CALL FOR PAPERS

THE WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING  (WICED 2012)

May 28th and 29th, 2012
Marriott City Center, Raleigh, NC
Part of The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 2012
Workshop URL: http://dgrc.ncsu.edu/activities/conf/wiced2012

Overview

The expressive use of virtual cameras, mise-en-scene, lighting and texturing within 3D synthetic environments shows great promise to extend the communicative power of film and video into the artificial environments of 3D games and virtual worlds.

Cinematics produced in virtual 3D environments play an important role expanding beyond entertainment to other applications, including training, education, health-care communication, simulation, visualization and others. Tools for automatic generation of cinematics and cinematic effects within these applications can provide an advantage in tailoring the spatial, temporal, communicative aspects of the experience.

This workshop will bring an interdisciplinary group of researchers and industrial experts from several fields spanning 3D graphics, artificial intelligence, visualization, interactive narrative, cognitive and perceptual psychology, computational linguistics, computational aesthetics, visual effects and others who are working on the many related aspects of automatic generation or cinematics.… read more. “Call: Workshop On Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2012)”

2nd International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering (GAS 2012):
Realizing User Engagement with Game Engineering Techniques
June 9, 2012
Zurich, Switzerland
http://2012.gasworkshop.org

co-located with ICSE 2012 (http://icse2012.org)

Submission deadline: February 17, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

THEME

This year’s GAS theme has two complementary elements. The first is to identify and investigate the applicability of game engineering techniques to make a wide variety of traditional (i.e., non-game) activities and applications more engaging for their users. What does it mean to make software more engaging? Here, engaging means to attract and retain a user’s attention and interests in order to become involved with and understand something. The game community has been very successful in creating engaging activities and game applications with attractive interfaces, intriguing characters and rich storyline development. Their success is visible in creating popular, massively multiplayer online (MMO) games such as Ultima and World of Warcraft.… read more. “Call: Games and Software Engineering (GAS 2012): Realizing User Engagement with Game Engineering Techniques”

SimTecT 2012 Call for Papers

Simulation – Integrated Solutions

18-21 June 2012
Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia

As organisations strive for more effective and agile outputs, their simulation activities need to be tightly integrated with their business models and processes.

Are the training simulator capabilities and scenarios tailored as platforms and practices change or incidents occur? How quickly can a specific mission be rehearsed? Does an evaluation or research program lead to change? Does the system react to new workforce characteristics? Does the blended learning system deliver the right training to users on the move, when they need it? Continuous learning or occasional? Can people train while they work? Is the learning system centralised or distributed? Are decision support simulations part of the standard business planning system? Are models of new infrastructure or processes used for whole-of-life analysis? Is the simulation system architecture integrated with the organisation’s ITC infrastructure?… read more. “Call: SimTecT 2012”

Meaningful Play 2012

October 18-20, 2012
Michigan State University

http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/

Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior.

Meaningful Play 2012 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.

The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes.

Previous Meaningful Plays

View details on Meaningful Play 2008 and Meaningful Play 2010.

Call for Submissions

Submissions are sought from both researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. Graduate students are also encouraged to submit either jointly with an academic/member of industry or alone.… read more. “Call: Meaningful Play 2012”

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘The 21st Century Body’

Symposium
18th May 2012, London

Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases. Consider genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants and prosthetics, nanomedicine and care of the ageing and you will see how the way in which we perceive ourselves and those around us is slowly being recast.  As our knowledge and its application continues to grow and expand, the range, scope and magnitude of what we are able to achieve seems to be limitless.

This interdisciplinary symposium is convened in order to build capacity as well as consolidate existing scholarship on perspectives on the human body and identity in the face of new advances in emerging technologies.… read more. “Call: The 21st Century Body (London symposium)”