The 2010 Workshop on Designing Ambient Interactions – Pervasive Ergonomic Interfaces for Ageing Well (DAI 2010) to be held at the AMI 2010 conference Malaga, Spain, 10 November 2010 Extended Submission Deadline: Sunday 17 October 2010 BACKGROUND The AmI ’10 (one-day) workshop titled “Designing Ambient Interactions – Pervasive Ergonomic Interfaces for Ageing Well”, will address the large number of emerging ergonomic and ambient interfaces that facilitate elderly inclusion and accessibility in the digital society. A large number of such interfaces and related interaction techniques (e.g. computing surfaces, voice/speech interfaces, haptics, multi-modal interfaces, context-aware interfaces, location-based interaction mechanisms) have been recently…

GAMEON ASIA’2011, The 3rd annual Asian Simulation and AI in Games Conference Digipen Institute of Technology, Singapore, March 1-3, 2011 The aim of the 3rd annual Asian GAME-ON Conference (GAME-ON ASIA’2011) on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people from ASIA and the rest of the world, in order to exchange ideas on feasible techniques and research findings, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos…

iDocs – Symposium on Interactive Documentary Call for Papers and Presentations In an era of pervasive computing, social media and a networked ‘information society’, digital documentary is embracing new forms. Web-docs, docu-games, photo-reportages, trans-media projects and locative narratives are developing new languages of factual communication that challenge the established linear narrative of documentary. i-Docs is the first lab/symposium to be dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. The symposium will be a day-long event to showcase new projects and to discuss the artistic, economic and political implications of new forms of factual representation. i-Docs is convened by Judith…

Call for Participation • Interactive Papers The 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011) March 19-23,2011 • Hangzhou, China http://cscw2011.org/ Interactive Papers will be presented in a special Poster Session where researchers will interact directly with conference attendees. The posters will then remain up throughout the remainder of the conference. The major difference from the previous CSCW conferences is that the Interactive Papers for CSCW 2011 will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Note that authors still retain copyright of the paper. Accepted Interactive Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings that will be circulated…

Hello all, I’m helping with a new book on Serious games, and we are seeking chapter proposals. Proposals will be accepted until October 25, 2010, and should explain in 1-2 pages the mission of the proposed chapter. If you’re interested, please send proposals in Word format to serious.games.book@gmail.com. Feel free to forward this message to peers that might be interested. Thanks, Matt Matthew Sharritt, Ph.D. President, Situated Research, LLC Naperville, Illinois 630.522.0855 http://www.situatedresearch.com/ Introduction: Serious games are being developed at an exponential rate, and the impact of their many applications in management, education, defense, scientific research, health care, emergency planning…