Please take part in this survey investigating viewer perception of facial expression and the Uncanny Valley for human-like virtual characters intended for immersive video game environments: http://app.evalandgo.com/s/?id=JTk5biU5OG4=&a=JTk2aiU5Nm0lOUM= The survey should take between 10-15 minutes to complete. This series of studies on the Uncanny Valley meets the criteria for the University Research Ethics Framework and has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee at Bolton University.…

Expanded Narrative Symposium Roland Levinsky Building Plymouth University Fri 1st – Sat 2nd November 2013 http://expandednarrative.org/symposium/ Early Bird tickets available until end of September! The Expanded Narrative Symposium explores the multidisciplinary fields of interactive narrative that reconfigure the form and expand the experience of storytelling. The reader, relocated, becomes a player, co-author or participant. How can we design, develop and experience locative sound, participatory theatre, pervasive and mobile games, flash fiction and works yet to be defined? Through the consideration of these questions, the symposium aims to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration between practitioners from the arts, academia and the…

Dear Colleagues, Hello everyone, I am conducting an online survey on gamers’ online gaming experiences, such as trash talking and related behaviours. I have received some responses from various sources. May I kindly ask for your help in filling out and sharing the survey link to your friends and people who play online. The survey takes on average 15 minutes. Here is the link: http://osucomms.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8BsMt3C1Y9jL3Bb Cheers, Wai Yen Tang The Ohio State University School of Communication PhD Student tang.252@osu.edu vgresearcher.wordpress.com…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE 3rd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health May 14-16, 2014 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sponsored by: IEEE ˆ Computer Society http://www.ipca.pt/segah2014 IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Poster Submission (extended abstract) Deadline: November 1, 2013 Authors Notification (regular papers and extended abstract): December 1, 2013 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: January 15, 2014 Tutorial Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Demo Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Workshops Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Symposiums Submission Deadline: July 31, 2013 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Esteban Clua, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil João Vilaça, Polytechnic Institute…

[For those wondering how this might be about (tele)presence, see Esther Milne’s ISPR 2011 paper, Historical Provocations: Postal Presence, Intimate Absence and Public Privacy.  –Matthew ] 1st Global Conference Letters & Letter Writing – Signed, Sealed, Delivered Tuesday 18th March – Thursday 20th March 2014 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/letters-and-letter-writing/call-for-presentations/ Call for Presentations The letter has been one of the most important forms of communication over thousands of years across many cultures and continents. Whether personal, professional or an open statement of intent it can covey the most intimate messages or declare the most inflammatory of declarations. It can be delivered…

Call for open research on the theme of “the historical evolution of the uses of computation, 1950-2015” in light of the IDF editorial initiative regarding Situated Computing. We invite all interested parties as well as the members of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) to contribute in building a body of shared knowledge focusing on how uses and users co-evolved over time together with the tools that enabled computational services and technology-mediated interaction in organizational and social settings. We invite you to contribute by sharing references to high quality research contributions, by both historians of science/technology who have focused on the…