Academic MindTrek 2010: Ambient and Ubiquituous Media, Digital Games, Open Source, Media Business and Management

Call for Long Papers, Short Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Tutorials and Workshops

6th – 8th October, 2010
Tampere, Finland

Upcoming deadline: 23rd Apr: Deadline for long papers, workshops and tutorial proposals (6-8 pages)

http://www.mindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic

In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI publications will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters or in journals.

We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from 6th – 8th October 2010, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. Among the media to be discussed, will be business, social, technical and content-related topics.… read more. “Call: Academic MindTrek 2010 – Ambient and Ubiquituous Media, Digital Games, Open Source, Media Business and Management”

The deadline for HAID 2010 is three weeks away!

Fifth International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID)

September 16-17 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Deadline for full paper submissions – 30th April 2010

This year HAID will feature Søren Bech from Bang and Olufsen, Vincent Hayward from UPMC, France and Davide Rocchesso from IUAV, Italy as keynote speakers.

Technologies to enable multimodal interaction are now sufficiently mature that research is turning away from pure hardware development and looking towards interaction and design issues to improve usability and the user experience.

Robust solutions exist to display audio and haptic feedback in many forms – for instance as speech and non speech sounds and through tactile and force feedback sensations. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that the novel interactions supported by these modalities can confer benefits for all users. However, many questions remain concerning the appropriate use of haptics and audio in interaction design: how can we design effective haptic, audio and multimodal interfaces?… read more. “Call: Fifth International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID)”

Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture

Dedicated to Teaching and Learning  in Today’s Global Classroom

THE 2010 CONGRESS

Join teachers, scholars and professionals from around the world to discuss this year’s theme: Uniting Cultures Through Education: Case Studies and Classroom Curriculum.

Individual and session proposals are currently being reviewed for the IX Annual Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture in Rome, Italy, 1-3 December 2010.… read more. “Call: Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Playability and player experience of casual games

K.U.Leuven, 15 September 2010

Workshop in conjunction with the Fun and Games Conference 2010

This workshop focuses on the development and use of all kinds of playability and player experience measures, like quantitative metrics and data harvesting, to evaluate digital games. Playtesting metrics are very much in demand and yet not much often used within the casual gaming industry, although already standard practice in the larger game development studios. Therefore all game genres are addressed, but casual games are considered the preferred focus. Introducing a system for player experience evaluation earlier in the game design cycle will influence the final design as well while still under development. The focus of this workshop consists therefore in defining which methods are best to apply in the casual game domain, and in analyzing their efficacy and applicability.… read more. “Call: Playability and player experience of casual games”

Expanded Play Sessions
http://www.expandedplay.com/about.html

Zaragoza, Spain. 13-15 April 2010

Expanded Play is a practice based lab for creative entrepreneurs, artists, designers, engineers and academics focusing on Play as Experience at the intersection of creativity, technology, research, social change and development. Based in London, UK, and Zaragoza, Spain, Expanded Play is actively supported by the Milla Digital project, an initiative of the Zaragoza City Council.… read more. “Call: Expanded Play Sessions”