Interactive Technology and Smart Education – Call for Papers

Edited by:
Dr Pedro Isaias
Information Management & Information Systems, Universidade Aberta, Portugal

Dr Maggie McPherson
School of Education, University of Leeds, UK

Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE) is a multi-disciplinary journal examining educational technologies that have emerged from multimedia and social software. The journal promotes innovative technology in the context of pedagogical strategies and learners’ educational needs. By bringing together these specialist fields, the journal bridges an important gap in educational technology research.

Contributions are solicited in any of the two main broad themes – interactive technology and SMART education, either covered individually or combined. “SMART” is used as an acronym that refers to interactive technology offering a more flexible and tailored approach by being “Sensitive, Manageable, Adaptable, Responsive and Timely”.… read more. “Call: Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE)”

CALL FOR PAPERS

OZCHI 2011
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

Monday 28 November to Friday 2 December, 2011

http://www.ozchi.org/

IMPORTANT DATES

Friday 17th June 2011:
Submission of Long Papers/Tutorial proposals/Workshop proposals

Friday Sept 2, 2011:
Submission of Short papers/Demos/Doctoral consortium applications

OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Computer-Human Interaction. It attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. The conference also welcomes perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, planning, social science and creative industries among other disciplines.

OZCHI is the annual conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia (HFESA).

Conference Theme

The conference theme, “Design, Culture and Interaction”, reflects both the global nature of HCI and the diversity of cultures within which people incorporate interactive use of computers in their daily lives and HCI practitioners and researchers conduct their research and build their applications.… read more. “Call: OZCHI 2011 (Australia Computer-Human Interaction conference)”

American Telemedicine Association

ATA Fall Forum 2011
Call for Presentations
Open through July 1

Click here for more information

The ATA Fall Forum 2011 will be a different type of meeting, with short presentations focused on innovative ideas that are revolutionizing healthcare. We are looking for talks, demonstrations or other inventive presentation formats on a wide range of telemedicine subject areas. Topics might include: a unique approach to delivering telehealth services, a new and better device, a successful way of introducing telemedicine to providers or consumers, a novel way to organize and fund a program, a fresh look at overcoming a barrier. Don’t be afraid to push, stretch or even rip-open the envelope!

The Forum will contain two general types of presentations. Interested parties are invited to submit an abstract for either presentation type.

• MACROS: 20 minute presentations, exploring the big ideas and trends that will shape telemedicine and healthcare in the next 3-5 years.

Call for Papers:

The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture
Computers and the History of Art (CHArt)
7th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011
London, venue to be confirmed

Submission deadline: July 1, 2011

Utopian hopes for the ubiquity of digital and networked technologies leading to a more transparent and democratic society are being met by expressions of concern about their implications for art. Nicholas Bourriaud has observed that such technologies can bring about a “collective desire to create new areas of conviviality and introduce new types of transaction with regard to the cultural object”. However, others perceive an imminent threat, characterised by such terms as a digital ‘deluge’ or ‘oblivion’. CHArt is interested to examine critically both positive views and apocalyptic concerns about the implications of the widespread merger of telecommunications and computer technology in society for art, its history and practice.… read more. “Call: CHArt 2011 – The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture”

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Submission deadline: July 25, 2011)

AmGam’11: First International Workshop on Ambient Gaming
November 16, 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hosted by the AmI-11 conference

http://www.playfitproject.nl/ambientgamingworkshop

Submission deadline: July 25, 2011

Description

‘Ambient games’ are innovative game designs incorporating ambient intelligence characteristics, such as context-awareness, personalization, adaptation and anticipation. They may lead to new player experiences, for instance by allowing players to (inter)act freely, without being allocated by a computer screen or device, by using information coming from sensors or actuators. Ambient games support casual play, allowing play and games to be seamlessly integrated with daily activities. Ambient gaming implies taking the everyday stuff of life and turning it into a game, and yet that gaming is not limited to a single device at a single time, but is intertwined with everyday life.

In this First International Workshop on Ambient Gaming (AmGam’11) we intend to discuss various issues regarding this new and emerging field of research from different perspectives (game design, games research and technology) and uncover the challenges and opportunities of ambient technology for play and games in various contexts.… read more. “Call: AmGam ’11: First International Workshop on Ambient Gaming”