Audio Mostly 2015 7 – 9 October 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece http://audiomostly.com Call for Papers Sound prevails in most aspects of contemporary human communication, interaction, experience and expressiveness. Nowadays, audio is a basic ingredient of multimodal content that is massively interchanged through interacting producers and users within the Web2.0 environment and beyond. This explosion in the use of audio has been mainly motivated and fueled by the exponential growth of the social media, the vast expansion of user-generated content, and the domination of smartphones, tablets and other mobile and wearable technologies. Sound can engage, inform, narrate, dramatize, shape the atmosphere, stimulate…

Focus Section, N.25, on “Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space” to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) GUEST EDITORS: Paula Trigueiros, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Michael Smyth, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Ingi Helgason, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Sarah Gallacher, Intel Collaborative Research Institute on Sustainable and Connected Cities (ICRI-Cities) University College London, London, United Kingdom Important dates: Deadline: 15 May, 2015 Other important dates: Notification to the authors: 20 June, 2015 Deadline for submission of the final camera ready…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2015 (MIG) November 16-18, 2015, Paris, France Submission Deadline: July 7, 2015 http://mig2015.inria.fr/ The 8th International Conference on Motion in Games will take place in Paris, France from November 16-18, 2015 and be hosted by Telecom ParisTech. Discussions regarding ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics sponsorship are underway. Conference mission: Games have become a very important medium for education, therapy and entertainment. Motion plays a crucial role in computer games. Characters move around, objects are manipulated or move due to physical constraints, entities are animated, and the camera moves through…

Digital Memory and Techno-nostalgia: Remembering / Dismembering Performance Performance and New Technologies Working Group at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) 2015 Conference University of Worcester, 8th to 10th September 2015. Call Deadline (abstracts): 17 April 2015 The ephemeral nature of live performance has always forced practitioners, critics and notaries to consider ways of committing performance to memory. The act of remembering itself was first expressed through theatrical means by Giulio Camillo and his memory theatre – giving birth to a performative technology, a mnemo-technic reliant on the theatrical frame. The commitment of the ephemeral act to memory most often…

Call for Papers MMSYM 2015: The 3rd European and the 6th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication Venue: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, September 17, 18, 2015 Deadline for papers: May 31 2015 More information at: http://www.mmsym.org The 3rd European Symposium on Multimodal Communication will be held in Dublin on 17, 18 September 2015. The symposium provides a forum for researchers from different disciplines who study multimodality in human communication as well as in human-computer interaction. The multimodal communication symposium is organised by the Speech Communication Lab at Trinity College Dublin. Multimodal communication as a research area is growing rapidly. There is…

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association ISSN: 2156-1796, EISSN: 2156-1788 www.igi-global.com/IJPOP Deadline (Volume 4, Number 1): Friday, 15th May 2015 Editors-in-Chief: Adj. Prof. Steve Goschnick, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia & Prof. Leon Sterling, Pro Vice Chancellor (Digital Frontiers), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Published: Semi-annual (both in Print and Electronic form) In this first issue of Volume 4 of IJPOP we are seeking papers reporting on original, interesting and timely research from within these topics: Activity theory and modeling Agent meta-models, mental models Alert filter and notification software,…