Special Issue of Interacting with Computers

Sensor/Recognition-based Learning in Contextual Surroundings

Guest Editors: Gheorghita Ghinea, Brunel University, UNITED KINGDOM
Wu-Yuin Hwang, National Central University, TAIWAN
Jiangang Cheng, Tsinghua University, CHINA
Cristina Hava Muntean, National College of Ireland, IRELAND

Aims

Recent advances in sensors and recognition technology give a great potential for creating brand new environments for interaction and learning. These could offer users flexible and tangible ways to interact with or learn from meaningful information in authentic environments. Therefore the sensors and recognition technologies can facilitate users to have authentic interaction with surroundings and explore problems by using useful information from digital space. It will potentially integrate the physical and digital worlds into a joyful and highly interactive learning environment.

Many researchers have been devoting to design applications or systems with multimedia, sensors and intelligent recognition to enhance learning and interaction in the authentic context from various aspects of pedagogical principles, activity designs and technological issues, etc.… read more. “Call: Sensor/Recognition-based Learning in Contextual Surroundings – Special issue of Interacting with Computers”

Call for papers

The 11^th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference – HCC 11

July 30^th – August 1^st, 2014, Turku, Finland

ICT and Society

It is crucial to understand how ICT innovation is associated with change in society! Human Choice and Computers – a series of conferences organised by the International Federation of Information Processing’s (IFIP) Technical Committee 9 (TC9) – focuses on this critical issue. It works to shape socially responsible and ethical policies and professional practices in the information society. The themes pertinent to the work of IFIP TC9 will be covered at this conference. In 2014, this conference series will celebrate its forty-year history.

The conference welcomes input from members of academia, civic society, computing associations, industry, the IT professions, and research in the following themes:

• Computers and Work
• Ethics of Computing
• Gender Diversity and ICT
• History of Computing
• ICT and Society
• ICT and Sustainable Development
• ICT, Peace and War
• Information Technology: Misuse and The Law
• Social Accountability and Computing
• Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
• Virtuality and Society

The conference is open to attendees at all stages of career and education.… read more. “Call: Human Choice and Computers Conference – HCC 11”

Call for Papers / Panels

Society for Phenomenology and Media
16th Annual Conference

March 12-15, 2014
Hochschule Furtwangen University and
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

The Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM) is pleased to receive abstracts (200 words maximum) for consideration of inclusion in its 16th annual international conference. The conference will be sponsored by Hochschule Furtwangen University, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and the Husserl Archives-Freiburg. It will be held in Freiburg im Breisgau at the university.

Proposals for 3-person panels are now also being accepted. These should be organized around specific media-for example: film, the Internet, mobile communication, medieval manuscripts, print media (books, newspapers, and magazines), stage drama, television, visual art, dance, etc. Panel proposals should include three papers, one of them by the panel organizer. Individual abstract submissions are assigned to a panel by the conference host.

The Society for Phenomenology and Media encourages interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical diversity.… read more. “Call: Society for Phenomenology and Media – 16th Annual Conference”

Call for papers

International symposium: “The digital subject:  In-scription, Ex-scription, Tele-scription”

University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, Archives nationales, November 18-21, 2013

Organizers:
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Department of philosophy, LLCP, SPHERE, EA 4008)
Claire Larsonneur (Department of anglophone studies, Le Texte Étranger, EA1569)
Arnaud Regnauld (Department of anglophone studies, CRLC – Research Center on Literature and Cognition, EA1569)

This symposium is part of a long-term project, “The digital subject,” endorsed by the LABEX Arts-H2H (http://www.labex-arts-h2h.fr/) and follows a first symposium on Hypermnesia held in 2012.  We are exploring the ways in which digital tools, be they real or fictional, from Babbage to Internet, have altered our conception of the subject and its representations, affecting both its status and its attributes. We welcome contributions from the following fields: philosophy, literature, arts, archivistics, neurosciences, and the history of science and technology.

The working languages will be French and English.… read more. “Call: Symposium: “The digital subject: In-scription, Ex-scription, Tele-scription””

Dear all,

In conjunction with the Games and Literary Theory Conference 2013, being held at the University of Malta on October 31st and November 1st, a PhD seminar is being organized on November 2nd.

http://gamesandliterarytheory.wordpress.com/phd-seminar/

For any questions, contact gamelit2013@um.edu.mt.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Daniel

(Daniel Vella <danielvella84@GMAIL.COM>)

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PhD seminar in connection with the Games And Literary Theory Conference 2013, Malta, Oct 31^st – Nov 2^nd

Games and Subjectivity: Text, Experience, Identity and the Self

Lecturers

Espen Aarseth, IT University of Copenhagen
Hans-Joachim Backe, Ruhr Universität Bochum
Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam
Jonas Linderoth, Gothenburg University

Date and time of the Seminar

November 2, 2013, 9.00 – 17.00

Application deadline: September 20^th.

To apply for the course, follow below instructions and send an email to gamelit2013@um.edu.mt.

Course description

In any field of academic discourse within which the question emerges, subjectivity is a concept that delineates contested ground.… read more. “Call: PhD Seminar – Games and Subjectivity: Text, Experience, Identity and the Self”