Dear Colleagues- As you finish your semesters and move toward the holidays, I wanted to remind you that proposals for the special issue of Connexions entitled Education and Training for Globally Distributed Virtual Teams are due January 15.  These proposals are short, and I have copied the text of the call (with the production schedule) below for your convenience.  The issue will be published in Dec. 2014.  Please consider submitting.  Contact me or Kirk if you would like to discuss an idea. Best wishes, Pam Call for Proposals EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL TEAMS Preparing the workforce of…

Join us at the AISB AI&Games 2014 symposium. Deadline for long abstract submission 3rd of January 2014. see http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/D.Romano/AISB14/ —— The AI & Games Symposium acts as a meeting and network point for researchers from academia, education and industry, in particular those involved with the design, development and evaluation of AI and games. Their expertise could be in a range of areas including: AI, machine learning, planning, narrative, education and training, multimedia, game design and development, game interaction design, characters design, interaction design and evaluation for children, adults and any other relevant area.…

Meaningful Play 2014 October 16 – 18, 2014 East Lansing, MI, USA http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu Call for Submissions (Deadline July 1, 2014) Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Central to all of these goals is the idea of Meaningful Play: a player’s sense that actions matter and the context of play matters. Meaningful Play 2014 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and…

Call for Papers CHI 2014 Workshop on Designing Speech and Language Interactions Toronto, Canada http://www.cs.toronto.edu/dsli2014 Submission of position papers: 17 January 2014 Notification of acceptance: 10 February 2014 Workshop: 26 April 2014 Speech and natural language remain our most natural forms of interaction; yet the HCI community have been very timid about focusing their attention on designing and developing spoken language interaction techniques. While significant efforts are spent and progress made in speech recognition, synthesis, and natural language processing, there is now sufficient evidence that many real-life applications using speech technologies do not require 100% accuracy to be useful. This…

Call for Participation: 28th British HCI Conference – HCI2014 9th – 12th September 2014 The 28th British HCI Conference will be held in the Victorian Seaside town of Southport, in the North West of the UK less than an hour away from the International Airports of Manchester and Liverpool. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Sand, Sea and Sky – Holiday HCI’ and the aim is to provide a venue for both regular and diverse HCI as well as to promote work that highlights HCI for the family, for recreation and for relaxation. The conference will combine regular paper…

International Journal of Gaming and Computer Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) SPECIAL ISSUE ON: Assessing Human Capabilities in Video Games and Simulations SUBMISSION DUE DATE: June 2nd, 2014 Guest Editor: Richard N. Landers INTRODUCTION: In video games and computer mediated simulations (GCMS), instructional designers and human resources professionals can develop virtual situations and environments that enable people to exhibit a wide range of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs; “O” includes a diverse set of constructs such as personality, preferences, interests).  Often, direct measurement of these KSAOs outside of a computer-mediated environment is difficult, confounded, or costly. For example, in the…