Call for Papers 7th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games Computer Game Space – Concept, Form and Experience We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 7th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Bergen, Norway, October 2-4 2013. Player experience and dynamics in computer games are structured around apparent spatial relations inside the gameworld. It is furthermore common to use spatial metaphors such as  “action space”, “possibility space”, “experiential space” to explain central aspects of…

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT) Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa, Canada Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) Special Issue on Technoethics and New Military Technologies Submission deadline: August 1, 2013 Guest Editor: Marcus Schulzke, State University of New York at Albany New military technologies are transforming warfare, allowing wars to be fought at longer distances, with greater asymmetries of risk, and at higher speeds than ever before. Some of these technologies seem to mark radical new directions in the way wars are fought by upsetting traditional military roles and introducing entirely new domains of conflict. Emerging technologies…

You are invited to participate in HCI 2013, which will be hosted by the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, London in conjunction with the British Computer Society from Monday 9th September 2013 until Friday 13th September 2013 Some History HCI 2013 is the 27th Annual Conference of the Specialist HCI group of the BCS, the BCS Interaction SG. Since its establishment in 1985, the conference has become the leading annual HCI conference in Europe. As well as being a leading venue for dissemination, the conference has a history of nurturing research careers- many of the…

Call for submissions for Edited Book proposal: Gaming Beyond Screens We are currently seeking contributions to an edited collection on gestural gaming entitled Gaming Beyond Screens. In recent years there has been a surge of interest in digital games, platforms, and peripherals that employ gestural technologies. The Nintendo Wii, Rock Band, and Kinect are just some of the most popular examples in a long list of games and gaming devices that shift our attention away from the screen and towards bodies in motion. The phenomenon of gestural gaming raises a number of pressing questions for both academics and designers. For…

Call for Participation – TaPRA – 2013 Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) http://tapra.org/ University of Glasgow and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) 4th- 6th September 2013 Performance and the Body Working Group and Performance and New Technologies Working Group Title: Embodied Engagement: Participatory And Immersive Performance The Performance and the Body and Performance and New Technologies Working Groups are joining forces this year to explore different bodily, aesthetic, political, ethical and economical aspects of participation in the current performance milieu. In a performance context where hierarchies of participation are being reconfigured and traditional authorial claims are under stress,…

We are seeking a researcher for a position lasting two years at UNC Chapel Hill. The researcher will rotate between UNC Chapel Hill and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, spending six months per year at each institution. The Being There Centre’s research focuses on acquisition and display of 3D environments, large-format and mobile 3D displays, robotic humanoid avatars, and autonomous virtual humans. Position remains open until filled. Selected Possible Research Topics: Automatic real-time reconstruction of dynamic 3D environments using multiple cameras and depth imaging devices Novel auto-stereoscopic displays, conventional head-tracked stereoscopic displays Hardware-based and vision-based tracking technology for users,…