Being There, Doing It: The Challenge of Embodied Cognition for Design Workshop to be held at Creativity and Cognition 2011 conference, Thursday, November 3rd 2011, in TSRB on Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, USA. Jelle van Dijk & Joep Frens Web site: http://sites.google.com/site/cc11embodied/ This workshop offers designers/researchers a deeper understanding of the way human beings, designed artifacts and the surrounding environment figure in situated and embodied couplings – and invites discussion of the role of artifacts within those couplings. It investigates how to apply embodied principles to interaction design, a complex challenge we believe deserves to be discussed amongst designers…

INTERIORS: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE – Berg Publishers Call for Articles – Special Issue (Vol. 3 Issue 1 – 2012) SPECIAL EFFECTS: TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCE The editors Anne Massey (Kingston University) and John Turpin (Washington State University) invite contributions to the journal’s 2012 special issue SPECIAL EFFECTS: Technology and the Interior Experience. This issue will examine the impact of technology on the development of the interior and the accompanying human experience. As the 21st century unfolds, technological additions, integrations and interventions have become more pervasive altering our interface with the built environment and greatly impacting our perception of the…

Cultures in virtual worlds A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Guest-edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari Virtual worlds (VW) embody cultures, their artefacts, and their praxes; these new and old spaces of imagination and transformation allow humans to interact in spatial dimensions. Within these spaces, culture manifests with the creation, representation, and circulation of meaningful experiences. But virtual worlds are not novel in that regard, nor should we make the mistake to assume that they are novel in themselves. Virtual experiences have been around in some respect for hundreds of years, and virtual worlds…

Call for Abstracts: Workshop on the Sensuous Object (Smell and Touch, Ambience, Aesthetic, Visual Thinking, Tacit Knowledge, Sound and Seduction) Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Our own Lucy Lyons and Anette Stenslund are organising a two-day workshop titled ‘The Sensuous Object’ here at Medical Museion, September 29-30. ‘The Sensuous Object’ is an interdisciplinary, participatory workshop concerned with ways we actually engage with objects and aimed at researchers in all disciplines interested in the materiality of actual artefacts and ways of understanding objects through the senses. How we experience and understand objects as sensuous objects that have been realized, produced,…

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality MMVR19 NextMed February 9 – 11, 2012 Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa Newport Beach, California Call for Presentations Now Open! Submission Deadline is July 15, 2011 http://www.nextmed.com/ After a very successful 2011 conference, we are pleased to announce the MMVR19 / NextMed Call for Presentations. The Organizing Committee invites submissions from researchers discovering new tools and methods at the juncture of informatics and medicine. MMVR welcomes a broad range of topics, including: Biomedical simulation, modeling, and rendering  Data visualization and fusion  Imaging devices and methods  Robotics  Haptics Sensors and sensor grids  Human-computer interfaces  Medical intelligence…

Interactive Technology and Smart Education – Call for Papers Edited by: Dr Pedro Isaias Information Management & Information Systems, Universidade Aberta, Portugal Dr Maggie McPherson School of Education, University of Leeds, UK Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE) is a multi-disciplinary journal examining educational technologies that have emerged from multimedia and social software. The journal promotes innovative technology in the context of pedagogical strategies and learners’ educational needs. By bringing together these specialist fields, the journal bridges an important gap in educational technology research. Contributions are solicited in any of the two main broad themes – interactive technology and SMART…