Call for Participation
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conference
September 30th – October 1st, 2013 in Greenville, North Carolina

The ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC) invites you to submit a project report, research paper, or poster session on the design of communication for interactive systems in industry, education, recreation, scientific research, and social exchange.

SIGDOC conferences address issues of interest to people in interaction design, content strategy, information architecture, user experience, and technical communication.

Ideas for topics

The theme of the SIGDOC 2013 conference is “simplifying complexity,” but your submission is not limited to the theme. Here are some suggestions for topics:… read more. “Call: ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conference”

International Conference Series in Games and Literary Theory

Inaugural Conference
University of Malta
Institute of Digital Games and the Department of English
31st October-1st November 2013

This inaugural event in the Digital Games and Literary Theory Conference Series follows on from a successful International Workshop held at the University of Malta last year. That event established the scope, appeal and timeliness of interdisciplinary research involving Game Studies and Literary Theory. While there are ample conference opportunities for discussion of the impact of Game Studies on other fields in the Humanities and on the amenability, in turn, of Game Studies to critique by those fields, events where the affinities with Literary Theory take centre stage are, by comparison, quite rare. This is surprising.

There are, in fact, a number of reasons why a forum for formalised exchanges across the two fields is now overdue, and why the prospect of it should be exciting and enriching for both areas.… read more. “Call: International Conference Series in Games and Literary Theory”

CALL FOR PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND POSTERS

2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON (RE)CREATING LIVELY CITIES THROUGH AMBIENT TECHNOLOGIES: ARTS, CULTURE AND GASTRONOMIC EXPERIENCES (CLCAT)

http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameamain/relci2013

IN CONJUCTION WITH INTERACT 2013, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – 6th-9th September 2013

Deadline for 2-5 pages position papers: 12th May 2013 (strict deadline)

Artur Lugmayr (Tampere Univ. of Technology), Tampere, Finland, lartur@acm.org
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Urban Informatics Research Lab, QUT, Brisbane Australia, h.choi@qut.edu.au
Kirralie Houghton, Urban Informatics Research Lab, QUT, Brisbane Australia, kirralie.houghton@qut.edu.au

Digital and interactive technologies are becoming increasingly embedded in everyday lives of people around the world. Application of technologies such as real-time, context-aware, and interactive technologies; augmented and immersive realities;, social media; and location-based services has been particularly evident in urban environments where technological and sociocultural infrastructures enable easier deployment and adoption as compared to non-urban areas. There has been growing consumer demand for new forms of experiences and services enabled through these emerging technologies.… read more. “Call: Workshop on (Re)Creating Lively Citites Through Ambient Technologies: Arts, Culture and Gastronomic Experiences (CLCAT)”

ACM Creativity and Cognition 2013
17th-20th June, 2013, Sydney, Australia.
University of Technology, Sydney

http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com

Registration OPEN

Registration for the conference is now open at
http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com/?page_id=541

Early Registration is available until May 8 2013.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops Chair: David A. Shamma (Yahoo!)

Workshops are excellent ways of interacting with a small group of researchers and practitioners dealing with a particular topic. Creativity and Cognition is very excited to have 5 workshops proposed to run in conjunction with the conference. These will all run on the 17th of June.… read more. “Call: ACM Creativity and Cogntion 2013 Workshops”

CASA| Computer As Social Actor
http://casa-workshop2013.blogspot.com
August, 28^th Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Satellite event of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2013)

We invite all researchers that focus their research on Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction to participate in this workshop and to share their views on the development of technological components, design methodologies, and the adoption of CASA solutions and services. By discussing different approaches to human-machine and human-human interaction technologies we aim at investigating the social abilities of technologies and we attempt to define the concept of Social Actorship.

The CASA Workshop will focus on three main areas of investigation: theory, practice and market. Particular attention will be devoted to papers reporting on running systems which have been used by final users, in real-life contexts, and with market implications.… read more. “Call: Computer As Social Actor Workshop at IVA 2013”