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 Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Jonathan Dovey on behalf of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol. The event will be held at the Watershed Media Centre in central Bristol on Friday, 25th of March 2011.… read more. “Call: iDocs – Symposium on Interactive Documentary”

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 to attendees at registration.

DEADLINES

November 19, 2010, 11:00 p.m. PDT: Submissions due via email
December 17, 2010: Notification of acceptance
January 7, 2011: Final versions due

TOPICS

Appropriate topic areas for CSCW include all contexts in which technology is used to mediate human activities such as communication, coordination, cooperation, competition, entertainment, education, medicine, art, music, and play.… read more. “Call: 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011)”

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 and many other fields is growing quickly. For businesses, serious games create both huge business opportunities and huge challenges, and they may generate both large investments and large returns. In areas ranging from design to programming, from psychology to mathematics, and from management to politics, serious games present great research and development opportunities.… read more. “Call: Chapters for book on serious games”

International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence
(ISAmI 2011)
Link: http://isami.usal.es/

When:  Apr 6, 2011 – Apr 8, 2011
Where:  Salamanca, Spain
Submission Deadline:  Nov 15, 2010

Call For Papers

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a recent paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone’s life more comfortable. Another main concern of AmI originates from the human computer interaction domain and focuses on offering ways to interact with systems in a more natural way by means user friendly interfaces. This field is evolving quickly as can be witnessed by the emerging natural language and gesture based types of interaction. The inclusion of computational power and communication technologies in everyday objects is growing and their embedding into our environments should be as invisible as possible. In order for AmI to be successful, human interaction with computing power and embedded systems in the surroundings should be smooth and happen without people actually noticing it.… read more. “Call: International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2011)”

The Board of Directors of the International Society for Presence Research is pleased to announce that ISPR 2011, the 13th International Workshop on Presence, will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland October 26-28 next year. The conference will be held at the Craighouse Campus of Edinburgh Napier University (see a visual tour here).

Much more information about the conference will be posted on the ISPR web site and in ISPR Presence News soon, but please reserve the date!… read more. “Call: The next ISPR Presence conference”