Call For Papers The 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-14) http://sites.google.com/site/gamnlp14/ to be held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-14). OBJECTIVE: This workshop aims at promoting and exploring the possibilities for research and practical applications involving Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Games. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how the NLP research community can contribute to games research and vice versa. For example, games could benefit from NLP’s sophisticated human language technologies in designing natural and engaging dialogues to bring…

The 21st Multimedia Modelling Conference (MMM 2015) Jan 5-7, 2015, Sydney, Australia http://www.mmm2015.org/ MMM 2015 is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners for sharing new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original research and investigation results as well as demonstrations in all areas related to multimedia modelling technologies and applications. The conference also calls for proposals of special sessions. The conference proceedings will be published as series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. There will be best submission awards. Authors…

Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 36th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 11-14, 2015 Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center Albuquerque, NM http://www.southwestpca.org The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area welcomes papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. The Area is also offering a three hour workshop titled “Empathy Game Design: A Quick Introduction” on the first day of the conference. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Possible topics include (but are in no way limited to): Advertising (both in-game and out) Alternative reality games Archiving and…

Call For Papers Human Work Interaction Design for Pervasive and Smart Workplaces http://sites.google.com/site/hwid2014 At NordiCHI’14 (Helsinki, Finland; October 26-30) http://nordichi2014.org/ Pervasive and smart technologies have pushed workplace configuration beyond linear logic and physical boundaries. As a result, workers¹ experience of and access to technology is increasingly pervasive, and their agency constantly reconfigured. While this in certain areas of work is not new (e.g., technology mediation and decision support in air traffic control), more recent developments in other domains such as healthcare (e.g., Augmented Reality in Computer Aided Surgery) have raised challenging issues for HCI researchers and practitioners. The question now…

Dear virtual agent enthusiast, Automatic facial expression detection is becoming increasingly robust and accurate. We envision the reproduction of a user’s facial expressions, captured with a webcam, on the user’s avatar in a computer game. Currently, we are conducting a series of studies to investigate the feasibility of this scenario. In particular, we are interested in the factors that affect the perceived quality of the facial animations. To this end, we’d like to invite you to participate in a brief (10 minutes) online study:  www.zkshao.com/survey.php We thank you for your participation! Should you have any questions about the study, please…

Call for a special issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology (JEP) “Social Simulation in Environmental Psychology” Social simulation has been one of the most interesting methodological developments of the last decades for the behavioral sciences. Social simulation models deal with behavioral and cognitive dynamics, with differentiated social influence, with feedback to (simulated) natural environments, or space. Specifically in environmental psychology, these models can also stimulate collaborations between environmental psychologists and researchers from other disciplines to deal with complex environmental problems. The goal of this special issue is to provide successful examples of social simulation from the domain of environmental…