ACM CREATIVITY AND COGNITION 2013
17-18 June 2013
University of Technology, Sydney

http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com

Call for PAPERS, POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS

Call for GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Deadlines Approaching:
17th December 2012 for Papers and Posters
1st March 2013 for Demos and Graduate Student Symposium

The University of Technology, Sydney will host the International Conference on Creativity and Cognition from the 17th to the 20^th of June 2013. The organising committee would like to invite you to join us in Sydney for another conference in this very successful series.

For 2013 the conference theme will be ‘Intersections and Interactions’, due to the inter-disciplinarity that is inherent in the study of creativity and cognition. June 2013 will be an exciting time for Sydney, as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2013) will run from the 7th to 16th, as well as the Vivid Festival of Arts from the 24th of May until the 10th of June.… read more. “Call: ACM International Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013”

Thirteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
IVA 2013
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/iva2013/
August 29-31st Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments.

IVA 2013 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modelling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behaviour. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications. Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are also encouraged to share work with a relevance to intelligent virtual agents.

SPECIAL TOPIC: “Virtual Agents and Cognition”. In 2013 the IVA conference will have a special theme on cognitive modelling in Virtual Agents.… read more. “Call: 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2013)”

The 4th Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2013)

In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI

Stuttgart, Germany, March 7-8, 2013

http://hcilab.org/ah2013/

Proceedings to be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series

The 4th Augmented Human (AH) International Conference in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 7-8, 2013, focusing on augmenting human capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience. As in previous years, the conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series with ISBN.

TOPICS

• Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing
• Bionics, Biomechanics and Exoskeletons
• Brain-Computer Interfaces, Muscle Interfaces, and Implanted Interfaces
• Sensors and Hardware
• Smart artefacts and Smart Textiles
• Augmented Sport, Health & Well-being, Training/Rehabilitation Technology
• Augmented and Mixed Reality, Tourism and Games and Context-Awareness
• Augmented Fashion & Art
• Trust, Privacy and Security of Augmented Human Technology

18-19 October 2013: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMAGE, Chicago, USA

Deadline (abstracts): December 6, 2012

On behalf of the International Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers and Call for Work for the Fourth International Conference on the Image and the Call for Submissions to the peer-reviewed International Journal of the Image.

The Image Conference will be held 18-19 October 2013 in Chicago, USA.

The Image Conference is a forum at which participants will interrogate the nature and functions of image-making and images. The conference has a cross-disciplinary focus, bringing together researchers, teachers and practitioners from areas of interest including: architecture, art, cognitive science, communications, computer science, cultural studies, design, education, film studies, history, linguistics, management, marketing, media studies, museum studies, philosophy, photography, psychology, religious studies, semiotics, and more. Proposals are invited that contribute to the conference discourse from any of the following thematic areas:

• The Form of the Image: examining the nature and form of the image as a medium of representation
• Image Work: investigating image making processes and spaces of image representation
• The Image in Society: exploring the social effects of the image

In addition to these community themes, we invite submissions to the Call for Papers that addresses our 2013 special theme:

“The Everyday Image: Reproduction and Participation”… read more. “Call: Fourth International Conference on the Image”

Call for Papers, abstract deadline January 31st, 2013
Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds
Tampere, Finland, May 21st and 22nd 2013

Keynote speakers:

• Marie-Laure Ryan (author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory [1991], Narrative as Virtual Reality [2001] and Avatars of Story [2006]; editor of Cyberspace Textuality [1999] and Narrative across Media [2004])
• Jarmila Mildorf (author of Storying Domestic Violence [2007]; editor of Magic, Science, Technology, and Literature [2006] and Imaginary Dialogues in English [2011])

The postclassical turn in narratology has led to 1) a new emphasis on minds, both fictional and interpretative, and 2) the theoretical discovery of storyworlds. These ideas come together in cognitive-theoretically informed narratology, which is well on its way to getting to grips with the processes of immersion and readerly orientation within the storyworld, and also with perceptual positioning on the levels of storyworld, narration and the actual reading process.… read more. “Call: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds conference”