2nd International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering (GAS 2012): Realizing User Engagement with Game Engineering Techniques June 9, 2012 Zurich, Switzerland http://2012.gasworkshop.org co-located with ICSE 2012 (http://icse2012.org) Submission deadline: February 17, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS THEME This year’s GAS theme has two complementary elements. The first is to identify and investigate the applicability of game engineering techniques to make a wide variety of traditional (i.e., non-game) activities and applications more engaging for their users. What does it mean to make software more engaging? Here, engaging means to attract and retain a user’s attention and interests in order to become…

SimTecT 2012 Call for Papers Simulation – Integrated Solutions 18-21 June 2012 Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia As organisations strive for more effective and agile outputs, their simulation activities need to be tightly integrated with their business models and processes. Are the training simulator capabilities and scenarios tailored as platforms and practices change or incidents occur? How quickly can a specific mission be rehearsed? Does an evaluation or research program lead to change? Does the system react to new workforce characteristics? Does the blended learning system deliver the right training to users on the move, when they need it?…

Meaningful Play 2012 October 18-20, 2012 Michigan State University http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/ Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Meaningful Play 2012 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions),…

CALL FOR PAPERS ‘The 21st Century Body’ Symposium 18th May 2012, London Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases. Consider genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants and prosthetics, nanomedicine and care of the ageing and you will see how the way in which we perceive ourselves and those around us is slowly being recast.  As our knowledge and its application continues to grow and expand, the range, scope and magnitude of what we are able to achieve seems to…

From: Ute Kreplin (U.Kreplin@2011.LJMU.AC.UK) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 Subject: Research Study Hi Liverpool John Moores University invites you to take part in the ARtSENSE Visual Aesthetic Interest Survey. The survey asks you to give subjective ratings, i.e. your thoughts and feelings, towards artworks on a number of scales. The survey is part of the ARtSENSE project. ARtSENSE tackles a very important problem in the modern usage of Information Communication Technology in cultural heritage domain. It aims to bridge the gap between the digital world with the physical in a highly flexible way in order to enable a novel and…

2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Affective Computing (CIAC) June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia http://www-scf.usc.edu/~dongruiw/CIAC.html Organizers: Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands, anijholt@cs.utwente.nl Dongrui Wu, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA, drwu09@gmail.com Aim and Scope: Computational intelligence is a set of Nature-inspired computational methodologies and approaches to address complex real world problems to which traditional methodologies and approaches (first principles, probabilistic, black-box, etc.) are ineffective or infeasible. It includes neural networks, fuzzy logic systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, chaos theory, etc. Affective computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately…