Call for Papers and Participation The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014) May 19-23, 2014 The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP (Pending) (Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  January 14, 2014) http://cts2014.cisedu.info  or  http://cisedu.us/rp/cts14 INVITATION: You are cordially invited to participate in and attend the International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems to be held May 19-23, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.  Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all CTS disciplines and specialties. PURPOSE: The Conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and…

Call for Papers SEARIS 2014 7th Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems 30th of March in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA In conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality 2014 Deadlines and Dates: January 10, 2014:  Abstract submission January 24, 2014:  Short/long paper submission February 10, 2014:  Notification of acceptance February 21, 2014:  Camera-ready versions March 30, 2014:  Workshop (please check http://www.searis.net for updates) Description: SEARIS provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on the design, development, and support of realtime interactive systems (RIS). These systems span from Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) environments…

Call for Participation MobileHCI 2014 September 23-26, 2014 Toronto, Canada http://mobilehci.acm.org/2014/ The 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) is the premier forum for innovations in mobile, portable and personal devices and with the services to which they enable access. MobileHCI brings together people from diverse areas which provides a multidisciplinary forum for academics, hardware and software developers, designers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with and through mobile devices, applications, and services. MobileHCI maintains a small number of tracks along with a wide range of other program aspects…

Call for Participation, AISB 2014 Symposium: Machine Learning, Expressive Movement, Interaction Design, Creative Applications The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) 2014 Convention Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 1st – 4th April 2014 Symposium dates: 1 and 2 April 2014 Workshop website: http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas02mg/GestureWorkshop/?page_id=15 Submission deadline: 21st January 2014 OVERVIEW Machine Learning (ML) is a set of techniques widely used for data analysis and understanding of complex phenomena. A subset of ML methods that are real time or that look at continuous data have been designed to carry out a wide variety of tasks such…

multi.player 2 Compete – Cooperate – Communicate International conference on the social aspects of digital gaming Date: Thursday, 14. August – Friday, 15. August 2014 Venue: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster, Germany Jointly organized by: ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) Working Group “Digital Games Research” ERC (European Research Council) research group “The social fabric of virtual life” at the University Münster In the last decade, there has been an increase in ‘social’ multiplayer gaming activities, including rises in co-located gaming and online gaming. This increase in multiplayer gaming has led to a range of new research evaluating the sociality…

“Touch me” – Workshop on Tactile User Experience Evaluation Methods One-day workshop at CHI 2014, April 26th (Saturday) in Toronto, Canada SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 10th 2014, via E-Mail to mbusch@cure.at SUBMISSION FORMAT: 2-4 page position papers, formatted according to ACM SIGCHI Publications Format (not anonymized) NOTIFICATION: February 1st, 2014 INFORMATION & NEWS: http://tactile-ux-evaluation.cure.at/ TOPIC There are various methods for evaluating the User Experience (UX) when interacting with systems, e.g. questionnaires, interviews and physiological measures. Most of these methods only rely on visual or verbal stimuli, do not capture UX in a holistic way or are too invasive (e.g.…