Call for Pervasive 2011 Conference Papers Pervasive 2011, the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, will be held June 12-15, 2011 in San Francisco, California. The paper submission deadline is Monday October 11, 2010 at midnight US/Pacific time. Pervasive is a premier international conference for cutting edge research on the architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive computing technologies. The conference places strong emphasis on both the technological innovation aspects of the field of pervasive computing as well as the ways in which these emerging technologies affect and influence everyday life.…

“Providence is always on the side of the last reserve” Napoleon Bonaparte WHAT ARE THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIMENTS? The Providence Experiments are a unique series of workshops and events that fuse experimentation, visualisation, ritual, psychological intervention and immersive game. Test subjects will be thrust into bizarre events that offer the willing participant the opportunity to undergo a challenging yet positive artistic transfor…mation. Over one lunar calendar month, you will receive spontaneous transmissions, puzzles, choices and oddities that may pervade any and every part of your life. Prepare your mind for anything. This experience will be designed specifically for YOU. Perception of…

Games and HCI: A long romance Call for papers and industry submissions What:  A Workshop as part of OZCHI 2010, Brisbane, Australia The workshop is about the design of the game interface, its philosophies, its foibles, its moments of achievement and delight with a view to the next generation of game design. We are interested in taking this “long engagement” to its logical next step, where the two partners in the relationship (game interface design and HCI) act as equal participants in the design and evolution of new and innovative experiences. Where:  OZCHI 2010 Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point…

CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS’11) Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, Boston, MA, USA April 4-9, 2011 http://www.scs.org/springsim/2011?q=node/205 Manuscript Submission: October 31, 2010. Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). As part of the 2011 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim’11; http://www.scs.org/springsim/2011) the 2011 Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium is a premier platform to explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation conferences. Therefore the ADS symposium fills a gap in the agent community as well as the simulation…

‘Brave New Worlds – the Ethics of Education in Popular Digital Technologies’ The Higher Education Academy has funded the Learning Lab to support a Special Interest Group (SIG) that explores the ‘informal’ ethics of educational interventions in popular digital technologies and as part of its activity, a one-day event has been planned to discuss and explore this area.  A more detailed overview is below. Event Details This event be hosted by Kathryn Trinder at Glasgow Caledonian University on Wednesday 27 October 2010 between 10am – 3pm.  Places are available at £40 per person which is inclusive of refreshments and lunch. …

Litquake San Francisco’s Literary Festival Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind http://litquake.org/events/virtual-reality October 5, 2010 6:30 pm Cost: $12; free to Mechanics Institute members Venue: Mechanics Institute Library Address: 57 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA What do you really know about the characters you meet on the page? Are you sure it’s healthy to visit imaginary worlds—even if they come from someone else’s imagination? And how well do authors know the characters they invent? These questions and yours will be addressed by our panel: a neurologist-novelist and expert on how we know what we know,…