers that address theoretical and methodological questions. How can we theorize about contemporary uses of ancient monuments and objects? What is the unit of analysis and how is it methodologically constructed? From an analytical perspective, how can we gauge the historical traffic of these objects across space? What are our analytical boundaries? Read more on Call: International Conference on Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage…

Dear Colleague,

The EuroMov center at Montpellier-1 University in the south of France organizes a special conference in December 2011:

SKILLS is the international conference of the SKILLS European Project (IST, Multimodal Interfaces, 2007-2011). It addresses fundamental and translational issues related to the acquisition, storage, maintenance and transfer of human skills using multimodal technologies such as virtual and augmented realities, human-machine interfaces, interaction design, and robotic systems. SKILLS aims at introducing a novel approach to technology-assisted skill acquisition or rehabilitation based on enactive and direct interaction between learner and technology. Perception-action and cognitive accelerators embedded in specific training protocols are used at various stages of learning in several (real) trainee – (virtual) trainer situations.

In addition to keynote lectures, regular papers and posters, a large portion of the conference will be devoted to the presentation of hands-on demos illustrating the enactive approach to skill acquisition and transfer, not limited to but including the three following domains: Sport & Entertainement, Surgery & Rehabilitation, Industry & Manufacturing. Read more on Call: SKILLS European Project (IST, Multimodal Interfaces) conference…