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 models. What is still lacking, however, is a deeper conceptual understanding of social computing — e.g., relating to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design principles, and platforms. We invite papers that take an explicitly multiagent perspective in addressing these gaps and do so in thought-provoking ways.… read more. “Call: First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing (at AAMAS 2014)”

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 future of digital play. To this end, the conference will feature streams that blend academic research and games with research papers, interactive demos, and industry case studies.

CHI PLAY grew out of the increasing work around games and play emerging from the ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) over the last few years.… read more. “Call: CHI PLAY 2014”

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 the future

Special Issue

Guest editors

Pam Estes Brewer
Mercer University (email: brewer_pe@mercer.edu)

Kirk St.Amant
East Carolina University (email: stamantk@ecu.edu)

Today, information and communication technologies (ICTs) allow individuals located in different nations to collaborate almost as easily as if they were located in the same physical office.… read more. “Call: Education and Training for Globally Distributed Virtual Teams – Special issue of Connexions”

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/

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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.… read more. “Call: AISB AI&Games 2014 symposium”

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 improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference includes thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes.… read more. “Call: Meaningful Play 2014”