Call For Papers
Special issue of Games and Culture: Digital Gaming and Ageing

http://www.cfpaginganddigitalgaming.com/

GUEST EDITORS:
Hannah R. Marston, Institute of Movement and Sport Gerontology, German Sport University Cologne
Charles Musselwhite, Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, Wales, UK
Shannon Freeman, School of Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

We’re pleased to announce an upcoming issue of the Games & Culture Journal dedicated to the study of digital gaming and ageing.

The ageing population is becoming a challenge for governments, practitioners and researchers alike. Worldwide statistics show, how the current and future estimated projections are increasing. With this in mind, researchers and health practitioners have been attempting to identify suitable and innovative information and communication technologies (ICT’s) approaches to facilitate healthy ageing, rehabilitation and maintain quality of life (QoL) and independence. One of the more common and fashionable ICT’s has been digital gaming, primarily in the area of fall prevention and health rehabilitation.… read more. “Call: Special issue of Games and Culture: Digital Gaming and Ageing”

Call for Participation

The Fourth International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2015)

Surya University, Indonesia (21 KM from Jakarta Airport)
September 10-12, 2015
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/iceee2015/

All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library

You are invited to participate in The Fourth International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2015) that will be held at Surya University, Indonesia (21 KM from Jakarta Airport) on September 10-12, 2015. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.

The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:… read more. “Call: Fourth International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2015)”

Call for Contributions:

AMII2014: Ambient Play and Informal Learning
Ambient Gaming Workshop (AMGAM’14)
November 11, 2014
Eindhoven

Deadline for submission:  01 October 2014
Notification of acceptance:  15 October 2014
Workshop:  11 November 2014

Web:  http://www.playfitproject.nl/ambientgamingworkshop/

Download full call:  http://www.playfitproject.nl/wp-content/uploads/Workshop@AmI2014_PlayLearning_final.pdf

ABOUT AMBIENT GAMING AND PLAY

The definition of play is often restricted to a specific ‘time and place’. Digital play can be more integrated in a spatial, temporal and social sense owing to new media, social networks, modern technology and (social) interaction. This enables to design for playful activities that are seamlessly integrated within our daily lives in such a way that the boundaries between other activities and play disappear or blur; we call this ambient games and play. Ambient gaming and play can be an effective means to persuade people to take part in certain activities, such as educational activities or physical exercise.… read more. “Call: Ambient Gaming Workshop (AMGAM’14)”

Call for Papers:
First International Workshop on Emotion for Sociable Agents
(ESA14; http://www.social-robot.info)

on October 28, 2014

in conjunction with Human Agent Interaction (HAI) 2014
(http://hai-conference.net/hai2014/)

in Tsukuba, Japan

EXTENDED DEADLINE:  September 5, 2014

Please contact us at:  esa-contact@social-robot.info

IMPORTANT DATES:

September 5, 2014, 23:59 PST  –  Paper submission deadline (extended)
September 15, 2014  –  Notification of acceptance
September 26, 2014  –  Camera ready submission
October 28, 2014  –  See you in Tsukuba

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

In our aim to build soft- and hardware agents that are to appear intelligent and to interact seamlessly with humans we must not neglect the importance of emotions in social interaction. In human interaction, emotions can influence both motivation and conversational content. It is assumed that this is also true for human-agent interaction because social signals (like emotional expressions) produced by computational agents are processed in a similar manner as signals which are produced by humans.… read more. “Call: First International Workshop on Emotion for Sociable Agents (at HAI 2014)”

Call for Contributions

SocInfo 2014 Workshop:
What’s in a dyad? Interaction and Exchange in Social Media

Workshop website:  http://dyad.di.unito.it
Conference website:  http://socinfo2014.org/

Conference: 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014) @ Barcelona, Spain in November 10-13, 2014
Submission deadline:  September 8, 2014

A great deal of work has used computational methods to investigate the intensity, structure, topic and sentiment of social interactions. But neither information alone nor structure in isolation can be considered fully responsible for the complexity of social life, whether on- or offline. Online interactions can be conceptualized as a social exchange, and also as a process through which meaning emerges through dialogue between the two partners, i.e. a dyad. We aim for the DYAD workshop to examine online interactions from a number of rich perspectives.

Invited speakers include Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Max Planck Institute SWS), Bruno Gonçalves (Aix-Marseille Université), and Carlos Diuk-Wasser (Facebook, Inc.)… read more. “Call: What’s in a dyad? Interaction and Exchange in Social Media – SocInfo 2014 Workshop”