SMPTE 2012 Technology Summit on Cinema: Advances in Image and Sound

Date: Sat, 04/14/2012 – 9:00am – Sun, 04/15/2012 – 5:00pm

SMPTE will hold its annual Technology Summit On Cinema: Advances in Image and Sound (formerly Digital Cinema Summit) at the NAB Show on 14-15 April 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Cinema Technology has historically been in the forefront of motion imaging invention.  Over the years, revolutionary new technologies were first tested and proven in the movie theater, only later to become mainstream in television broadcast or gaming.  Examples include the introduction of sound, color, widescreen, stereo, computer graphics, and – more recently – 3D.  The 2012 Technology Summit for Cinema:  Advances in Image and Sound, produced by SMPTE, will provide an in-depth global view of the new wave of technology coming soon to your local multiplex, with an eye toward how it might later affect the broader media ecosystem. … read more. “Call: SMPTE 2012 Technology Summit on Cinema: Advances in Image and Sound”

4th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference – EUROMED 2012
October 29th – November 3rd, 2012
Limassol, Cyprus
http://www.euromed2012.eu

Dear colleagues,

We are glad to invite you to the 4th Int. Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EUROMED 2012) which will be held in Limassol (Cyprus) October 29th to November 3rd, 2012 at the Amathus-Limassol hotel. The 4th EUROMED conference brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, owners, managers and conservators of our cultural patrimony.… read more. “Call: Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EUROMED 2012) – Cultural heritage”

Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2012 WORKSHOP
Play Experience Workshop – Reconciling PX Methods
http://hcigames.businessandit.uoit.ca/gurfdg2012/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
May 29, 2012
Raleigh, North Carolina

Important Dates:
March 5, 2012: submissions deadline
May 12, 2012: Acceptance notification
May 29 2012: Workshop

The workshop is scheduled as a 1-day workshop held at Raleigh, North Carolina co-located with FDG May 29, 2012. This workshop will bring together researchers interested in GUR (Games User Research), including game evaluation, player experience, game-user research, game telemetry, think aloud, observed behavior, heuristics, metrics, and psycho-physiological measurements. The main goals of the workshop and the expected outcomes are to bring the community together and discuss the methods and applications of the methods involved with Games User Research on the design process.

We invite participants to submit position, empirical and theory papers on the use of qualitative and quantitative methods for the evaluation of digital games, and the design of interfaces that can better account for the player experience while interacting with them.… read more. “Call: FDG 2012 Workshop: Play Experience – Reconciling PX Methods”

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org/) is happy to announce the call for this “Managerial and Commercial Applications” issue edited by

• Shu Schiller, Wright State University, USA
• Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University, USA
• Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

You can access this call directly through our website.

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/) is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds research. Virtual worlds ignite a continuously evolving area of study that spans multiple disciplines and the JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a wide range of creative and scholarly research.

Motivation and Scope

The intriguing potential of virtual worlds has attracted a significant amount of scholarly work in the business research domain.… read more. “Call: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research issue on “Managerial and Commercial Applications””

Calls for Papers: ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS
http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012
http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.com/

CYBERWORLDS 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SPECIAL SESSION
25-27 SEPTEMBER 2012, DARMSTADT, GERMANY
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research
http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012

Submission information from http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.com/
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 29, 2012

INTRODUCTION
Virtual Worlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact, participate and receive information throughout the world. Virtual Worlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world economy by taking such forms as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

OBJECTIVE
The goal of the Arts,Design and Virtual Worlds is to analyze and trace the advancements of new Art and Design theories and practices in Virtual Worlds. Arts,Design and Virtual Worlds is a special session at the 2012 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CYBERWORLDS 2012, http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.com/).… read more. “Call: Arts,Design and Virtual Worlds – CYBERWORLDS 2012 special session”