Beyond Sports vs. Games Workshop @ ITU Copenhagen Friday, February 17, 2012 Organizers: T.L. Taylor, Emma Witkowski, Miguel Sicart, and Douglas Wilson of the IT University of Copenhagen. Full details: http://game.itu.dk/index.php/Beyond_Sports_vs._Games_workshop Description: Ten years of game studies have passed with little exploration of sports as a key link in the study of computer gaming. Despite the huge popularity of sports titles, the growth of e-sports, or the general adoption of “sporting attitudes” and practices, not much work has been done to unpack the nature of computer game play as sport. Conversely, forty years of sports studies have produced only limited…

Virtual Worlds III 3-5 July, 2012, Paris, France http://www.virtual-worlds.net/vw2012/ Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce and call for papers for the Third International Conference on Virtual Worlds (VW’2012) which will be held from July 3 to 5, 2012 in Paris (La Défense). Background A Virtual World can be defined as a computer-simulated environment with its own physical and biological laws, populated by dynamic interacting entities such as artificial creatures and human avatars. Whereas Virtual Reality largely focuses on the design of 3D immersive spaces, and Artificial Life on the modeling and study of life-like systems, Virtual Worlds embrace both…

Call for Papers The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics Special Issue on Virtual Worlds: Where Image Processing meets Computer Graphics http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/3DLife/activities/special-issues/cfpvw/ The Visual Computer is dedicated to reporting on the state-of-the-art of research in the field of graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality. This special issue in the Visual Computer aims at presenting a representative sample of innovative research, methods and techniques towards the creation of realistic virtual humans. The main goal is to achieve horizontal integration by bringing together the typically disparate research communities working on 3D image processing, computer graphics, human computer interaction and human factors,…

HSI-2012 5th International Conference on Human System Interactions 6-8 June 2012, Perth, Australia http://hsi2012.debii.edu.au/ OVERVIEW: HSI conference series has become the most important international conference in the field of Human System Interactions, human system science and engineering, human factors in large complex systems, human space computing and cyber-physical systems, human environment interactions, and social-technical systems. HSI 2012 is technically sponsored by IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics and IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Human Factors. This international conference in Human System Interactions will be held in Perth, Western Australia from 6 to 8 June, 2012. The conference…

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Call for Papers Games+Learning+Society Conference 8.0 http://glsconference.org/ June 13-15, 2012 Madison, WI The University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 8.0 to be held June 13-15, 2012, with preconference activities on June 12 including the GLS Educators Symposium and the inaugural year of the GLS Doctoral Consortium at the Memorial Union on campus. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its eighth year, this grassroots “indie” event is evolving to include more innovative content formats and new programming. The GLS conference is one of the few destinations…