Advances in Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy in Health Care
Invited Session of KES International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (InMed-14)

July 09-11, 2014
San Sebastian, Spain

http://inmed14.innovationkt.org/

ABOUT

Papers are invited on the latest technologies offering therapy, rehabilitation, and more general well-being care. Papers should address theoretical, artistic, professional, and practical aspects of progress in this area as well as new directions in research. Position papers and critical papers are welcomed.

TOPICS

The subject areas will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Descriptions of new therapeutic play and play therapy systems involving alternative realities (virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality).
• Serious games, virtual reality, and augmented reality in Healthcare.
• Virtual therapist concepts, e.g. Tele-healthcare, TeleAbilitation, remote doctor, etc.
• Embodied conversational agents in health care.
• Novel well-being applications (for increasing IQ, losing weight, diabetes management, brain injury rehabilitation, reducing stress, and for exercising and staying fit).

Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments
at IEEE Virtual Reality 2014

http://media.aau.dk/~sts/sive.html

Submission deadline: February 15th, 2014.
Notification of acceptance: February 25th, 2014.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the online submission system Easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sive14

Sonic interaction design is defined as the study and exploitation of sound as one of the principal channels conveying information, meaning, and aesthetic/emotional qualities in interactive contexts. This field lies at the intersection of interaction design and sound and music computing.

In the virtual reality community, the focus on research in topics related to auditory feedback has been rather limited when compared, for example, to the focus placed on visual feedback or even on haptic feedback. However, in communities such as the film community or the product sound design community it is well known that sound is a powerful way to communicate meaning and emotion to a scene or a product.… read more. “Call: Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2014”

Call for papers

Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media Conference

29-31 May 2014

Department of Cinematography and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Television,
“Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Deadline: February 15, 2014

The conference is an inter-disciplinary forum for academics and practitioners working in the fields or at the intersection of cinema, performing arts, visual arts and media. The conference aims to explore the role of the body in articulating and reflecting the changes in contemporary arts and media practices as well as the theoretical discourses they generate.

In this sense, the body is seen as a discursive field for thinking about the various avatars of the image and visualization process in the contexts of the recent cinematic productions and new media facilities, about the dynamics that confronts the concept of avant-garde and its constant undermining by postmodernism, about the actual dimensions of the dispute between classical theatricality and contemporary performativity, about the intricate relations between authorial discourse and expanded spectatorship, about interactivity as a catalyst for multimediality and remediation, and about the tensions between public space and intimacy when engaging with (social) media environments.… read more. “Call: Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media Conference”

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA)
at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting
December 27-30, 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA

The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) invites papers to be presented at its divisional meeting held in conjunction with the Eastern divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Papers may address any topic that involves the connection between philosophy and the visual arts: film, photography, video, or other aesthetic media. Presentations should be 20-25 minutes (10-12 pages in length; 2500-3000 words). Presenters must be currently paid members of the SPSCVA. (You do not need to be a member of the SPSCVA to submit a paper for consideration.) Please submit full papers only (not abstracts) through e-mail by May 10th to the Eastern Division coordinator Christopher Grau (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy & Religion, Clemson University) at grau@clemson.edu… read more. “Call: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) at APA 2014”

Call for Papers: IACAP 2014

The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy

Anatolia College/ACT
Thessaloniki, Greece
July 2-4, 2014

http://www.pt-ai.org/iacap/2014/

This year’s meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Computing technologies both raise philosophical questions and elucidate traditional philosophical problems. IACAP meetings emphasise this two-way relationship, providing an opportunity for researchers in multiple fields to share new work in an interdisciplinary setting.

We invite both abstract submissions and symposium proposals in areas at the intersection of computing and philosophy. This year’s meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics central to IACAP membership interests. Symposia will focus on more specific topics, organised autonomously by members or member groups. One symposium will be dedicated to the work of young researchers. Some abstracts will be accepted for presentation as posters.… read more. “Call: International Association for Computing and Philosophy conference (IACAP 2014)”