Call for Papers Point of View in Memory & Imagery: Philosophical & psychological perspectives on perspective Macquarie University, Friday-Saturday, 10-11 May 2013 Abstracts due Feb 15 Enquiries to John Sutton, john.sutton@mq.edu.au Overview This workshop will address perspective-taking in remembering and imagining. We welcome offers of papers from philosophers and psychologists, and from related disciplines. We are particularly interested in proposals which discuss relations between visual or visuospatial perspective and other kinds of perspective, or which address interactions between internal and external perspectives on one’s past, future, or possible actions and experiences. Background When I remember my past experiences, I may…

Calls for Papers: ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS SPECIAL SESSION at CYBERWORLDS 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE http://www.vc.media.yamanashi.ac.jp/cw2013/ 21-23 OCTOBER 2013, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Keio University, Faculty of Science and Technology Chair: Dr. Gianluca Mura, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 18, 2013 Send your paper to: gianluca.mura@polimi.it More information from http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/ Full papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 5 pages have to be submitted electronically in MS Word data formats. The papers must be written in English. Please use the following template for preparing your papers from: http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/cwtemplate.doc By submitting a paper the authors confirm that their…

5 September 2013: CHORD CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Retailing and the Senses: Historical Perspectives’ The conference will be held at the: Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) and the M&S Company Archive invite proposals for papers that explore the relationship between retailing and the senses, in Britain and beyond. We welcome papers focusing on both buying and selling, approaching the topic from any discipline and focusing on any historical period. We invite contributions that explore the connections between retailing and any one or more of the senses: Sight Smell Taste…

Special workshop “Methodology of gaming simulation for learning, research and design” You are cordially invited to a workshop on Methodology of gaming simulation for learning, research and design at the 44th conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA). The ISAGA 2013 conference will take place June 24 – 28, 2013, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.…

INSIGHT 2: ENGAGING THE HEALTH HUMANITIES The call for proposals for the InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities, an international exhibition and publication offering frameworks for examining linkages, experiences, visualisations and productive imaginings at the nexus of the health humanities, design and community engagement. The health humanities, an interdisciplinary domain of study which connects the arts, humanities, bioethics and social sciences, among other areas, is concerned with human needs and experiences related to health and healthcare. A human-centred design approach to health and well-being involves community members in identifying, and co-creating solutions to, issues and problems that affect them. Community…

Studies sought for meta-analysis on presence We are currently gathering candidate studies for a meta-analysis examining the effect of immersive virtual reality technology on self-reported presence. We are investigating the effect of relative high vs. low immersive levels as operationalized across various hardware and software variables. The studies we are including either manipulate overall levels of immersion (e.g., head-mounted display vs. mental simulation, CAVE environment vs. desktop monitor, etc.) or the levels of a particular immersive system component (e.g., different fields of view, stereoscopic vs. monoscopic visuals, stereo vs. mono audio, different update rates, etc..). A list of most of…