International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) Special Issue on Development, Evaluation and Deployment of Multi-touch Systems Call for papers (http://www.dur.ac.uk/shamus.smith/SI_MT_IJHCS.html) (http://www.dur.ac.uk/shamus.smith/CFP_IJHCS_MT.pdf) Submissions due 30th July 2011 Introduction and topics Multi-touch technologies have a long history-one that even predates the public adoption of graphical user interfaces. While early systems offered glimpses into its potential, they were hampered by the technology of the times: Processors were not fast enough to adequately process multiple inputs; projector-based systems offered low resolution, a bulky setup, and shadowing effects; users often had to be inconveniently tethered; ad-hoc systems were expensive to build and difficult to deploy;…

eNTERFACE’11  the 7th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces Call for Participation The eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of leading professionals in multimodal human-machine interfaces together with students (both graduate and undergraduate), to work on a prespecified list of challenges, for 4 complete weeks. In this respect, it is an innovative and intensive collaboration scheme, designed to allow researchers to integrate their software tools, deploy demonstrators, collect novel databases, and work side by side with a great number of experts. It brings together…

International Virtual Environments Research Group (IVERG) Conference 2011 Immersive Technologies for Learning: Virtual Implementation, Real Outcomes http://www.iverg.com/iVERG/Details.html Call for papers The organising committee encourages the submission of individual abstracts focused on the use of virtual worlds in the following areas: Citizenship, identity and virtual environments for learning Media, multimedia and virtual reality Adaptive and intuitive environments Computer mediated communication e-Learning e-Portfolios m-Learning Games for education Grids for education Apps for education Emerging technologies Creativity Educational technology futures Abstracts of up to 500 words should be submitted by Friday 8th April 2011. …

Call 4 Abstracts 5th Vienna Games Conference Future and Reality of Gaming – FROG11 Applied Playfulness Competence, Media and Sociability of Play Vienna City Hall, Austria, Friday 21 to Sunday 23 October 2011; http://bupp.at/frog Vienna’s annual Games Conference, “Future and Reality of Gaming” (FROG), offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, researchers and scholars from various other fields, education professionals, and gamers from around the world. The main objective of the FROG11 is to explore the phenomena of applied playfulness in regard to questions of media competence, media convergence, the sociability of…

Academic MindTrek 2011: Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Demos, and Workshops 28th -30th September, 2011 Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/, http://www.mindtrek.org/2011/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 28th – 30th September 2011, 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…