Call for Participation DiGRA 2014 – Digital Games Research Association Conference August 3-6, 2014 Snowbird Summer Resort, Salt Lake City, Utah Submission deadline (extended): February 24, 2014. DiGRA 2014 is being hosted by the University of Utah’s EAE program and will be held in the Wasatch Mountains at Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort from August 3rd-6th. The location is scenic, secluded, economical, and within easy access of Salt Lake City’s International Airport. We believe it offers a unique setting in which to explore games, and the blanks in games research. To such end the theme of DiGRA 2014 is a…

Call for Papers Space and Place 5th Global Conference Mansfield College, University of Oxford Oxford (United Kingdom) September 3-5, 2014 Deadline:  April4, 2014 Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a…

ISMAR 2014: Augment Everything Everywhere for Everyone Call for Participation IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 10-12 September 2014, Munich, Germany http://ismar.vgtc.org/ Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) melt the barriers between virtual media the physical world and our imagination by enriching our ability to interact with all three. New applications in diverse areas such as Engineering, Entertainment, Arts, Education, Media, and Humanities push the boundaries of science and technology. As the premier conference in the field, ISMAR is responding to this explosive expansion of program scope. Two key areas of submissions are S&T (Science & Technology),…

CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ROBO-PHILOSOPHY 2014-SOCIABLE ROBOTS AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS www.robo-philosophy.org August 20-23, 2014 Aarhus University, Denmark CONFERENCE THEME Sociable robots likely will play an increasing role in future everyday life–assisting and replacing humans in many contexts, from caretaking to teaching to entertainment.  How will this affect human social interaction, as notion and as practice?  Are there limits to the functional simulation of social interaction?  How much of a ‘theory of mind’ do robots need to be ‘sociable’? If we engage with robots as if they were persons, how will this affect how we understand…

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Trends and Applications in Intelligent Environments (TAIE’14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/taie E-mail: taie2014@fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to TAIE 2014 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS is a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing,…

Special Issue of Contracampo on “Immersive processes in Media Culture” Over many decades of study in various fields of knowledge, ideas like “dive into an ocean”, “drifting”, “losing touch with reality”, among others, were used as metaphors for immersion in addition to a connotation nearly to the idea of absorption and attentional engagement on an activity. However, especially with the growth and access to new technologies in the construction of hybrid increasingly worlds, studies of immersion have been gaining new perspectives and different theories about the phenomenon have been revisited. Thus, our interest with the proposal for a special issue…