CALL FOR PAPERS OZCHI 2011 Australian National University Canberra, Australia Monday 28 November to Friday 2 December, 2011 http://www.ozchi.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Friday 17th June 2011: Submission of Long Papers/Tutorial proposals/Workshop proposals Friday Sept 2, 2011: Submission of Short papers/Demos/Doctoral consortium applications OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Computer-Human Interaction. It attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. The conference also welcomes perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, planning, social…

American Telemedicine Association ATA Fall Forum 2011 Call for Presentations Open through July 1 Click here for more information The ATA Fall Forum 2011 will be a different type of meeting, with short presentations focused on innovative ideas that are revolutionizing healthcare. We are looking for talks, demonstrations or other inventive presentation formats on a wide range of telemedicine subject areas. Topics might include: a unique approach to delivering telehealth services, a new and better device, a successful way of introducing telemedicine to providers or consumers, a novel way to organize and fund a program, a fresh look at overcoming…

Call for Papers: The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) 7th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011 London, venue to be confirmed Submission deadline: July 1, 2011 Utopian hopes for the ubiquity of digital and networked technologies leading to a more transparent and democratic society are being met by expressions of concern about their implications for art. Nicholas Bourriaud has observed that such technologies can bring about a “collective desire to create new areas of conviviality and introduce new types of transaction with regard to the cultural object”. However, others…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Submission deadline: July 25, 2011) AmGam’11: First International Workshop on Ambient Gaming November 16, 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hosted by the AmI-11 conference http://www.playfitproject.nl/ambientgamingworkshop Submission deadline: July 25, 2011 Description ‘Ambient games’ are innovative game designs incorporating ambient intelligence characteristics, such as context-awareness, personalization, adaptation and anticipation. They may lead to new player experiences, for instance by allowing players to (inter)act freely, without being allocated by a computer screen or device, by using information coming from sensors or actuators. Ambient games support casual play, allowing play and games to be seamlessly integrated with daily activities. Ambient gaming…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 21st International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2011) November 28-30, 2011 Osaka University, Osaka, Japan http://www.ic-at.org/2011/ Sponsored by Virtual Reality Society of Japan Important dates: Paper Submission Dead-line: August 10, 2011 Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2011 ICAT 2011 Conference: November 28-30, 2011 ICAT is the oldest international conference on Virtual Reality and Telexistence. The organizing committee cordially invites you to submit your technical work and experimental results in Virtual Reality science and technology to this conference. ICAT 2011 will not only look for innovations in the VR technology itself, but also exploring novel ways…

Haptics in Surgical Robotics Istanbul, June 21st, 2011 Abstract: Surgeons’ hands are their main tools. They intuitively process both visual and haptic senses to perform a surgery. Yet, in robotic surgery, the use of a teleoperated system removes the direct contact of hands with tissues and thus, diminishes the sense of touch. Although 3D stereoscopic vision and enhanced dexterity are fully exploited in this field, the tremendous potential of haptic feedback has been confined to research activities. Up to now, the essential role of haptic feedback has not been fully recognized by the medical community since its benefits have not…