IE’11 :: CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
25-28 July 2011, Nottingham, UK

http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie11

The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’11) will be held at Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. This conference is the seventh edition in a series of highly successful conferences that were organized in Colchester (UK), Athens (Greece), Ulm (Germany), Seattle (USA), Barcelona (Spain) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in the past six years. The conference provides a collaborative forum for scientists, researchers and engineers from both industry and academia to present theoretical and practical results of Intelligent Environments research and their application in various domains and disciplines. This conference program will include workshops, invited lectures and special sessions of full and posters. … read more. “Call: 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’11)”

IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health
Braga, Portugal – November 9-11, 2011

First call for papers

Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2011

http://www.ipca.pt/segah2011

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the the 1^st IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Aplications for Health, SeGaH 2011, to be held in Braga, Portugal, from November 9-11, 2011.

SeGaH 2011 is promoted by the Polytechnic Institute of Cávadoe Ave (Barcelos, Portugal) and sponsored by IEEE.

The overall objectives of the conference are the discussion and sharing of knowledge, experiences and scientific and technical results, related to state-of-the-art solutions, technologies and applications of serious games in health and healthcare, as well as the demonstration of advanced products and technologies.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Simulation;
• Virtual environments;
• Patient education;
• Public health education;
• Game-based learning;
• Exercising and active living;
• Assistive technologies;
• Accessibility;
• Rehabilitation;
• Diagnosis;
• Clinical training;
• Healthcare professionals training;
• Surgery;
• Algorithms;
• Artificial intelligence;
• Human-computer interface;
• Game design and development.

Call for papers for Special Issue of Interacting with Computers on

Presence and Interaction

Editors: John Waterworth(1), Eva Lindh Waterworth(1), Fabrizia Mantovani(2) & Giuseppe Riva(3)

1 Department of Informatics, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
2 CESCOM, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
3 ICE-NET Lab., Universit  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

Call Description

The user experience of information technology is profoundly affected by the extent to which we experience ourselves to be really present in the mediated world that the technology makes available to us. This feeling of presence, which can be operationally defined as the perceptual illusion of non-mediation, is a crucial aspect of many recent and developing interactive technologies.

In the same way that the natural, unmediated sense of presence is grounded in perception, and natural perception is coupled with action and the body, so the experience of presence in a technologically-mediated environment is to some extent a function of the possibilities for interaction.… read more. “Call: Special issue of Interacting with Computers on Presence and Interaction”

2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Visualisation
12-14 September 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Call For papers
To be held in conjunction with KES2011: 15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems

Co-Chairs:
Dr. Minhua Ma, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
Bob Coyne, Columbia University, USA

Aims and Scope
Natural language understanding usually involves transforming language from one representation into another, for example, from one language into another language in machine translation, or from language to action in natural language interfaces where natural language commands are performed by a machine, or from language to visual representations in natural language visualisation. A language visualisation system understands natural language by transforming it from a linguistic form into a visual medium, such as a 3D scene or animation. The vital issues of natural language visualisation include representation of common sense knowledge, disambiguation, lexicons and ontology, spatial reasoning, animation generation, just to name a few.… read more. “Call: 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Visualisation”

THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ATHENS 2011
April 6th-9th, 2011

Call for Papers

We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the phenomenon of computer games to submit papers to the international conference “The Philosophy of Computer Games 2011”, to be held in Athens, Greece, on April 6th-9th 2011.

Accepted papers will have a clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games. They will also attempt to use specific examples rather than merely invoke “computer games” in general terms. The over-arching theme of the conference is Player Identity. Papers are encouraged to explore one of the following topics and invited speakers will focus on this area. On the other hand, this is not the sole domain the conference will cover and submissions dealing with other relevant aspects of game philosophy are also welcome.… read more. “Call: The Philosophy of Computer Games 2011”