Call for Workshop Position Papers SAME 2011 – 4th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (NAMU Series) 29th June-2nd July 2011 in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Brisbane, Australia http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/60 http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ Creating the business value-creation, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media Call for Papers The medium is the message! And the message was transmitted via a single distinguishable media such as television, the Web, the radio, or books. In the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computation, where the information goes through a distributed interlinked network of devices, the question “what is content…

Call for Papers: Transactions of Edutainment Special Issue –  “Interactive Digital Storytelling” Editors: Ido Iurgel, Wolfgang Mueller, Paolo Petta Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) has enjoyed much interest within both academic research and industry, especially in the gaming sector. IDS aims at an intensified experience and increased meaningfulness of story in simulated computer-generated story worlds and interactive applications, for example through dynamic adaptation of the story flow and of virtual actors’ behaviors to user inputs and the unfolding of the events. IDS draws on a number of fields, such as storytelling, theory of gaming and game technologies, virtual reality, mobile computing,…

Foundations of Digital Games 2011 28th June – 1st July 2011 http://www.fdg2011.org/ Call for Paper available here: http://www.fdg2011.org/calls.html and in PDF version: http://www.fdg2011.org/cfp-fdg2011.pdf FDG 2011, the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org/), is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education involving games, game technologies, gameplay and game design. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications, educational uses, and modes of play.…

Call for Papers VRIC11 Workshop on “Haptics for Telepresence, Teleoperation and Collaborative Environments” IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics 13th Virtual Reality International Conference, April 6-8, 2011, Laval, France http://hapticsig.limsi.fr/content/workshop Background: While haptic sense provides the most natural way to interact and physically feel the environment, it also has an important role in communication and collaboration between users through co-located and remote configurations. This special function of haptics supports low level exchanges during closely coupled tasks and enables improved interpersonal awareness, social presence and affective communication through the last Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work systems (CSCW).…

Call for Papers Pervasive Intelligibility: Workshop on Intelligibility and Control in Pervasive Computing http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/pervasive-intelligibility/ San Francisco, CA, USA in conjunction with Pervasive 2011 Important Dates Submission Deadline: February 4, 2011 Notification to Authors: March 11, 2011 Camera-Ready Papers: March 21, 2011 Workshop: June 12, 2011 Workshop Theme Due to the proactive and complex dynamics of pervasive computing applications, it is important that systems are intelligible (also called scrutable) to allow end-users to understand “what the systems know, how they know it, and what they are doing”. Furthermore, these systems should put end-users at the center of control by empowering them…