CALL FOR PAPERS

11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012)

Valencia, Spain
June 4–8, 2012
http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es

ABOUT AAMAS

AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

AAMAS 2012 is the eleventh conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences, and will be held at the Universitat Politècnica de València in Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012.

See http://www.ifaamas.org for more information on the AAMAS conference series.… read more. “Call: 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012)”

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Ethics and Information Technology on “Armed Military Robots”

Ethics and Information Technology is calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue on the ethics of armed military robots, to be edited by Noel Sharkey, Juergen Altmann, Peter Asaro and Robert Sparrow. The need for this Special Issue became apparent at the Berlin meeting of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control in September, 2010. This meeting expressed deep concerns about the proliferation and development of armed military robots and identified a pressing need for more international discussion of the ethics of these systems: www.icrac.co.uk

Recent armed conflicts have seen robots playing a number of important military roles, yet informed ethical discussion has, for the most part, lagged well behind. We therefore invite contributors from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, law, engineering, robotics, computer science, artificial intelligence, peace studies, and policy studies, to consider the ethical issues raised by the development and deployment of remote piloted, semi-autonomous, and autonomous robots (UXVs) for military roles.… read more. “Call: Special issue of Ethics and Information Technology on “Armed Military Robots””

Research on the blurring of reality and fiction in ARGs: Short online survey

Hello fellow ARG players and researchers,

My name is Mela Kocher and I am a Swiss games researcher. For my post-doc research project I am focusing on the blurring of the line between reality and fiction in alternate reality games (ARGs). The research project is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch/).

I am curious how the TINAG aesthetics are implemented in the game design and how players interpret the games in relation to the topic of reality and fiction. I’ve been playing ARGs myself and had very exciting experiences and discussions. Now I’d like to widen the scope and ask you as a member of the ARG community about how you deal with the reality-fiction-questions. I am conducting a web survey on the blurring of the lines between reality and fiction.… read more. “Call: Short online survey on the blurring of reality and fiction in ARGs”

ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2011
Workshop on Human-Centered VR, AR and Gaming (VRCAI-VRAR 2011)
Dec.11-12, 2011, Hong Kong, China
http://liama.ia.ac.cn/vrcai2011/vrar.html
http://www.vrcai2011.org

Paper  submissions (up to 8 pages): 10 September 2011
Notification of paper acceptance: 19 September 2011
Camera-ready papers due: 30 September 2011

While the advances of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Gaming technologies are breathtaking taking into account the ever increasing power of mobile computing devices, the research community is challenged to investigate the factors that make computer graphics technologies effective, productive but also fun and engaging. Realizing the goals of VR, AR and Gaming and harnessing them to successful applications could be accomplished by human-centered design, employing robust evaluation metrics and human-centered experimentation. The quality of interfaces and platforms implemented could be designed employing information about the human perceptual system and assessed from a human factors engineering point of view.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Human-Centered VR, AR and Gaming (VRCAI-VRAR 2011)”

Call for Papers

6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games:
The Nature of Player Experience

We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Madrid, Spain, on January 29th-31st 2012. Accepted papers will have a clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games. They will refer to specific examples from computer games rather than merely invoke them in general terms.

The over-arching theme of the conference is The Nature of Player Experience. Over the past decade, the topic of player experience has attracted attention from a multitude of disciplines and practices focusing on computer games. For this conference, we are soliciting proposals that examine the philosophical underpinnings of player experience from a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to those mentioned below.… read more. “Call: International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Nature of Player Experience”