Call for Papers International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.igi-global.com/ijgbl Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Patrick Felicia Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) Mission of IJGBL The mission of the International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL) is to promote knowledge pertinent to the design of Game-Based Learning environments, and to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the field of Game-Based Learning. The main goals of IJGBL are to identify, explain, and improve the interaction between learning outcomes and motivation in video games, and to promote best practices for…

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Robots and Human Interactive Communication IEEE RO-MAN 12th-15th September, 2010 Viareggio, Italy http://www.ro-man2010.org The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication will be held in Viareggio, Italy at “Principe di Piemonte” Congress Center. The theme of the conference is Thinking and acting together: Cognitive and cooperative interaction between human and robots PAPERS Prospective authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format. Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures. A maximum of 2 additional pages is permitted at extra charge. Each paper can be accompanied…

CALL FOR PAPERS – iHCI 2010, “Crossing Boundaries”, September 2-3 2010, Dublin City University http://www.clarity-centre.org/iHCI2010/index.html  iHCI 2010, the Fourth Irish Human-Computer Interaction Conference will take place at Dublin City University on September 2-3 2010. iHCI 2010 will follow on from the great success of the past three conference events, 2009 at Trinity College Dublin, 2008 at the University College Cork and 2007 in the University of Limerick. iHCI 2010 will be hosted by Dublin City University and supported by CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. iHCI 2010 Theme To reflect both the growth of the Irish HCI community, and the…

Call for Papers – EICS 2010 Late Breaking Results ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 14, 2010 SUBMISSION LENGTH: 6 Pages in SIGCHI format REVIEW NOTIFICATION: April 4, 2010 FINAL SUBMISSIONS DUE: April 10, 2010 CONFERENCE LOCATION: Berlin, Germany – June 21-23, 2010 Website: http://eics-conference.org/2010/ EICS is the international ACM conference devoted to the engineering of usable and effective interactive computing systems. Systems of interest will include traditional workstation-based interactive systems, new and emerging modalities (e.g., gesture), entertaining applications (e.g., mobile and ubiquitous games) and development methods (e.g., extreme programming). EICS focuses on tools, methods…

Call for Participation, and Call for Demos Virtual Heritage 2010 22-23 March Visualization Suite. Technium CAST, Bangor, UK http://heritage.cs.bangor.ac.uk Virtual Heritage 2010 is jointly organised by “Science & Heritage Cluster” and VRLink, at Bangor University. The workshop will bring together Industry, Charities and Institutions to discuss Virtual Reality techniques and ideas for Science and Heritage applications. The aim of this workshop is to bring together a rich mixture of skills and interests: scientists with technical solutions and end-users with challenges. The workshop will include talks, presentations, hands-on demonstrations and panel-discussions, and time to meet and chat with fellow attendees.…