Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2012 Tuesday 10th July – Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA http://www.eva-london.org/ CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 22nd January 2012 *Visualising* ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualisation and more OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 22nd January 2012…

UMAP 2012 — 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION Montreal, Canada, 16-20 July, 2012 http://www.umap2012.org/ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. The conference will take place at the UQAM university campus, situated in the very heart of the arts and…

PREDICTING PERCEPTIONS: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance Edinburgh, 17-19 April 2012 Following on from two highly successful cross-disciplinary conferences in Ghent and Paris we are very happy to invite submissions for the above event. IMPORTANT DATES 05 December 2011: Submission deadline 19 December 2011: Review allocation to reviewers 09 January 2012: Review upload deadline 14 January 2012: Authors informed 17-19 April 2012: Conference CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.perceptions.macs.hw.ac.uk/ INVITED SPEAKERS Larry Maloney, Dept. Psychology, New York University, USA. Françoise Viénot, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Mike Chantler, Julie Harris, Mike Pointer SCOPE Originally focused on the perception of texture…

i-Docs 2012 : Call for Participation http://i-docs.org/ Following the success of i-Docs 2011, we are delighted to invite your participation in i-Docs 2012, a two-day event dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi on behalf of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol (http://dcrc.org.uk) The event will be held at the Watershed Media Centre in central Bristol on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23th of March 2012.…

PERCOM 2012 — CALL FOR DEMOS The IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference, entering its tenth year, is a premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. The PerCom Demo Session offers high-quality demonstrations of all things pervasive from academia and industry. Demos demonstrating working  systems, innovative applications, groundbreaking ideas, and novel concepts related to PerCom are welcome. Demos from industrial researchers as well as demos from academia with a significant relevance to industry are particularly encouraged. A “Best Demo Award” will be  presented based on research value, originality, and presentation.…

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2012 Santa Monica, CA, Oct. 22-26, 2012 First Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. Multimodal technologies are fundamentally changing the ways people interact with each other and with computers. Multimodal systems – recognizing language and gesture exchanged among people or as input…