Call For Papers

For a special issue of Museum & Society journal
Museum education today: Synergies and innovations in multicultural contexts

Guest editors Dr Stella Sylaiou & Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti

We invite papers for a forthcoming special issue of Museums & Society which will explore the current state in museum education theory and practice. Our rationale begins with the notion that museums can engage new audiences, trigger aesthetic sensitivities, exercise creativity and imagination. In today’s multicultural societies, museums need to explore new synergies with educational institutions and develop innovative means to address educational challenges in engaging ways. In addition, information and communications technologies (ICT) as a burgeoning field of investigation provide to museums a plethora of tools to share resources and communicate broadly to a wide range of users.

The purpose of this special issue is thus two-fold: (a) explore the synergies developed by museums in order to address the impact of informal education in multicultural contexts and (b) the ICT innovations imported in enhancing learning in informal and non-formal contexts.… read more. “Call: Museum Education Today: Synergies and Innovations in Multicultural Contexts (Special issue of Museum & Society)”

SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Call for Submissions: Art Gallery & Art Papers

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 13 June 2013 (23:59 UTC/GMT)

WEBSITE: http://sa2013.siggraph.org/en/submitters/art-gallery.html

Future/Past

The SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Art Gallery brings to ACM SIGGRAPH an exhibition of art in a major Asian city that reflects on the public domain as demarcated by the artist whose creativity is empowered by their access to a digitally-enabled means of expression.

Art can form an understanding of ideas not easily expressed by any other means. Shared themes form a collective understanding in an ever merging narrative of expression. The sensory aspect of an effort of artistic practice provides us with a glimpse of ideas made perceivable by the grace of their expression, taking us away from the distractions imposed by our senses into a vision that though defined by what we have experienced, creates a new future. The Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 proposes to examine concepts of modernity enabled by digital approaches to art and art making.… read more. “Call: SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Art Gallery & Art Papers”

Special Issue of Computers in Human Behavior: “Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Online Video Games”

Special Issue Editors

Georgios Christou, European University Cyprus
Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology
Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester
Lennart E. Nacke, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
David Geerts, KU Leuven

DESCRIPTION

Computer games are at the forefront of technological innovation; their popularity in research continuously increasing. Their wide presence and use makes computer games a major factor affecting the way people socialize, learn and possibly work.

As increasingly more people become involved with computer games, researchers need to address various questions on topics as diverse as social impact, ethical questions, design, flow, presence, and game experience. This special issue will focus on bringing together work from various disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, computer science, human-computer interaction, psychology and others, that look at how to design and evaluate the social structures that make online video games so appealing.… read more. “Call: “Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Online Video Games” – Special issue of Computers in Human Behavior”

TOUCH ME – HAPTIC EVALUATION METHODS FOR EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES
Full-day workshop at the Mensch & Computer conference 2013 held in Bremen, Germany (http://www.interaktivevielfalt.org/mensch-computer/) from 8-11th of September 2013.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: May, 24th, 2013, to busch@cure.at
Notification: June, 26th, 2013
Submission format: 2-4 page position papers, formatted according to Mensch & Computer format (anonymized).

SCOPE AND FOCUS

We plan to explore, discuss and collect ideas on haptic materials for evaluating users’ emotional experiences with interactive systems. Haptic evaluation materials allow for a qualitative, playful and holistic evaluation of emotional factors – without interfering with the users’ personal experience during interaction. This provides a tactile enhancement to classical visual or verbal-based evaluation methods and therefore includes users and participants with special needs that otherwise could face difficulties expressing their experience (UX-evaluation-4-all).

There are various methods for evaluating emotional experiences of users interacting with systems, e.g.… read more. “Call: Touch Me – Haptic Evaluation Methods for Emotional Experiences (Workshop at Mensch & Computer conference 2013)”

Workshop on Mediated Touch and Affect (MeTA)

Conference: The fifth biannual Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013).

2-5 September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

Website: … read more. “Call: Workshop on Mediated Touch and Affect (MeTA) at ACII 2013”