Call for Proposals and Papers PATCH’2014 -The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage Haifa, Israel. February 24, 2014 Extended deadline: 26 December 2013 The 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (http://www.iuiconf.org/). IUI is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. It takes place in Haifa, Israel on 24 February 2014. Next to the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations…

10th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies Gothenburg, Sweden September 2–4, 2014 Download: Call for Papers 2014 (PDF) DEADLINE FOR FULL PAPER: SUBMISSION will be 28 Feb, 2014 DEADLINE FOR SHORT PAPER SUBMISSION will be 31 May, 2014 The ICDVRAT conference Series provides a forum for international experts and researchers to present and review how advances in the general area of virtual reality can be used in the area of disabilities and rehabilitation. High quality papers are sought in which technical innovation is backed up by evidence of original and practical implementation, or which promise practical implementation…

EMSS 2014 – The 26th European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (Simulation in Industry) 22 – 24 September, 2014 Bordeaux, France http://www.msc-les.org/conf/emss2014/index.htm Conference Aims The European Modeling and Simulation Symposium is one of the most important Simulation Appointment in Europe. As tradition the conference focuses on Modeling & Simulation in Industry taking into consideration both applications and theoretical approaches. The conference proposes a multi-sides perspective to Modeling & Simulation environment. Tracks organization is intended to cover different research macro-areas dedicated to Industrial Engineering, Effective Design, Business, Economy and Finance, Medicine, Methodologies, Techniques and Applications. Such framework gives to scientists, technicians and…

2nd International Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Assistive Technology At IEEE Virtual Reality 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USA http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~jpq/vaat/ The IEEE VR 2014 Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Assistive Technology is intended to bring together technological and clinical research communities to advance the state-of-the-art in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) assistive technology. Over the past several decades, there has been a host of research conducted to improve rehabilitation and enable assistive technology for persons with disabilities (e.g., cognitive, physical) through VR and AR. However, this area needs to take more advantage of state-of-the-art VR and AR technology. We believe…

First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/sc-aamas-2014/ Co-located with AAMAS 2014 (http://aamas2014.lip6.fr) May 5-9, 2014, Paris, France Social computing broadly refers to computing-supported approaches that facilitate interactions among people and organizations. Social computing has emerged as an exciting multidisciplinary area of research, driven by the wealth of easily available information and the success of online social networks and social media. Social computing applications are characterized by high interactivity among users, user-generated content, and in cases such as Wikipedia, more open governance structures. Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CHI PLAY 2014 Submission Deadlines: May 8, 2014 (full papers, demos, workshops, doctoral consortium) June 26, 2014 (student competition, work-in-progress) CHI PLAY 2014 The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play http://chiplay.org/ Twitter: #chiplay Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 5-8, 2014 CHI PLAY is a new international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI), we call it: “player-computer interaction”. The goal of the conference is to highlight and foster discussion of current high quality research in games and HCI as foundations for the…