CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Title: In Gallery Engagement: Digital vs Analogue Date: 22 July 2015, Oxford University Museum of Natural History http://www.oxfordaspiremuseums.org/aspire/news/gallery-engagement-digital-vs-analogue Computer interactives, augmented reality, video screens and touchtables, digital is increasingly occupying gallery space as a means of engaging audiences with museum content. Museums are experimenting with new technologies to capture audience interest and deliver deeper interpretation. But while the technology for delivering interactive engagement becomes more sophisticated, are the principles different to those of low-tech interactives such as handling collections, replica costumes and ‘lift-the-flap’ activities? Technology aside, how do digital interactives differ from their low-tech counterparts? Oxford…

We look for contributions for a Special Issue of IEEE Computer on Physiological Computing. Full paper submission deadline: 1 April 2015 Publication date: October 2015 http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/cocfp10 Computer seeks submissions for the October 2015 special issue on challenges and applications in physiological computing. Physiological computing — using human physiological data as system inputs in real time — makes it possible to create dynamic user-state representations so that software can respond dynamically and context-specifically to changes in actual human user states. Various paradigms for human–computer interaction fall under this general system rubric: brain–computer interfaces, affective computing, adaptive automation, and health informatics, among…

2015 GAMES AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WORKSHOP Fourth International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering Workshop in conjunction with ICSE 2015 (Int’l Conference on Software Engineering) Florence/Firenze, Italy May 18, 2015 http://sites.google.com/site/icsegas2015/ CALL FOR PAPERS The 2015 Games and Software Engineering workshop (GAS 2015) explores issues that crosscut the software engineering and the game engineering communities. Modern games entail the development, integration, and balancing of software capabilities drawn from algorithm design and complexity, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, computer-supported cooperative work/play, database management systems, human-computer interaction and interface design, operating systems and resource/storage management, networking, programming/scripting language design and interpretation, performance monitoring,…

[Information about the upcoming South West Virtual Reality Conference, from Road to VR, where the story includes several images] UK Based ‘South West VR’ Conference Announced, Guests Include Oculus, Aardman and Unity January 25, 2015 by Paul James As virtual reality rises, so does the need for its enthusiasts and industry members to meet. The UK has a thriving VR community and a growing industry presence, so the recently announced South West Virtual Reality Conference on the 24th Feb, is a welcome addition to the VR calendar. Whilst the US, and in particular, the west coast, get a large proportion…

[Note that the first lecture is Wednesday January 28, 2015  –Matthew] The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression and Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective. Vittorio Gallese, University of Parma Chandaria Lectures, Institute of Philosophy, Senate House (London WC1), Room 349, third floor Wed Jan 28th 6pm ; Feb 11th 6pm ; and Feb 18th 6pm Cognitive neuroscience can shed new light – from its own methodological reductionist perspective – on the aesthetic quality of human nature and its natural creative inclination. By exploiting the neurocognitive approach, viewed as a sort of ‘cognitive archeology’, we can empirically investigate the neurophysiological brain-body…

Conference title: 20 Years of ETHICOMP: A Celebration De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Monday to Wednesday, 07.-09. September 2015 www.dmu.ac.uk/ethicomp2015 GENERAL DESCRIPTION In 1995 the first ETHICOMP conference was held in Leicester, England, organised by Terry Bynum and Simon Rogerson. Its purpose was to provide a forum to discuss ethical issues around computers. Twenty years later we are meeting again in Leicester to continue this conversation. The changes in information and communication technology (ICT) during these 20 years have been dramatic. While computers used to be bulky and easily identifiable machines, we now have small smart devices, the internet quickly…