Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image invites submissions for its 3rd issue. Submission deadline: 15 February, 2012 (abstracts) The third issue of Cinema takes up the theme of embodiment and the body, its relationship to cinema’s history (theory and practice), and its reawaken in a recent body of research attentive, not only to film, but also to video and to new media. In the last few years, creative and theoretical work have focused in the body, either as phenomenological encounter immersed in everyday practices, or as a material process made of fluids, energies and forces, arguing, in both…

WORKSHOP ON EMOTIONAL AND EMPATHIC AGENTS at AAMAS 2012 June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea CALL FOR PAPERS [apologies for cross-postings, please distribute] Workshop Organizers: João Dias (INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, PT) Janneke van der Zwaan (Delft University of Technology, NL) Jason Tsai (University of Southern California, USA) Senior Steering Committee: Ana Paiva (PT) Catholijn Jonker (NL) Stacy Marsella (USA) Virginia Dignum (NL) Goals: The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the creation of what we call “empathic agents”. Empathy has been associated with the processes that make a person…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CHI WORKSHOP ON GAME USER RESEARCH CHI-GUR (Game User Research): Exploring Methodologies http://hcigames.businessandit.uoit.ca/chigur/ Important Dates: January 13, 2012 – Submissions Deadline February 2, 2012 – Acceptance Notification May 5-6, 2012 – Workshop The workshop is scheduled as a 2-day workshop held at Austin, Texas; co-located with ACM CHI May 5-6, 2012. The workshop is intended to be a gathering of current game user experience practitioners and researchers. The goal of the workshop is to expand our knowledge of the different methodologies currently in practice within the area of games user research as well as the utility and…

Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture, and the Arts Ewha Trans-Humanities Research Team, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea CALL FOR PAPERS The Ewha Trans-Humanities Research Team will host an international conference on “Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture and the Arts” from June 1st to 2nd, 2012 and invites suitable contributions for presentation at the conference. Genetic engineering and digital technology are more than just supplement of human intellectual and physical ability; they seem to bring fundamental changes to the nature of what it means to be human. Such changes have been seen in how philosophy, literature, art,…

Journeys Across Media University of Reading (UK) Thursday 19th April 2012 Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research. Modernity has often been perceived through ever more urgent temporal demands; modern technologies and art forms (film, television, video) have also been examined as time-based media. Film has been discussed as an…

Call for Papers: Interacting with Computers Special Issue on the Social Implications of Embedded Systems http://www.journals.elsevier.com/interacting-with-computers/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-the-social-implications-of-embedded-systems/ Special Issue Editors Dr Stuart Moran, Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, UK Dr Irene Lopez de Vallejo, Tekniker IK4, Avenida Otaola, 20, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain Research on Embedded Systems or Pervasive Computing (PerCom) and its associated sensory and mobile technologies, is shifting focus from studies in controlled research laboratories, to emerging prototype implementations in real world everyday applications. The future application of PerCom is envisaged to cover almost all public, personal and commercial aspects of our lives. The benefits of PerCom are numerous…