12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems
23-27 May, 2016
Trento, Italy
http://www.coop2016.unitn.it/

IMPORTANT DATES

• 8 November 2015 – Deadline for paper submissions
• 18 December 2015 – Notification of acceptance/rejection
• 23-27 May 2016 – COOP 2016 conference in Trento (Italy)

MAKING TOGETHER

COOP is one of the key European conferences on Cooperative Systems, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Collaborative Computing and is affiliated to EUSSET – the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies. COOP 2016 will be the twelfth edition of this biennial conference and will take place in Trento, Italy, organised by the department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).

The COOP conferences promote the idea that cooperative systems design requires a deep understanding of collective activities, involving both artefacts and social practices, within a context. COOP embraces a wide set of research questions on the design, development, and evaluation of socially-situated technologies.… read more. “Call: 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP 2016)”

Call for Chapters
Serious Games and Edutainment Applications 2
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, UK

Editors
Prof. Minhua Ma, University of Huddersfield, UK
Dr. Andreas Oikonomou, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Prof. Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia

Chapter proposal due: 18 Nov 2015

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Over the past two decades game technologies have been experiencing explosive growth and widespread applications in education and professional training. Many studies have identified the benefits of using serious games and gamification in a variety of edutainment applications. Following the big success of Serious Games and Edutainment Applications published in 2011, which has been heavily downloaded (over 28k downloads) and very well cited, the second volume offers an insightful introduction to the recent development and applications of video games technologies including virtual and augmented reality in educational settings, with cutting edge academic research and industry updates which will inform readers current and future advances in the area.… read more. “Call: Chapters for Serious Games and Edutainment Applications 2”

Digital Humanities 2016
12-16 July, Kraków, Poland

http://dh2016.adho.org/about/

Digital Humanities 2016 conference will take place in Kraków, Poland; this is only the second time (after Debrecen 1998) that the conference comes to Central/Eastern Europe. The region’s rich past and its recent rapid growth has inspired the conference theme, ‘Digital Identities: the Past and the Future’.

The conference is hosted jointly by the Jagiellonian University and the Pedagogical University of Kraków. Their collaboration is a manifestation of the vivid digital humanities scene emerging in Poland’s major centre of learning and culture.

Call for Proposals

I. GENERAL INFORMATION

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of digital humanities. This includes, but is not limited to:

• humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling
• social, institutional, global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of digital humanities;
• computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship;
• quantitative stylistics and philology, including big data / textmining studies;
• digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas;
• emerging technologies such as 3D printing, single-board computers, wearable devices, applied to humanities research;
• creation and curation of humanities digital resources; and
• digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula.

[Information about the upcoming VRTGO 2015 conference from Road to VR, where the story includes several images. -Matthew]

‘VRTGO 2015′ UK Conference to Usher in Consumer VR on November 12th

By Paul James – Jul 16, 2015

One of Europe’s premiere industry VR conferences, VRTGO, is back on November 12th and, like last year, the event promises appearances from some big industry names and a greater emphasis on commercial virtual reality.

The north of England isn’t the first place you’d pick should you be asked to identify a UK hotbed of VR activity, yet VRTGO 2014 proved just how wrong that misconception was when the inaugural event came to Gateshead last year. The event was packed with local VR developer talent as well as big names like Sony, CCP Games and nDreams.

VRTGO 2015 returns to the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art again this year and organisers are excited about their building line up of speakers.… read more. “Call: VRTGO 2015”