Call for Papers

ATMM 2013 – Audio Technologies for Music and Media International Conference

31 October -1 November 2013

Department of Communication and Design
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

www.atmm-conference.org

Audio Technologies for Music and Media is an international interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the various aspects of audio, audiovisual and music technologies for music and media, and, also, on the relationship between sound, music and image in both ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ media.… read more. “Call: Audio Technologies for Music and Media International Conference (ATMM 2013)”

Call for Papers
Workshop: “CSCW at the Boundary of Work and Life”
To be held at ECSCW2013, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos (Cyprus)

Submission deadline: June 28th 2013

http://cscwworkandlife.wordpress.com/

WORKSHOP THEME

This workshop aims to explore how CSCW themes, concepts and sensibilities can be extended and applied to practices blurring the boundary between work and life. Technology has moved from workplaces to become part of nearly every aspect of everyday life. Similarly, CSCW research spans not only work settings and practices, but also other life domains, from family life, to gaming, tourism and other leisure activities. However, the neat distinction between which activities are work-related and which are not is becoming less and less meaningful as often the spheres of work and life blur into each other. Similarly, the use of technology is not limited to specific work vs. non-work situations.

It is increasingly difficult to keep work and life separated, to the point that attempting to achieve work-life balance might be counter-productive or more demanding than managing the blurring between them.… read more. “Call: ECSCW 2013 Workshop: “CSCW at the Boundary of Work and Life””

Peripheral Interaction: Embedding HCI in Everyday Life
Workshop at the INTERACT 2013 Conference September 3rd, 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 12th, 2013
NOTIFICATION: May 21st, 2013

http://www.peripheralinteraction.com

In recent years, the concept of interacting with computing technology in the background or periphery of the user’s attention is gaining traction.

We call this direction Peripheral Interaction, and see it as a very promising approach to fluently embedding the increasing number of interactive devices into our everyday life routines. This one-day workshop invites researchers and practitioners from different disciplines (e.g. computer science, interaction design, interactive arts, psychology, cognitive science, product design and social science), to share their experiences with human-computer interaction for the everyday routine, and aims to lay the foundations for a structured exploration of the interaction paradigm of Peripheral Interaction.

The workshop is intended to encourage hands-on explorations and discussion about the definition of Peripheral Interaction, its design space and suitable evaluation strategies.… read more. “Call: Peripheral Interaction: Embedding HCI in Everyday Life (Workshop at Interaction 2013)”

Call for Papers: Interactive Entertainment 2013 – “Matters of Life and Death”

The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment will be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

http://ieconference.org/ie2013/

Interactive Entertainment 2013 (IE2013) embraces some of the recent changes in games discourses both inside and outside the academy, and turns its attention to “Matters of Life and Death”. In a field concerned with entertainment, seriousness has hovered on the edges of discussion and helped us interpret technologies of leisure. If we reframe seriousness as ‘matters of life and death’, we can look again at the factors which impact computer games and other interactive entertainment. Questions emerge from this framing and from recent discussions such as: How do we map changes in the economic environment of games? How do designers deal with increasingly mobile, active, tactile play forms? How do scientists evaluate and build for diversifying platforms?… read more. “Call: Interactive Entertainment 2013 – “Matters of Life and Death””

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pictorial and Spatial Representation
Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Guest editors: Valeria Giardino and Gabriel Greenberg

Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2013

The Theme

Pictorial and spatial representation play an essential role in a vast range of human communication and reasoning, exemplified by the widespread use of diagrams, maps, pictures, iconic gestures, comics, and film.

In this special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, we seek to bring together work from philosophy and cognitive science (including psychology, linguistics, and computer science) that breaks new ground in the study of spatial representation generally. Recent developments in these fields set the stage for new and exciting perspectives on this poorly understood, but philosophically and scientifically central subject matter.

The primary subject of this special issue is the public use of pictorial and spatial representations, including uses in a variety of functional roles, such as communication, externalized reasoning and proof, planning, and navigation.… read more. “Call: Pictorial and Spatial Representation – Special issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology”