CALL FOR PAPERS: Games and society: From social interaction to social change

Pre-Conference to ECREA’s fifth European Communication Conference, ECC 2014 (Lisbon, Portugal) – 11 November 2014

Abstracts deadline: 15th May 2014

The awareness of digital games has evolved rapidly in recent years, recognizing an activity earlier considered a practice for narrow and specialized audiences to be mainstream media entertainment for the masses. Since the mid nineties researchers have engaged in studying games as platforms for social interaction and as unique channels for exploration, experimentation and entertainment – however, much scientific and publication attention has been paid to the risks of digital games. As games are now obviously not a passing fad but an established cultural form, it is time for media scholars to engage with them as more than potential risks, and let the lively interaction of gamers and even deliberative aspects of digital games come much more into focus.… read more. “Call: Games and society: From social interaction to social change (ECC 2014 pre-conference)”

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014)
Tsukuba, Japan, October 29-31, 2014

http://hai2014.org/

People are increasingly interacting with computerized agents. Examples include autonomous and tele-presence robots in homes, healthcare, or search and rescue, virtual characters in the expanding gaming industry or for serious games, and agents representing other people through on-line social and interactive meeting places. Although these broad areas have their own unique research challenges, there is a clear commonality to be addressed in the investigation of how people interact with agents, whether they have physical or virtual embodiments, or represent remote people or an AI algorithm; this commonality requires explicit consideration.

The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014, in co-operation with ACM SIGCHI) aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication.… read more. “Call: Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014)”

CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Deadline: Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as ‘Outsider’

CHArt 2014 conference, part of the UNDERGROUND
Arts & Humanities Festival, King’s College London, Strand
Saturday, 18 October 2014

Digital engagement with art is thriving. Much of it is actively subversive of the traditional frameworks that enable art to be created and responded to – whether casually or professionally. This subversion takes various forms, including notions of value, uniqueness, fixity and location. The CHArt 2014 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the underground creation, display, consumption and study of art. The online ‘urban dictionary’ defines underground as follows: “A genre in music and other forms of media intended for an elite audience, that is often characterized by its high levels of originality and experimentation, and does not conform to typical standards, trends, or hypes as set by the popular mainstream media.”… read more. “Call: CHArt 2014 – Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as ‘Outsider’”

Extended Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL’14)

Workshop Website: http://adl2014.wordpress.com/

co-located with i-KNOW 2014 (http://i-know.tugraz.at/)

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 4th May
Notification to authors: 23rd May
Camera Ready: 5th June

Digital libraries are becoming increasingly important in research. Traditionally they have been used for tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, however they are increasingly being used as sources for mining information, discovering new trends and evaluating research excellence. The rapid growth in the number of documents being deposited in digital libraries requires the provision for novel approaches that are driven by the needs of knowledge discovery, refinement, and visualisation, aimed at enhancing the individual’s experience.

The foundations of such an experience are not built upon digitisation alone, but on a multi-layer knowledge structure that does not only include information about the documents in the underlying collection in the form of metadata, but also information about the content of those documents, such as the entities mentioned and the relationships between them.… read more. “Call: 1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL’14)”